ahhhh I get when people ask why I rant and type all that shit out. Everybody has to learn to self medicate and that’s my stress ball. Long rants into a internet void…
Only on the north island as well. Haven’t had a single Delta variant case on the south island according to my Kiwi friend and colleague (his mom and brother live on the south island). His mom’s district has yet to have a single positive case...ever.
I said the exact same thing. Hope he has some game and can develop because guys that size aren’t normal in college.
Is this one of the most under appreciated moments in the history of the program? Individual moments in Memorial Stadium history, that I wasn’t at, I’d argue in the top 5 for me. Would have been insanely cool to see.
I was your typical pro sports youth from Nebraska. Band wagon 85 Bears (first pro team I remembered [I’m an old], then 49ers… until the 1991 draft. Mike Croel and Kenny Walker are why I became a Broncos fan and it’s stuck.
Top 5 personal favorite Huskers of all time. Incredibly tough to pick just 5: Tommie Frazier Barron Miles Calvin Jones Johnny Mitchell Mike Brown Ahman Green Terrell Farley
I assume it’s a list of personal favorites? In that case the Mitchell addition is baller af. Not sure how old you are The.Barron.of.Miles but we seem to have been youths at the same time. At least from the Osborne era in my prime kid idolization phase: Kenny Walker (despite my jazz hands bit above) Trev Alberts Calvin Jones Abdul Muhammad Ahman Green
Dr. Thom spoke strongly against young men sagging their shorts to show their underwear. These men have taken that advice to heart and wear their britches so short their underwear hangs out the bottom. Big things ahead of them.
Willie Miller #1 by a good mile here. We had a black fullback once FFS. Him cuttin loose righ up Tennesse's butthole brought me the most joy I think I've ever felt
Had to look it up: 21 for 161 (7.7YPC) vs NMSU 17 for 125 (7.4YPC) vs Arizona 33 for 119 (3.6YPC) vs Utah (3OTs)
Good lists. In addition to Abdul Muhammad, Reggie Baul and Clester Johnson were underrated at WR due to the offense we ran. Same with Eric Alford at TE. I also feel like some of our corners from that era were undervalued, definitely Barron Miles, but also Michael Booker and Tyrone Williams. But my all time favorite Husk/Chicago Bear is Mike Brown.
Top 10 in alphabetical order, some already mentioned… Trev Alberts Rex Burkhead Tommie Frazier Calvin Jones Keith Jones Johnny Mitchell Cory Schlesinger Ndamukong Suh Kenny Walker Grant Wistrom
Keyou Craver Ahman Green Mike Brown Lavonte David Demorrio Williams Wish I wasn’t a baby during the 90s
Once again, Dork at his best when husking is at its worst. Fire Farts. Spoiler Chatelain: Special teams are costing Nebraska games, especially close ones Dirk Chatelain1 hr ago Through four games in 2021, Nebraska ranks 120th in punting average, 117th in field-goal percentage, 124th in PAT percentage, 112th in punt returns, 116th in kick returns. Their coverage units are better, but not good enough to save the Huskers from another abysmal special-teams ranking, writes Dirk Chatelain. CHRIS MACHIAN, THE WORLD-HERALD ▲ Word came down on a Sunday, two days after a Black Friday 40-10 loss at Iowa. Bruce Read — 16-year assistant to Mike Riley, owner of an infamous $450k salary, favorite punching bag of Husker fans — was gone. Fired after another series of special-teams gaffes in Nebraska’s 2016 season finale. Iowa returned punts for 44 and 29 yards. Nate Gerry ran into a kicker, which led to a touchdown. Caleb Lightbourn shanked a 5-yard punt into the Kinnick Stadium bleachers. At the time, Nebraska was 9-3 and it seemed the Huskers might be a top-10 team if only they could fix special teams. Instead, Read became the latest example of a baffling pattern in Nebraska football. Fans (and media) identify a problem that can’t possibly get worse. Nebraska eventually replaces the culprit, only to watch the problem somehow get worse. Fire Frank Solich; here comes Bill Callahan. Bo Pelini turns into Riley. Mark Banker out, Bob Diaco in. You get the picture. But Read might be the classic case. In 2014, Nebraska special teams ranked No. 1 nationally, according to ESPN. No wonder Read drew the ire of fans. But his special-teams units still ranked well above average in 2016, 44th according to ESPN metrics and 32nd by Football Outsiders. Compare those numbers to five years later, when Nebraska is a weekly horror show. Today’s exercise doesn’t turn over new rocks or discover silver bullets. The goal is to look at the problem through a specific lens. How often does the third phase cost Nebraska a victory? We can study complex metrics until our eyes glaze over, but how many of Frost’s 22 losses were preventable with merely average special-teams play? Let’s go back to the start of the Frost era. Colorado 2018: Three special-teams penalties for 30 yards. A 10-yard average deficiency in kick returns. A 7-yard edge in field position, per drive. A missed 43-yard field goal. It doesn’t take much to swing a five-point game. Troy 2018: When your margin for error is already small — a knee injury sidelined quarterback Adrian Martinez — you can’t afford to give up a 58-yard punt return for touchdown. Nebraska did, falling behind 10-0. And later missed a 33-yard field goal. The Huskers lost 24-19. Northwestern 2018: Lightbourn opened the game by kicking the ball out of bounds. Barret Pickering missed a 45-yard field goal, then a 20-yard extra point. Officials flagged CJ Smith for holding on a 19-yard punt return. The Huskers blew a 10-point lead in the final three minutes. Ohio State 2018: The Buckeyes blocked Isaac Armstrong’s first punt and grabbed a 7-yard edge in average field position. But the lowlight came after Nebraska’s game-opening, 75-yard touchdown drive, when Lightbourn nearly whiffed on an onside kick attempt. “It certainly didn’t look like what we’d practiced,” Frost said. Indiana 2019: Pickering, fresh off an injury, missed a 32-yard field goal. Armstrong’s 19-yard third-quarter punt gave Indiana the ball at Nebraska’s 35, setting up a Hoosier touchdown. And William Przystup hit a wayward kickoff out of bounds. Indiana won 38-31. Wisconsin 2019: The 14th-ranked Badgers probably win this one anyway, but Nebraska had legitimate upset hopes after scoring the first touchdown. Then Aron Cruickshank returned a weak kickoff 89 yards for six. Brody Belt needlessly toted the opening kickoff to the 14-yard line. Pickering missed a 41-yarder. Little things. Iowa 2019: Not again. Cam Taylor-Britt’s pick-six lifted a dormant Memorial Stadium crowd in the second quarter. But Pickering lofted the next kickoff like a meat ball at Little League practice. Ihmir Smith-Marsette made a hard left turn and ran around every potential tackler, untouched. The Hawkeyes won by a field goal. Northwestern 2020: Four times Northwestern punts pinned Nebraska inside the 20. The Huskers couldn’t do it once. They also allowed a pair of 36-yard returns (one kick, one punt), both of which led to touchdowns. The Huskers lost 21-13. Iowa 2020: Iowa owned an 11-yard field-position edge per drive. But two key mistakes inflicted most of the damage. In the first quarter, a 31-yard Hawkeye punt return set up a touchdown. In the fourth, the Huskers lost a golden chance to mount the go-ahead drive when Taylor-Britt muffed a punt at the NU 38. Iowa recovered and kicked a field goal. Illinois 2021: Where to begin? The 34-yard punting average from Daniel Cerni? Taylor-Britt fielding a punt at his own 1 and taking a safety? Two kick returns shy of the 25? The most baffling errors, though, came from trusty Connor Culp, who missed two extra points. Talk about about getting off on the wrong foot. Oklahoma 2021: Culp missed 50- and 35-yard field goals, but the biggest blow came when OU blocked an extra point and returned it for two points. A potential 14-10 deficit became 16-9. The Huskers held their own in punts, returns and average field position, but placekicking spelled doom. That’s 11 games (out of 36 total) where respectable special-teams play could’ve delivered victory. We omitted days like Michigan 2018, when NU gave up a punt-return touchdown, fumbled a punt and committed three special-teams penalties. The Wolverines were going to win anyway. We omitted Ohio State 2019, when NU got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct on an extra point, offsides on a kickoff and holding calls on two returns. We omitted the 2020 finale, when Rutgers’ average field position after Husker kickoffs was the NU 49-yard line. Serious. That included a kick return for touchdown by the same Cruickshank who did it for Wisconsin the year before. Nebraska also gave up a Rutgers fake punt. We omitted Buffalo 2021, when Nebraska missed three field goals and committed another turnover on punt return.
Funny story though, I was born in 91 and my parents were on the waiting list for season tickets. My mom was working at the bank a year later when she received a call from Bill Byrne asking if she was still interested in season tickets. She hung up thinking it was a prank and told my grandpa. My dad and grandpa were in disbelief, she called back and was able to get the tickets. I think she might have gone with my dad from 93-95, but from then on… those were my dad and i’s tickets.
Every Nebraska kid my age wanted to be Tommie Frazier. He's clear #1. How about underrated favorite list: I'd definitely go Matt O'Hanlon. He was a fucking missile his senior year.
Havent read this so not sure if it’s mentioned in here but I was just looking at numbers on the season and was shocked to see Nebraska’s opponents have collectively been worse at FGs Nebraska is 3/8 and opponents are 1/7. It’s inflated by the Buffalo game because they went 1/4 and NU went 0/3 but still that shocked me.
I almost put the 09 Peso as one of my players because while they were good individually, as a unit they were absurd
I still maintain if we had any, ANY offense in 2009 we would've been NC. That defense was so much fun to watch do work. Probably the best Nebraska defensive squad I'll ever witness.