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Game Thread Nebraska Cornhuskers at tOSU, Oct 6th, 8 ET, ABC/ESPN/2

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knapplc;2231816; said:
You can't fire a coach who wins nine games a year every year and expect to get a good, established coach to replace him. Ask your new head coach about the Nebraska job circa 2003 and he'll tell you all about it. We're not going to make a lot of fans in the coaching fraternity firing guys who win games and go to bowls every year.
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Earle Bruce would like to introduce himself to you.
 
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Remember what Glenn Mason did in Minny? Look what happened there up until this year after they fired him because they thought they were better than they were supposed to be.

Sure Nebraska has the power label and national titles, but realism has to guide whatever they do with the coaching or else they'll end up just like Minny.
 
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Mike80;2231841; said:
Remember what Glenn Mason did in Minny? Look what happened there up until this year after they fired him because they thought they were better than they were supposed to be.

Sure Nebraska has the power label and national titles, but realism has to guide whatever they do with the coaching or else they'll end up just like Minny.
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hmm, aside from that lone ten-win season in '03, what exactly did he do there?
.500 isn't too great, and he was under that (32-48, .400) in conference play during his ten years at Minny.
 
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BUCKYLE;2231691; said:
I'll do whatever the [censored] I want. You could shut the [censored] up about it, especially on a Buckeye site, but whatever.

I don't give a [Mark May] about Husker traditions, but if I were playing, I wouldn't even think about being on the field while the home team's band was performing.

I don't think Bo ordered them to interrupt one of, if not the greatest tradition in CFB. Admittedly, I have limited cable and net access these days. I haven't heard him apologize though. He should. That would make me feel better, and I could then gracefully take the win and move on.

Like I said, I've played football and watched all levels of football for damn near 25 years, and that's the first time I've ever seen that. If it were just "awe, shucks, I didn't know", you'd think it would happen far more often.

What I believe happened...is that your kicker knew he wasn't supposed to interrupt the home team's historic band performing at halftime of our homecoming game, but said "[censored] it", I need to warm up. And for that, I say mother[censored] him and all the coaches and trainers that saw it and allowed it, and [censored] Bo for not coming out and admitting it was bull[Mark May].

If he has said something, I retract my statement about Bo...but of all people, he should know that Script Ohio is sacred.

Oh well, I'm sure Urban won't forget, and he has a history of holding a grudge.

Like I said though, I don't have a problem with Husker fans, minus the few bitching about running up the score or acting like Script Ohio isn't anything to worry about. [censored] those guys.
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gregorylee;2231889; said:
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knapplc;2231904; said:
My last word on this subject. According to a Buckeye fan posting on HuskerBoard, Nebraska AD Tom Osborne sent a letter yesterday, 10/10/12, to the Ohio State AD and TBDBITL, apologizing for Maher's gaffe.
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I just saw that and am digging for copy now.

I did find this though, which I thought was great:

http://huskernsider.tumblr.com/post/33344097848/nebraska-donors-wouldnt-trade-stadiums

Memorial Stadium Features Simplicity, Elegance
By Randy York

When 160 Nebraska athletic donors flew to Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday to watch their beloved Huskers play Ohio State in The Horseshoe, they hit the exit signs disappointed with the final result, but were encouraged by something more important in the grand scheme of things. Big Red fans loved watching The Horseshoe rock, but they wouldn't trade stadiums with the Buckeyes, even if through sheer magic, they could make something like that happen.

Mike Jacobson, president & CEO of NebraskaLand National Bank in North Platte, Neb., Kim Wolfe, owner and CEO of Midwest Medical Transport in 12 Nebraska locations, and a third Nebraska business owner/donor, who wished to remain anonymous, had nothing but good things to say about The Horseshoe and its capacity to seat more than 106,000 fans. All three donors, however, favor their own soon-to-be 92,000 capacity Memorial Stadium over The Shoe.

Make no mistake. Ohio State's impressive stadium received a "B+" rating from influential Nebraska donors who placed it on the same level as The Big House at Michigan and ahead of both Camp Randall at Wisconsin and Beaver Stadium at Penn State. Not surprisingly, the only stadium in the history of college football to sell out for 50 consecutive seasons gets a straight "A" across the board from these three Husker donors. Yes, Big Red faithful may be slightly prejudiced, but they insist on putting Nebraska at the top primarily because the Huskers have gone to extraordinary lengths to make Memorial Stadium architecturally consistent in its simplicity and elegance.

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"Ohio State has a great stadium, and they were great fans last Saturday night," the anonymous donor said. "Their game day atmosphere was great. Were they louder than our fans in Lincoln? Not really. Was their band the best in the land? Yes. Do they have more tradition? I liked them having flags from every team in the Big Ten besides their own. I also thought it was kind of cool that their fans knew every song and every cheer. We can take something from that."

Wolfe thought Buckeye event workers and fans were hospitable and engaged. "People went out of their way to be nice, just like Nebraska fans do," he said. "We all know it's a lot more fun to walk out of a stadium when we win. But when I compare our facilities to the biggest school in the Big Ten, I'll take what we have over what they have."
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Sentiment I'm reading across the board is that UNL fans and donors put game day at the Shoe second only to their own. Understandable.

Glad Buckeye fans made a good, positive impression Saturday night.
 
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