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Crashcup

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Nebraska has added both Tennessee, UCLA and is rumored to be talking to Penn State.

Good news for the College Football fan. Looks like other programs are starting to jump on the bandwagon. You gotta think that some other big name programs are wanting to get in the notariety that tOSU, Texas and Notre Dame have been reaping.

What a 180 from Uncle Tom.
 
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Nebraska has added both Tennessee, UCLA and is rumored to be talking to Penn State.

Good news for the College Football fan. Looks like other programs are starting to jump on the bandwagon. You gotta think that some other big name programs are wanting to get in the notariety that tOSU, Texas and Notre Dame have been reaping.

What a 180 from Uncle Tom.
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Well, programs have to look at the ratings OOC prime-time match-ups generate, such as the old, pre-Big East raid Miami/FSU games, the OSU/Texas game, Auburn/USC, etc ...

It's a little like buying a lottery ticket, because these have to be planned so many years in advance you don't know what you're going to get. Let's be realistic, OSU is stuck with a clunker going to Washington in 2007 unless Ty turns that thing around in a hurry. I'm sure AG and JT were expecting the Huskies to be Top-10 back when the deal was inked, but it's just not going to fall that way.

Honestly, when the Texas/OSU contract was done up, neither team was really that great. Mackovic had really made a mess, and despite some division title wins in the new Big-12 South, 8-5 isn't a good year if you're Texas, while OSU's mid-90's machine was a distant memory.

If you schedule a big time program for a prime time game, and you hit the lottery with a Top-5 showdown when gametime actually rolls around 8 years later, you've got exclusive national TV coverage. Nobody is going to run another sporting event against that game.

Besides, the BCS system has demonstrated that you do not need to be 12-0, 13-0, or whatever to get to the title game. You can lose a game, as long as its one of the first two. In fact, it might even be beneficial still to be the close loser of a huge game in Week 2 than to have not played it at all. Auburn demonstrated that SOS may even be more important than the W-L record itself. It's better to lose to undefeated Top-5 U 17-14 than to whip Citadel 70-0.

Unless you're Virginia Tech or Louisville and have an exclusive ESPN Thursday TV deal, you've got to go out and schedule someone.
 
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Yeah, you're absolutely right on the scheduling being a crapshhot that far out. But if you hit, you hit big and it pays big dividends...even in a loss.

The other thing you gotta remember is that there is absolutely NO chance of hitting big when you schedule a Pacific for example. And yes, that was a Nebraska mantra for years and years.
 
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Crashcup said:
Nebraska has added both Tennessee, UCLA and is rumored to be talking to Penn State.

Good news for the College Football fan. Looks like other programs are starting to jump on the bandwagon. You gotta think that some other big name programs are wanting to get in the notariety that tOSU, Texas and Notre Dame have been reaping.

What a 180 from Uncle Tom.
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I was stationed in Omaha in the mid-90's. Those people eat, sleep, and breath Husker football. Unfortunately, they're also blind to what goes on around the college football world.

When they had one their back-to-back titles, they were getting hammered outside of Nebraska for the cream-puff non-conference schedule. Not to mention, the Big 8 wasn't much of a decent conference anyway, since Oklahoma had gone in the toilet, pre-Stoops arrival.

I have an article from the Omaha Husker Herald, that has an article about their non-conference schedule. I kept it, because they had just won back-to-back national titles, and refused to play us home and home.

Osborne is quoted as saying that they want to "...upgrade their non-conference schedule, but they aren't prepared to put teams the caliber of Ohio State on the schedule."

Sounds like a huge bucket of chicken.... feed... coming from the cornfields.

~ 68
 
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I heard a rumor when I lived in Omaha that an OSU-Nebraska game (in the early-mid90's) was in the works. Of course it never materialized and I heard (remember just a rumor) that the Huskers decided against it. Anyone else heard this before???
 
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If they want to schedule ohio state, it's got to be after 2015, because we play teams like USC, Miami (FL), Cal and VT until then. I don't see the point of waiting because we schedule so soon. I would like to see where you got that quote from 68.
 
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ant80 said:
If they want to schedule ohio state, it's got to be after 2015, because we play teams like USC, Miami (FL), Cal and VT until then. I don't see the point of waiting because we schedule so soon. I would like to see where you got that quote from 68.
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If I'm not mistaken, we have scheduled all of those teams in the future also, with the exception of Cal.
 
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I meant WE play all those teams. Since we are scheduling so many teams so far into the future, I didn't understand Callahan's apprehension in scheduling OSU so far in advance, assuming a couple of good recruiting seasons would put the huskers in the big league again. Which is why I was surprised and wanted to see from where 68 got that quote.
 
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ant80 said:
If they want to schedule ohio state, it's got to be after 2015, because we play teams like USC, Miami (FL), Cal and VT until then. I don't see the point of waiting because we schedule so soon. I would like to see where you got that quote from 68.
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I'll have to dig out the paper at home. So I can get the exact date of the newspaper clipping. It was from the Omaha World Herald. In fact, the article was front page ( most Nebraska stuff is out there ).

I bought multiple copies and put one on the desk of each Husker fan I knew with the quote from Tom Osborne highlighted.

Give me the weekend to dig it out, and I'll have it Monday.

~ 68
 
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ant80 said:
I meant WE play all those teams. Since we are scheduling so many teams so far into the future, I didn't understand Callahan's apprehension in scheduling OSU so far in advance, assuming a couple of good recruiting seasons would put the huskers in the big league again. Which is why I was surprised and wanted to see from where 68 got that quote.
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Callahan wasn't apprehensive about schedule Ohio State, Tom Osborne was. The quote I gave was from sometime around the summer of 96, after the Huskers had just won back-to-back titles.

I used to see Tommy Frazier at clubs in town around Omaha, with his little bodyguard entourage. He was all fat and out of shape. :biggrin:
 
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68Buckeye said:
Callahan wasn't apprehensive about schedule Ohio State, Tom Osborne was. The quote I gave was from sometime around the summer of 96, after the Huskers had just won back-to-back titles.

I used to see Tommy Frazier at clubs in town around Omaha, with his little bodyguard entourage. He was all fat and out of shape. :biggrin:
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Oh, my bad. I must've carefully read ur post. Aniway, why was Osbourne afraid of scheduling OSU after just winning back to back national championships? That is even more surprising... I'll look forward to reading the context of the quote when you post Monday. Thanks.
 
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