Look at statistics, fair-weather fans
Anyone who thinks Tom Osborne
should be fired and the Nebraska
offense should devote itself to the
is advised to stop read
right now. Its con
Nick
Hytrek
tents will probably be offensive to
you.
Since the loss to Colorado, Ne
braska football “fans” have once again
shown how fickle they really are.
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All season, everyone jumped on
the bandwagon shouting “This will
be the year Tom finally brings us a
national championship,” and “Bring
on Colorado and Oklahoma, we’ll
kick their ***. And whoever we face
in the Orange Bowl, we’ll kick their
*** too.”
However, as the Colorado game
came to a close on that rainy after
noon, I overheard many comments
that were probably made by the the
same people who had said Nebraska
would go all the way. Comments such
as, “We’ll be lucky to beat Kansas
next week,” and “Oklahoma will kill
us,” and, of course, “Who cares what
bowl we go to? We’ll just gel blown
out again anyway.”
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Ever since the loss to Colorado,
the fair-weather fans have reappeared.
Several have demanded for Osborne's
resignation, secondary coach George
Darlington’s resignation, the devo
tion of the Husker offense to the pass
and that they’ll never cheer for Ne
braska again until all of the above
demands are met. Good.
Who wants a bunch of fair wealhef
fans backing the program? Sell your
tickets to someone who isn’t going to
complain when Nebraska loses an
occasional game.
My question is this: Why, after
just one loss, is Osborne suddenly the
worst coach in the history of college
football? One loss does not a season
make, or two for that matter.
Ana please can we Kin me uiik ui
switching to a passing offense? Colo
rado was the superior team and it
wasn’t the lack of passing that killed
Nebraska, it was the inability to stop
the Buffalo ground game in the fourth
quarter after their mammoth offen
sive line had worn down the smaller
Husker defensive line.
If I recall correctly, nobody was
complaining at halftime and Mickey
Joseph hadn’t completed a pass yet. I
also recall many times when Joseph
dropped back to pass but had to
scramble out of the pocket because of
a good pass rush and excellent pass
coverage downficld.
In his weekly press conference
following the Colorado game, Coach
Osborne presented some interesting
facts.
He pointed out that in the 1970s,
Nebraska started Vince Fcrragamo,
Dave Humm and Terry Luck, all
excellent passers, but they al I had one
thing in common: They never beat
Oklahoma, the measure of a success
ful Nebraska season tor as long as i
can remember.
Year after year, Nebraska fans
watched quick Sooner quarterbacks
run circles around the Huskcr de
fense, and Osborne said the coaching
staff decided to start recruiting the
“running quarterback” and try to run
at Oklahoma.
Enter Turner Gill, Steve Taylor
and Gerry Gdowski. Nebraska’s re
cord against Oklahoma since a “run
ning quarterback” is 5-4.
Further research shows that Ne
braska’s record from 1972 to 1979,
when Nebraska started “passing quar
terbacks” is 74-20-3, a 76 percent
winning percentage. Nebraska lost to
the likes of Missouri, Iowa State,
Wisconsin, Washington State and tied
Oklahoma State, and won 10 or more
games only twice.
Since 1981, when Gill began his
starting career, Nebraska’s record is
83-18, an 82 percent winning per
centage, no losses to the teams men
tioned above and only twice did
Nebraska fail to win 10 games or
more.
I am in no way protecting Osborne’s
offensive tendencies. I’m not entirely
satisfied with the Husker offense
myself, but I’m not a coach so my
opinion doesn’t mean very much.
Just look at the numbers and draw
your own conclusions. Next lime
Nebraska loses, remember those
numbers before getting all bent out of
shape.
And, most of all, remember that a
10-2 record is not mediocre, at least
not to die-hard Husker fans.
Hytrek is a junior news-editorial major
and a Daily Nebraskan sports reporter and
columnist.
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