[Husker] Coach question

[BRADALAN at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/3/2005 11:36:21 A.M. Hawaiian Standard Time,  
SLawson at uamail.albany.edu writes:

While I  agree the Huskers have played some patsies (Maine and Wake Forest 
come to  mind) I would like to see some evidence to back this claim up. Some of 
those  schedules in the late 80's/early 90's were laughable.


 
Florida St, Arizona St, TX A&M, UCLA, Washington, Michigan St, West  Virginia 
(with Major Harris when they were good, the year after they  should have 
played for the title after the 1993 season.)  
 
These were some pretty big-name programs and NU was playing about 2 of them  
per season, with the exception of 1989 and 1990, so I will give you those  
years.  The fact that UCLA and ASU weren't very good at times (except when  UCLA 
had Troy Aikman, man that was a painful first quarter, watching him put up  28 
points!) doesn't change the fact that NU was scheduling big-name schools, and 
 you can't tell 5 or 6 years out if an opponent will be having a down year 
when  you play.
 
Washington came to Lincoln in 1991, and won the national championship that  
year.
 
Looking at all of the schedules on Huskerpedia.com, I have a hard time  
seeing any season where the non-conference slate was as weak as this  year's.  
While I don't like to see this, and have been on the bandwagon  criticizing K St 
for their scheduling, it is probably just what the doctor  ordered for this 
season and next to help the West Coast offense get it's feet  under it.
 
I would really like to see Nebraska get back to a position where they can  
schedule teams from the top half to 2/3 of Division 1 and expect to beat most of 
 them.  However, given the amount of money that big-name programs with  
70-100,000 seat stadiums take in for home games versus road games, I would  expect 
to see the Top 25 getting stuck with a 1-AA team at least once per  year.