[personal] Re: [Husker] ESPN: 1995 Huskers Still the Greatest

[Duane Feldman]

Skylar,

I agree totally about the margin of victory and strength of schedule comments favoring the '95 Huskers.  You can make similar comments about the '71 Huskers in that we beat the eventual #2 (OU), #3 (CU) and #4 (beat then #2 Bama 38-0) with only the OU game being close.

Where I take issue is your comment about returning all the starters for the '95 team.  IIRC, we didn't return many from the '94 team.  Frazier, Phillips, Graham and one WR was it for the offensive starters (lost FB, WR, TE and four linemen).  The defense was a little better, but we still lost about five off the starting unit, although Minter was returning from injury. FWIW, Green was a freshman in '95 as were Ralph and Mike Brown.   I had a gut feeling the team would be good, but based on returning starters, there is no way I was anticipating the best team ever.

Duane Feldman


----- Original Message ----
From: Skylar Dodds <Sklarbodds at cox.net>
To: Husker List <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 11:20:23 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [personal] Re: [Husker] ESPN: 1995 Huskers Still the Greatest


Hello Husker Fans,

Sorry to reply to my own post, but Herbie said he thought the '01
Miami team was better and the '04 Trojan team was better.

In '01 Miami played 2 Top 10 teams (1 was NU the other was preseason
#10 Penn State who finished the season 5-6). They nearly lost (and
should have for those who watched the game) to #14 Virginia Tech
26-24. They also were played very tough till the end by an UNRANKED
Boston College 18-7. Don't get me wrong, I'd put them in the Top 10
teams, but no way are they better than '95 Skers!

In '04 USC played 2 Top 10 teams (Cal & OU).  They had REALLY close
calls against 3 unranked teams (Stanford 31-28, Oregon State 28-20,
and UCLA 29-24).  Granted, in the MNC game they obliterated #3
Oklahoma 55-19, but one game does not make them the best team ever and
the NU team of course blew out #2 Florida 62-24.Skyla
Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, maybe margin of victory doesn't
mean anything.  Herbalick uses draft picks as one of his main
arguments...

I don't think you can argue that many teams have been as dominant as
the 1995 Huskers.  That I can say for sure.

One thing I really remember from that season was how slighted it felt
coming in to the season ranked #2.  We were returning almost EVERYBODY
from the previous year's MNC team.

Phillips, Green, Frazier, Benning, Childs, etc. etc.

On the OL we lost Zatechka, Stai, and Weigert so maybe that was their
justification.  Mackovica replaced Schlesinger, so that could have
counted against us.

On defense we lost Connealy and Baron Miles, but had the Peter
brothers, Tomich, Ty Williams, Booker, Veland, Minter all coming back
and we picked up JUCO Terrell Farley.

Oh well, we really should have been poll to poll #1, but it wasn't
meant to be.

-- 
Go Skers,
Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net

SD> Hello Husker Fans,

SD> I don't know about a replay, but if you want to see Herbsteak whine,
SD> somebody posted some clips on YouTube:

SD> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2al4sevl9NA

SD> Man, what a whiner. I love his quote, "Well I question who the 1995
SD> team really played. I don't think the competition was that tough that
SD> year." WOW!

SD> Considering that team beat 4 Top 10 teams and never won by less than 2
SD> touchdowns...  WOW!

SD> I'd love for someone to ask Herbie Husker Hater, "What other team
SD> played 4 Top 10 teams and blew everybody out of the water"


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