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

[Alan Siporin]

Someone else produced the stats in an earlier post.(Sorry, I forgot who.
Maybe the poster can do it again, please). Nebraska rushed the ball for
about 250 yards a game (258?) and passed for about 170. I didn't assert a
rapid fire passing attack, only that the commentators assertion that the
Huskers ran the running offense of later years is ill informed. Devaney ran
some option with Duda at qb and others, including Van Brownson. But he ran
very little option with Tagge. (not zero, very little). It was an off-tackle
running game with a passing attack that was integral as opposed to an
after-thought. 

Please, Bob, don't put yourself, especially as a Husker fan, in those
non-Husker commentator shoes, and mark yourself as being that poorly out of
touch. Fading memory is a legitimate excuse, but then don't keep pushing
your admittedly faded recollections on the rest of us. (smile). Why not end
this discussion by acknowledging my original point - that the ESPN guys
missed the boat by assuming that the Osborne running game of the Eighties
went all the way back to 71?

Alan


On 12/17/06 10:45 AM, "Bob Beach" <rbeach at neb.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Siporin" <alans at efn.org>
> To: "Bob Beach" <rbeach at neb.rr.com>; "Husker List" <husker at tssi.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [personal] Re: [Husker] ESPN: 1995 Huskers Still the Greatest
> 
> 
>> The game of the century was not typical, stat-wise, or otherwise. No other
>> game was close, for example. Nevertheless, the stats bear me out, not your
>> 65 passing yards for the OU game. We averaged more than a hundred yards a
>> game more than the 65, at about 170. Yes, Rodgers returned punts and
>> kickoffs, but he caught several bombs for tds, too, and many key third
>> down
>> catches,including a diving catch to keep THE drive alive.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   I have already agreed they threw the ball to Rodgers in 1971.  But, it
> wasn't like the 1971 Huskers were rapid fire throw the ball Rodgers attack.
> They still were weighted toward the run.  For the life of me I can't find
> any exact statistics and am relying totally on memory, which in my case
> isn't always the best ;-).  I remember them throwing the ball to Rodgers for
> sure but I remember them using him many ways of which passing was a part.
> When you have backs like Jeff Kinney rushing is a very important part.
> 
> 
> Bob Beach
> 
> I never learned anything when I was the one doing the talking.
> 
> 
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