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

[Harmon, Josh]

Sounds like truthiness is at question.  And truthiness always wins! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

Still let's not pretend lives depend on this. :)

Cheers,
Josh 

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of Alan Siporin
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 12:10 AM
To: Bob Beach; Husker List
Subject: Re: [personal] Re: [Husker] ESPN: 1995 Huskers Still the
Greatest

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