[Husker] Nebraska 84 Minnesota 13

[Andrew Smith]

I think there was a very good reason to score 84 points - Minnesota was 
that bad! The first 5 Nebraska drives took between 3 and 5 plays each. 
After only 20 offensive plays, Nebraska already had 35 points and a few 
hundred yards.

Also, keep in mind that it was a road game, which means that Osborne 
couldn't even put in a full 3rd team on both sides of the ball. Had it 
been a home game, Osborne could have had 4th and 5th string players on 
the field in the 4th quarter. Even in home games, I've seen Nebraska 
score 60+ points against weaker teams. Had some of those games been on 
the road, we might have seen a few other games reach 70+.

As far as Rozier the second half...
Given that most games that season were well in hand by early in the 
second half (average game score for the season was 52–16), if Osborne 
had sat down the 1st team every time that was the case, they wouldn't 
have been as prepared as a coach would want for the games that weren't 
that easy.

Andy

Bob Beach wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Petersen" 
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> To: <Bobbaseballfan at aol.com>; <husker at tssi.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Andre Ware
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>> I won't buy that Osborne EVER intentionally tried to put 100 on 
>> anybody. I will bet that he was trying to give Rozier every 
>> oportunity to impress Heisman voters even if our team was dominating 
>> alot of opponents.
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> Okay, one in the same. One needs to understand that even though Dr. 
> Tom is/was a good man he is not always above running up the score. 
> There was absolutely no reason to score 84 points against Minnesota 
> with Rozier in the game in the 2nd half other than the Heisman. I'll 
> bet my bottom dollar if a team ran up the score on NU with the 
> motivation they were promoting someone for the Heisman everyone on 
> this list would scream like a stuck bull moose.
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> Bob Beach
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> I never learned anything when I was the one doing the talking.
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