[Husker] Going for 2

[Robert Christensen]

Sue and all,

I probably shouldn't get involved in this discussion since it has no 
"right" answers.  I don't happen to subscribe to the position that going 
for the win at the Orange Bowl was a bad decision.  Had we made the 2 
point, we would have been National Champion and the point wouldn't have 
mattered.   As it was, the championship slipped away and we can continue 
to discuss it all these years later.

I also don't think Tom made a bad choice of Frank Solich to take the HC 
of the Huskers.  It was Pederson that made the bad choice regarding Solich.

I do think that Pederson fooled Tom as he did about everyone in 
Nebraska.  Pederson lost me when he decided to take this "new direction" 
and it was pretty obvious (at least in hind sight) that Pederson's new 
direction was away from everything that was Nebraska Football.  I doubt 
that Tom could have known that, and I think it fooled a lot of other 
people along the way. 

In retrospect, I think the campaign for governor was run about right.  
The current governor is doing a fair job in that capacity.  I think he 
would have been a horrible AD!  (*smile*-thats a joke for the ones that 
might wonder).

Bob

Sue Smith wrote:
> Let me see if I can clarify my point.  Go for 2 and make it = National Championship, miss it = No National Championship.  Go for 1 = National Championship.  You only needed one point to be the National Champion.
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>   Instead of TO getting his first National Championship, Miami got theirs.  
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>   It was as bad of a decision then, as it would be today! 
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> Matt Phillips <matthew.a.phillips at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Folks, 99% of the list agrees with you. Probably 100% - someone is just
> trying to get a rise out of the list (and it's getting old..)
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com 
>> [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Schammel, Wayne P
>> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:53 AM
>> To: husker at tssi.com
>> Subject: [Husker] Going for 2
>>
>>
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>>> TO also went for 2 against Miami in the 1984 Orange Bowl, when he
>>>       
>> should have 
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>>> settled for the tie and the National Championship.
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>>>> I don't post here very often, but this statement really 
>>>>         
>> bothers me. As
>> one of the "older" fans (I remember >>when Devaney came to 
>> Lincoln), I've always felt that the decision to go for two 
>> against Miami was a >>defining moment in Tom's career and a 
>> seminal event in Nebraska football. He could have taken the 
>> easy way >>out and gotten the glory but he wanted to win it 
>> on the field, in my opinion, the honorable way.
>> That was a >>quality rarely seen in the day and even less 
>> now. At the time, I was disappointed that we lost but I don't 
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>>>> know if I've ever been prouder to be a Husker. I think it 
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>> was viewed as a "heroic decision" by fans around >>the nation 
>> and I've heard more than one coach say he wished he had the 
>> guts to make a decision like that. I >>just don't understand 
>> how anyone could say it was a "bad decision".
>>
>>     
>>>> Dave Melvin
>>>> Columbus, OH
>>>>         
>> I also am an old fart (Class of 71) and clearly the 84 OB was 
>> the most disappointing loss I ever experienced as a Husker 
>> fan. I had mixed emotions about Osborne going for 2 that 
>> day. Clearly, it was gutsy and heroic and many non-Nebraska 
>> fans admired his decision. On the other hand, I distinctly 
>> recall Tom saying afterwards that he did not realize that 
>> going for 1 and settling for the tie (no OT then) would get 
>> Nebraska the MNC. Everyone assumes he went for two as some 
>> sort of noble thing but I really believe that, if he had 
>> known that a tie would get him the MNC, he would have kicked 
>> it instead of going for it.
>>
>> I liked the call (although my heart was pounding out of my 
>> chest at the
>> time) but hated the disappointing result; he had to wait 
>> another 11 years for his first title when I really believe we 
>> could have won at least two national titles in 81, 82 and 83 
>> but ended up with none.
>>
>> That said, he was a great coach and did a heck of a job in 
>> picking the new coach, in my humble opinion. It was quick, 
>> decisive and, mark my words, we will be a top 25 team next 
>> year without a doubt, maybe even top 10.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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