[Husker] Historical Loss - When was last time A&M Beat Huskers inLincoln?

[gzimmerman at everestkc.net]

Payback is a "you know what".

Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu>
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:18 pm
Subject: RE: [Husker] Historical Loss - When was last time A&M Beat Huskers inLincoln?

> Colorado and Kansas St will try to bury Nebraska I am sure. I 
> would expect them to run it up quite a bit just to embarrass the 
> Huskers.
> Scott in NY
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Kenneth McKillip
> Sent: Sun 2007.10.21 13:42
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: [Husker] Historical Loss - When was last time A&M Beat 
> Huskers inLincoln?
> 
> A&M has played in Lincoln 6 times.
> 
> 
> 
> Last time the Aggies won was 1955.
> 
> 
> 
> Bear Bryant was Head Coach.  Aggies were the SWC Champions known 
> as "the
> Junction Boys".  Gene Stalling and Jack Pardee were assistants.  
> That team
> turned A&M fortunes around.  Next year they recruited Heisman 
> trophy winner
> John David Crow.
> 
> 
> 
> Fast forward.  2007: A&M limps into Lincoln, in the middle of a 
> patheticseason with their coach on the ropes, after being spanked 
> by mediocre a
> Texas Tech team that held there anemic offense to 7 points (Tech's 
> defensivecoordinator was recently fired due to inept defense so 
> the Tech'sters don't
> have the greatest defense meaning A&M's offense in incredibly 
> weak).  The
> Aggies, however, hang 36 on the black shirts.
> 
> 
> 
> I'd say Husker football has hit bottom rock bottom - if not for 
> Wake's QB
> being hurt and dumb luck against Ball St. we would have two wins 
> for the
> year against powerhouses Nevada and Iowa St.  We are now looking at
> spankings by Texas, Kansas, K St, and Colo (amazing to think).  We 
> are truly
> reaping what was sown when threw out the tradition and the proven 
> ones.Next time what we are thinking about doing lines up with the 
> internetknucklehead zeitgeist and Journal-Star/OWH editorial 
> writers we should slap
> ourselves and think again.
> 
> 
> 
> Now were the ones hoping to "wake up the echo's" of a by gone era. 
> I do not
> believe that 85 scholarship limit means a great program can't 
> dominate.Sticking to Heritage Husker values and strategies was 
> never in vogue.  Just
> fundamentally sound and, in today's world, unique enough to set us 
> apart.Key world here is unique - different enough to give us an 
> unconventional,competitive advantage.
> 
> 
> 
> True analogy.  Twenty year ago, all the big oil companies decided the
> chemical business was moribund and they decided to sell off their 
> chemicalunits. Many sold off refining and focused on upstream 
> only.  One company's
> CEO could see how selling off the chemicals businesses made them 
> better.  He
> felt like if done right integrating refining and chemicals to get 
> every last
> bit of value made more sense.  It just took a lot of work by 
> management to
> make sure the businesses operated as one optimized whole.  This 
> company is
> absolutely the most consistent earner of all the oils and its 
> stock sells at
> a significant P/E premium.  Because one hard headed group of guys 
> decidedthe current in thing really didn't make fundamental sense.  
> Of course they
> were told they were out of date.  But they were a bunch of inbreds and
> thought for themselves.  This same pattern has played out over on over
> again.  Fundamentals do win over time.
> 
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