[Husker] I am SO SICK OF THIS CRAP

[Patrick Gaule]

jon johnston wrote:
> I could just puke: 
> http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/11128258/rss
> 
> "Questionable voting is a longstanding tradition in the coaches poll.  
> Who can forget 1997 when the coaches gave Tom Osborne a retirement  
> gift, awarding him a national championship a month after the coach  
> announced his retirement?"
> 
> Michigan and Nebraska in 1997 were so close to even it was ridiculous.  
> I stand by the idea that if the media schmucks are going to say the  
> coaches gave Osborne a gift, then it works both ways. The media gave a  
> gift to Michigan because they hadn't won a title since 1948 and wanted  
> to sell more media crap.
> 

LOL!!!

I have a friend who is a Michigan fan and he admits that Nebraska 
probably would have wiped the floor with Michigan that year.  A lot of 
people mistakenly believe that Michigan played a tougher schedule that 
year, but the final records and ratings of their opponents don't bear 
that out.  I have no problem with a split national title, but to this 
day, I have no idea how anyone can objectively look at the results of 
that year and declare that Michigan was unanimously better than Nebraska.

But of course, I'm sure it had nothing to do with those facts or the 
fact that Nebraska destroyed Peyton Manning + a Tennessee squad that 
would win the national championship the next year, while Michigan 
struggled to beat Ryan Leaf and the Cougs...it was all about a 
retirement gift for Tom!