[Husker] I am SO SICK OF THIS CRAP

[Duane Feldman]

With all this message traffic on one man's opinion, we need to keep in mind that not all the media agrees with his perspecitive.  There was a recent poll of "most undeserving national champions" and while I predicted the winner would be BYU back when they didn't play a ranked team all year and beat an unranked UMichigan team in a bowl, I totally missed one of the top five teams in the poll:  1996-7 Michigan!!!  The article went on to say that it was widely accepted that co-champ Nebraska would have easily handled Michigan if they had met.  They did talk about NU's tougher schedule and tougher yet more convincing bowl victory.

While I do agree that NU would have beaten UM had they met, I also feel there were several more undeserving champions than Michigan.  UM was afterall, undefeated from the Big 10 at least.  FWIW, Colorado with a 9-1-1 season and five downs to beat Missouri was also in the top five.  I think I remember the Georgia Tech team that beat us for the title was another team on the list.  In my mind UT in '70 deserved to be on the list as they were awarded the title before their bowl game loss while NU didn't get our share until after the bowl.

Duane Feldman




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From: Eric Erlandson <ere at inetnebr.com>
To: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
Cc: List Husker <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:26:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] I am SO SICK OF THIS CRAP

If you commit to playing somewhere with higher regard for "tradition" and 
"granddaddies" or whatever than for championships, you should NEVER win it 
all (unless it just so happens that the other team you play is also among 
the top two).

We'd have happily played Michigan that year.  They just wouldn't play us. 
What could we do?  We waited for them after school, and they had Mom pick 
them up at the door for some kind of "appointment."

-Eric
(Eric Erlandson, CEO)

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Mike Jaixen wrote:

> To put it simply, I think it's simply sour grapes.  The sports media decided who they felt was the deserving national champion, and anybody who disagreed was blatantly wrong, and obviously had ulterior motives.
>
> Mike Jaixen
> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
> http://www.cornnation.com
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/2/08, jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Husker] I am SO SICK OF THIS CRAP
>> To: "List Husker" <husker at tssi.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:26 AM
>> 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.
>>
>> Dennis Dodd can
>> #$)(*#)(@*#)@(&^!@(!^&*#&$^&#($@#) his head
>> in a bucket.
>>
>> Jon Johnston
>> http://www.cornnation.com
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