[Husker] Oddities

[Scott R Lawson]

Well then I guess we are in trouble as fans, unless you are counting the big home and home with Washington as a "big game" in the next four years- it seems like Bo is pulling in some decent recruits who likely know they will be playing Western Kentucky in a couple years and still seem to want to play major college football at a perennial powerhouse for a great staff. 

My response was intended to be a bit sarcastic, as I'm always puzzled as to why fans give a rats arse who the team plays in the non conference schedule, unless they have a personal stake in it (which I bet 99.9% of the folks on the list do not). In case you forgot, there are in fact a few other reasons to play football at Nebraska besides the opportunity to play top 10 teams every year, and if that were the case, as I assume you are suggesting it should be, all the great players would be going to places like Notre Dame again because they are arrogant enough to still schedule the best teams, and honestly it doesn't appear that has been helping their success of late.

The type of players Pelini wants in Lincoln would strap it up against high school teams if he told them to, believe me.

Scott in NY


-----Original Message-----
From: j j [mailto:jjj112665 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wed 2008.12.24 22:29
To: Huskers List; Dick Karre; Scott R Lawson
Subject: RE: [Husker] Oddities
 
Bull!! If you think it means as much to play those three instead of Miami or Florida or Ohio State you are crazy. If it doesnt mean more to play those types of teams instead of the 3 we are playing then we are recruiting the wrong type of player. We need kids who want to play the best week in and week out. If they are just as happy playing patsies they need to be playing somewhere else. 
 
 
 


--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu> wrote:

From: Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu>
Subject: RE: [Husker] Oddities
To: jjj112665 at yahoo.com, "Huskers List" <husker at tssi.com>, "Dick Karre" <dkarre at comcast.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 8:28 PM

Well I guess that is all the more reason for Nebraska to make sure they smack
these teams around so they can be ranked headed in to conference play.

I bet the kids don't care much who they play anyway as long as they are
having fun.

Scott in NY


-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of j j
Sent: Wed 2008.12.24 18:05
To: Huskers List; Dick Karre
Subject: Re: [Husker] Oddities
 
No,  they are patsies. It doesn't change just because they beat up on each
other. They come from the Sun Belt conference which is probably the worst
conference in Div. 1. This is the worst OOC schedule ever for an NU team. 
 
 


--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net>
Subject: [Husker] Oddities
To: "Huskers List" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 2:18 PM

Okay, so I need a life, but I was looking at NU's non-conference schedule
for next year and came across some interesting (to me, anyway) coincidences.

Aside from Virginia Tech, the Huskers play Florida Atlantic (coached by none
other than Howard Schnellenberger), Arkansas State and Louisiana-Lafayette. All
three of these teams play in the Sun Belt Conference; I don't recall any
season when NU played three non-conference games against teams from one
conference. Moreover, all three of them finished this season at 6-6 (FAU will
play a bowl game Friday), and they each won one and lost one in the games
against the other two. You might conclude they were evenly matched this year,
and they might not be quite the patsies we would ordinarily expect (though no
one will confuse them with Virginia Tech or Oklahoma).

-- Dick Karre
dkarre at comcast.net

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