[Husker] Wish I Knew ...

[Mitch Parker]

Pat Gaule built a victory chain analyzer that connected teams through  
several years ago.

Adding to this concept, this year I've built a site that includes  
comparative scores.

http://myteamvs.com

The good news is we're better than Missouri...

--Mitch

On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Steve Stone <sstone at pvtnetworks.net> wrote:

> ... how to get a bead on how good this team is at this stage of the  
> season. Comparing scores is, as always, an exercise in futility:  
> VTech beats the Huskers by one, then the following week tromps Maini  
> which turns around and whallops Oklahoma. The Huskers  trample  
> Arkansas State which comes to Iowa City a couple of weeks later to  
> play the Hawkeyes who thumped Penn State a week earlier yet barely  
> squeeze past the the Red Wolves. If comparative scores had any  
> meaning at all, the Huskers should win their remaining games, even  
> againt Oklahoma, by huge margins. Yet we all know this is less than  
> likely.
>
> The Tigers almost always play the Huskers tough in Columbia. My  
> first inkling of this came in 1951 as I watched Bobby Reynolds and  
> company being pretty much stymied in Columbia. (Attended MU as a  
> Junior in the fall semester of 1951 because I had been led to  
> believe it had the best Journalism department in the country; left  
> in January 1952 because that was hardly the case.) And who doesn't  
> remember how the Tigers at Faurot Field would have blown NU's 1997  
> MNC had Matt Davison not made "The Catch."
>
> Yet, as Carl Sandburg said, history is a bucket of ashes.
>
> My  gut tells me that this years Husker squad may be capable of  
> good, even great, things, but it doesn't tell me that it will do  
> them on the day after tomorrow.
>
> Steve Stone
>
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