[Husker] 9-win seasons

[Skylar Dodds]

I know it wasn't for me, but there's a few reasons why:

Osborne's 25 years = only ranked outside of the top 15 in the final rankings
once (1990, #17) and finished in the Top 10 EVERY YEAR his first 4 (#4, #7,
#7, #9) and never dropped out of the rankings AND never lost more than 3
games (2, 2, 3, 2 in first 4 years) in one season whereas Bo has lost 4 in
his first 3 and could lose his 4th in year 4 (hope not).  T.O. pretty much
never got blown out vs OK but not great opponents and Bo has repeatedly (UM
'11, WI '11, TT '09, Mizz '08).    

Bo's 4 years = we already mentioned blowout losses against multiple loss
teams AND I believe a home loss to an unranked team every year...VT '08, TT
'09, ISU '09, UT '10, NW '11 (and a few that he was favored by more than 3
touchdowns against).  Best final ranking = #14.

Look Bo's been solid to pretty good, but nowhere near great.  He's learning.
He could end up great, who knows.  But TO comparisons are silly.  Bo has at
least 1-2 losses more in each season AND he never finished ranked anywhere
near what TO did.

Hopefully, he gets back that great momentum he had at the end of '09.
Personally, I think his first 2 recruiting classes were pretty so-so and
he's paying for it a bit.  The other two have been a little better and we'll
see how this one ends up .

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Skylar 

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Steve Reichenbach
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 3:54 PM
To: gobigredlist at gmail.com; husker at tssi.com; mikejaixen at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] 9-win seasons

If you think the comparison is fudged, then I suggest that you make what you
think is an objective comparison of Pelini's first four years and Osborne's
first four years.