[Husker] Black shirts

[Mark Landin]

Dave,

I'm sorry that just sounds a little too defeatist to me. The idea that
we are stuck where we are and that we should be content with
good-but-not-great doesn't sound like a formula for winning. I've seen
a quote from Pelini somewhere that the idea that you shouldn't ask for
perfection because it's unattainable is how losers think, and he
doesn't subscribe to that belief. Yes, I think we can be proud of our
team and appreciate and enjoy their efforts even if we lose a number
of games, but to resign ourselves to NOT being a national power and a
championship contender is not consistent with the traditional mindset
of Nebraska players, coaches, and fans, and with the history and
tradition of NU football. At our best, we SHOULD be, and have been,
one of those elite blueblood programs, and I believe we are very close
to being so again. "Accepting" our fate as a second-tier "also ran"
will only make it true, and that attitude is poison to achieving any
kind of greatness.

On 11/5/11, David Strong <gobigredlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Another 9 win season if we are lucky.
>>
>> In business, we would say it is time for many of us to work on a paradigm
> shift.  A 9 win season is a good season, not to be taken for granted.   We
> are not an annual power and we now play in a tougher conference.  We are
> not going to win as much, that's just the way it is.  A 9 win season
> usually means we won all our non-conference games and went 5-3 in
> conference.  That is a good season and we better get used to it.  Any more
> than that and it is a great season.  I never believed we would get to
> Indianapolis, much less the Rose Bowl.  9-3 and a big game win over MSU
> would be a very good season for us.  It will be hard with what is in front
> of us, but still possible.  If we win 2 out of the next three, we should
> all be partying.
>
> Dave
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