[Husker] Black shirts

[David Strong]

Mark...sorry guy but I don't know where you read "defeatist" and "stuck"
and "content" and "resign ourselves" and "accepting" and "also-ran" in my
post saying that a 9 win season is a good one and not to be taken for
granted and that a 9-3 season with a big game win over MSU is a good season
and winning 2 of our last 3 will be difficult but if it happens we should
be happy.
Do you just make this stuff up?
We will have championship teams again.  We will have powerful teams again.
But anyone watching this team from the beginning of the season should have
known that this probably isn't one of them...though there is still hope!
Regardless of what all the preseason bloggers and media guys said.
Regardless of what some guy with a bunch of stats and an excel spreadsheet
said.  This team has never really passed the eyeball test for a
championship team.  But it's not over yet and they have given us some great
things to cheer for this year even if the team isn't an elite one.
Appreciate seasons like this, they will be more often than not in the years
ahead.

Dave

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Mark Landin <marklandin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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