[Husker] Regular Season

[Steve Reichenbach]

> To backup my reply to Steve. In which games can the Huskers say that
> they actually had played a complete game ? The only ones that come to
> mind are Arkansas State and Minnesota, Im throwing out the So. Miss
> and Idaho St. games. Though at the time the So. Miss game was a good
> win with them going 12-2 the the year before.

I'm not even sure what "complete game" means.  If I were to be flippant,
which I sometimes am, I'd say they played 60 minutes in every game.
I assume you mean some type of perfection throughout the game.  What if
I asked that about the best golfers in the world?  How many golfers have
ever played a game such a complete game?  When I watch pro football,
which I don't often do, I see plenty of missed tackles, dropped balls,
turnovers, etc.  Even better, more practiced players and more accomplished
teams don't play complete games without any shortcomings.

I say Nebraska had a good year.  You say they played like an expletive
week after week.  How do we measure such things?  Clearly, we have
different yardsticks, but I question your standards when a 10 win
regular season, division championship, national ranking, and New Year's
Day Bowl is so expletive deleted.  And, if we look a little deeper, we
might see other things like GPAs and graduation, personal responsibility,
etc.

This quote is attributed to Henri Matisse:  "There are always flowers
for those who want to see them."  I suppose the same thing is true
of expletives.