From: m_henderson@csc32.enet.dec.com (Marty Henderson)
Subject: Re: 91 BlockBuster (Was Re: Bama in the polls)
Reply-To: m_henderson@csc32.enet.dec.com (Marty Henderson)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. (VMS Software Support - Colorado)
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:27:28 GMT

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>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Utah was favored to finish ahead of
>>CSU in the WAC this year. Utah is Nebraska's first game. Look at the facts.
>>Last year Nebraska beat CSU by something like 69 - 7. Gee CU really has a
>>great opener with a program that has had a "winning record" - Yea, and Monkeys
>>might fly out of my butt! We all know that the WAC is a BAD conference.

>Consider:
># of national champions WAC has produced since 1982: 1
># of national champions Big 8 has produced since 1982: 2
># of national champions Big 10 has produced since 1982: 0
>(in football, of course; not skiing, gymastics, or anything like that)

Hi Dylan.

I believe the MNC stat you quote is very incomplete. BYU has been the ONLY
team in the WAS which has been able to even come close to competeing at the
national level for a long-long time. Yea I know, Air Force has won some big
bowls lately. But that is one or 2 games. Surely you must agree that the 
overall quality of the WAC is low. Right?

>Even though that 1984 BYU Nat'l championship is still heavily disputed 
>(esp. since Tulsa went 10-1 in 1983 and didn't go to a bowl - same with 
>New Mexico - is there no justice??) that is a football national championship.

In 1984 Nebraska traveled to Wyoming and won something like 57-10. Wyoming goes
to BYU and looses a very close game. Now I know that the "same opponent" comparison does not really hold water all the time but this is a pretty
extreme case. Also, BYU played a sub-500 Michigan (A bad bowl team) in the
bowl. BYU never did prove themselves. Any top-5 team that year would have
beaten BYU. That MNC was a travisty of justice.

>And, Mr. Henderson, how many of those national championships above belong
>to a certain team who wear red (NOT CRIMSON) and plays in a town called Lincoln
>with a coach who has bags the size of King Soopers grocery bags under his 
>eyes????

>I rest my case.


>>Why are you CU fans so illogical? I guess that maybee after all those long
>>decades of poor quality CU football it's just human nature to get over
>>emotional about it.

>Cap'n, photon torpedos armed....

Shilds up Captain. And I have the Enterprise-E while you have the Enterprise-A.
;^)   

>Ya know, it's a lot of fun watching you rant and rave. Sorta like those 
>Ga. Tech fans who claim a national title just because the Mizzou coaches 
>couldn't count to five and the Eastern press thinks football ends somewhere 
<west of a line from Duluth to Champaign , IL to St.louis to New Orleans.

I don't consider it ranting and raving. I'm sure that if you and I were to hear 
the same CU fans talk - afterward I would say they were "ranting and raving"
while you would say they were perfectly logical. Do I make my point clear?
Because I consider much of what I hear from CU fans as just what you accuse
ME of!

And by the way, I think those Ga. Tech fans have a point. So there we have it -
you and I have a fundamentally different way of thinking about NU and CU.

>Colorado fans are not that emotional. We're just new at this. Compare us 
>to all those Nebraska fans who swear, year in, year out, "This is the year!
<WE'RE GOING ALL THE WAY!!!!!" And, since 1971, they haven't. 

This is point of view again.

By the way. You are outdated about the Husker fans who swear that "This is the year!". It used to be that way. It really did and I used to be one of the fans
leading the cry. Buit the last few years most Husker fans have become disillusioned about that. The expectations have lowered. We are now just rooting for respectability again (And I do stress AGAIN). And we are optomistic that we
can reach that goal. (It would sure help if Coach O would warp forward to the
90s.)

>I'm not saying that Nebraska is a bad team. I'm saying that they can be as 
<illogical, pig-headed, stupid as the 17,000+ Colorado students, wasted from
>the pint of Absolut in their bota bags, who crowd into the SE corner of 
>Folsolm Field aturday afternoon (of whom, by the way, I'll not be a part
>of - for the first time since I began here in Boulder, I do not have a 
>season ticket. I had to have someone else buy tickets for me as I was out
>of town, and I "had to have a personal check made out to the Athletic Dept.
>and not cash. I was pissed, to say the least). Colorado is reknown for its
>science and astro depts., Oklahoma State for its agricultural research, 
>Iowa State for engineering, Oklahoma for poli sci and energy, Missouri 
>for journalism, Kansas for liberal arts, Nebraska for ... um, uh, well, 
>what are you all good at academically? Oh yeah, Fundamentals of Football. :^)

Some of them can. But this brings up another point. Beer sales at Folsom.
I do believe this adds to the problem there. Just one man's opinion. I also
know that it's easy to smuggy in whatever you want in a container.

>>Husker Henderson

Husker Henderson   Go Big Red !!!!
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