From: dostalik@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Bill Dostalik)
Subject: Big 8 talk (was Re: 91 BlockBuster(Was Re: Bama in the polls))
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:33:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.151821.11446@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> m_henderson@csc32.enet.dec.com (Marty Henderson) writes:
>--
>>>Last year Nebraska beat CSU by something like 69 - 7. Gee CU really has a
>
>>Well, Nebraska always had a way of running up the score against weak opponents.
>>But, it's a different story when they play some top 20 team. If you doubt, wait
>>till they play UW this year...

NU might surprise a few folks against UW.  They will be tough.

>
>It's a well known documented fact that Nebraska plays is's 2'nd, 3'rd, 4th,
>and 5th string from the mid/late second quarter on vs lesser teams such as CSU. How do you tell a kid who is, say, 3rd on the depth chart to go in and dog it?
>He's trying to move up. He is gonna play his heart out.
>
>It's also a well known documented fact about NU's problems vs top 20 teams
>the last 4 years or so. Why do you ask if I doubt? I have spoken of this many
>times in this newsgroup. It is OBVIOUS that Nebraska has fallen back in quality
>the last few years. With that in mind - why are you CU folk so damn proud that CU has beaten a "weak" Nebraska team ("weak" by Husker standards) 2 of the last
>3 years? And those 2 wins were not easy. Since NU has not beaten a top-20 team

Really, a couple of trips to the OB and CU fans think they have tradition.

>
>The Huskers of the past few years have not been the mighty Huskers of old.
>You have not beaten our best teams. Not by a long stretch of the imagination.
>For that matter the same goes for Oklahoma.

Gee, Broderick Thomas thought the '87 team was pretty good.  OU 17   NU 7.
Of course, NU has really whooped up on the best OU teams during the last
20 years. :-)

>
>>>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.

Don't try and explain it to the CU fans, they won't understand until they've
won, oh say, a dozen Big 8 titles (of course, we'll be dead and buried long
before that happens).

>>They said the same about Miami (and Miami fans, of course)...

I was at OU '84-'88, I know Miami.  Colorado, you're no Miami.


>Lets just have a great and competitive Big-8 season and hope that the Big-8
>elite once again join the ranks of the national elite.

Amen.
>
>By the way, just to set the record straight, I shall REPEAT my 1992 Big-8
>prediction. Just to keep the masses silent.  ;^)
>
>	1. Oklahoma,  Colorado  (Flip a coin)
>	3. Nebraska
>
>	Provided that: 1. OU and CU sucessfully convert to the "passing game"
>                       2. NU Coach Osborne stays suck in the 70s

OU vs. TexTech:  Cale Gundy, 22 of 28, 341 yds, 2 TD, another TD rushing.
Not a bad start to the conversion.

>
>	IF OU and CU struggle with their offensive game conversions AND
>	Coach Osborne opens the offense up...
>
>	1. Nebraska
>	2. Oklahoma,  Colorado  (Flip a coin)
>	3. Colorado,  Oklahoma  (Flip a coin)
>
>By the way, I consider sceanrio #1 to be the most likely. OK, got it straigt?

I don't know.  As impressed as I was by OU last night, I still think the
Huskers have to favored for the title.  You're loaded.  OU's defense has a
lot of work, but they did show considerable improvement just over the course of
the Tech game last night.  Also, CU keeps on recruiting.
If OU stays healthy, and beats Texas, (Texas is the key to our entire season),
I like the Sooners' chances, otherwise look for the Huskers.  I feel like
CU will be a strong 2nd no matter what.

>
>Husker Henderson
>

Bill Dostalik

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