Nebraska...not feeling Frosty anymore

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http://www.omaha.com/article/20130803/HUSKERS/130809568/

1983's scoring explosion... And the 2013 team.

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http://www.huskers.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=100&&PALBID=980148

Day one pics

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Sip:




Nebraska players and coaches obviously think they have something special in their 2013 offense. They make no bones about their confidence. How good can the unit get? Will it ultimately go down as one of the best offenses in school history?

I don't know if these are absolutely the five best offenses in Husker history. But they are hard to beat statistically:

1. The 1995 Husker offense edges the 1983 offense as the best in school history. I have no problem saying that, though the point obviously is debatable. The Big Red Machine averaged school records of 556.3 yards and 52.4 points. And consider, the Huskers were without Lawrence Phillips for six games. NU allowed no sacks that season, while the Blackshirts racked up 32.

2. The 1983 offense, dubbed "The Scoring Explosion," averaged 546.7 yards and 52.0 points. The Huskers attempted only four field goals all season. Field goals are largely unnecessary when you have Turner Gill, Mike Rozier and Irving Fryar. The Huskers fumbled 44 times that season, but lost only 15. It's still the only offense in school history to average 400 rushing yards (401.7).

3. The 1997 offense averaged 513.7 yards and 47.1 points. Ahman Green rushed for 1,877 yards (156.4 per game), while Scott Frost rushed for 1,095 (6.2 per carry). The unit averaged 6.6 yards per play. This was back when Nebraska used its fullback extensively -- Joel Makovicka rushed for 685 yards, and had no minus-yards. Incredible.

4. The 1982 offense gets overlooked for obvious reasons. But it averaged a mere 518.6 yards and 41.1 points, leading the nation in both categories. The 1982 Huskers lost only one game, the controversial setback at Penn State. It had a pretty decent center in Dave Rimington. Dean Steinkuhler lined up next to Rimington. And Roger Craig punished defenders with his running style.

5. Talk about getting overlooked. The 1989 unit averaged 513.3 yards, including a nation-leading 375.3 rushing yards. The Huskers ranked second nationally at 44.7 points per game. This particular offense featured two of the most underrated players in school history -- quarterback Gerry Gdowski (who averaged 7.9 yards per rush) and I-back Ken Clark (who rushed for 1,196 yards on 6.0 per carry). Morgan Gregory and Richard Bell were talented receivers. The team finished 10-1 in the regular season, losing only at second-ranked Colorado.

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http://journalstar.com/gallery/huskers/photos-huskers-give-back-to-lincoln-kids/collection_c14de4bc-2b04-59c7-93c3-d282d5b09e4b.html#0

some great pictures of huskers giving back

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Randy York's N-Sider

On Monday, Mark Packer made his first-ever visit to Lincoln. Houston Nutt, his sidekick on SiriusXM’s College Sports Nation Camp Tour, returned to Nebraska’s Capital City for the first time in 31 years. Perhaps that’s why both were gushing about almost every aspect of Nebraska Athletics during three full hours of interviews on nationwide satellite radio. Shawn Eichorst did an admirable job anchoring the first hour of interviews, and Tom Osborne was a worthy cleanup hitter that ended the third and final hour of Nebraska campus interviews in Memorial Stadium’s North lobby.

Packer and Nutt were both “blown away” by everything they saw and heard from Nebraska’s Director of Athletics and the Hall-of-Fame football coach who was his predecessor. Charlotte-based Packer described his first experience in Lincoln as something similar to "walking through the College Football Hall of Fame." Nebraska Coach Bo Pelini and his two coordinators, Tim Beck and John Papuchis, were skillful interviews, and Packer raved about the highly focused academic visions of three offensive players – Taylor Martinez, Ameer Abdullah and Spencer Long – plus defensive players Ciante Evans and Jason Ankrah.

The most intriguing news hook emerging from SiriusXM’s Lincoln stop, the third on a 20-school nationwide campus tour, was Packer asking Osborne if he'd be interested in becoming the “czar” for the College Football Playoff which will replace the Bowl Championship Series in 2014.

Packer: Committee of 24 Needs a Leader

SiriusXM's hosts and Osborne discussed the state of college football and agreed that the first playoff is guaranteed controversy. Packer pointed out how a committee of 24 athletic directors and "other special college football people" needs a leader, especially when it comes down to which school should be the No. 4-seed in a four-team national playoff and which school(s) should sit at home and watch that historic event on national television.

Packer asked Osborne if he’d be interested in becoming “a czar, the president, the guy in charge” of the College Football Playoff Committee. “I don’t know. I tried to be governor and couldn’t make that. I don’t think I could make a czar,” Osborne said, drowning in his own laughter. The son of legendary college basketball analyst Billy Packer, "The Packman" pressed on. “If I said to you, ‘Tom, I know you’re going fishing, but for people who say college football needs a czar, would you be the guy? What would you say? If someone said ‘Listen, you’re the guy!’ Would you give it some thought or would you just be flattered and let it go?"

Osborne Would Consult with Wife Nancy

Osborne answered a series of serious questions semi-seriously. “You never know till the time comes,” he said, pointing out that “I have this lady I’m married to …”

“She might want you back out of the house by then,” Packer quipped.

“I drug her through 36 years of football and five years of Congress and five more years as AD,” Osborne said. “So that’s something she’d have to think about as well as me. I don’t know about this czar thing, but I do hope that whoever makes that decision … they need some football people involved because, you know, ADs and conference commissioners add a perspective, but when it comes right down to it, you need to have somebody who knows the difference between a 4-3 and a zone defense and a cover 2 and what good offensive line play looks like. I think the line play is as important as the kicking game and plays into it. I think they ought to involve some football people. I think that would be good. It will be interesting to see how it all works out.”

Packer, Nutt: No One Would Be Better than T.O.

At the end of the day, I asked Packer and Nutt about their views on the answer they were seeking from Osborne. Would he be a worthy czar for the College Football Playoff?

“He’s Tom Osborne,” Packer said. “He would be a great czar for college football. I think he would be fantastic!”

“I think he would be the best out there,” Nutt said. “I mean, how could you argue? He knows football, and we all want somebody with integrity and honesty.”

“He even understands politics,” Packer interjected.

“That’s why you want somebody who understands every single aspect of the game,” Nutt chimed in.

“I mean, if somebody wanted to break a tie, I’d have Tom Osborne break every tie,” Packer told me.

Nutt added another bullet-proof fact. “Whatever Tom Osborne says, goes,” he said, “even if Nebraska's involved because with him, it doesn’t matter. He will always do the right thing.”

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[ame]http://youtu.be/fD_iSqmypfg[/ame]

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Great video on the diversity of Nebraska...

[Rob F]

I thought you guys out in the middle of the Nebraska wilderness preferred sheep over cattle...

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Seriously, though, great video. It made me pick up my U.S. Atlas and take a look to try to figure out where some of the places featured in the video are located. For instance, I was completely unaware there were lakes anywhere in Nebraska; I see a lot of them in west-central Nebraska but absolutely no towns anywhere nearby that entire area????

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IMO... The state is made up of three regions... East, which has Lincoln and Omaha as well as rolling hills, central which is flat, and west which is sand hills, open ranges and bluffs.

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And in the west... There a more cattle than people... By a wide margin. Lots of open land.

If you have the atlas... Here are the town populations in order..

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Nebraska"]List of cities in Nebraska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]


Oh.. And my home town is not big enough to make the list. Neither is my wife's...

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@swmckewonOWH: TE Jake Long out two weeks. QB T. Armstrong slowed by knee cleanup. M. Collins excused to handle "personal situation" and he'll return Wed.

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IMO... The state is made up of three regions... East, which has Lincoln and Omaha as well as rolling hills, central which is flat, and west which is sand hills, open ranges and bluffs.

I can see why UNL has to rely on recruiting nationally---no towns = no high schools = no kids. Pretty much looks, mathematically, like that describes any part of the state either not located along the North Platte River or not along the state line bordering Iowa/Missouri.

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pretty much..

[Wild Hoss]

The districting map for the House of Reps says it all.