Nebraska...not feeling Frosty anymore

[UMStan White]

Go Huskers!

[iam416]

Awesome stuff, Entropy.

[entropy]

some final stats for nebraska:

UNL was #18 against the pass, #66 against the run, #36 in total and #41 in scoring defense

[entropy]

Congrats to the 4 buskers who made first team all BIG in football

[SeattleLionsFan]

Tomorrow is a big day for Nebraska. Iowa is capable of beating UNL. I am not liking what I have heard about practice this week. I think UNL is having more problems than performance on the field.

Just gave my tickets to a father an his child who is in a wheel chair. Father broke down and I have to say it got me going. I haven't felt this good in a long time.

Coincidence?? I think not! :-D

(actually super nice of you)

UNL was 18th against the pass? That's surprising to me. We must have caught you guys at the perfect time. (maybe just as Bo was interviewing in Columbus? )

[entropy]

UNL was inconsistant in pass defense this year..

[entropy]

Lavonte: B1G Linebacker of the year

Dennard: B1G defensive back of the year

Maher: B1G kicker and punter of the year

Rex first-team running back along with Montee Ball.

Caputo was second-team center. Compton, Marcel Jones, Ben Cotton were honorable mention all-conference.

[entropy]

sacks and tackles for loss... 11th and 12th in the conference respectively and 94/114 nationally.

that is not good.

[Wild Hoss]

some final stats for nebraska:

UNL was #18 against the pass, #66 against the run, #36 in total and #41 in scoring defense

We finished 18th in Pass Defense...but 7th in the Big Ten in that category. The BIG had four teams finish in the Top 10 nationally in that statistic, 7 in the Top 20, and nobody in the league finished below 64th.

Stifling pass defense? More likely just piss-poor passing offenses in the conference. Half the Big Ten finished 90th or worse in Passing Offense, and yet the good quarterbacks did very well; Wilson and Persa finished 2nd and 9th nationally in Passing Efficiency. Besides those two the QBs in the league ranged from mediocre to flat-out poor when it came to throwing the football, which I am sure we?d all agree was obvious.

Nebraska?s pass defense gave up 216 YPG and 8 touchdowns in our four non-conference games, and 174 YPG and 6 touchdowns in eight Big Ten games. One of those OOC games was against an FCS opponent.

[entropy]

By Randy York

A few weeks ago, Gustavo Rodriguez got to meet one of his all-time favorite American idols, none other than Tom Osborne. The surprise meeting came a day after Gus was invited to speak at Peru State College. This is one of those classic Nebraska football fan stories that begins in Cuba and goes all the way inside the glass door of Nebraska?s athletic director for a chance not only to shake Osborne?s hand, but also document the meeting, surreptitiously arranged by Gus?s American friend, Paul Fell, Nebraska?s longtime newspaper/Huskers Illustrated cartoonist. ?Cuba seems like the wrong place to be a football fan,? Gus admits. ?There?s no information of any kind, no games on TV or radio, no sport magazines and to make things worse, football was, in the eyes of many in the island, the classic game of the ?enemigo? (enemy)!?

Still, living and working in Cuba, Gus said 1994 and 1995 were good years for him. ?The only way I could get any football news was from a couple of Miami radio stations when the weather was nice enough,? he said, adding that listening to all of the expected hoopla around the Florida teams ?made me hate them a bit, mostly because a couple of their announcers were really annoying to my ears.?

When Florida State beat Nebraska (18-16) in the 1994 Orange Bowl, ?I felt a soft spot in my heart and really started rooting for Nebraska when they lost that game,? Gus said. ?That?s when I became a big fan of Tom Osborne.? One of Gus?s friends worked at the Havana Airport and was always hawking Sports Illustrated copies that Canadian tourists would leave in their seats on the plane.

?He was a Major League Baseball fan and had no problem handing me the football issues whenever there was one,? Gus said. ?One of those issues covered Nebraska and Miami?s meeting in the Orange Bowl with great intensity, so I had extra motivation to cheer against Miami. Beating them was sweet, but next year (in the Fiesta Bowl) was even sweeter because Tommie Frazier ran like crazy over those Florida Gators.?

Imagine a longtime native of Cuba hording his American idols through magazines at the same time he would check out what he considered Florida propaganda jamming the evening airwaves. By the time Osborne won his second national championship, Gus Rodriguez almost felt like he knew the Nebraska coach and the Husker players he revered from afar.

He called Osborne ?Tom? and Frazier ?Tommie?, and the talked so much about them that his friends and family members knew who they were. Fell first met Gus in Havana when he visited Cuba with a group of American cartoonists, and they?ve remained friends for years. This fall, Gus, now an American citizen that draws editorial cartoons for the Spanish language edition of the Miami Herald, spoke to Peru State College students and faculty about his experiences as a cartoonist in Castro?s Cuba. ?After I finished my presentations at Peru, I couldn?t believe that my good friend Paul had lined up a tour for me to see the Memorial Stadium that I could only picture in my mind,? Gus said. ?I was very excited imagining how it would all be, but never, never, never, in my wildest dreams, did I think I was going to meet Coach Osborne, shake his hand and take a picture with him?never, ever, did that thought even enter my mind.

?I admired the state-of-the-art facility and still see it in my mind as the Husker sanctuary,? Gus said. ?I stepped on the end zone, and it was my first time I have ever been on a real football field. I could not believe it. Then I walked through the tunnel in the stadium and saw all of those trophies won by my favorite team.

I was so excited and so humbled. All I could think was Tommie Frazier and Havana. Who would have thought that someone cursing at a poor radio signal while listening to football broadcasts in Cuba could have made that connection true? I am so grateful for all of the kind people who made that happen. It is one of the highlights of my entire life. I cannot thank people enough. It was a dream come true.? For Gus, who now lives in North Miami Beach, there is a postscript to his experience.

?When I was at the Omaha airport getting ready to fly back to Miami, I saw Johnny Rodgers,? Gus said. ?He had a bunch of people surrounding him asking for pictures and autographs. I was so close to going over there and joining all of those fans. I know I could have left with another treasured memento. But I was shy and still overwhelmed by so many good memories in just one day, and I didn?t want to ruin something that was already perfect.?

[iam416]

Lavonte: B1G Linebacker of the year

Dennard: B1G defensive back of the year

Maher: B1G kicker and punter of the year

Please identify them by their proper name. Thank you.

[entropy]

Lavonte David #4


Alfonzo Dennard #15


Brett Maher # 96


Rex Burkhead #22 also was all BIG





does that help... =)

[iam416]

Stifle.

The only one I know off the top of my head is the Tatum-Woodson (Rod) Award.

Please identify the LB award and the Kicker award by proper name.

[entropy]

http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=1&SPID=22&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205339641&DB_OEM_ID=100

[iam416]

Ah yes, the Bakken-Andersen Kicker of the Year Award, the Eddleman-Fields Punter of the Year and the Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year.

Well done, chaps.