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<blockquote data-quote="Mystery Man" data-source="post: 1564306" data-attributes="member: 13273"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hey now! Not every time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Texas has a great program. Although I was disappointed to see Major's football career get sidelined for a much IMHO inferior and overrated QB. A few years back some DJ's on a local radio morning show would call him up from time to time and just b.s. with the guy. He was just cool. Too bad.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"Huskers and running up the score"</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Come.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">On.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">What are they supposed to do? Run the ball to the one yard line, not score and give the ball to the other team? Yeth, letth only win by fifteen pointh tho we don't hurt the other teamth feelingth. Puh-leeze! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> <---tongue in cheek.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I will admit that there are some Husker fans (the best fans in the country) out there that enjoy a <em>comfortable lead</em> but as to demoralizing the opposition:</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Now thanks to the horrible recruiting of the now defunct Solich era, the days of "running up the score" are over for a time, maybe for all time. But here's how it is; when you have a team that has 3rd stringers that are every bit as good as the first stringers there's not much any overrated and/or inferior team's defense could do to stop them. Not many teams’ first stringers could stop them. Many coaches would look at Nebraska’s depth chart and just shake their heads. Nobody could be them and the Osborne era had this, every year consistently up until the day he retired. They weren’t running up the score, they were just a freaking awesome powerhouse.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I look forward to any and all kind rebuts.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mystery Man, post: 1564306, member: 13273"] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]Hey now! Not every time. :) Texas has a great program. Although I was disappointed to see Major's football career get sidelined for a much IMHO inferior and overrated QB. A few years back some DJ's on a local radio morning show would call him up from time to time and just b.s. with the guy. He was just cool. Too bad.[/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]"Huskers and running up the score"[/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Come.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]On.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]What are they supposed to do? Run the ball to the one yard line, not score and give the ball to the other team? Yeth, letth only win by fifteen pointh tho we don't hurt the other teamth feelingth. Puh-leeze! :p <---tongue in cheek.[/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]I will admit that there are some Husker fans (the best fans in the country) out there that enjoy a [i]comfortable lead[/i] but as to demoralizing the opposition:[/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Now thanks to the horrible recruiting of the now defunct Solich era, the days of "running up the score" are over for a time, maybe for all time. But here's how it is; when you have a team that has 3rd stringers that are every bit as good as the first stringers there's not much any overrated and/or inferior team's defense could do to stop them. Not many teams’ first stringers could stop them. Many coaches would look at Nebraska’s depth chart and just shake their heads. Nobody could be them and the Osborne era had this, every year consistently up until the day he retired. They weren’t running up the score, they were just a freaking awesome powerhouse.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I look forward to any and all kind rebuts.[/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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