Texas Oct. 16? Why, It's Just Another Game.

Fuck Nebraska.

Nebraska = Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight.

She’s 91. What’s she gonna do?

But, yeah fuck ’em anyway.

At least they are not completely delusional like the Tar Heels on the John Blake thread.

Nebraska = Brother Lawrence in Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

I lost all respect for Husker fans. What a bunch of whiney ass babies!

Bunch of douchers…..IT had a great article dissecting their misplaced hatred and jealousy. They’ll be even a bigger has been in the Big 10/12.

We play Nebraska this year?

I read on the hated orangebloods that Tom Osborne put a second back in an Orangebowl game. He was cool with his hiding of handweapons for players, but after that one second fiasco even the grandma’s couldn’t side with him. Is there no decency anymore?

Nebraska fans are, by commonly accepted reputation, the St. Louis Cardinal fans of college football. Knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and polite. Based on my experience at the 1998 Big XII Championship, this is B.S. It wasn’t Ohio State in Columbus level obnoxiousness, but it was bad. I suspect a lot of the NU reputation for graciousness was developed when they were beating the hell out of everyone and could afford to be magnanimous.

I’ve said this on mulitple posts about Nebraska, but I don’t mind repeating myself.

If we are in the conference championship game, I want it to be against Nebraska so we could beat them twice this year. If we don’t make it to the CCG, I hope Nebraska falls on its face this year after losing to us in Lincoln.

How awesome would it be to beat them in the Big 12 Championship game on a last second, disputed call? They would spend the rest of eternity with chronic diarrhea.

One visit to Omaha for the CWS quickly disabused me of the notion that their fans were anything special. Even then it was apparent one of the things that united them was their hatred for Texas. F* ’em.

I don’t understand the PERSISTENT belief by Corn that UT somehow connived a way to put a second back on the clock. Are they f’in blind, stupid, or both???

I don’t know. Watching the game live I never felt like they wouldn’t put more time on the clock. Thankfully we’re able to correct errors like that now.

I don’t remember everything perfectly. Still, what I remember is that the refs never acted like the game was over. Never made any kind of official signal or anything if that exists.

The only thing that even made it look like the game was over before putting the second on the clock was that Pelini and the Huskers all ran on to the field as soon as possible. Almost like Pelini had instructed everyone to just run on the field once the clock ran out for any reason.

The refs weren’t making their way to the locker room. They didn’t have to be called back onto the field. Weren’t they in an immediate conference with one another? At least a couple of them?

I think this is a case of seeing what you want to see and refusing to see anything else ever no matter what.

I have no idea where the Huskers come up with this sense of entitlement. They’ve stomped the living crap out of most of the field for a long time, but after losing fair and square to a few teams they used to mark as owned, and never finding the way past teams in the same class, they have the audacity to think they get to play the victimized underdog card. I’d love to see that false sense of self righteousness rammed down their throats by the entire conference this year.

I hope Mack runs up the score in Lincoln. I honestly could care less about Nebraska and their bitching. I just can’t stand Pelini. His antics are ridiculous.

Just watch this.

Honestly, I don’t see how we don’t win this game. Their entire defense is predicated on Suh taking up three blockers and getting to the quarterback and dropping every one else back. He is gone, and Greg Davis can’t possibly have a worse game plan than what he had in Dallas.

Just because their QB’s are a year older doesn’t mean they are better. Stick on a shit is still stick on a shit. I think we win 17-3 with an Aaron Williams pick six.

Can anybody read this?

First row (l to r)
-Last chance: who knows when Nebraska will see Texas again?
-Texas 8, NU 1: That’s the win count since 1998. And 7 of those 8 came down to the final minute.
-Hijacking the Big 8: Texas’ conference folded, so why did UT set all the rules? (Note: I think Mack Brown would beg to differ re: the tiebreaker rule that remains in place)
-One second in Dallas: Need we say more?
Second row (l to r)
-Size, wealth, and success: Texas has it and never lets you forget it.
-Looking for a Spark: National title runs start with big wins, and Nebraska is hungry for a contender.
-Political posturing: Texas preached loyalty yet flirted with two other leagues – all while blasting
Nebraska for the Big 12’s demise (Note: There’s a difference between flirting with another woman when you’re already married, and going balls deep in said other woman. Texas only did the former.)

Greg Davis can’t possibly have a worse game plan than what he had in Dallas.

Brave men strive to accomplish the impossible, PrimeTime.

It’s like watching an entire state go postal.

Nebraska seemed like a nice enough guy. I don’t know what happened. Something must’ve just… snapped.

Sailor: Had to pull out the reading glasses.

I agree with Nordberg, Watching it live, I had no doubt that time had not run out. I thought the ball landed OOB with a couple of seconds left. The travesty would have been letting 0:00 stand.

parlin beat me to it.

They forgot about the time Texas biologists genetically engineered ustilago maydis.

Ode to Nebraska:

May crabs as big as horse turds crawl upon your ass and eat.

(Hmmm…maybe that’s a curse, not an ode. Oh, well, whatever)

It’s almost a little funny to me that you guys are worked up, about us (Nebraskans) being worked up. It’s a like a meta-reaction, or some shit.

I mean, c’mon. You guys are Texas. What’s the point of of deigning to come down to the fairly irrational reactions of a 91-yr old woman, or some dude from Elmwood? To read the comments above, you’d have thought we won last year in disputed fashion, or in punched Texan children in the face during the post-game celebration. I’m not sure why you guys are in a single breath posturing about this season and then complaining about us being pissed.

Nebraskans do have entitlement problems with respect to football. It came with decades of success, ended by dominance. It sucks to suck, and it sucks even more to relatively, just barely such. We lost three games by 5 points last year. To a fanbase as recently tortured as ours, I’m not sure you know how that feels. Granted you guys have the Tech loss and rules fiasco of ‘08 to think about, so maybe I’m wrong. It still seems different, and in any event, it just fucking hurt. Still, I’m not sure that aggregated hurt would’ve amounted to the level of festering vitriol we’re now seeing had the realignment situation not gone down as it did. Texas beating Nebraska in that fashion sucked, but Nebraska getting backed into a corner about its future, and then handed an ultimatum at the Big XII meetings, when it was clear that the South teams were having the same feelings of wandering eyes and wanderlust was bullshit, and I think everyone here can imagine your own response were the Big XII to hand Texas such an ultimatum under those circumstances.

Still, I think the level of fascination with the UT game this year is reaching malignant proportions up here. Yes, I badly want to go undefeated through our conference schedule and win the title on our way out of the conference. Duh. But to devote anything more than a faint chuckle to an article like this validates our mouthbreathers’ cluelessness. Like I said, you’re Texas. Where’s your Texas-sized pride and dignity? Why even respond to this sort of whiny insolence?

It’s a pastime for Texas fans, browsing and discussing the ire that other fans have for us. We get plenty from Aggie, OU, TT, and others… but it’s new from Nebraska this year, which makes it fun.

I will revel in mocking the Children of the Corn. Listening to their sackless mewling gives me both strength and inspiration as I go about my daily life. Sweet Nectar.

So different from A&M, who I refuse to consider, as it gives them oxygen for their existence.

greentrees,

I don’t understand the argument that Texas is a hypocrite for having “wondering eyes” and demanding a commitment from Nebraska. Texas wanted to keep the league together, but also had to explore its options at the time it was clear that UNL was leaving. Nebraska looked around because they simply failed to get their way politically; Texas looked around because the league was ostensibly dead.

I thought I would never root for Ohio State but that all changed when Corn joined the B10.

“Bo Pelini is a good guy.”

Nah, Bo is a rummy.

Gander-

I’m not sure that Texas really want to keep the league together over the long term, and I’m not sure anyone knows who made the first move toward exploring other options, outside of Missouri’s loud announcement that it would like to leave.

It seems to me that just about any school with any caché was exploring other options, since they’d be remiss not to. The Pac-10 option was alive long before Nebraska was a frontrunner in the Big 10 sweepstakes. It’s unknown exactly how it came together for Nebraska, but I’m of the belief that we hadn’t decided what to do until the Big XII issued its ultimatum, and our chancellor has said as much. Further, Texas only firmly committed to being in the conference until 2016 when Osborne asked Dodds about UT’s long-term plans at the Big XII meetings. That doesn’t seem like a very long term commitment, and it’s especially troubling if you’re a small-market school like Nebraska.

If Texas had a long-term interest in the conference, why would they guarantee membership only until 2016? It seems like it’s only a matter of time until the Bevo Network (or whatever it’s called) gets up and running and Texas will again be looking around. Nebraska didn’t and doesn’t have the luxury of time that Texas does and will continue to have. We struck while the iron was hot, because it’s unclear whether the same opportunity would be there down the road when the Big XII again became wobbly.

The Big XII was in bad shape any way you slice it (and is even worse off, now). Every team worth a damn was looking around once the realignment talks began to dissolve the Big XII’s thin facade of stability. Nebraska seized an opportunity they had, after getting backed into the corner by the conference while other teams were exploring similarly external options. The current tenor of the discourse in Nebraska is probably more emblematic of the feeling about UT’s mass market power and bargaining power and it wields it than what happened in the Big XII title game. No one likes to be bossed around.

But I still don’t understand the hurt feeling about the outrage. I just don’t. Nebraska has been dominated by Texas since the inception of the league. Texas has everything it could want (except maybe an intact Big XII for the foreseeable future). As much as Nebraska fans should get over it, you guys should never sweat any part of it. Dominance doesn’t usually breed disdain. I don’t really get it.

I don’t see how the Big 12 refs let Nebraska get out this year with ANY big wins. they are going to be the most closely officiated team in the league.

The Mayan calendar ends 12/21/12, Nebraska’s doesn’t go past 59:59.

Yes, 10/16 should be a right festive day indeed.

Read that article last night and wondered if I’d get something up on BOR, but frankly, it made me sleepy. I like the guy playing with steer roadkill & taking pics, but the old bat made me cringe.

On the other hand, fuck texas.

That article was about as good as Zac Lee’s quarterbacking.

The Husker delusion is so Ag. It’s startling!

The players are not necessarily buying into it (we have a punchers chance), but the Nebraska administration and fan base are absolutely shit faced.

Can you imagine the realization of the Husker Jihad in Lincoln come October? It reminds me of a line from one of John Lennon’s short stories, “…..he jumped from the trolley like a burning spastic.”

Greentree,

An effort to provide a serious answer your question:

UT fans don’thave hurt feelings specifically about the Nebraska fans’ outrage about the game. Right now, though, many UT fans feel that Texas is being unfairly attacked for being singularly responsible for the end of the Big 12 and all of college football as we know it. In particular, Nebraska and other Big 8 administrators (not just the usual crazy fans) actually have repeatedly called UT out for being “selfish,” for not sharing the wealth, for being the reason that the Big 12 will fail/has failed etc, etc.

The problem is, this adds to the sense that the Nebraska reputation is just a facade: For instance as seen from the UT perspective, (1) they they whine about unequal revenue distribution (which would change the money distribution by $1-$2 million per school per year), and then they themselves jump to the Big 10 for $10 million per year more. This when Nebraska was already on the above-average side of the Big 12 distribution! (2) They brag about their academics and yet gripe about how Texas demanded stricter academic standards on the conference. (3) Nebraska is supposed to be the most gracious program, but their head coach (again, not just some yokel fan) says in the postgame press conference that Texas didn’t deserve the win. (4) On top of this, NU has the conference alignment deal that WE wanted in the first place, and they don’t have to worry about any “Tech baggage!” (Quite frankly, I think it was a good, pragmatic move for NU; I just don’t appreciate the holier-than-thou attitude about it.)

All of this makes Texas not really appreciate anything derogatory that NU might have to say.

As for not understanding heartbreak, Mr three-national-championships-in-four years and 30-some-odd-bowls-in-a-row, Texas fans have had to deal with our own disappointment lately. After being shut out from everything in ‘08 due to a last-second loss, try having your QB hurt on the first drive of the championship game the next year (which, itself, was almost an exact re-enactment of KSU ’06 knocking us out of the conference title chase). My theory is that every team’s fans have their heartaches. (I’m sure OU fans, LSU fans, Ohio State fans all have their bad memories they’d love to share over a drink!) The other team’s fans just don’t ever remember your misery the way you do.

You say dominance doesn’t breed disdain. I think scapegoating and petty jabs don’t earn respect. As long as Nebraska fans talk bullshit, I’ll call it bullshit. That’s not disdain, that’s just deciding that you don’t maintain dominance by accepting blame any time someone would feel better if they could assign it to you.

I agree that Nebraska made a smart and extremely practical move, and as a Texas fan, I admit that I and most anyone would’ve made the same move in their place. But because of that, I don’t see why they need to posture about it. Why not just say that this was obviously the best possible move out of any available and only an idiot would pass it up? Instead, it has turned into a cheap way to cast aspersion on another team and motivate their own.

As a Texas fan, I know that Texas motivations for keeping the Big XII-2 together are not altruistic. It was always obvious that Texas was out to make sure it got a good deal since the public statement of “but we will finish it”. As it turns out, that finish may well come in a couple of stages. At first, I was uncertain about remaining with the Big XII, but the shotgun nature of the conference realignments was going to make it hard to ascertain all the cracks that could appear in a new deal. We’ve at least bought ourselves time to have better control over the time, place, and our position in the next round of this kind of event.

You don’t see Texas fans showing any real remorse over the mortal wounding of the Big XII, but if any blame is assigned for that, we have no reason to accept it, and no one should go easier on Nebraska this season because they couldn’t get it done in Dallas.

Bo Pelini

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Delmar

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Reply to Greentrees: Without talking about hoju’s issues, I think the reaction that you’re seeing from us Longhorn fans is that, in spite of the 8/1 record since this conference was formed, we really do want to have Nebraska as a rival. The Cornhusker’s history, the stout Big Red fan base, the national reputation, the close head-to-head battles over the last 12 years do not (to me) imply dominance. I do read better coaching and strategizing and execution and providence as the difference between the actual 8/1 record and a possible 4/5 record.

When the Big XII Conference was formed, we looked forward to developing a new rivalry with a nationally recognized football institution, and both the head-to-head games and your fanbase served Nebraska’s reputation well … but it really is difficult to have an ongoing rivalry by not playing each other every year. I was at Texas during the Earl Campbell years (74 – 78) and during those 4 seasons we consistently beat A&M and Arkansas but sustained a 1/2/1 record against Barry Switzer’s sooners. So for me and those of my generation, our “hate” is reserved for our true rival, o.u. There is a Longhorn generation of Longhorn fans who continue to feel that Arkansas is a rival because of the difficulty we had in beating Arkansas during the ’60’s (most likely during these fan’s undergraduate years). And another set of Longhorns who attended UT during a period when we had difficulty beating A&M considers A&M a real rival.

Where I’m going with all of this is that we know about Nebraska’s football legacy and I think many of us Longhorns really wanted to have a true rivalry with Nebraska but too many things got in the way: (i) playing each other only half of the years; (ii) the “dominance” (your description) of the series record even though few of the games were blowouts; and (iii) the failure to regularly match up Texas and Nebraska in the conference championship games. Now with Nebraska heading off to the Big 10, even the remotest hope of establishing a decent rivalry between us and you is dashed. I would liken the bittersweet relationship between Texas and Nebraska like getting your diploma from college and then looking back to realize you’ve dated so many cheerleaders and sorority gals but regretting that you never really went out with the brunette who is about to move 1000 miles away to attend grad school.

That Texas is able to bring out such intense emotions from Nebraska’s fan base (whether it’s from a 91 year old granny, Bo Pelini, Nebraska’s alumni, or the Black Shirts) just shows that we’ve left the brunette with a need to rub one out.

That figurative dildo will be employed by many on regular basis until 10/16.