2025 Offseason Cornhusker Cornucopia
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I have a lot of respect for Corey Campbell and our Strength & Conditioning program. I don't think it was widely reported but a bigshot NFL team tried to hire him away this past off-season and Rhule and Dannon were able to keep him here in Huskerland.
The program has come A LONG WAY from the time when our old strength coach was overheard in the weight room arguing with one of our senior OL about doing his daily weight work. Mike Riley walked in and heard it---and sided with the player.
True Story. The scene was witnessed by other players and inevitably word of the incident got out. When I first heard about it, I knew that such a bizarre, lackadaisical approach was going to set the program back for a long time to come. I drank the kool-aid from Frost about Duval but when all was said and done, it turned out I was right.
Nebraska has 3 Heisman trophy winners but should have 5. Tommie Frazier and Ndamukong Suh were literally robbed of the trophy.
I watched our 1970 Orange Bowl game this morning when it came up as a no huddle YouTube video. I don’t think I’d ever rewatched the whole game before. While the score came out the same and Tagge still raised the football over the goal line just like I remembered, the game itself surprised me.
The Blackshirts were magnificent, especially the DL. The dominated the line of scrimmage the whole game. The Tiger QB got clobbered in the backfield the entire game. While LSU’s defense was good, we made them look better than they were with — believe it or not — FIVE turnovers, including a fumble with 3 minutes left on LSU’s 20 yard line that would have clinched the win.
Funny how your memory picks and chooses what to remember when it’s your team’s first natty.
The Blackshirts were magnificent, especially the DL. The dominated the line of scrimmage the whole game. The Tiger QB got clobbered in the backfield the entire game. While LSU’s defense was good, we made them look better than they were with — believe it or not — FIVE turnovers, including a fumble with 3 minutes left on LSU’s 20 yard line that would have clinched the win.
Funny how your memory picks and chooses what to remember when it’s your team’s first natty.
Loving the Mayhem Monday segments they are doing now, this one was particularly interesting as they give you some of the behind the scenes details of the Friday night game at Rutgers during the COVID season and some of the fallout afterwards as the team took a vote on whether to participate in a bowl game. It should be cued up to start at that segment...
