The 2nd Annual College Football MythBusters Column
Ahhhhhh…one of the great byproducts of not caring what most of you think anymore is the fact that I don’t feel pressured to write on a timetable. In other words, I’d rather wait a few days have rant on something that REALLY pisses me off, rather than just throwing stuff out there.Regardless, today is a pretty good day rant because of the incessant babbling that follows one of the great rights of summer….Big 12 media day.
Now if last year was rather humorous listening to local Omaha radio personalities stammer at just how ANYONE could bet against the 2007 Huskers…then this year was borderline hilarity as listeners got to hear local radio and print reporters from Omaha attempt to throw a positive spin on what is sure to be a hopeless season. And for good measure, they were faced with the monumental task of trying to downplay Missouri’s overabundance of talent this year…while at the same time, throwing in snide comments and veiled (or often not so veiled) disdain.
But hey…at least none of them asked Chase Daniel booger questions, so I guess that is an improvement.
So before we breakdown the 2008 soybean curtain defense, I’d like to re-visit one of my favorite bits from last season. As you may recall at about this time, we took some time around media day to breakdown the truth about some of the most hyped story lines in college football. With that, let’s take another crack at mythbusting….college football in July style.
MYTH – Bo Pelini will have the Huskers playing at their highest intensity level in years.
FACT – This is a loaded question…kinda like, “If I shot you in the face with a shotgun, it would probably hurt.” Well no shit it would hurt…Cripes... Richard Simmons could run Husker practices in assless chaps could lead your team better than Bill Callahan. However, will that be enough to offset the gigantic lack of talent sitting in your cupboard? I’ll give you a big fat hint: No.
MYTH – Ohio State vs. USC will be the game of the year in college football.
FACT – USC is going to assplant Ohio State into the stone age. I hope another good game is on ESPNU that night, because this isn’t even going to be close. (Too bad nobody will care by November when everybody else loses in conference, and the Buckeyes waltz over powerhouse programs like Purdue and Minnesota)
MYTH – Kansas will challenge Missouri for the Big 12 North Title
FACT – Like Belinda Carlisle and the Go-Go’s, KU comes around about once every 10 years or so to make a brief appearance..then only to disappear into the black bowels of nothingness. The Squaks were a 2007 byproduct of luck and insanely lucky scheduling. No such luck this year.
MYTH – Notre Dame will win 9+ games this season. (I actually heard Beno Cook say this on the ESPN podcast last week.)
FACT – Seriously…. Bo Pelini has a better shot of landing the lead role in the off-Broadway production of 'A Chorus Line' than Notre Dame has of winning 9 games. Completely and totally ridiculous, I don't care how easy their schedule is.
MYTH – West Virginia will break through and carry the Big East flag into another BCS game.
FACT – No way West Virginia wins the Big East this year. Take it from a guy who has seen his team lose big games over and over again. I don’t care what they did to Oklahoma, that loss to Pitt will set them back years. Throw in the whole Rich Rodriguez saga, and you’ve got not just a small step back..but several.
MYTH – Texas Tech will FINALLY break through and beat OU to win the south.FACT – As much as I’d love for this to be true (and how great would it be to see MU-TT go at it at Arrowhead? Especially considering the Tigers own Mike Leach), the Raiders simply don’t have the leadership abilities to get past a squad like OU. Oh don’t get me wrong..they are absolutely loaded. But throwing the ball around at will against West Texas A*M is a bit different than playing with OU with a division title on the line. Best the farm on OU in that one. (And for most of you…I mean that quite literally)
MYTH – Iowa State will finish dead last in the Big 12 North
FACT – Iowa State may suck this season, but will absolutely shock somebody at home…perhaps even the North favorites?
MYTH – Marlon Lucky is a legit Heisman contender.
FACT – I can’t even answer that myth without laughing. Next statement.
MYTH – Tim Tebow will become the 2nd player ever to win multiple Heismans
FACT – He might if ESPN continues to stick their tongue in his ear for no other reason that he has a cool sounding name. Tebow’s stats were pretty impressive in 2007. (895 yards rushing and 3200 yards passing.) However, three of his biggest games rushing the football came against Ole Miss, South Carolina and Troy. (5 TD’s against the Gamecocks didn’t hurt..especially when all of them were inside 10 yards.) Personally, I think it’s Knowshon Moreno’s to lose.
MYTH – Clemson will find a way to choke in the ACC with all that talent.
FACT – This is not a myth. It will most likely happen and we'll have to put up with more Bowden talk on a nightly basis. Just fire him now and save the trouble.
MYTH – Georgia will play Ohio State in the National Title game
FACT – While congress is investigating the oil industry, somebody needs to burst into the Big 10 offices, and start swinging clubs. Ohio State, Michigan and the Big 10 have fucked up the process so bad, it’s absolutely astonishing that the Buckeyes have been to two straight BCS title games. But when all you have to do is beat other crappy Big 10 teams (They’ll get a pass getting blasted by USC), and waltz to the title game..something is wrong. Screw the playoff whining…somebody needs to stop this Big 10 shit and make them play a title game even if it’s at gunpoint. As for Georgia, their schedule is WAY too tough to be taken ultra seriously as a title contender. No flippin way.
MYTH – Florida State will return to glory and be the feel-good story of 2008.
FACT – Miami will hold that honor. Randy Shannon and a new stadium will be enough to turn that program around quickly. 11 true freshmen started for the U last season. Just watch.
MYTH – BYU will be the spoiler Du Jour of 2008 for ESPN and others to slobber all over.
FACT – BYU will lose to Utah and the out-of-control BCS hype will stop right there. No Boise or Hawaii magic this year will be required.
MYTH – Missouri will lose a game they shouldn’t.
FACT – Like any Mizzou fan, I’m STILL waiting for the other shoe to drop. However, with as much talent as Gary Pinkel has this season…even HE can’t screw this up with this schedule can he? Of course he can. Leading candidates for a slip up are Iowa State (yes Iowa State) and the Arrowhead match up against a shitty KU team who will have nothing left to play for.
MYTH – Joe Ganz will be the Husker’s MVP for 2008
FACT – Joe Ganz may not even be the starter by the end of the year…and it won’t be injury related either.
MYTH – Bo Pelini’s honeymoon period will be at least 2 seasons until he gets his players in his system.
FACT – Ummmm, no. As soon as you people are staring at 7 losses (by October), the fire will turn back up, and the realization will hit you all at once that there is nobody left to fire. Look for Tom Osborne to make at least 84 “the program is fine” speeches to the news media and an extra 85,355 pictures of former Husker All-American’s hung outside the football offices in a desperate act to recapture that lost spirit.
Won’t be long now….
AJ
PS – OK fine..twist my arm. Here’s the Mythbuster girl again
FACT – Iowa State may suck this season, but will absolutely shock somebody at home…perhaps even the North favorites?
MYTH – Marlon Lucky is a legit Heisman contender.
FACT – I can’t even answer that myth without laughing. Next statement.
MYTH – Tim Tebow will become the 2nd player ever to win multiple Heismans
FACT – He might if ESPN continues to stick their tongue in his ear for no other reason that he has a cool sounding name. Tebow’s stats were pretty impressive in 2007. (895 yards rushing and 3200 yards passing.) However, three of his biggest games rushing the football came against Ole Miss, South Carolina and Troy. (5 TD’s against the Gamecocks didn’t hurt..especially when all of them were inside 10 yards.) Personally, I think it’s Knowshon Moreno’s to lose.
MYTH – Clemson will find a way to choke in the ACC with all that talent.
FACT – This is not a myth. It will most likely happen and we'll have to put up with more Bowden talk on a nightly basis. Just fire him now and save the trouble.
MYTH – Georgia will play Ohio State in the National Title game
FACT – While congress is investigating the oil industry, somebody needs to burst into the Big 10 offices, and start swinging clubs. Ohio State, Michigan and the Big 10 have fucked up the process so bad, it’s absolutely astonishing that the Buckeyes have been to two straight BCS title games. But when all you have to do is beat other crappy Big 10 teams (They’ll get a pass getting blasted by USC), and waltz to the title game..something is wrong. Screw the playoff whining…somebody needs to stop this Big 10 shit and make them play a title game even if it’s at gunpoint. As for Georgia, their schedule is WAY too tough to be taken ultra seriously as a title contender. No flippin way.
MYTH – Florida State will return to glory and be the feel-good story of 2008.
FACT – Miami will hold that honor. Randy Shannon and a new stadium will be enough to turn that program around quickly. 11 true freshmen started for the U last season. Just watch.
MYTH – BYU will be the spoiler Du Jour of 2008 for ESPN and others to slobber all over.
FACT – BYU will lose to Utah and the out-of-control BCS hype will stop right there. No Boise or Hawaii magic this year will be required.
MYTH – Missouri will lose a game they shouldn’t.FACT – Like any Mizzou fan, I’m STILL waiting for the other shoe to drop. However, with as much talent as Gary Pinkel has this season…even HE can’t screw this up with this schedule can he? Of course he can. Leading candidates for a slip up are Iowa State (yes Iowa State) and the Arrowhead match up against a shitty KU team who will have nothing left to play for.
MYTH – Joe Ganz will be the Husker’s MVP for 2008
FACT – Joe Ganz may not even be the starter by the end of the year…and it won’t be injury related either.
MYTH – Bo Pelini’s honeymoon period will be at least 2 seasons until he gets his players in his system.
FACT – Ummmm, no. As soon as you people are staring at 7 losses (by October), the fire will turn back up, and the realization will hit you all at once that there is nobody left to fire. Look for Tom Osborne to make at least 84 “the program is fine” speeches to the news media and an extra 85,355 pictures of former Husker All-American’s hung outside the football offices in a desperate act to recapture that lost spirit.
Won’t be long now….
AJ
PS – OK fine..twist my arm. Here’s the Mythbuster girl again
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posted by A J at 9:41 PM
40 Comments:
I agree with all, but the ISU statement. I still think K-State is the worst team in the North, and ISU will be out of the basement, but I don't see them beating Mizzou. Another team at Trice and a couple of roadies? Yeah, definitely.
Then again, we fuck it up in Ames.
That's the deal. ISU gave OU a run for a while last year becuase OU wasn't paying attention.
Not saying it will happen...it shouldn't...but that has trap all over it.
Okay I will give you that KU has a good chance at going back to underperforming. I will even grant you that they have been lucky in scheduling and overrated.
But they are not a shitty team. That's just MU BS spin. Show me one game last year where they showed they were 'shitty'.
Even after you get done dismissing most of the teams they played, you have to admit the few games left (MU and VT) that can't be dismissed were really good games.
If we had lost to MU like we did in 2006, then I would have to agree. But that KU team last year stepped up week after week.
So let me explain. Just because a team is untested most of the year and you 'hope' they are shitty doesn’t make it true.
There is a saying, perhaps you have heard of it, "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence".
All this talk about schedule never seems to take into account that KU has never had the consistency at QB that we have right now. That may mean nothing in the long run...but considering it's a factor no one has ever had to put into a KU equation, any guesses as to what KU 'should do' is somewhat suspect.
I'll agree with Big Head on the 'Clones. Unless Ron Prince's new JuCo team is something special, Kansas State is going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel. (Especially since Mack Brown and Texas is off the schedule this year...)
Oh, and to put the "Marlon Lucky Heisman" talk on ice for a while, the depth chart announced yesterday has him sharing the top I-Back spot with Roy Helu.
Are you going to comment on the meatball NU fan who posted that crap about the OU players?
After the phantom holding call cost us our last game at ISU, I seriously doubt that Mizzou goes to Ames looking for anything other than blood.
Also, I think finally losing Meyer and Blythe will make a shitty ISU offense even more stagnant.
I do agree though that Tech is doomed. They pull off one upset over OU (with Bradford sidelined w/ an injury) at home and now they are the Big XII South favorites? I know they put up good numbers on their shitty non-con opponents, but I can't remember the last time I saw Tech dominate any non-Baylor Big XII team. For having as many weapons as they have, they don't reap the kind of success you'd expect them to. They are the Big XII's version of Clemson.
-Steve
Do you mind that some people are talking about winning the national championship, or do you encourage that?
Gary Pinkel: Not at all. We haven't won a Big 12 championship around here. What are we talking about a national championship? Are you kidding me? We've won one Big 12 North title. That's people who are kind of just maybe handling it the best way they can. I'll handle it internally. Tell me their names (laughing).
At least Pinkel is the only one in Misery who knows that you have no tradition and really nothing to talk smack about. Win something other than the North and then you can talk.
when is the MU-ISU game? I used to think weather in the B12 was the biggest exaggeration ever, until I had to experience tornado sirens in Ames. If that is a sh*tty weather game, the MU offense could be a bit hampered.
the ISU game scares the hell out of me. I keep trying to decide if I should make the drive to Ames for the game or not. I dont want to go there and suffer disapointment
Crickets........
but the myth buster girl saved ya!!!
2 words
DAMN
ps... crickets again
Two things:
1) NE, I'll give you Reesing. He may wear a sod headband, but that little midget is consistant. Sure he has limited skills and was helped out by McAnderson taking the load off of him (heh). But there's no way in hell you beat UT, OU or Tech. KU is a solid #2...perhaps #3...but no flippin way.
2) For the last time...the crickets line makes you look like a douche. I don't approve many comments during the day. How many years have to go by before some of you figure that out?
If KU plays as well as they did last year, they win 9 games. If they play shittier, they win maybe 7 or 8.
They clearly don't have the talent Missouri does, but they are not a one-year wonder either. I would expect them to go 5-1 in the North (probably losing to MU -- but maybe pulling the upset) and 1-2 in the South (they will beat Texas or Tech, one of the two). That's 6-3, then they go either 4-0 or 3-1 in non-con (I think they will beat South Florida, your mileage may vary).
So we are talking 9-3 or 8-4, probably a ranking in the bottom half of the top 25.
I am a KU fan and of course despise you guys...but I would love to see the border WAR be as intense as last year again.
And if nothing else, both teams will beat Nebraska again, right?
Like Belinda Carlisle and the Go-Go’s, KU comes around about once every 10 years or so to make a brief appearance..then only to disappear into the black bowels of nothingness.
~From the Missouri fan whose team comes around every 40 years. RCJ
KU has a 26-28 record over the last 5 years. Mizzou has 43 wins.
I think you might be confusing apples with oranges my friend.
By the way...KU sucks donkey balls. No team in the history of college football did more with smoke and mirrors than KU last year. In fact, it's nearly mathamaticaly impossible to replicate that with such shitty talent.
Case in point...I read today that KERRY FUCKING MEIER is possibly going to run back kicks this year.
Uhhhhh...the defense rests.
So what you are saying is KU does more with less and Missouri does less with more?
The crickets was just to yank yur chain AJ.
For the last time More crickets!!!
& throw in some cow bell while your at it!
Carrie from mythbusters....like ta bust that myth!!!
crickets
I thought this was a Husker Basher site..not a Mizzou love fest. Great confidence in your team. Worried about an ISU team that gets smacked around by Northern Iowa and the tough MAC conference. I would be scared to death of coming into Lincoln and playing the mighty Huskers. With Ganz and Lucky running behind the best O-Line in the country and a 1985 Chicago Bears-like defense, the starters should be signing autographs by halftime. Although it pains me to say it, BUT the Buffs might end up in 2nd place behind the Huskers in the North. (Thats if they can stay away from the drugs and strippers.)
A few posts back, you were musing about starting a Jayhawk hater blog since Nebraska has pretty much been leveled and, unless the rubble burns down, there is little left to mock.
It seems to me like the Jayhawks are showing up as the target more and more often on this blog. I don't think you need to start a second one--just tweek this one a bit.
You know I'm a Jayhawk fan but that I don't derive my sense of self-worth from how they do. I hope they win and am happy for them when they do. If they lose, I turn off the TV and go on with my life.
I have heard rumors that Meier might be returning kicks this fall. I don't see that as being terribly unusual as he is a wide receiver.
Have a great day, AJ. I'm glad you're back and that soon we'll have actual games to talk about instead of just guessing how something will play out in a few weeks.
Talk with you soon.
Bob
Uh...the delusion that folks started keeping records of the results of college football games 5 years ago notwithstanding...you even managed to screw that up.
Missouri has compiled the following records the last 5 years:
12-2 (2007)
8-5 (2006)
7-5 (2005)
5-6 (2004)
8-5 (2003)
Anyone who's completed the second grade could tell you that totals to a 40-23 record, yet somehow you've tallied three more wins for the Tigers. Incidentally, 40-23 still tops NU's worst 5-year span in the last 50 (37-25 from '03-'07). That's a whole .04 advantage in win percent over that span, so you must be really proud of that.
It's really too bad that the history of college football didn't start 5 years ago...but if it had, your patent jealously of NU's historical tradition of success would seem even more absurd. So I guess you've got that going for you. At least you have a reason for your ongoing inferiority complex.
Um yeah...Kerry Meyer is being relieved of his QB duties with some other Freshman available to back up Reesing.
He's a RS Junior and Reesing's a True Junior. It dosn't make any sense to keep him at QB and so he offered to be moved to WR.
He's being used on punts because he has the best hands. He's not expected to break for the endzone. He's expected to be an upperclassman who smart enough to protect the ball.
So if KU was so shitty...then what was it that kept them in the MU game until the last play? Which mirrors did that?
Shouldn't you have blown us out of the water? Or are you guys afraid of mirrors?
If MU couldn't expose us (by beating us like a shitty team should be beat)...who did we need to play to 'break the mirror', LSU?
Another Myth: James Lauranitis is the best defensive player in the country (per ESPN)....
Sean Witherspoon's compare very favorably with Lauranitis..
but his dad wasnt' a wrestler, and he doesn't go to BLOW-SU....
Sounds like the fact that KU won a BCS bowl last year while Missouri didn't even play in one really frosts your ass.
You guys really are the red-headed bastard step-children of the Big 12. Always have been and always will be no matter how much success you have. Football and basketball (no final fours).
But it sounds like you've at least accepted your permanent place in the food chain. Kudos for that.
Wait, this is a Mizzou loving site now? What did I miss?
Funny thing is...I don't give a fuck. My blog. My writing. My show.
As for all the KU fans suddenly swarming the site...I actually think it's pretty funny. First of all because you've actually surpassed Husker fan my delusional myopia. And second because you are nothing.
You're a basketball school. You had a fine season. You have a fine program.
But make absolutely no mistake about it...you were a fraud in 2007. Not a small fraud...a complete and total 100% fluke of nature. As easy as it is for me bash Husker fan on facts....bashing KU on their season would be even easier, considering the #77 ranking of their schedule (And yet still somehow played in the Big 12).
And by the way...I don't give a fuck if it was 40 or 43 or 50. If you want facts...go to ESPN. If you want to say I'm wrong somehwere along the way...I"m fine that way too.
But if you think I"m going to waste my fucking time checking the win totals for each team over the last five years...then you sir (or madam) have way more time than I do.
The fact that Missouri is the best team in the north right now has nothing to do with me, other than the fact that that is the team I grew up with. I'm not about to try and challenge Rock M Nation or Power Mizzou for hard-hitting Mizzou content.
No matter what I do or what I say..you're going to bitch anyway.
Who cares.
Why have all the ku douchebags migrated over here to bash MU? This is a site about the Huskers. Stay in Lowrents where you belong.
PS - "Nice confidence in your team"? Wait, I thought I was a mizzou cheerleading blog now? How can I be both?
ISU plays in a wind-tunnel and will have nothing to lose. If you think that will be a pushover for ANY team...then your'e stupid enough for me to be unable to help you.
I wasn't talking about your blog but all the MU/KU Bandwagoneers posting replies. Where are all the Husker fans. Maybe there IS some truth to your rantings about irrelevance. It won't be long before KU will be back in the cellar waiting for BB season to start and MU back to mediocrity. Enjoy it while it lasts.
The nub fan cracking on some tiger fans worry of going to iowa st. is freakin awesome. When you listed the games Iowa state played you left of the one were nebraska barely beat them in lincoln by the skin of your nuts. The only thing im worried about when it comes to the game in lincoln is that i payed to much for my tickets. I have a feeling if i would have waited till after the nubs have dropped a couple of games to start the season, i could have saved alot of money.
"I don't give a fuck about facts..."
That should be the sub-head of this blog.
Thanks for just finally owning up to it.
But it's good to see that you're still sticking to the script, post-hiatus: I'm the one who's wasting my time in correcting your blatant misrepresentations...and your "fucking time" is far too valuable to "waste" in any attempt to accurately state statistics that you obviously try to pass off as fact. Here's a tip: It took all of about 30 seconds to reference your claim that KU has a 26-28 record over the last five years (contrasted with Mizzou's "43 wins"). I was waiting for a Jayhawk fan to point out that they actually went 35-26 over the last five--but if they don't care about the unfair distortion of their team's record, why should you or I?
But in any event, here's a fairly well-known site where you can easily find out anything related to college football season records and the like, while "wasting" relatively little time in doing so:
http://football.stassen.com/
Don't be afraid of the facts, AJ...they might actually help your cause. For instance, in the "about me" section of your front page, you make reference to the Jack Nicholson line from "A Few Good Men": "...can't handle the truth?" I know that's a pretty catchy slogan and all, but here's the thing..."the truth" and "facts" are not generally thought of as being mutually exclusive. Quite the contrary, actually. So don't come off all tough about speaking the "truth" out of one side of your mouth while saying you hold a total disregard for "facts" out of the other. It just makes you look hypocritical. And ill-informed. And confused. And idiotic.
Oh and by the way, if anyone hates on the Huskers more than you, it's ESPN...so while I thank you for your advice, I'm gonna have to pass. I'll take independent, grassroots-style hate from the little guy over institutionally-mandated, multi-national corporate hate any day!
But, as always, I applaud you for including my calling you out on your bullshit among the comment posts.
As a Husker fan, even when we were a power (hang on, let me pop in my 1995 DVD to recapture that feeling), I was never comfortable with games at ISU. Most times we took care of them like we should have, but we faced our share of scares in that place. I think Mizzou fans are probably justified in their "fears" of that game. Most likely, it'll be a behind the woodshed affair, but you just never know.
KU fans might was to worry about that trip to Tampa in September.
Randy
PS. AJ, if this is a Mizzou cheerleading blog, can we at least get some picture of Mizzou cheerleaders?
PPS. Just an observation, but I'm really enjoying the comments coming from both Mizzou and KU fans right now. You guys better be careful, a little more success and you are going to become exactly what you hate about Husker fans...
"KU comes around about once every 10 years or so to make a brief appearance."
Take it easy on KU until your Tiger kitties can hang out for 10 years.
You can tally 1 year in a row and that is questionable ( 2 losses and no championship ). Talk you in 9 years.
Sooner fan here - my first comment. Big XII Media Days were a snoozer this year.
This site has been one of my long-time favorites and a nightly stop for years.
Even when you aren't kind to the Sooners, I still laugh my butt off. There is nothing more fun than reminding the Huskers of reality. Keep it coming AJ.
See you guys at Arrowhead.
Congratulations on your self appointed expert status. At least we agree on one thing. That mythbuster girl is SMOKIN!
GBR!
MHF
She is smokin.
I apologize guys...I've had some health issues and had to get some tests taken. I'll be back as soon as I can..hopefully by the end of the weekend.
AJ
Bo Pelini will have the Huskers playing at their highest intensity level in years
Translation - More steroids
Hope everything is OK!
Bo Pelini will have the Huskers playing at their highest intensity level in years
Translation - More steroids
This has got to be the most stupid riff out there. You are a complete fucking imbecile if you think there's no juice flowing through the athletes at whatever school you claim your allegiance to. It's common in high schools, you dumb ass.
Jesus, it's the jack-off, solo shots like this that show what kinds of doucebags are running rampant in all fan bases.
Zero fucking creativity and fired from a fucking glass house, no less.
Stay anonymous you fucking moron.
Randy
C'mon. People were saying the same shit about KU all season last year. MU is obviously the better team, but it's not like they are worlds apart. KU has most of it's team back from last season with a few key losses. The thing that non-KU fans don't know is that there were a lot of young players that contributed last year that are coming back. Not to mention the fact that we had one of our best recruiting classes ever this year. Did we lose our coach or something to make you think that we will get worse? Mangino is a damn good coach and KU isn't going anywhere till he's gone (insert fat joke, I know it's coming).
Further, Kerry Meier returning kicks is not that crazy. I'm not saying it's a great idea but he is one of the best athletes on the team and I think many of you would be surprised just how fast that kid is.
Anyways, that's why they play the games, we'll see how KU does this year. MU undoubtedly wins the north, but Ku will finish 9-3, 8-4 at worst.
I'm in a similar situation AJ. I live in Norman, OK and I'm a Nebraska fan, which means I get to hear all of their bullshit just like you hear of ours. But what I've come to realize over time about college football is this. The reason certain schools are generally good over a long period of time comes down to one thing. The fans. KU, Baylor, ISU, CU, KSU, OSU, TTECH, and MIZZOU all have major flaws. Their fans don't show up to games, and I'm not talking about the intermittent big games or rivalry games. I'm talking about the bad games as well. These schools will be occasionally good, but will be unable to sustain success. As for OU, UT, ATM, and NEB these schools will generally be good because of the support they receive. So yes they will have a few down years but hardly noticeable compared to the said group of 8. So eat your cake at the moment, because I want to remind you that you just saw the BEST SEASON in the HISTORY of MISSOURI football in nearly 120 years. So let me ask you this, what is a better chance of happening Nebraska being good again or Missouri not having a season like they had last season? Now this is the time for your curse laden response with a completely skewed view of reality because your unreachable dreams actually became true last year leaving you with an UBERoverconfidence that makes any diehard fan cringe. So yes enjoy your success, because you still have the same coaching staff from 2002 and will all know the past 6 years have been prime for underachievers to finally make the big show. So how about this year you don't screw it up, because it could be followed about another 120 years of so-so football followed by a 12-2 season.
OUT
anon 7:35 riddle me this.
MU has 1 Big 12 North title since2000.
How many does Nebraska have?
answer: 1
How does this sound. You had the best 30 years of your 120 year history and that ended 10 years ago. Enjoy your next 90 years before the good 30 come back
Sounds like aj is bucking to be the next ESPN "anal"ist.
"Funny thing is...I don't give a fuck. My blog. My writing. My show."
Good luck with your career!
Herb
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