Perspective: Tom Osborne vs OKlahoma

Bargaining phase here we are! 

Yeah it's amazing, Osborne started 0-5, then 1-8, against Oklahoma, and survived long enough to become the kind of legend that makes Nebraska fans dissatisfied with anyone who followed him.

But it was another time, before the days of instant, limitless free porn.

He also realized that to start competing with Oklahoma he needed to pump his players full of steroids.

Unless we start paying recruits or go the MSU "development" route, things won't change.

For every one of these examples there are examples to counter it. There is no underlying reason; there is no underlying logic. Harbaugh will make UM into a powerhouse, or he will not. It could happen, it could not happen. We will only know after the fact.

Although, admittedly, it is not looking good for him. 

You know, since I was a younger man, there was ALWAYS a reason to explain away the reason Michigan would lose a game.

Bad spot. Ran out of time. Bad officiating. Unlucky break. Can't get a punt away. Weather.

There is always, always, SOMETHING.

I have just always wondered why the fans haven't just accepted or looked internally at the program to realize... they are just an above average/good/sometimes great program that has had the good fortune of having an amazing brand. 

When the team goes up against legit competition, they are a paper tiger. And this just isn't recent stuff. 

Osborne never had more than 3 losses.

Harbaugh has never had fewer than 3 losses.

Maybe next year will be the year....

Fire Don Brown 

So Harbaugh is going to be allowed to stick around with 2 more losses to OSU to push the losing streak to 10 and his own losing streak to 7? What on the recruiting trail gives you optimism as the gap is widening with OSU whose 2021 class is probably going to end up #1?

So now we have to go back 40 years to find a parallel to JH? That's probably a bad sign. First it was that Dantonio didn't make it to Indy until year 5 and that's down the drain, then it was Dabo didn't win the ACC until year 4 but got blown out in their bowl, except in year 5 he had Deshawn Watson and went 11-2 with a win over OSU in the Orange Bowl. 

Our fanbases obsession with coaches who haven't coached in decades really has to end. It's an anchor on the entire program. Yes, that one coach did something a long time ago. Yes, there's a chance our current coach could do that too.

I couldn't believe how much the 1969 game was talked up over the last week. Yes, it's the anniversary, but it's something that happened 50 years ago. Bo is gone. His program is gone. College football has changed dramatically. All of this stuff happened multiple decades ago.

Perspective: OSU has been incredibly dominate. They’ve recruited extremely well and are a machine of death. 
 

also perspective: Harbaugh is paid over 7 million dollars a year to figure out how to beat them. 

Stop defending this shit show. You are part of the problem. 

How long will Scott Frost last at Nebraska? Anyone see the Iowa kicker blow kisses to the Nebraska bench/crowd after beating them in OT in Lincoln? Wow.. have times changed. Once Osborne's crew got on the secret vitamin cocktails they had a run of dominance featuring size and speed not seen since the Giambi/McGwire/Canseco Oakland A's. The MSU jokes are low hanging fruit.

Searching... 

This is true of Osborne and Nebraska got their ass whipped every year by a Florida team in the Orange Bowl throughout the 1980's. This changed when Osborne began recruiting speed out of Florida by the early to mid 90's. The 1995 Nebraska team in my opinion is the best college football ever assembled with Frazier/Phillips and the 10 guys that were drafted on that defense. That was a ridiculous assembly of talent beating Florida like 65-17 in the bowl game. 

That was 30 years ago.  Typically if a coach is going to win championships, he does it in his first 3 years.