Watch out, Nebraska coming for Don Brown (not really)

Submitted by RockinLoud on

Living in Huskerland I tend to peruse their message boards to keep informed on the team so I can at least converse somewhat in depth with collegues and friends. Apparently they fired (errr, "didn't renew the contract") of their DC yesterday. Reading through the coments on the Corn Nation post I found these gems by one of their users. In all fairness he got called out, but at the same time their fans are pretty darn delusional about their program nowadays. 

The other guy to consider is Michigan’s Don Brown. We can buy him out no problem, and who would rather work for Harbaugh? No one. Michigan is a lesser program than ours. Get that guy in Lincoln and start making some championship defenses. We all know he’d look good in Husker Red.

If Riley’s smart he’ll go get Venables but I’d be okay with either Venables or Brown.

As for Don Brown, there is literally nothing that Michigan can offer him that we can’t. In fact we can offer him more. We’re Nebraska, while they’re just some overrated program with a psycho head coach. Our defense should be the best in the country every year, so go get Don Brown. Steal him from Michigan. Offer him more money. We shouldn’t just throw up our hands and say "Oh well, it can’t be done. They’ll never leave where they are. Why should we even try?" That’s bullshit. Complete, utter f—-ing bullshit. This is the Blackshirt Defense we’re talking about. Why aren’t we getting the best?? Every time someone argues against making progress it’s like you’re spitting in TO’s face.

Seriously, it’s time for our program to nut up or shut up.

You guys think Brown would go for it??? He makes a compelling case. /s

EDIT: Guys, this is all in good fun, some light internet ribbing. Of course we have fans like this, most fan bases do.

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FrankMurphy

January 13th, 2017 at 8:57 PM ^

They do have a reputation as being one of the classier fan bases. They pride themselves on being welcoming and gracious towards visiting fans. I went to Lincoln for the 2012 Nebraska game, and everyone there was super nice and no one talked smack. Even the drunk people were happy drunks. 

Also, the entire life of that state revolves completely around Nebraska Football. They aren't just obsessed with it; it's a total way of life for them. I've been to road games at other B1G and non-B1G schools, and I've never seen anything like Nebraska. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic (and blasphemous), for Nebraskans, Memorial Stadium is like Mecca and every home Nebraska Football game is like the Hajj. So I can kind of understand their fans' delusion a little bit if that's the bubble in which they live.  

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1201 S. Main St.

January 12th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^

I saw some comments in an earlier post on this site where some people were suggesting that a current NBA coach could/should be the next men's basketball coach and then a few on why he shouldn't be.  Not to mention the comment about Michigan currently being a top 10-15 college basketball coaching job.  Every fan base has a few outliers, I'm more impressed that he got called out by other Nebraska faithful, but other fan bases can scroll through any thread on here and find a couple fans with "delusional" comments.

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jmblue

January 12th, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^

Not to mention the comment about Michigan currently being a top 10-15 college basketball coaching job

I don't see what's delusional about that. Michigan has been to the national championship game in the 1960s, '70s, '80s. '90s and 2010s. I believe we're the only school to have done that.

Obviously we would be on the lower end of that group but I don't know that there are 15 better jobs.  

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jmblue

January 12th, 2017 at 3:39 PM ^

Whether it's top 15 or 20 is splitting hairs, but regardless, the program has great potential.  Not only do we have six national title game appearances in our history, they've come under four different coaches.  We've actually never had that iconic coach who puts his stamp on the program, like Bo in football.

The inferiority complex some here have about basketball is disturbing.  We have a good history, good facilities and there is a lot of high school talent in our region.  There's a lot in place for this program to be very successful.  That's why Beilein came here.

 

 

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jmblue

January 12th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^

An inferiority complex is an unjustified lack of self-worth.  (It may be accompanied by aggressive compensation, but not always.)  Read some of the posts here about the basketball program's potential and you'd never guess we'd have as many Final Four appearances as we have. 

Michigan basketball is not in the blueblood group with Kentucky and the rest, but that's not a big group of schools.  We can and should be considered in the next tier.  Just a couple of years ago Beilein seemingly had us returning to our traditional place, but we've unfortunately backslid since.   

 

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January 12th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^

No, I agree with you top 15-20 doesn't matter, I was more so speaking about some thinking Michigan is close to or around a top 10 program.  Definitely can be a really great basketball job, given the history and new facilities, but they aren't there yet.  I wasn't trying to downplay the basketball program, didn't mean for it to come off that way if it did.

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Brodie

January 13th, 2017 at 9:46 AM ^

We may have made those final fours, but the thing is there have been relatively few sustained periods of success at that level. Truly elite basketball schools do not have 11 year tourney droughts. We have the potential to be elite, but historically we have not been consistently there. Incidentally, that breeds generations of alumni and fans that alternate between caring and not caring about basketball at all. When I was at Michigan, for example, it was arguably the third most popular sport on campus.  

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cletus318

January 12th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^

Not to derail the thread, but as I said before, I have never understood this thinking among the fanbase. Once you get past the the true bluebloods, and really, we're only talking about North Carolina, Duke, UCLA, Kentucky, and I suppose you could include Kansas and Indiana, where are all these schools that have great advantages over Michigan basketball? Does a place like Michigan State really have built-in advantages over Michigan, or does it just have a better coach?

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jalenwestman

January 12th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^

I always thought Hawkeye fans were crazy....then Iowa started playing Nebraska in football. Holy smokes!! You don't even have to go past Omaha before you learn how insane Nebraska football fan is. They are the Alabama fan of the North.

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KC Wolve

January 12th, 2017 at 3:39 PM ^

Haha. My best pal is one of the few normal Husker fans I know. They are bat shit nuts for the most part. Most of their fans still think it is 1993 and they are a dominant team. Granted, the same can be said for some Michigan fans, but UM is trending up at least and NE hired Mike Riley.



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FrankMurphy

January 12th, 2017 at 4:07 PM ^

I think it will be very difficult for Nebraska to replicate the level of success they achieved in the 1990's. The ongoing accelaration of the recruiting process has hurt programs in far-flung, hard-to-reach locations like Nebraska. The plains region doesn't produce many elite prospects, and most elite prospects from outside the region who don't have some sort of prior connection to the Huskers aren't going to delay committing to a school just so they can schedule a visit to Lincoln, NE.

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RockinLoud

January 12th, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^

Absolutely. Every single advantage they had in the 80's/90's is gone now. They have a great program tradition, probably top 5, but outside of that anything to sell a player on, outside of specific relationships with coaches or other players, is equal or better at any other big name program. And as you said, those other programs are likely much closer to home and family than Linconln.

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Brodie

January 13th, 2017 at 9:54 AM ^

They also made a huge mistake in leaving the Big 12. Texas kids were probably their best hope going forward... the shift in B1G recruiting toward the Mid-Atlantic states to supplement Ohio and Pennsylvania is not going to benefit Nebraska in the least. Being on the western fringe of a conference that is increasingly identifying itself with the northeastern quarter of the country isn't a great position. 

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FrankMurphy

January 13th, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^

I don't think they made a mistake by leaving the Big 12. The Big 12 is a borderline-dysfunctional conference whose revenue distribution model is flawed and unsustainable. During the 15 years between the Big 8's expansion and Nebraska's departure, the conference became increasingly Texas-focused and Nebraska regularly found itself on the short end of the stick in terms of revenue, scheduling, alignment, and other matters. The other departures, as well as the Big 12's indecisiveness on expansion (and the fact that they added West Virginia as a geographic outlier after the ACC, SEC, and B1G passed on them), validates Nebraska's decision to leave. And it seems like most of their fans are happy with the move to the B1G and have zero interest in rejoining the Big 12. It was a rare case of a school making a money-driven decision that threw decades of tradition out the window but was still welcomed by the majority of its fans and alumni.

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The Fan in Fargo

January 12th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^

Oh my! Huskers fans are so far out there. They think they still have Tom Osbourne's predecessor waiting to step in any day. Not going to happen. They had like 15 years of success but ESPN and their fans consider them a dynasty program. Once again, the poor sons of bitches ate the field corn like over in Iowa. Not good for the brain.

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January 12th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^

I have trouble remembering which states border Nebraska, let aloning wishing we were on their level in football. This guy would be fun to have around this site.  We never get trolls this determined.

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lhglrkwg

January 12th, 2017 at 4:35 PM ^

 

Screw those guys!
We should hire Nick Saban for DC!

 

Also that guy just keeps digging
Coaches leave for better opportunities all the time. You can’t suggest that Michigan or Clemson are better programs than ours
Literally asserting that a program that hasn't done much of anything in the last 20 years and had to steal Oregon State's coach is better than a team that won the national title about 3 days ago

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MGoStu

January 12th, 2017 at 5:07 PM ^

Yes, it's delusional. But I've seen posts on this blog that were every bit as delusional. They get called out pretty quickly, but it happens.

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Esterhaus

January 12th, 2017 at 6:33 PM ^

 

Has never knowingly crossed with a Nebraska grad. Perhaps I saw a husker fan at the airport once. I had thought a fellow Second City Comedy alum went to Nebraska but he would only admit to Drake.

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