re: 1995 Nebraska dominant stats

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But the elite players from the mid-1990s could absolutely compete today.

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With today’s weight training gear and exercise physiology research, absolutely.

Not to mention the legal bulking and strength training boosters.

That team, from that time period, versus many different teams from our modern era, they would lose.

We still haven’t peaked as a species.

20 years from now, we will likely have advanced again and people will continue to have this argument and it will, again, come down to the fact that the future athletes will be outpacing the contemporary ones.

That is how it will always work.

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If you want to talk about 1985 players then sure. But 1995? Those guys, esp at Nebraska, had plenty weightlifting and elite speed.

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Then why are mainly modern players at the top of the combine’s record lists?

I mean, they are all pretty much from 2010 on, actually.

South Carolina lost to UNC, Missery, Tennessee, and App State.

The opinions of any fan of that team in regards to anything athletics related are irrelevant and discarded immediately.

At least beat App State and Missery before you comment about any other football team and their successes.

We made up for our shittiness.

Maybe y’all will too one day, but I highly doubt it.

Nah, my posts have nothing to do with LSU, yet you decided to bring them up, although I feel that multiple modern teams (LSU, Bama, Clemson, OSU, Penn State, among others) would beat Nebraska, just like Nebraska and multiple 90s teams would beat any team from 1975.

I’ll make the same argument in 2040, that many teams from that era would beat this current LSU team and Nebraska and any team from before.

It is how progression works.

You started with a troll and didn’t deserve a proper response.

1995 is just not long enough ago to see this gulf in athletic performance. We’re only talking 6 years prior to that 2001 Miami team which people still talk about as the greatest collection of talent assembled in college. You still had players from that Miami team in the NFL not that long ago. Some players actually spend 6 years in college (Kirsten Pitman at LSU for example). So you’re talking one class prior to the 2001 era which we know could still compete.

The improvement of athletic performances since then would be seen on the average but the elite talents from 1995 would do fine today. Ray Lewis and Warren Sapp lost to Nebraska.

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1995 is just not long enough ago to see this gulf in athletic performance.

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Yeah. I think it is more rule based changes. Like if players had to play both ways like back in the day and not have all the tv timeouts, reviews, etc. and substitutions of today players, at least lineman, just wouldn't be as big. As time goes on the league adjusts to allow for more specialization of players allowing the margins of "performance" to be wider.

He did it twice - exact same play on back-to-back drives! The fullbacks they had back in those days — Schlesinger, and the Makovickas, were horses.

I remember that too. I still like Nebraska and wish they’d become relevant again. I’m just saying 1995 Nebraska may or may not be able to beat 2019 LSU, but it would certainly compete and wouldn’t lose due to any athletic deficiencies.

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If Tua was healthy, LSU is in the Sugar Bowl playing Baylor.

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They didn’t give up a sack all season. A single one. That’s mind blowing

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Not when you run the focking option