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How much did Nebraska pay talented players to go there in the 80s and 90s?
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:35 pm
Cut some big checks back in the day when less schools cares about big time football and you could have some success. Nebraska couldn’t have actually legitimately recruited talented players to go there with what we’ve seen in the last 20 years.
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Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:37 pm to The Boat
Dr. Tom was a paragon of virtue. How dare you besmirch this saintly figure. He would never stoop so low as to sully the Nebraska name by doing things like recruiting Lawrence Phillips or Christian Peter.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:37 pm to The Boat
It's less $$$ and more partial qualifiers which went bye bye once the Big 12 formed (I'm sure Husker fans blame those dastardly Longhorns).
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:39 pm to The Boat
Osbourne would take criminals that no one else would touch with a pole.
Add in partial qualifiers as well.
Add in partial qualifiers as well.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:40 pm to The Boat
Different world back then. Those Nebraska teams were legit. Kids are drawn to a winner.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:47 pm to The Boat
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Nebraska couldn’t have actually legitimately recruited talented players to go there with what we’ve seen in the last 20 years.
Obviously they were cheating, like pretty much every successful college football program. But why wouldn’t they have been able to recruit well without shelling out tons of cash? They were winning a ton of games and putting a lot of guys in the NFL.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:49 pm to The Boat
Cutting big checks doesn’t automatically lead to success. See Billy and Florida.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:50 pm to boston vol
This thread just makes me feel old.
Nebraska got legit players. Yeah, they exploited the hell out of partial qualifiers, used an immensely successful greyshirt program to build waves of offensive linemen, and found a few risks that paid off in terms of talent/troubled.
Nebraska got legit players. Yeah, they exploited the hell out of partial qualifiers, used an immensely successful greyshirt program to build waves of offensive linemen, and found a few risks that paid off in terms of talent/troubled.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:51 pm to BoardReader
I don't know if they still have county scholarships that don't count against the 85 total.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 11:15 pm to The Boat
All the drugs you could take, all the crimes you could commit.
This was the recruiting pitch:
Drag a woman down the stairs by her hair?...you will get bailed out by the head coach and play in the title game.
Not feeling good in the weight room?...there's a syringe for you in the locker room.
Bring us your idiots, your criminally inclined, and most of all your PED addicts...we have a place for you at Nebraska.
This was the recruiting pitch:
Drag a woman down the stairs by her hair?...you will get bailed out by the head coach and play in the title game.
Not feeling good in the weight room?...there's a syringe for you in the locker room.
Bring us your idiots, your criminally inclined, and most of all your PED addicts...we have a place for you at Nebraska.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 12:44 am to The Boat
After Miami beat them in the Orange Bowl, Osborne said "shite, we need dumb criminals too."
The 1980s taught Nebraska a lesson in bowl games 2-8...we need all those motherfrickers getting into Miami, FSU, SEC, etc.
Dr. Tom, so pious...He was just there to help.
The 1980s taught Nebraska a lesson in bowl games 2-8...we need all those motherfrickers getting into Miami, FSU, SEC, etc.
Dr. Tom, so pious...He was just there to help.
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Hours after the team returned from East Lansing from whipping Nick Saban on September 10, 1995, Phillips broke into backup quarterback Scott Frost's apartment by climbing the outside of the building to the third floor and entering through some sliding doors.
He then assaulted his ex-girlfriend, basketball player Kate McEwen. Phillips dragged McEwen out of the apartment by the hair and down three flights of stairs before smashing her head into a mailbox.
Phillips was subsequently arrested, and eventually suspended by head coach Tom Osborne. The case became a source of controversy and media attention, with the perception that Osborne was coddling a star player by not kicking Phillips off the team permanently. Osborne walked out on a press conference when asked, "If one of your players had roughed up a member of your family and had dragged her down a flight of steps, would you have reinstated that player to the team?"
Osborne defended the decision, saying that abandoning Phillips might do more harm than good, stating the best way to help Phillips was within the structured environment of the football program. Osborne stated, "I felt the only thing I could put in a place that would keep him on track was football, because that was probably the only consistent organizing factor in his life."
Despite pressure from the national media, Osborne named Phillips the starter for the Fiesta Bowl, which pitted No. 1 Nebraska against No. 2 Florida for the national championship. In the game, Phillips rushed for 165 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries and scored a touchdown on a 16-yard reception in the Cornhuskers' 62–24 victory.
This post was edited on 9/1/23 at 12:46 am
Posted on 9/1/23 at 4:15 am to POTUS2024
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there's a syringe for you in the locker room.
Ha, this is one of the pieces that gets overlooked way too often.
People talk about the diesel strong corn fed boys and Nebraska’s legendary strength and conditioning program…when in reality they just used way more and way better drugs than damn near everyone.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 6:38 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Phillips broke into backup quarterback Scott Frost's apartment by climbing the outside of the building to the third floor and entering through some sliding doors. He then assaulted his ex-girlfriend, basketball player Kate McEwen. Phillips dragged McEwen out of the apartment by the hair and down three flights of stairs before smashing her head into a mailbox.
Phillips’ ex was found in Frost’s apartment? So, the start starting running back’s girl was with found with the startstarting quarterback? That’s like a Friday Night Lights episode.
Where was Frost during all of this?
This post was edited on 9/1/23 at 7:02 am
Posted on 9/1/23 at 6:54 am to GentleJackJones
Nebraska and Bama also had huge programs, they were both known to have 150-200 players on the team. You think about the lack of socialized scouting, social media, internet, etc. back then and the more players you had the better your chance of some of them working out. I have been told Ole Miss had a huge ‘walk on’ program also. Bama’s old plan was better to be on our team on the sidelines than playing for someone else.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 6:59 am to GentleJackJones
Yes, and Scott Frost hid in his closet and she was getting beaten and pummeled by Phillips
The Nebraska program and Osborne were thugs
The Nebraska program and Osborne were thugs
Posted on 9/1/23 at 7:03 am to POTUS2024
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there's a syringe for you in the locker room
Yeah they had a steroid program that would make the East Germans blush.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 7:04 am to lsupride87
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Yes, and Scott Frost hid in his closet and she was getting beaten and pummeled by Phillips The Nebraska program and Osborne were thugs
I can picture Scott Frost telling her not to worry, and that the doors are locked and he’d protect her. Then, once Phillips began scaling the wall like Spider-Man and Frost telling her, “B****, you’re on your own” while diving into the closet and hiding under a pile of clothes.
This post was edited on 9/1/23 at 9:35 am
Posted on 9/1/23 at 7:22 am to The Boat
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Nebraska couldn’t have actually legitimately recruited talented players to go there with what we’ve seen in the last 20 years.
Why would what’s happened in the last 20 years apply to 20-30 years before that? Nebraska was the first program to have a Strength and Conditioning coach, they also had the best weight room and facilities at the time. Now of course everyone has that plus the partial qualifiers and top players have always tended to go to the top programs at the time
Posted on 9/1/23 at 9:21 am to H-Town Tiger
As noted, Neb. had a red shirt program where every county in the state paid for a walk on's scholarship. They would play in their first season then red shirt their second; the theory being that a player grows the most in his second season leading up to their third. I remember watching their buses unload prior to playing LSU in the Sugar Bowl & it was like watching a pro team unloading. From 4 buses.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 9:29 am to baldona
quote:scholarship limits weren’t a thing back in the day
Nebraska and Bama also had huge programs, they were both known to have 150-200 players on the team. You think about the lack of socialized scouting, social media, internet, etc. back then and the more players you had the better your chance of some of them working out
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