They Were Once at the TOP of the COLLEGE FOOTBALL WORLD... (The Fall of Nebraska Football)
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- Nebraska used to be feared by their opponents back in the day. From 1962 to 2001, the program built by legendary coaches Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne won 398 games, 44 more than the second-most winning team, Penn State, in that period. Since Osborne's retirement, the program has fallen off a cliff. Scott Frost was supposed to turn the program around but after four miserable years and a 16-31 record, he was fired. Now Nebraska will turn to Matt Rhule who makes his triumphant return to college football. In this video, I discuss the history of Nebraska football and how it went from the top of the college football world to the bottom of the Big Ten. Can this program be fixed?
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How well will Nebraska do in year one under Matt Rhule?
Year one ? Not worth a shit. 6-6 at best.
@@dionpryor369 that would still be worth a hell of a lot more than Frost
@@cb6045 like I said I just want to go to a crappy bowl game .
5-7 will be a miracle.
I'd say 6 to 8 wins as I feel this defense is going to be better than most think. I'm also one that feels the Huskers will beat Minnesota the first game as Minnesota always struggles early, they're breaking in a new QB and they have no idea what the Huskers are going to do being Rhule's first game. I feel the surprise of what Rhule and his staff is bringing along with them replacing some important positions that the Huskers edge them out. I know the Huskers don't do well either in game one but this isn't Frost anymore. Just a gut feeling. Thanks for the support. GBR!
De-VAN-nee! One of the greatest coaches in college football history.
It's like nails on a chalkboard listening to him pronounce his name.
Tagge, DeVaney - so many mispronunciations tells me that a non-Nebraska fan made this awesome video, so thank you for that.
I thought the exact same thing. GBR
Most definitely... Who is this guy ?
Is this insulting his video or what.
Dude, it’s Nebraska. Nobody pays any attention to them 🤷🏻♂️
@@SisyphusMMA nope. Sometimes people mean exactly what they say.
Not often, but sometimes.
As a Tech fan, I would love to see Jeff Sims and Nebraska do well. Sims had the highest celling we've seen from a QB since Joe Hamilton.
Tech???
Oh man. Sims is painfully bad at QB. I can see him at RB or something. HIs passes are wildly inconsistent. I'd play him for the first half of this season, sure, but at some point those turnovers are going to get old. I wish him well though. Sims is a hell of an athlete.
@@lexwaldez it's one game bro
this aged well
@@RealPoliDuck
Rhule is an outstanding coach and I'm sure Jeff Sims is a fine person - but unfortunately Sims wasn't the right person and/or fit. As a Nebraska fan I wanted the most success possible for him. Hopefully Rhule will do better in his future selections. It's so tough to know how a player is going to perform.
It’s pronounced Duh-Vay-Nee not Devny…I don’t know who that is
When Nebraska moved to the big 10 that’s really when the downfall really happened. Nebraska and Missouri both need to go back to the big 12
Yeah but those pesky dollar signs. They're not going anywhere.
Big-10 is a great fit for Nebraska - wish that the other Midwest schools like Michigan and Ohio State were not so woke. But conference is not why you win and lose.
Nebraska just needs to adapt, which I think they have, and were very close to having their best record in almost 10 years
No firing good coaches was stupid
The Big 10 has been great for Husker Volleyball. They would still be amazing in the Big 12, but the Big 10 is a much tougher conference, making the girls play at a much higher level. Grew up in Lincoln in the 80s and 90s as a diehard football fan, but in the last 25 years, volleyball is where it's at. What did the fan sign say in Colorado, at least I think it was Colorado, Nebraska is a volleyball school now.
6:29 dude literally dies
maybe this is what a Chat GPT would produce! I was looking for that statistic (or similar) about Nebraska's extended dominance from early 60's to the last 90's/early 00's and it was difficult to find. So that one key stat makes this worthwhile for me. '62 to '01, 44 more games than the next best! That's incredible!
Let’s be honest, their downfall was joining the BIG10. Leaving all their rivals and fertile recruiting ground behind
Leaving the big 12 was the right play. The conference is nothing like what it used to be.
@@HashtagBirdyy well now it isn’t anymore lmao. Texas and OU left. Without Texas & OU, Nebraska is nothing.
Nebraska actually had a higher conference winning percentage their first 7 years in the Big Ten than in their last 7 years in the Big 12. The downfall is we made 2 terrible coaching hires back-to-back (Riley & Frost).
Something that does not get talked about enough is when Solich left Nebraska and went to Ohio. Not only did he win there, but he also took many recruits out of Nebraska. While they weren't 5-star recruits, they were the role players that Nebraska desperately needed. Losing the homegrown talent from the state slowly ate away at the program's foundation, and they haven't recovered since.
Bro, you decimated Coach Bob Devaney's name. See other post how it sounds. Losses this year? Michigan St? Minnesota? Illinois? Iowa? We smashed Iowa last year denying them a shot at the B1G championship game. This is not a total rebuild. Nebraskas schedule rebuild year can go two ways. 6-6 or 10-2. Depends on QB and O line play. Can Nebraska run the ball? With AG and GI, sprinkle in some RJ and Sims. We shall see where we stand after the '25 season. Schedule is brutal. That's OK, iron sharpens iron. GBR ☠️☠️☠️☠️
One touchdown over Iowa is not a "smashing" there buddy. And Iowa scored 17. They only scored 6 on Illinois. So yeah, major rebuild is right.
@Stephen Lang quit crying. You know it was smashed. Y'all were never in the game. The score made it look a lot closer. Only thing was your O couldn't move and the Cornhuskers threw all over that D. Chicken hawks time has gone. Back to the B1G gifting ya all easy schedules again to make you relevant.
@@stephencostello3174 They were in it for the final 2 minutes of the game
Not a bad overall assessment regarding a history outside of how to pronounce Bob’s last name. I don’t agree with your assessment on the upcoming season but that’s because I’m a fan and I’m hopeful.
He even mispronounced Tagge's name also. He called him Tag and it's Tagg-ee
@@BigRedCountry yeah but I hear people in Nebraska do that from time to time.
@@RhuleBeans If they do then I've never heard them unless they're in Nebraska from somewhere else. I guarantee if you're from Nebraska then you know how to pronounce Devaney, Tagge and even Ndamukong Suh. thanks for the support.
Bob De-van-ee
it is past time the huskers were #1 again its coming
lol. They are literally the worst D1 program in the country. The highlight of last year was saving Northwestern from going 0-12. Delusional Nebraska fans are making bad coaches rich. Fired Solich after a 10 win season. Christ if a coach would win 7 games at this point Nebraska fans would anoint him greatest coach in history.
@@drn13355 Hater, get a life! You know nothing about football...
Speaking as a Nebraska fan, we were largely satisfied with Solich's performance and Pelini's W/L record. After the wild successes of Osborne, of course we were _hoping_ for more with Solich, but I don't recall a single fan calling for Solich to be replaced at the time (media personalities and especially institutional figures are a differerent bucket).
Pelini isn't a simple story. I initially celebrated his arrival, but by the time he was fired, I was ready for him to leave. Why? Two reasons.
1. Despite nice records technically, Pelini just could not beat a top 15 team. Worse yet, his teams had a nasty habit of getting *blown out* in those games. This happened for many years. I developed a theory that the players were breaking under the pressure that Pelini was offloading onto them. #2 seemed to confirm my suspicions.
2. The guy had a temper. At first, it was endearing, because if felt like he was frustrated on behalf of his players at refs, etc. But in his final years, he started lashing out at people at the University, at fans, and you could tell he was taking his frustrations out on the players, too. If you get that toxic, you had better be winning national championships left and right for me to even consider wanting to keep you around.
It is all Karma for firing Solich who was a good coach. When they started firing coached after 10 win seasons it showed how insane Nebraska had become. They will always be a big ten bottom feeder. Maybe they will win 7 in a great season, but normal will be 3-4 wins.
I don't know about all that, I remember pelini didn't get along with the media at the end. The players did like pelini. He was volger, lost his filter at the end. Then the Wisconsin game was the nail in the coffin. Gave up 500+ rushing yards to a Melvin Gordon. This was bad for 2 reasons one it's nebraska strong DL play is important and he is a DL coach that's his thing. I do not remember all the details but those last few years were pretty bad.
Alot of people say he was a poor recruiter and benefited from Callahans recruits. 05 was nebraskas strongest recuting class the last 20 years.
Pelini is an elite coordinator but a wildly inconsistent head coach but Pelini was definitely a start and the first step.
You forgot about Mike Riley before Frost after Pelini
If you are going to do a documentary type video, at least learn to pronounce the name.
Being from Colorado if I had the answer to what the Cornhuskers need to do to come back I wouldn't tell them.
The people who were co- responsible for destroying Nebraska Football were Bill Byrne and Steve Pederson, the 2 AD's responsible for the Frank Solich debacle. Bill Byrne gave Solich a 1 year contract after a 6 and 6 season, the worst record that Nebraska had suffered in over 40 years. And right after granting that extension, Bill Byrne resigned as AD and left to be the AD at Texas A&M, saddling Nebraska's new AD Steve Pederson with a coach he didn't want. And from comments it was pretty obvious that Steve Pederson did not want Frank Solich. Meanwhile, having picked a coach that the incoming Nebraska AD hated Bill Byrne left to be AD at a school that was in the same conference as Nebraska, the Big 12. Either Byrne should have butt-out of getting involved in keeping Solich or he should have run it by the new AD before signing Solich for a one year extension, since it was an open secret that Nebraska planned to hire Pederson when Byrne retired. Solich went 9-3 the next year, Pederson said that wasn't good enough and fired him and Nebraska had left-overs for coaching choices by the time Pederson found a coach (Bill Callahan) willing to work with an AD who fired someone who had won a National Championship as head coach and did a good job in the following the 6-6 season. Nebraska hasn't been able to hire a top coach since then.
Solich didn't win a natty as a head coach
I say Nebraska wins 3 games this season. Going to be a rough one.
5-3
we could be 8-2 or 9-2 right now save for turnovers and other mistakes. Rhule's done a great job.
The REAL "WE COMING".
Callahan, Riley where not good fits. Polini and frost seemed like good fits but didn't workout. Joseph and bush did better as tempery head coaches than frost ever did. Rhule is the best coach nebraska has had in 20 years.
Their is 2 very impressive things about nebraska. The fans never give up on the huskers and the players worked very hard the whole time the huskers were losing. The coach's and AD let them down for many years.
Albert's and Rhule seem to be a much better combination. Only time will tell.
Pelini actually did quite well - but he seemed like he was ready to blow a gasket - anger management
All schools with the blue blood label like Oklahoma Alabama Notra Dame USC Ohio State have down times but always come back so I’m a OU fan and have experienced this we went into a really bad time when Barry Switzer left and we went years going through different coaches like Gary Blake and maybe I’m leaving someone out but those were tough years but finally we got Bob Stoops and everything started to get normal again like winning the National Championship in 2000 and we’ve been rolling ever since so now Nebraska finally got their Bob Stoops in Rule he’ll get them rolling again so just hang on and enjoy the ride go Huskers!!
Oklahoma has not been a top program and hasnt competed with any team they found themselves up against after that Natty.
dont get me wrong i really liked that team and Josh Heupal (sp?) and it was heartwarming to see that resurgence but Oklahoma has not been rolling , theyve had teams that were really good but theyve had 20 years of losing the big games that really count including being dominated by LSU twice and being absolutely dismantled to the point it was ugly and i turned off the game against USC which is a program that still to this day since the BCS era has not had to play any top 5 programs which are LSU, Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and now Georgia.
on top of that USC has been consistently overrated for decades now
i have not seen Oklahoma field a functional defense or even mediocre ones in play outside of the Big 12.
yall have won a lot of games and stay ranked and winning that conference but Oklahoma is far from elite.
They have to travel wide and far for speed and Lincoln, Nebraska is not a great place to party. Good luck to rule he might have some success but no where near th powerhouse they were in the 70s and early 80s.
Nebraska caught lighting in a bottle twice. The draw to recruits was they were on TV almost every week, and their weight training was second to none and revolutionized football training. Now everyone is on TV every single week. And everyone has adopted and implemented the training they started. There is no draw to a cloudy, cold, windy school that hasn't been relevant in a single current recruits lifetime.
Who's Bob Devny?😅😅 15 seconds in and I already want to stop this.
😂😂😂moving to the Big10 has been an absolute failure. Nebraska might need to go back to the big 12 because this isn't working 😂😂😂😊
Yes,Nebraska football will more games. I hope. Now is coach doesn't have a Good record overall.
Matt Rhule is changing Nebraska right now!!! GO BIG RED!!!! N
Bob Devnee? Right off the bat I'm suspect and I'm not even a Husker fan.
FIRE EVERYONE - ALL COACHES< ADMINISTRATORS, EVERY _ O N E! Start from scratch. Recruit from W. NE 8-man football & fans for coaches. Not kiddin'!
It is all riding on the colorado game
Who's Bob DEV-nee?
Can it be fixed? I sure hope not.
De-VAN-nee! De-VAN-nee! De-VAN-nee! De-VAN-nee! De-VAN-nee!
De-dontgiveafuck-nee.
Bob Devnee?!?? 😂
I guess Bob Devaney isn’t legendary enough for you to pronounce his name correctly.
Sorry, I stopped right there
Great video but your pronunciation of Bob Devaney's last name is like nails on a chalkboard lol De-van-knee
General Osborne is the 🐐
deh-vanny
Hard to take this video serious when you can’t even pronounce Bob Devaney correctly.
Frost partied, cheated on his wife, and snorted cocaine. Instead of just doing his job. He's a sad example of someone not being able to handle the pressure
nebraska will 100% make a bowl game
Big deal 6 wins is embarrassing
It's pronounced... deh-vaney...and Osburn...
Narration needs a lot of work. Sorry.
I doubt it- they can win but not to the level they were at in the 70s and early 80s. The game changed to a speed game versus the power football that Nebraska used. They can thank Jimmy Johnson of Oklahoma State and later University of Miami that killed the option football. Nebraska has had success since then but not to the level they had in the 70s. To sum it up a well coached team with a good passing and running offense and speed ultimately killed the option football powers.
watch the 1996 Nebraska/Florida 1 vs 2. combination of power and speed is deadly
Did you sleep through the 90's? 3 national titles!!
So much hate in the comments for an irrelevant team 🤣
How bad did they hurt you?
dev-nee huh
Average video, just saying "what" happened (that we already know), but little to no analysis of why things happened.
No
5 7 or 6 6 or 4 8 can you do a video about Missouri
I have plans to and may need to talk a fellow youtuber and close friend (who may be a Mizzou fan) to join me on the video
Missouri who? What's that? A river? Hobo? 😂😂😂
Nebraska has the bell buddy
A video about Misery losing their QB recruit to Nebraska? It would be short.
Ive accepted we wont be relevant ever again.
This has numerous inaccuracies in it. Thumbs down
no ,there are not enough black athletes in the state of nebraska.
No, they are like texas and michigan, BUT at least they have a history of winning lots of national titles. Mich has 1 national title in the world war 2 era. Texas hasn't had a natty in 17 years. Michigan isn't back, texas inst back, nebraska isn't going to be back either and it doesn't matter who their coach is.
No, I think coaches matter a little. If coaches don't matter why do the teams fall off after a top coach retires?
Texas is back boy
The Michigan part of this comment aged like milk
They fired Pelini for saying "f the fans" after they walked out of a game, one of Nebraskas biggest come back wins. He was right. Unl shouldn't have fired him. F the fans.
Nebraska is the only team in the history of sport that will still fill its stadium for 10 years with the worst team in the sport...there is zero incentive to get better because people still show up. In Scotts first year, they were 0-7, filled an open date with Bethune Cookman, just to get a win, and the place was rocking. Isn't natural and certainly contributes to the poor showing and underachieving. The coaches get paid too much, as do the players, while they still do not recruit at a high level due to coaches packing it in due to their huge contracts. They need to start over with a hungry, cheaper coach.