Husker 1995 Flashback

Street Novelist said:
knapplc said:
One thing - Tommie gets way too much credit for "The Run." The Gators gave up on that play. That's pretty obvious. Yeah, he fought on and tore out of their grasp, but they were barely giving a half-hearted effort to bring him down. Florida's defense wasn't SO bad, nor was Tommie SO good, that he could break away from seven determined tacklers. It was just a case of a team being mentally and emotionally beaten, and Tommie and the Huskers at their peak.
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I can't believe you said that. Tommie wasn't that good? :facepalm:
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In context, that's a wholly true and logical comment. I don't see how anyone could have an issue with it.

 
My favorite article after the Fiesta blowout was by Tony Kornheiser:

Excuse me, would any of you Heisman voters like your ballot back?
Let me put that another way: If the Heisman voting were held today, Eddie George would not have to worry about his trophy getting its finger clipped off by the baggage X-ray machine at LaGuardia Airport.

Not unless he was checking it through to Tommie Frazier's house in Nebraska. LA Times
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knapplc said:
Street Novelist said:
knapplc said:
One thing - Tommie gets way too much credit for "The Run." The Gators gave up on that play. That's pretty obvious. Yeah, he fought on and tore out of their grasp, but they were barely giving a half-hearted effort to bring him down. Florida's defense wasn't SO bad, nor was Tommie SO good, that he could break away from seven determined tacklers. It was just a case of a team being mentally and emotionally beaten, and Tommie and the Huskers at their peak.
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I can't believe you said that. Tommie wasn't that good? :facepalm:
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In context, that's a wholly true and logical comment. I don't see how anyone could have an issue with it.
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Totally agree.

I even admitted on a Gator Board That They weren't near as bad as we made them look..And we probably weren't quite as good as we looked..more that we just peaked at the right time and they just had an off night.

One of them came back with a quote from Spurrier, "We could've played Nebraska ten times and lost twelve of 'em".

Of course if Mechicken or Penn State had picked that year to go undefeated and were crying about a shared MNC, there's no way I would've admitted any of that.

 
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I was scared to death about that game. First of all, Michael Booker hadn't had a great year and was fairly young. I thought the fun'n gun would be too much for him to handle. However, he had probably one of if not the best game of his Nebraska career. Secondly, I was really concerned about bringing LP back into the mix and starting him at RB. I was afraid this might cause a lot of distractions for the rest of the team especially with the media going into the game.

 
808Husker in KCMO said:
KU was a 10 win team. They finished ranked #11.
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Yeah, I'd remembered Kansas was #11, but forgot Colorado finished #6 and KSU-#12. (All (10-2))

And OU went 5-5.

Also, Future Big-12:

#9 aTm (9-3)

#14 Tejas (10-2)

#19 Texas Tech (9-3)

Thought for sure the Big-12 would dominate after the merger. <_<

 
man don't hate on Sega Sports' College Football's National Championship! I loved that game back in the day. For a span I remember liking it more than the Bill Walsh/EA ones.

 
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knapplc said:
I had misgivings about that game. I remember how impressive Florida was throughout 2005, but I also remember that they hadn't played the same schedule we had played, and thinking we'd win - but in a close game. I figured we couldn't stop them from scoring but that we could shorten the game with our ball-control ground game.

We watched the game at the home of my wife's work buddy. Both she and her husband were Florida alums. After the first quarter I was not feeling too comfortable, but felt we weren't in any trouble. It was an exciting game.

After the second quarter, we spent most of halftime trying to cheer up our hosts with comments like, "You guys could come back..." and the like. I spent the whole second half holding in my glee. :)

One thing - Tommie gets way too much credit for "The Run." The Gators gave up on that play. That's pretty obvious. Yeah, he fought on and tore out of their grasp, but they were barely giving a half-hearted effort to bring him down. Florida's defense wasn't SO bad, nor was Tommie SO good, that he could break away from seven determined tacklers. It was just a case of a team being mentally and emotionally beaten, and Tommie and the Huskers at their peak.

Read the context of what I wrote, people. I never said Tommie Frazier wasn't good. It's ridiculous to gig my post if you're not reading it correctly. Sheesh.
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Guys, knapplc has a valid point here. I can expand on it a little bit.

Yes, that run is probably one of the best plays in Cornhusker football history. And yes, a lot of what happened there had to do with Tommie being Tommie. But you also need to consider a couple of things.

1) That was the longest run Frazier had had all year up into that point. If that was "all him", why hadn't he done something as equally as impressive before that game? Don't read any more into that than what you have to. I'm just saying, that was a first for Tommie.

2) That score came when Nebraska was up 42-17 or something like that, giving Nebraska 49 points after the run. Does anybody really think Florida was trying their best at this point in the game? If you think so, you are severely mistaken. You try being down by 30+ points in one of the most important games of your life, and tell me how "motivated" you would be.

3) From the replays, you can tell a lot of the Florida players are going for the strip instead of the tackle. That also helped Tommie break free from some of those tackles.

So, I'm not saying that the run wasn't impressive or that I don't love to see it, because I do. I just think it's important to realize that came at a very vulnerable time for the Gators.

 
Uh, Nebraska is int the PLAINS. I think there was some grass for us to practice on from time to time. It was all about Florida cuz they had a "prettier offense"

 
accountability said:
Uh, Nebraska is int the PLAINS. I think there was some grass for us to practice on from time to time. It was all about Florida cuz they had a "prettier offense"
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Not when its all under snow. Although I do agree that it was a reason for all the analysts to pick Florida, even though I believe it is one of the lamest reasons to pick a team.

 
I got to go to that game as a combined birthday/christmas/reminded for all time gift present from my parents. I was in junior high. It never ended..."we sent you to the title game, take out the trash...you'd think he'd keep his room cleaner after we gave him those tickets..." on and on and on.

I had kind of forgotten about Berringer leading two scoring drives and Turman cruisin them down the field. Shows you the depth and trust everyone on that team had

I remember being down quick there in the first quarter, and giving up the way a 13 year old will (oh no, its the end of the world!), and my dad just saying calmly, "Dont worry, theres gonna be a lot of points scored in this game, and they dont have the blackshirts..." Boom...Cue safety. Boom...Cue interception for TD. Boom...cue pop's rock star status.

 
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