Here's a great "what if" question that I've been thinking about lately...

What if all of the conference realignment drama of 2010 and 2011 never happened? What if Nebraska and Colorado never left the Big XII? How would Nebraska's 2011 season play out? Here is my best guess:

Non-Conference

Nothing changes here. For the sake of argument (and simplicity) NU plays the same non-conference schedule regardless of their conference affiliation. Sure, you could make a case that with a schedule heavy with Big XII North weaklings, Tom Osborne might have found a better opponent than Tennessee-Chattanooga. But for our purposes let's just assume Nebraska still wins their first game, regardless of the MAC/WAC/mid-level BCS opponent. ...

It began with Bob Devaney's first year at Nebraska in 1962 when the Huskers won nine games. And with the exception of '67 and '68, Devaney's teams won at least nine games each of the 11 years he was the Husker head coach. And when he took over in 1973, Tom Osborne picked up the baton and kept the streak going for another 25 years.
TRADITION
So it's not hard to see how nine wins a year became the baseline by which most Husker fans judge the success of their football team. (That tradition is second only to the consecutive sellout streak that also began in '62.)
OOPS!
It wasn't until Frank Solich's '02 team finished 7-7 that the string was broken. (Solich was fired the next year.) And during Bill Callahan's four years ...

Warriors!!!

Nebraska 20 Iowa 7 “Heroes Game”

After the loss last week against Michigan, the biggest thing I wondered was if the coaches and players could respond to ALL the adversity they endured last week ...

I’ve seen a buzz in comparisons between Dr. Tom and Bo lately in what seems an effort to soothe the title-hungry beast that is a vocal component of Husker Nation. What I don’t get is bolstering Bo by so heavily massaging Osborne’s statistics that his scarcely-matched, vivid accomplishments get a bit rubbed-out.

Is the sentiment that TO’s legacy can afford a little sacrifice when the man’s place in Husker lore is already carved in cornerstones and fired in precious metals? Whatever the ...