Yeah, I agree. It has haunted me that that team with that O-line and FB and backfield did NOT run the ball on the one play when it mattered most. Yes, Miami should have known that it was coming, but I believe--much like Shania Twain--that you need to dance with the one that brought you, and for Nebraska in '83, that would be the running game. It's actually affected my play-calling as a coach in the same way. Whenever it's a do-or-die play like that, I refuse to call something that I'd regret not working afterwards. If they take away our bread & butter, they deserve to win. Likewise, I never want to have a "bread & butter" play that doesn't have a companion play (or two) that I can be just as confident in calling. That's really the logic behind my thinking that I described above: Nebraska's Option was working so well that it kills me that we didn't try it, but I'd have also been just as happy with a tried-and-true FB Trap off the same look. We'll never get to enjoy the vision of Mark Schellen standing in the end zone celebrating. I wouldn't have wanted to be the Miami LB who had to stop him cold in the hole for no gain.
