What one player that coulda/shoulda/woulda been a Husker do you most lament having lost out on?
Off the top of my head, here’s a few that might be under consideration:
Former President of the United States Gerald Ford is an Omaha native that moved away as a very young child and grew up to have an All American football career at Michigan
Omaha Benson graduate Nile Kinnick, of course, won a Heisman Trophy at Iowa
All time great running back Gale Sayers grew up in Omaha, but wound up playing football at Kansas
Iowa’s all time leading tackler, 2 time All American Larry Station was born and raised in Omaha
Heisman winning wide receiver Tim Brown leaned heavily towards Nebraska, I believe, before ultimately signing with Notre Dame
Heisman winner Barry Sanders, perhaps the greatest RB of all time, really wanted to play at Nebraska, but ended up at Oklahoma St when NU opted instead to offer the legacy recruit
Emmitt Smith might have become, at that point, the highest ranked recruit the Huskers had ever landed, but flipped to Florida at the last minute
Creighton Prep’s Junior Bryant was a highly touted recruit who spurned the Huskers for Notre Dame and eventually went on to an NFL career
Marshall Faulk, pegged as a “can’t miss DB” by every other big football school was offered an opportunity to play RB at Nebraska, but scared off by an errant remark by a Husker coach {Darlington?}
National champ and Heisman QB Joe Burrow dreamed of following in the Husker footsteps of his dad and brothers, but was led by circumstance first to Ohio St and then, later, to LSU
Who do you think is the biggest fish to get away?
Off the top of my head, here’s a few that might be under consideration:
Former President of the United States Gerald Ford is an Omaha native that moved away as a very young child and grew up to have an All American football career at Michigan
Omaha Benson graduate Nile Kinnick, of course, won a Heisman Trophy at Iowa
All time great running back Gale Sayers grew up in Omaha, but wound up playing football at Kansas
Iowa’s all time leading tackler, 2 time All American Larry Station was born and raised in Omaha
Heisman winning wide receiver Tim Brown leaned heavily towards Nebraska, I believe, before ultimately signing with Notre Dame
Heisman winner Barry Sanders, perhaps the greatest RB of all time, really wanted to play at Nebraska, but ended up at Oklahoma St when NU opted instead to offer the legacy recruit
Emmitt Smith might have become, at that point, the highest ranked recruit the Huskers had ever landed, but flipped to Florida at the last minute
Creighton Prep’s Junior Bryant was a highly touted recruit who spurned the Huskers for Notre Dame and eventually went on to an NFL career
Marshall Faulk, pegged as a “can’t miss DB” by every other big football school was offered an opportunity to play RB at Nebraska, but scared off by an errant remark by a Husker coach {Darlington?}
National champ and Heisman QB Joe Burrow dreamed of following in the Husker footsteps of his dad and brothers, but was led by circumstance first to Ohio St and then, later, to LSU
Who do you think is the biggest fish to get away?
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