Posted on 09/12/2022 4:53:47 AM PDT by C19fan
Scott Frost’s time at Nebraska has come to an end.
Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts announced Sunday that the school has fired Frost as head coach just three games into his fifth season on the job.
The move comes on the heels of a 45-42 home loss to Georgia Southern that dropped the Huskers to 1-2 on the season and 16-31 overall with Frost as head coach. On top of that, the loss put the Huskers at an unfathomable 5-22 in one-possession games under Frost.
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It was a great weekend for the Sun Belt...Appalachian State beat Texas A&M, Marshall beat Notre Dame, and Georgia Southern beat Nebraska, all on the road. My alma mater (James Madison) moved up from FCS to FBS this year and is now in the Sun Belt East along with all three of those teams. It’s going to be...interesting. Especially with our first conference game ever being at Appalachian State in two weeks.
SBC is the best Group of 5 conference right now by a mile. Stacked top to bottom. And nobody better sleep on any Sun Belt team right now.
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Southern had a few bad years apparently trying to make the switch from the triple option to a pro-style passing attack. They finally have the coach and personnel to make it work, it seems.
They were a huge power in FCS (I-AA) before the rise of Appalachian State and then NDSU. The Sun Belt right now is stacked with former FCS champs...Georgia Southern, Marshall, App State, and James Madison just in the East alone.
As a James Madison grad, it is going to be one hell of a rough ride for our first year in FBS. But we’re 2-0 and have dominated so far. Next stop, at Appalachian State in two weeks to begin conference play. Yikes.
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I attended that game at Legion Field in Birmingham. I think history is partly wrong on that. Sam Cunningham did have a big game against Alabama that night. But, I'm almost positive of this: the first black player Wilbur Jackson had already been recruited by the Bear and was on campus playing for the freshman team. Freshman eligibility wasn't adopted until 1972. So, that game didn't really cause the Bear to start recruiting black players.
Something it did speed along was Bryant's moving away from his "skinny little old boys" as linemen. He'd gone for smaller, quicker lineman for years and had teams with few, if any linemen weighing even 200 lbs. They were still smaller than average in that USC game.
Cunningham was about 6' 3" and 230, larger than most Alabama lineman, and that was part of the reason they had such difficulty tackling him that night. He was a big back in 1970 by any measure.
And Alabama defeated USC in LA the following year, and is 6-2 against them overall.
Then, Wilbur Jackson and John Mitchell (a junior college transfer) both played for Alabama in 1971.
It was a joke. ucf fans tried to pretend it was real. It was totally fitting that the celebration was in disneyworld. They should have had Goofy hand out the fake trophy.
The state of Nebraska and the Husker program mean a great deal to me. This is home.”
What is he going to do now? I guess he could by a bunch of the Sand Hills and a few cows. Wouldn’t have to talk to anyone very often.
I think the Cocks believed they could have success with every former UF coach after the Ball Coach did so well there.
As much as people maligned Zook, his track record looks a lot better than Muschamp’s.
I think 71 was the year Bear adopted the Wishbone.
Zook set the table for Urban Meyer. In retrospect, I like Zook, it’s tough to replace a legend like that. But he could recruit.
That football/basketball school thing happened long before Cal’s yapping lol!
I agree!
I was in school at the university that year and Bama opened in LA against USC. Several of us were in our apartment listening to the game on radio and the announcer made a wild description of how Alabama lined up in the wishbone for the first offensive play. It had been kept a complete secret as far as I know and my group went sort of nuts when we heard about it. That was still in the years when we listened to most games on radio.
Of course, Bama won that one in LA 17 - 10. Here's the story of that year and adoption of the wishbone. It also makes clear that Wilbur Jackson was on the freshmen team in 1970.
We have recently won a few against the NCAA’s SEC snitches, with the Dooley coached loss being the most embarrassing for UT since we started a wide receiver at QB. And we took them to the woodshed in Knoxville a couple of years ago. Still if it’s a UK/UT game I wouldn’t bet on UK.
Exactly. The “smaller” Schools are getting better!.
Waiting for the day when they start playing Southern in Paulsen Statium
I thought about how eventually College Football will be restructured into essentially two conferences.
The Big Ten merges with the Pac-12, and the ACC and SEC merge, with Big 12 having their teams split between the two.
I worked it out, to where the two conferences would consist of 5 divisions each, with each division with 6 or 7 teams, more or less based on traditional conference rivalries.
From that you have the playoffs with the top-two finishers in each division for the conference playoffs with 10 teams, seeded by ranking, so even a second-place finisher can be seeded ahead of a division winner. The top six seeds get a bye, with the lower 4 seeds playing the first round for the round of 8 in the conference. Then the two conference winners meet in the National Championship Game.
The twist I would add is incorporating a "subdivision" with the non Power 5 teams, that would be tied to division, such that one team from the subdivision plays at the top-level in a given season, with a playoff game at the end of the regular season determining who gets to be 'promoted' the next season. That would basically replace all those other meaningless bowl games in December.
And so what if they had? SEC fans brought all of it on themselves by allowing the Barbra Streisand effect take over. You guys should have just ignored them from the beginning and not talked about it. I remember someone wanted to file a lawsuit against them. You shouldn’t be supporting colleges and universities anyway, due to their woke agenda.
My take? In a few years it will be all about betting and oddsmakers, and commercial sales during TV games. The games may go 5 or 6 hours.
When the Portal opened the sport went away, it’s all about churning the $$.
The length of the commercial breaks is unbearable, I can only imagine how bad it is when you attend the game in person to sit there that long with no action, at least at home you can switch channels.
Barbara Streisand effect? We just laughed at them for their ridiculous delusional claims. They earned the ridicule they got.
Hey Big Red Clay, there’s several Husker fans in here. I agree, I think the loyalty of the Husker fan base, the personal pride in the state the team brings and the importance of the revenue to the city is tough comparison elsewhere. It’s the only big time sport in the entire state. I grew up in Lincoln, climbed the fence as a kid to see my first Husker game in 1969. Had Turner Gill and Rozier in class in the 80’s. It would be nice to see them compete for division and conference titles again! GBR!
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