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Nebraska’s History and Track Record Speaks for Itself BY TOM SHATEL
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Nebraska, historically, belongs in the upper echelon of college football.”
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ollege football dynasties don’t die. But And that is, on the top shelf of college sometimes they go to sleep. football’s dynasties. Scott Frost came home to Lincoln, Five national championships. Fifty-three Neb., in December of 2018 with one specific bowl games, including an NCAA record 35 charge: wake up the Big Red. straight from 1969 to 2003. Forty-six conference The Huskers hadn’t championships. Fiftywon a conference three consensus championship since All-Americans. Three 1999, and hadn’t been Heisman Trophy in the national title hunt winners. since 2001. They were It all began in 1962, coming off of a second when Bob Devaney was losing season in three hired as head football years under Coach coach. Devaney came Mike Riley. from the University of SCOTT FROST History says that was Wyoming and he quickly unacceptable. So did lit a spark in the state of Husker fans. Nebraska that still burns bright. “Nebraska, historically, belongs in the upper Devaney was a swashbuckling Irishman echelon of college football,” Frost said when he with a twinkle in his eye who could charm was hired. “I’m just excited to start the process recruits and their parents. He took Husker of getting Nebraska back where it belongs.” football recruiting nationwide, but also realized
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his physical style of football was going to need numbers. So he created a walk-on program for kids in the state of Nebraska. Devaney won the Big Eight Conference title and went to the Orange Bowl in his second year, 1963. He followed with three straight New Year’s Day Bowls before missing post-season in 1968 and 1969. By then, Devaney had spoiled Husker fans and there were petitions in the state to run the coach out of Lincoln. But he rebounded nicely with a recruiting class that included Heisman winner Johnny Rodgers, Outland winner Rich Glover and quarterback Jerry Tagge. Nebraska went 11-0-1 in 1970 and won its first national championship by beating LSU (17-12) in the Orange Bowl. Most of the team returned in 1971, and the No. 1 Huskers beat No. 2 Oklahoma, 35-31, in Norman, for the Big Eight title in a game that is known as the “Game Of the Century.” After waxing his friend and rival, Bear Bryant, in the Orange Bowl for his second national title, Devaney retired as coach after the 1972 season and became full-time athletic director. His first job: replace himself. He chose the young offensive coordinator who had installed a multiple passing offense and paved the way for those national titles.
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His name was Tom Osborne. Not only was Osborne given the herculean task of replacing Devaney, he was not the popular choice among Husker fans. Osborne won 46 games in his first five years, but he was 0-5 against Oklahoma. There were no shortage of critics in the state for the young coach.
PIVOTAL SEASON
The 1978 season was a pivotal one for Osborne. He finally cleared the OU hurdle, winning a physically brutal game in Lincoln, 17-14. NU was ranked No. 2 and in position to play for the national title. But in their regular-season finale the following week, the Huskers couldn’t answer the bell and were upset by Missouri, 35-31. NU was sent to the Orange Bowl for a rematch with the Sooners, which beat Nebraska. With critics hounding him, Osborne was courted by Colorado athletic director Eddie Crowder. He went to Boulder and listened to Crowder’s pitch, but decided he couldn’t leave his players in Lincoln. Osborne returned to Nebraska. And set in motion one of the great coaching careers in college football history: 25 years, 25 straight nine-win seasons, 25 straight bowl games,
255 wins and three national championships. Osborne’s career was marked by milestones that included great players and memorable wins and losses in big games. Signing quarterback Turner Gill led to a change to the option and three straight Big Eight titles from 1981-83. Gill led NU to the national title game in 1983 against upstart Miami in the Orange Bowl and his pass was broken up as Osborne went for the two-point conversion and the win and failed.
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By 1998, the world around Nebraska was changing. The Big Eight had become the Big 12 and Texas and Texas A&M provided massive challenges. The Big 12 limited the recruitment of partial-qualifiers. And the staff that oversaw so many nine-win seasons was getting older.
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Landmark Year
It is the 150th anniversary of the sport that has been an integral part of the American sporting scene for generation after generation. From the days of leather helmets to the roundthe-clock excitement generated by the race to the National Championship, college football continues a leadership role embracing tradition, fair play and excellence on and off the playing field. Longtime conference administrator Kevin Weiberg is the executive director of CFB150; we were able to catch up with him. HOW DID CFB150 GO FROM AN IDEA TO A CONCEPT TO A REALITY? “I was contacted by College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock and Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott in the late spring of 2017 about the discussions of the conference commissioners and NCAA to form an entity to plan and administer a national celebration of college football’s 150th anniversary. After discussing the opportunity, with Bill, Larry and Steve Hatchell of the National Football Foundation, I agreed to join on as the executive director of the entity. I started in August, 2017 and we formed a nonprofit company for the venture and established an office in space provided by the National Football Foundation in Irving, Texas. Start-up funding was provided by the College Football Playoff and NCAA. I added a few staff members and some other entities to support the effort in late 2017 and we began the planning and outreach effort.”
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Nearly 10 years later, another quarterback lifted NU to greatness. Tommie Frazier arrived in 1992 and in four years played for the national title three times and won two, in 1994-95. Along the way, Osborne adjusted to survive the challenges and hard times. When he couldn’t beat Miami or Florida State, he recruited more speed and changed his defense to an attacking 4-3. Soon, Colorado replaced OU as the big game. After losses to CU in 1989 and 1990, Osborne never lost to the Buffs again. By 1997, Osborne had an historic machine humming along. The Huskers, led by Frost and defensive stars Grant Wistrom and Jason Peter, went 13-0 - thanks in large part to a game-saving catch by freshman Matt Davison to beat Missouri. NU won its first Big 12 championship and beat Peyton Manning and Tennessee in the Orange Bowl to earn the coaches’ vote for No. 1. Between 1993 and 1997, Nebraska went 60-3 and came within one game of playing in five straight national title games. Osborne walked off a winner. He shocked the state of Nebraska and the nation by retiring. Like Devaney before him, Osborne hand-picked his successor, a long-time assistant coach named Frank Solich.
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Solich won the 1999 Big 12 title and led NU to the Orange Bowl and 2002 national title game in the Rose Bowl. But the Huskers were badly outplayed by Miami and a year later Solich would retool his staff after a 7-7 season. It was then that former NU assistant athletic director Steve Pederson was hired as AD. Nobody knew then that this would be the wrecking ball to the dynasty. Pederson, fearing a dive to mediocrity, fired Solich in 2003 after a 9-3 season in which the Huskers looked overmatched in the three losses. Pederson wanted to hire his own guy, but underestimated the backlash of firing a coach who had gone 9-3. After being turned down several times, Pederson ended up hiring Bill Callahan, who had been fired a year earlier by the Oakland Raiders. In four years, Callahan won a Big 12 north division title. But his tenure was known for the end
of the bowl streak, the walk-on program and the physical culture of football as NU became known as a “West Coast Offense” program.
THE POLITICAL ERA
After Pederson was fired during the 2007 season, he was replaced by Osborne, who fired Callahan. Osborne hired Bo Pelini, the defensive coordinator for LSU’s national champs and the coordinator for Solich in 2003. Pelini lasted seven years, with a career that was a lot like Solich's. Pelini went 67-27 and oversaw the transition from the Big 12 into the Big Ten. Good records but few big wins and several lopsided defeats. This was the political era of Nebraska football. Chancellor Harvey Perlman, who hired Pelini, tired of Pelini’s abrasive personality and behavior. After Osborne retired in 2013, Perlman replaced him with Shawn Eichorst, the AD at Miami.
BLUE RED BLOODS: The history of Nebraska football is right at the top among the most storied programs in the country.
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Scott Frost is looking to bring Nebraska football back to prominence.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
A lot of history has repeated itself at Nebraska since the Osborne Era ended in 1997. It was filled with administrators and athletic directors and coaches who were all trying to reinvent a football program that didn’t need it. Moos hired Frost from Central Florida — where he went undefeated in 2017 — with that exact purpose. Bring back the Devaney-Osborne program, the culture of hard work, player development, walkons and physical play. And championships. The world is different in 2019 than it was in 1962. It’s not just the Oklahoma game anymore. Nebraska has several challenges in the 14-team Big Ten. But Frost knows the Devaney-Osborne Formula. He’s ready to bring the program fullcircle. A sleeping giant is opening its eyes. Tom Shatel has been sports columnist at the Omaha WorldHerald since 1991. He has also worked at the Kansas City Star, St. Louis Sun and Dallas Morning News.
CFB150 IS INVOLVED WITH ALL SCHOOLS THAT PLAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL. HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT INVOLVING EVERY LEVEL OF THE GAME? “We formed a Board of Directors and some advisory committees that included broad representation across all NCAA divisions as well as the NAIA and the National Junior College Association. The NCAA staff was also helpful in providing opportunities to present to key football oversight groups. The response has been terrific. One of the things that makes college football unique is the large number of schools that participate in the sport, over 800 when you include community colleges. We have tried very hard to reach out to people at all levels of the sport to encourage their participation and to make sure that the messaging related to the Anniversary campaign could be supported at all levels.” WHAT ROLE WILL THE BOWL GAMES PLAY IN SEASON-LONG PROMOTION OF CFB150? “The Football Bowl Association has done a fantastic job of organizing its members to support the initiative. Executive Director Wright Waters established a committee structure focused on the Anniversary. Eric Poms of the Orange Bowl has chaired the committee effort. The committee process has produced some great activation ideas including year-long items as well as items that are specific to each of the game-day presentations of the bowls. The bowls are also using the Anniversary platform to produce a special book that will tell the history of the bowl games, a first of its kind for the bowls. I am really very pleased with how the leadership of the bowl organizations have embraced the Anniversary.” ESPN RECENTLY ANNOUNCED AN A MBITIOUS CFB150 PRESENCE. WHAT FORM WILL THAT TAKE? “ESPN was an early supporter and adopter of the Anniversary. It certainly makes sense for ESPN to embrace it given the very strong presence it has in college football’s regular season and postseason. So you will
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Eichorst was brought in to fire Pelini, which he did after the 2014 season like Solich, a 9-3 regularseason. Eichorst shocked everyone by hiring Mike Riley from Oregon State. Riley smoothed over a lot of bridges that Pelini had burned with the fan base. But that didn’t help Riley keep his job after going 5-7, 9-4 and 4-8. During that last season, Eichorst was fired in September and NU President Hank Bounds hired Bill Moos from Washington State. Moos fired Riley after the season.
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magine a farmer’s euphoria as rain begins falling to end a long, painful drought. Or imagine the jubilation of finding an oasis for someone who has wandered through a desert for almost eight months. That’s kind of how college football fans feel in late May when the big four preseason magazines — Athlon Sports, Lindy’s Sports, Phil Steele’s College Football Preview and Street & Smith’s College Football — appear on newsstands, grocery store shelves and bookshops. The arrival of those preseason magazines and other more regional publications signals the imminence of the upcoming college football season much like Black Friday does Christmas. They are a glimmer of light from the darkness that is the offseason. Within those pages championships are predicted. The College Football Playoff field and bowl game matchups are projected. Teams are evaluated and ranked. Players are graded. The security of coaches’ jobs is calculated. Schedules are assessed. Long-suffering college football fans consume it all like ravenous grizzlies following a long winter’s hibernation. It’s been that way for almost 80 years. “For years and years (preseason magazines) were the primary source of information about college football, especially over the summer,” said Athlon Sports Executive Editor Mitch Light, who has been producing the Nashville-based publication for 18 years. “Now, in the internet era I think we’ve survived because of the way they’re packaged. It’s nice to have national magazines with over 300 pages that are neatly packaged.
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“Hopefully, people value what we have to say and find our features and rankings interesting. There is an incredible passion and appetite for college football.” The feeding of that appetite began in 1940 when Street & Smith’s publishing company of New York City, which had been producing various magazines and inexpensive novels since 1855, launched a publication to preview the nation’s best college football teams. Street & Smith’s national focus actually led to the launch of Athlon Sports in 1968. As Light tells the story, Jerry McCoin, a University of Tennessee journalism student, was more interested in Southeastern Conference football teams than he was in Notre Dame, Army, Oklahoma, USC and other national powers. So, McCoin decided to start his own publication to feature the SEC. Of course, Athlon Sports was so successful evolved into a national publication that last year celebrated its 40th anniversary. Athlon Sports’ National Edition is its best seller, though it still publishes an SEC regional magazine. Lindy’s, which is based in Birmingham, Ala., was established in 1982. Phil Steele’s College Football Preview was first published in 1995. All aspire to provide comprehensive previews of the upcoming football season with slightly different approaches. Athlon Sports and Lindy’s hire beat writers on a freelance basis to pen each teams’ prospectus. Meanwhile, Phil Steele and his staff of five conference coordinators plus contributors produce virtually all the content in his magazine and do so with a heavy dose of abbreviations and statistics. Steele appears regularly
Olin Buchanan is a member of the Football Writers Association of America. He is a columnist for TexAgs.com and has also written for Rivals.com, Yahoo.com, the Austin American-Statesman and the Bryan-College Station Eagle.
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see a tremendous amount of Anniversary programming on ESPN. There will be 150 consecutive days of unique content beginning August 17, 2019 and continuing through the College Football Playoff Championship Game, January 13, 2020. The content will include two documentary films, two 11-episode documentary series and 150 vignettes that are personal anecdotes of people associated with the sport. ESPN has also assembled a national voting panel to select a list of greatest games, teams, coaches and players. I am sure the ESPN content will create a lot of conversation. CBS Sports, Fox Sports, NBC, as part of its Notre Dame game coverage, Stadium and the various conference networks will also recognize the Anniversary during the season.” WILL THERE BE A LIST OF ALL-TIME GREAT GAMES, GREAT PLAYERS, THINGS LIKE THAT? “In addition to ESPN’s plans, the bowl games are also selecting and recognizing some of the greatest players to have participated in their games over the years. Other media entities will also be recognizing the sport’s greatest teams, coaches and players during the year.” WHAT ELSE CAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS EXPECT FROM CFB150 THIS SEASON? “The College Football 150th Anniversary logo will be very visible in 2019. Most of the teams at the Football Bowl and Championship Subdivision levels will wear the logo on the team jersey. Teams at the NCAA Division II and III levels as well as NAIA and community colleges were provided with helmet decals of the logo. Fans will also see a lot of activity on social media sites as schools and conferences tell their own stories about college football’s impact and influence. We hope fans will be reminded through the Anniversary year that college football provides tremendous educational opportunity to young people, helps to develop leadership traits in athletes that last a lifetime and plays a positive role in building and strengthening communities. There is a lot of good in the game.”
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on over 300 radio stations throughout the year. "I like to talk about college football," he says. There may be differences in their styles, but what they all have in common is a year-long workload that leads to a frantic rush in the spring. Feature ideas are hatched and discussed throughout the year. Assignments are made soon after the completion of the national championship game. Individual team reports are filed in the spring, edited, updated and edited again. Then, the design team takes over. After that, the finished product is sent to the printer, so the magazines can hit newsstands by the end of May. “There are a lot of moving parts,” Light said. “We’re always thinking of ideas. When watching football or listening to a game I’m always thinking about features for the upcoming seasons. We start literally after the national championship game. All the stats are complete. We’re processing that throughout the winter and gathering information internally. Then we spend the next several weeks fact-checking, editing and updating. “The bulk of editorial content is turned around in about three weeks. We prefer to wait until after spring practice is over. We turn around 130 teams, 90 of them in a two-week span. We do most of our work in late April by far.” That’s a demanding schedule, but technology has at least eased the workload. Not that long ago meeting deadline required Light and others to work extended shifts every day for six weeks or more. Now, acquiring photos, constructing pages, making last-minute changes and distributing the finished product is much more efficient. When the finished product begins appearing on shelves it’s like an unofficial start to the college football season. Over the years that unofficial start has come sooner and sooner. “In the ‘80s and ‘90s we used to come out on the July 4 weekend,” Light said. “Then it went to mid-June. Then early June. Now, we come out by Memorial Day.” That’s because a thunderstorm cannot come soon enough for a farmer who’s been struggling through a long drought.
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