2001 Sept 08 - Notre Dame vs Nebraska

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[@huskerfan4life]

Notre Dame : "We challenge you to run the ball up the middle" Nebraska: "Challenge accepted"

[@gynandroidhead]

This my first and only visit to Lincoln. I flew home to Newark (NJ) the next day. Two days later, the towers came down. My friend and I got on the field in the afternoon and got a picture of the "N" It just didn't get any better. Best trip of my life.

[@robjohnson8861]

Ha, you're right. NU football would soon get a lot worse.

[@djamo1969]

@@robjohnson8861 You’re such a stupid troll. I see you commenting on almost every vintage Huskers video. Why? Are you that bored or do the Huskers live rent-free in your head?

[@jesusrivera743]

I’m from the east coast bro The boogie down Bronx . Been Nebraska fan since 1968. I remember Barry Alvarez starting at linebacker. Been to Nebraska once Huskers v Sooners 1978 Huskers beat Sooners that day knocking Barry Switzer and the Sooners out of the national championship contention. Man Billy was something to watch. Didn’t have my dad go with me but my buddy from Queens New York former 1973 Huskers starting fullback John O’Leary invited me . I’ve seen the Huskers in the Kickoff classic at giant Stadium versus Texas A&M, Penn State and West Virginia 1993 verses FlaSt was a killer loss 16-14 cost Huskers the national championship missed a 44 yard on the last play of the game. The 1994 Orange bowl against the Cocaines was the best College football game I ever attended. Osborne’s first as a head coach.

[@travisb2846]

Thank you so much for this upload! First chance I've had to re-watch it since it took place in 2001!

[@P33G33B33D33]

Do you notice anything Notre Dame could have done differently?

[@GritimoTheOdd]

I was at this game with my dad, This was the single loudest ball game I have ever been to my entire life. We walked out of the stadium with some Notre Dame Fans and they said They had never heard it that loud in their home stadium with the speakers turned up.

[@P33G33B33D33]

I stopped watching football about 9 years ago.

[@cgh7337]

Clemson @ ND last year was much, much louder than this game. The ND fans you refer to must have not attended many games in South Bend.

[@P33G33B33D33]

@@cgh7337 CG, have you ever been bent over and spanked?

[@P33G33B33D33]

@@cgh7337 CG, I was 32-years-old the last time my daddy bent me over and gave me a good spanking!

[@P33G33B33D33]

@@cgh7337 And I loved every minute of it CG. As a matter of fact, I think back fondly on it and it makes me miss my daddy even more. Boy, what I'd give to have my daddy give my ass a swat a few more times.

[@kolvar1723]

I miss old fbs football

[@jesusrivera743]

Here here ….

[@chrisuncleahmad]

Given how long Gary Danielson has been calling SEC games on CBS, some young fans forget he and Brent worked a LOT of game on ABC (6.5 years)

[@wyattmailloux9419]

October 1999- end of ABC Sports run in January 2006..

[@MicDread]

I’m still pissed Frank was pissed on, I’m aware he lost big games, it took Tom like 8 years to beat Ok. The best thing about Nebraska football was running the option. We’ve stunk ever since.

[@gynandroidhead]

The problem with Frank Solich wasn't his 42-7 record in his first 49 games: It was his 16-12 record in his last 28 games. Additionally, too many bad "firsts" happened starting with Solich's first year, and without hindsight - these were not very well received. The other problem with Frank Solich related to football was recruiting, which was tougher anyway because of the mega-conferences, increased TV exposure of other teams through advances in technology, and rules changes such as roster limits which were a de facto target at Nebraska more than most teams. I think Tom Osborne was an absolute genius for retiring when he did. From what I understand, he actually thought about retiring after the 1995 and 1996 seasons. With that said, despite the 9-3 record in 2003 and the atrocious losses to the teams that mattered most, capped by the 38-9 K-State win Lincoln, Frank was making good adjustments, but his extracurricular activities off the field related to boozing and whom he was having relations were also a part of his dismissal. At the time, when you're 42-7 those things tend to get a bit overlooked. When you lose to Colorado 62-36 and have a 7-7 season the next year, not so much. I had ZERO problem with Solich getting fired at the time, but I did have a problem with whom they hired to replace him in Bill Callahan. When I found out that was his replacement, then I was pissed that Solich got fired.

[@Shaun-vy9vi]

@@gynandroidhead he was 9-3 his last season, 10-3 if you include the bowl game pellini coached. In hind sight, husker nation, we were just spoiled. And Peterson was an absolute moron for hiring Calahan who was fresh from destroying a Gruden created Superbowl Raiders team. The one that pains me is Urban Meyer said he would have taken the job if he was offered it. But he was still a year away from making his big splash so he was never offered it.

[@errose5967]

Frank should have quit drinking and having a child with someone else while he was married, but he let those issues creep into football. He deserved to get fired. Ohio found out quickly about his drinking problem when he was found passed out behind the wheel with his car pointing the wrong way on a one way street.

[@scottrowlandrowland1098]

@@gynandroidhead good explanation all very true. Not allowing more than 4 partial qualifying athletes in a year of all the programs was directed toward nebraska. If all that doesn't happen osborne pry coaches for 5 to 10 more years with much success I would guess.

[@sorney98]

@Er Rose yet Ohio was willing to help him which they did. Somich rewarded them with results on the field they never saw before. The getting someone pregnant still needs to be proven. As much talk there is, still no facts back it up.

[@chrisvongoetz9751]

My dad had season tickets to Nebraska football so we would pick a game to go to and when Notre Dame was on the schedule we couldn’t wait to see the game. The people who he sold the tickets to were willing to pay 3x for that game. It was the last game we went to in Lincoln before he passed and 3 days later the world changed forever

[@P33G33B33D33]

My dad died 9 year ago.

[@BeingConsciousness-yw3zw]

Are you referring to when our government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks and then blamed a bunch of pissed off muslims?

[@jesusrivera743]

Nice story bro. RIP dad

[@chrisvongoetz9751]

Sorry to hear that. That was the last game my dad and I went to as well may he rest in peace. We were offered 2k for the tickets it was like hell no

[@cgh7337]

I remember this game....I wish I didn't. ND couldn't do anything on offense from start to finish. Nebraska totally shut us down. Foreshadowing of the season to come.

[@8avexp]

First play from scrimmage, they fumble. That was the season in a nutshell. So long, Bob Davie.

[@P33G33B33D33]

My alcoholism is having an adverse effect on my memory. My short-term memory is beginning to fail me.

[@P33G33B33D33]

My lapses in memory may be a harbinger of the Alzheimer's that awaits me (if I don't stop drinking).

[@jesusrivera743]

Ironically Huskers weren’t dominant on defense and no sophisticated passing game although Crouch improved significantly

[@polystrate1]

Finally, I have been waiting for this game

[@polystrate1]

@@P33G33B33D33 I'll bite. This was a game from my early teens years. I was looking for the slap that the ND player gave his teammate. It was hilarious.

[@polystrate1]

@@P33G33B33D33 on the field. 28:56. He slaps 2 teammates after making a good play and on fire. ;)

[@curtpeterson7386]

Great game for Nebraska-- just days before the Twin Towers were destroyed. It wouldn't be football until the Huskers faced Rice on a Thursday night that some sense of normalcy came back to us all. I was at this game and it was one of the top 10 loudest I've been at. Several OU games, Alabama-- and this one. Many others off and on since 2001, but few with the significance.

[@williamdiemert2534]

Nebraska(B1G)vs Notre Dame in 2001 before 9/11/01

[@27MOJOKING]

Yeah that Tuesday morning. This was sat night. What a horrible week for us new Yorkers who were ND fans.

[@ericradford2142]

Three days later our country would change forever.

[@danielrn133]

I was on leave from the military and went to this game. I flew back to work on the 9th and then the 11th everything changed.

[@ericradford2142]

Daniel happy I was at work when sept 11 happened. I still can't believe it happened.

[@IAmAHeater]

ericradford2142 Yeah. Our Government would attack its own people and blame it on a boogeyman.

[@ericradford2142]

John Jones it was osama bin laden.

[@IAmAHeater]

ericradford2142 He denied any involvement and too much evidence and motive points to inside job.

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

Thanks for uploading this game. Remember watchin' it, and wondering if the Huskers could duplicate their win over ND (in South Bend) the previous season. Another walk down (football) memory lane...or, maybe it's more accurate to say, another option run down memory lane (as we don't see much of that from the N.U. offense of the 2010's.

[@husker111589]

I feel ya man my dad complains how they don't run the option anymore

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

No season in 2020, and no (N.U. offensive) identity, still, headed into 2021...

[@jesusrivera743]

@@husker111589What about the wishbone even the veer The Auburn tigers ran

[@duckbanks2195]

I was at this game, this was Norte Dames 1st game of the season, announcer said it over the interview. I remember the fanbase(including me) getting made because the other team scored ONE touchdown. goodtimes.

[@mitchconner2021]

As a kid and OU fan in 2001 i hated this team but man do i wish they could have beaten Miami

[@erics2739]

why? War eagle btw

[@jesusrivera743]

That Miami team had over ten players drafted . To the NFL.

[@robjohnson8861]

2:04:28 Gary Danielson should have played the lottery.

[@jesusrivera743]

Before the nineties Coach Osborne had about four opportunities to win a national championship. Against Clemson in 81 PennSt in 1982 and Miami 1983. In the nineties Huskers could’ve won three consecutive national championships and arguably five for the 90s that was dominance.

[@cornfednebraskaneer]

Good times. 3 days later, the world would be changed forever...

[@mikebryant8507]

With a lie

[@P33G33B33D33]

I arose on the 3rd day.

[@musicman76enator]

The last Saturday before the world changed forever 3 days later.

[@gregpasq]

Jamie Burrow, who's little brother would go on to win the Heisman 18 years later....13:42

[@P33G33B33D33]

That blond haired, blue eyed volleyball player from Fullerton named Jamie that played volleyball at UCSB in the mid-2000s then transferred to another DI volleyball school was attracted to me.

[@P33G33B33D33]

I searched for her last name last night. It's Sutherland. Her name is Jaimarie Sutherland and I met her in the sauna at the Brea 24 Hour Fitness in the summer of 2006. She'd told me that she recently transferred to USD (she didn't like UCSB's coach). I met another blond haired, blue eyed girl in that sauna during that summer too (I forgot her name). She too was attracted to me and was more attractive than Jamie and was going into her sophomore year at SDSU. Imagine if I weren't socially anxious, sexually repressed, fearful of females and fearful of sex! I'd have had a menage FOE with both of those White Girl in San Diego and would now have 2 white children with 2 different white mothers.

[@cf1934]

I wonder if Quarterback Matt LoVecchio was related to Francesco Paulo LoVecchio AKA Frankie Laine?

[@williamdiemert9866]

Frank Solich last game against Notre Dame in 2001

[@ajreyes9742]

Nebraska save for the ONE time the Irish came to Lincoln with Leahy as Coach....owns them even in a Bowl game

[@scottdevaney3928]

No I don't think Tom was planning on retiring in 97 he only did it after realizing what the polls did to him after Missouri up until that time you was talking to Mom green about staying and he also was telling every time there was a TV game telling the reporters that he was planning on coming back things changed after Michigan put ahead of us he kind of panicked I think because he thought he was going to miss out on winning another national title he didn't want to go out that way he had at least one or two more chances to win another two more national championships if he would have stayed with Crouch the Lawrence Phillips theme really just wore him out and then seeing how the what they did with Michigan to us after that Missouri game

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

Eric Crouch won the Heisman the same season. Though, a lot of us Husker fans are still tryin' to figure out WTH happened at the end of the season...and why N.U. hasn't been the same since (esp., the "Blackshirts", who now exist in name only).

[@BigDawg31675]

I’m still trying to forget the last part of this season. I’ll never forget that Colorado game as long as I live

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

Same here. I wonder where that kid is today (he must be in his 30's). The Nebraska kid ABC cameras caught cryin' like a baby near the end of that Colorado game. I won't ever forget his face, either...

[@scottrowlandrowland1098]

The death of nebraska football as we knew it, one day were undefeated ranked number one then never have been even close to that good again.

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

@@scottrowlandrowland1098 You see that in football (sports) a lot. The fates of programs and franchises turning (for better or worse) on one play, one game, one season...

[@scottrowlandrowland1098]

@@gregoryfreeman2269 yeah I'm sure the writing was on the wall already but none of the fans saw it coming. Osborne must have though.

[@Drizzlestick1]

Dedrick missed so many holes 🕳

[@Kylorenz710]

fitting game to watch on st patricks day! #GBR

[@thegodofyoutube266]

The Last year Nebraska was Nebraska

[@scottbrown7497]

3 days later September 11th that awful day in 2001

[@P33G33B33D33]

3 days later I was erected.

[@kolvar1723]

Eirie that this was 3 days before 9/11

[@kickoutpodcast8436]

I know right I just noticed that a lot of interesting things happened leading to what happened later in the year on Sunday Bledsoe got tattooed by Mo Lewis setting up Tom Brady this was when nobody was paying attention to both USC and Miami later that year Carson Palmer started his march to the hiesman and think about this USC was setting up the greatest recruiting class in PAC 12 history the Matt Lineart, Reggie Bush and lindale White class.

[@P33G33B33D33]

Erie!

[@P33G33B33D33]

@@kickoutpodcast8436 Do you think these things were meant to be (intended by some supernatural force).

[@thisguy1338]

Ik this is 19 yrs to late, and ik what could happen, but at 27:40 with the air horn and botched punt. Wasn't even hard to see! That was fixed. And so close to 9/11...

[@marcellisyale2185]

I said that to he didn't try to get the ball frfr

[@erskine68]

Back when Nebraska was still basically NEBRASKA... now they are just Iowa Lite... at best

[@mas5867]

lol. Less filling, right.

[@BuddyBrannon-ui9gv]

That's good news little man ♂️

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

The day before the towers fell

[@gynandroidhead]

Three days to be precise. I was at that game and flew home to Newark the next day

[@marcellisyale2185]

They don't know bout joe yet

[@shawnyoung8752]

Davie was a average recruiter. A lame head coach. Then the SF. Guy came in. Good recruiter. Bad head coach. Weis off cord. Great. Decent head coach. At least they scored.

[@williamdiemert9866]

Biggest mistake ever was getting rid of Frank Solich

[@scottrowlandrowland1098]

He wasn't a great recruiter, his only substantial years were with osbornes recruits. He also had big off the field problems that were the main reason, biggest mistake was hiring Pedersen as ad and then Callahan as the next coach.

[@P33G33B33D33]

Frankly, the Agricultural Revolution (the transition from a hunter-gatherer form of subsistence to a farming way of life) was the biggest mistake the human species made.

[@sorney98]

​@scottrowlandrowland1098 they haven't been able to prove anything off the field, if there was they wouldn't of honored him, and named locker room after him.

[@jesusrivera743]

It’s tough following a legend like Tom Osborne

[@scottdevaney3928]

It's hard to believe watching this no college football team won more games from 1970 to 2001 in Nebraska did add Dimension what we did in the 62 on up to know what we look like haven't listened to Finebaum talk s*** watching what Texas did to the Big 12 and I can't believe Oklahoma what did it with them biggest mistake we ever did was doing the big 12 in Linton Texas in

[@scottdevaney3928]

He was too busy chasing tail and not recruiting man anyone thinks really started going south he started pointing fingers at the associated coaches forgot how to win or coach after winning three national championships and for Peterson to hire Callahan and try to Institute the West Coast offense when they do that offensive he's the coach has to be with the quarterback for way longer than what you're allowed to with under the rules was stupid Pelini can coach but he didn't really want to go out and Vegas kid to play here God he started flipping out and I try to clean the wind against Ohio State like you did something if the quarterback hadn't got a twisted ankle they were on the verge of rolling this again and what happened in the Big Ten championship game against Wisconsin

[@robjohnson8861]

The "cough" glory days for Solich were numbered. 9 games later the wheels would come off of Solich's career at Neb where he would go 16-12 and rightfully be shown the door. If you know you are a coach, you go looking, you don't wait till it comes to you. And he has Osborn to thank for getting fired. Neb was tired of the 9-3 avg horseshit that they had put up with during Osborne's first 21 years.

[@GeorgeFlippin]

Hilarious, Rob 30 IQ boy spouting the same loser drivel. Talk about horse shit, your brain is full of it, loser boy.

[@scottrowlandrowland1098]

You're always in these comments talking shit, if you're not a fan then why are you always on these threads? Scorned fan of a different team? Winning at least 9 games for 25 years is anything but average.

[@sorney98]

@@scottrowlandrowland1098 Rob Johnson is a pathetic troll that thinks he knows football yet never played or studied the game

[@TimothyBall-mv3lp]

5/5/2024. Notre Dame Catholic will not obey Sabbath. Hate Saturday but they love Sunday.

[@michaelpacak3401]

THE END OF BOB DAVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

I laugh when Notre Dame loses most un American team