Question for Texas fans

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Husker,Just like these guys can tell ya we had our own dark period before stoops arrived I'm sure you know.I think ours was worse(well it was because like you all The Horns handed us our *** for pretty much the whole 90's)your day will come,and those were the same teams laughing at us in the 90's. You'll be up there with the OU'S and Texas's of the world pretty soon.Hang in there.
 
I think Rice fans are still wearing t-shirts touting that win.

This should tell you all you need to know about that morbid time in Texas football.
 
About as sad as OSU still having stickers that say "12" on there cars from when they finally beat us after 20 years(12-0).Or "Lets go Bowling"T-shirts from 97 ,in a game where Drew Breese torched there asses in the Alamo bowl...Pathetic.
 
Like was said earlier when you are winning all the time it's easy to be gracious. I never thought that much of the NU fans in the 90's and less now but they are at least loyal for the most part even when they are losing. The true colors come out when you are losing. Even when UT was bad most still wore their colors and stuck it out. When aggy loses they run and hide and you can see their pain. They know they act like complete idiots and can only justify it to themselves if they are winning.
 
Losing sucks. Get your program together. That's what we're trying to do.
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Be strong and keep supporting your team, things will turn around. But the main thing is-realize who you are and what you are going through. Don't live in denial...like you know who.
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Well first thing you need to do is look at you team at the start of the season and make an HONEST prediction. You really have to look at your talent and your scheme to get an idea.

If you think your players aren't really that good you can't be depressed when you go 6-6. Losing stinks but knowing whats coming can make it easier to deal with.

Watch the first game closely. If you struggle with Western Michigan you know you are going to have a long year. Don't kid yourself. If you barely make plays just admit that you AREN'T THAT GOOD. Hope for the best but know a lot of it will be luck.

That being said losing to A&M six times in a row was terrible. I hated Aggies with a passion. There are few things worse than being bad and having the other team rub it in. So when they tell you that your team sucks you can say... yeah we aren't very good, I guess you know how that feels. If they look confused just say... oh all time record with Kansas is 88-22-3 and OSU is 36-4-1 and Iowa St is 83-16-2 (as of 2006).

You should feel good knowing you are a GOOD football school having some down years. They went to a BAD football school and are having a bit of luck.
 
That is exactly why A&M fans are always so cranky. Their expectations are out of control in pretty much every sport.

One of them on TexAgs actually said the other day that if their football team doesn't beat Texas Tech AND Texas this year, then the season will be considered "a major disappointment." Are you kidding me?

I'm not saying that anyone (especially fans of a program that has history, money, facilities, and a recruiting base) should be okay with having a bad year, much less a stretch of bad years. But being okay with it and learning to deal with it are two different things.

Making a realistic evaluation of your talent, experience, coaching staff, injury situation, and schedule will help you to temper your expectations for a given year so that you don't end up like those aggie crackheads, envisioning an 11-2 season and ending up with a 7-6 season.

There's nothing wrong with admitting that a certain year will not be the best your team has ever had. Short of going undefeated and winning a national championship, every fan of every major college football program in America hopes for more than their team actually achieves. The gap between the two is something you can control by educating yourself and remembering that as long as you know (or at least have very good reason to hope) that the future is brighter than the present, you should be okay.
 
Again; you stay modest in victory and humble in defeat. You still have the best fans around. There is NO place like Nebraska.

When we won the 37-27 game in St. Louis, a man who had played in the Huskers 1925 (?) Rose Bowl walked up to me and stuck out his hand and and said "Young man, congratulations, they played like Champions". Abuddy took a picture of the two of us. I still get goose bumps and misty eyes when i see it.
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Article on former NU DC Kevin Cosgrove further evidences how classy NU fans are.
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With an eye on the future and a return to the coaching ranks, the 52-year-old Cosgrove will be a consultant to a handful of college programs this season. There will be a three-week stretch where Cosgrove will be on the road from Sunday through Thursday. But he plans on making it back each week to watch his son play. Last season, Connor Cosgrove was a starting cornerback and kick returner at Lincoln Southwest High School. During a mid-October game against Lincoln East, the younger Cosgrove was subjected to a "Fire Cosgrove" chant from the East students when his name was announced.

Kevin Cosgrove, who was under intense heat from the Husker zealots, reacted like any father would react. He was protective of his son -- questioning the right of so-called fans to target kids with their personal attacks. In mid-November, University of Nebraska police investigated a death threat against Kevin Cosgrove that had been phoned in. When he was asked about the aforementioned threat, Cosgrove said, "It's nothing I really want to talk about. It was a tough situation on everybody. I've never been around such negativity. But we've got a close family and we got through it together."

When pressed on whether he ever feared for the safety of his family, Cosgrove said, "There was never that fear. But it's still in the back of your mind that there may be some nut out there and you just never know. You go from winning the Big 12 North championship one year (in 2006) to knowing you're going to get fired the following year. I wouldn't say it left any scars; maybe it left some ill feelings. But it won't keep me from getting back into coaching. I'm just going to make sure I get into the right situation."
 
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