THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY.............1951: WOW’s two-season run of televising all Husker home games is over as the NCAA bans the practice.
1976: Tom Osborne’s pay is set to rise from $29,000 in 1975 to $30,918 in 1976 after he rejected a larger increase.
1996: Sports Illustrated says NCAA and Big 12 rules will put a damper on the Huskers: "Keep your '96 Fiesta Bowl videotapes in a safe place, because you won't see dominance like that again."
https://vault.si.com/vault/1996/01/15/headed-for-a-fall-nebraska-may-win-another-national-title-but-the-days-when-such-a-colossus-ruled-the-game-are-overIn winning its second consecutive national championship,
Nebraska was transcendent that night in the desert--and you're
not going to see the likes of that team again. All season the
Huskers trampled the opposition like a colossus, but in the fall
the supremely talented Frazier, along with 10 other senior
starters, will be gone, Phillips will probably be in the NFL,
and
Nebraska's unique talent base will have been eroded by therules of the new Big 12--the Big Eight plus Baylor, Texas, TexasA&M and Texas Tech--which begins play in 1996.Sure, Nebraska will always be one of the most powerful programs
in college football--along with teams like Florida State,
Michigan and Notre Dame--but beginning next fall the Cornhuskers
will be part of the pack, fighting with Florida (again),
Tennessee, Michigan, Syracuse, Miami and, who knows, maybe even
Kansas State, for a national title.