by Mike Babcock | Jan 25, 2018 | Football Recruiting
This bit of recruiting intrigue would be documented on social media now. In 1980, however, it depended on the accounts of those involved, Melvin Priddy in this case. Priddy was the football coach at Arlington Heights High in Fort Worth, Texas, and Nebraska was...
by Mike Babcock | Jan 18, 2018 | Basketball
Nebraska-Michigan, Dec. 12, 1964. That came to mind while watching James Palmer Jr. hit a game-winning 3-point shot against Illinois with three-tenths of a second remaining at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The memory is particularly special because I was with my dad, sitting...
by Mike Babcock | Jan 11, 2018 | Football
As it turned out, the game would determine the 1965 Associated Press national champion. The final AP rankings weren’t released until after bowl games. In contrast, the final United Press International poll was released pre-bowl, which meant Michigan State...
by Mike Babcock | Jan 4, 2018 | Football
Johnny Mitchell (1990-91) was the first. The two-time, first-team All-Big tight end left Nebraska following his sophomore season, as a first-round draft pick of the New York Jets. Mitchell wasn’t eligible to compete at Nebraska his first year out of...
by Mike Babcock | Dec 28, 2017 | Football
The play involved a “throwback,” sort of. And Dave Rimington, Nebraska’s All-America center, wasn’t in favor of running it. He was on record as having told Coach Tom Osborne that he hoped the Cornhuskers wouldn’t run the play unless they...
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