Wait so Nebraska is boycotting Texas Tech over this Brendan Sorsby mess and I just think about how we used to run the option against those Big 8 teams back in the 90s. You remember those old Nebraska games when Tom Osborne would just hand it off three times and punt and dare you to beat him? That was real football. None of this RPO read option nonsense they call an offense today. Quarterbacks actually had to read the dive key, ride the fullback, and decide whether to pitch it all in one heartbeat. Barry Alvarez built our program on the power sweep and the option keep. Ron Dayne ran that thing to perfection in 1999. Now you got kids flippiing schools over eligibility injunctions and conference realignment killed every rivalry that mattered.
You watch these spring practices now and every QB is standing back there in the shotgun with a wristband calling out signals. Nobody lines up under center anymore. Nobody runs the triple option. The fullback is basically extinct. I remember watching the 1993 game against Michigan when our option attack just ground them down in the fourth quarter. We controlled the clock, we controlled the line of scrimmage, and we won the game without throwing a single pass in the fourth quarter. You cannot do that in 2026 because every offensive coordinator thinks he needs to be some kind of genius. Just line up and run the damn ball. That is what built this program. That is what won us Rose Bowls. And these kids today will never understand what it felt like to watch a perfectly executed option pitch for a touchdown.