In this file photo, UTC running backs coach Jamaal Fobbs motivates his players while at Scrappy Moore Field during practice. Fobbs scored a touchdown in his only trip to Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium.Jamaal Fobbs remembers well his only game in Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium, a place he’ll revisit Saturday when the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga opens its season against the No. 10 Cornhuskers.
The Mocs’ running backs coach faced Nebraska twice during his four seasons at Oklahoma State (1997-2000), where he was a productive tailback and kick returner. At Memorial Stadium in 1999, Fobbs led OSU with 67 rushing yards and touchdown and he had a 27-yard catch in a 38-14 defeat.
“Everybody knows about Nebraska, and it was exciting to go up there and play,” Fobbs said. “You might think that Nebraska fans would have been a little bit older crowd so the noise wouldn’t have been an issue, but no, those people get revved up up there.”
The crowd in Lincoln was noisy, he said, but also surprisingly polite.
“After the game, after we just got beat, we think the fans are going to be [taunting us] but they were like, ‘Hey, great job’ and ‘Try again next year,'” he said. “It wasn’t like some of the other crowds that we experienced. They were more of a pat you on the back type of crowd, but it gets pretty loud in there. That’s one of the loudest places I have experienced.”