re: Nebraska / Saban: Let's not kid ourselves

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Would never happen but if Saban were to come to Nebraska, he would have that program turned around in about 3-4 years max. The thing with the B1G is that there's only room for one team to recruit the area and given that recruiting is now a national scene, Saban would bring in all the recruits and Ohio State would become Michigan in short order (2nd fiddle in the B1G). As shitty of a place that Lincoln (or all of Nebraska) is, Saban would bring them in even at age 70. He is absolutely the only person who could do this.

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I'm not so sure..A name can only carry you so far. The demographics of college football has changed so much that some programs that used to be really good can't dominate in the same way, Nebraska may be the best example.

Lincoln is in the middle of no where and they are the most distance school from the league that they are in. They no loner get to recruit in Texas like they used to and the kids have a lot more "fun" places to go to school.

The players going to college these days don't remember or car about Nebraska's past.

Maybe with NIL and unrestricted transfers some of the Nebraska fat cats can over pay on endorsements to entice better players to attend the school.