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I am not sure how old you are. I am quite certain you were around to see Nebraska as a national power in football. The only thing that has changed is HC and support. Their recruiting base is still the same that Osborne had. Devaney before him was very impressive.

A loooooot has changed since then, though. Nobody was hurt more by regional programs in warm weather places getting more money and investing in programs than places like Nebraska. Kids from California, Florida, Texas and New Jersey are not going to Nebraska anymore like they did in the 1970s and 1980s. Look at those rosters, they always had 2-3 great Nebraska kids on them, but the majority of them were from the coasts and the Sun Belt.

The other major change, as everybody knows, is that they lost Prop-48. That was a massive part of the recruiting strategy of Osborne and his staff and those kids were all of a sudden off the table.

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ETA Hell, Bo Pelini had over a .700 winning percentage there.

And never sniffed anything nationally relevant. Never finished in the Top 10. Never lost less than 3 games (and only lost less than 4 games 1x).

You can be good at Nebraska (and I think Rhule will be). You cannot sign enough elite players there to be a Top 10 program in 2024 IMHO, unless they create the largest and richest NIL programs in the country.

This post was edited on 2/16/24 at 9:28 am