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Sort of SEC related with Rhule as a coaching candidate. Check out Nebraska's recruits

Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:44 am
Posted by SEC Doctor
Member since Aug 2024
10185 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:44 am
On3 team rankings

We all remember when Nebraska was a power. Now it has the 95th ranked recruiting class. Behind schools such as Ohio, Eastern Michigan and Tulsa.

Have the Cornhuskers given up?
Posted by ukraine_rebel
North Mississippi
Member since Oct 2012
3680 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:46 am to
Could be worse, could be Penn St.
Posted by Taurus 357
Great Lakes
Member since Dec 2014
5483 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:48 am to
They probably should be relegated to FCS. They could dominate that region. In direct competition with North Dakota, ND St, Montana St, etc. Or maybe Nebraska should be in the mountain west with Wyoming and UNLV and Colorado St
Posted by SEC Doctor
Member since Aug 2024
10185 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:49 am to
quote:

Could be worse, could be Penn St.


But Penn State doesn't have a coach yet, so it's more understandable. Rhule is entering Year 4.
Posted by JayAg
Member since Jun 2021
15444 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:49 am to
The used to have a Texas pipeline that dried up. Plus, their 5 star QB took a horrible injury so they slumped.

They have a shot to field a competitive team in the near future with Rhule locked up a few years.
Posted by RelentlessTide
Member since Feb 2020
4083 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:55 am to
You have to be impressed with Virginia Tech: pulled off a ranking of 25 with Franklin only in place a few weeks
Posted by anc
Member since Nov 2012
20354 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:57 am to
There was a school outside Lincoln that won the state championship in Nebraska HS football that had 11 seniors sign with Division I schools this year.

0 signed with Nebraska.

Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
19205 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:58 am to
Just proves how good Tom Osborne was. Nearly 25 straight years with 10+ win seasons back when we only played 11 regular season games. (I think he only had one or two 9 win seasons his entire career there).
Posted by SEC Doctor
Member since Aug 2024
10185 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:02 am to
quote:

There was a school outside Lincoln that won the state championship in Nebraska HS football that had 11 seniors sign with Division I schools this year.

0 signed with Nebraska.


It's unbelievable to me. One would think of Nebraska as a state where every kid grows up a Cornhusker fan.

Nebraska HS recruits

The highest in-state kid Nebraska signed is 14th.
Posted by Sid E Walker
InsecureU ©
Member since Nov 2013
25096 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:03 am to
quote:

Just proves how good Tom Osborne was. Nearly 25 straight years with 10+ win seasons back when we only played 11 regular season games. (I think he only had one or two 9 win seasons his entire career there).

Yep. Then Nebraska got greedy and 10-win seasons wasn’t enough. They’ve been in CFB lower tier purgatory ever since.
Posted by hookem33
Belton, Tx
Member since Jun 2022
2646 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:04 am to
quote:

We all remember when Nebraska was a power. Now it has the 95th ranked recruiting class. Behind schools such as Ohio, Eastern Michigan and Tulsa.

Have the Cornhuskers given up?


The move to the B1G was the end for them. Everyone saw it coming but Nebraska fans.
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
15695 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:06 am to
I wonder if Rhule isn't actually going to Penn State as that isn't even trying.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
38466 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:10 am to
It seems almost impossible to revamp KSU, Colorado and Nebraska.

I’m not certain the talent is there.
Posted by John Casey
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2016
3702 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:11 am to
quote:

Just proves how good Tom Osborne was


And how underappreciated Bo Pelini was at Nebraska.

Bo Pelini:
2008 - 9-4
2009 - 10-4
2010 - 10-4
2011 - 9-4
2012 - 10-4
2013 - 9-3
2014 - 9-3

67-27 (713%) - Fired

Matt Rhule:
2023 - 5-7
2024 - 7-6
2025 - 7-5

19-18 (514%) - Signed Extension
Posted by TheTideMustRoll
Birmingham, AL
Member since Dec 2009
10138 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:14 am to
I would have thought NIL would be a lifeline for them to get back to some sort of prominence since their fanbase is so hungry to win that they would be willing to invest whatever it took to do so. But maybe they're just resigned to their fate at this point.

The coach they need is Bielema.
Posted by tjv305
Member since May 2015
12825 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:15 am to
They kill coaches carriers or always hire overhyped coaches . Scott Frost has to be regretting his choice to go to Nebraska over Florida. Getting talent to go to Nebraska has to be hard .
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
15695 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:15 am to
Hell Solich before them. He may have run the option but it was still working and there will always be enough kids to recruit for one Major Team to win with it.

I think Osborne was a count to deal with and much like Bobby Dodd at Ga Tech, he set his program back generations as ad.
Posted by SemperFiDawg
Member since Sep 2014
4090 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:35 am to
quote:

We all remember when Nebraska was a power.


I do but you do realize it's been a quarter of a century and given most forum members would have probably been in High School to have an interest in football you're looking at 37-40 year-olds at least to have a memory of that. Not sure what the average age of tRant members is, but judging from all the foolishness I'm guessing it's a lot younger than that. All that to say most probably don't remember Nebraska's dominance..........and I'm feeling old.
Posted by higgs_boson
State College, PA
Member since Sep 2014
23229 posts
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:40 am to
Firing Pelini was a mistake.
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