re: What happened to Nebraska football

In the 80s and 90s you had a lot of schools that honestly just didn’t really give a shite. People have a hard time wrapping their head around that now, but it just wasn’t as big of a deal to be “the best” or national champs to a lot of programs

LSU is a perfect example. We barely spent money at all. We had somewhere around the 30th highest paid coaching staff. Think about that. We also didn’t care about facilities at all

So programs like Nebraska that took it serious and went all in could come in and compete with LSU and Florida for recruits because they cared that much more

Now that there is soooo much money involved, and all schools go balls to the wall, states like Nebraska have no shot to ever be elite again

Nebraska’s best hope is to be like an Iowa or Wisky

Yes, but it "could" have a reverse effect for them. It is a long shot tho.

Nebraska signs a nice recruiting class every year. They've done that for the last twenty years no matter the coach. That place is where talent goes to die.

At least Norman is within 30 min of OKC and OKC has now a big city and has quite a bit to do.

Lincoln doesn't have that luxury, although OMA is only less than an hour away.

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Lincoln doesn't have that luxury, although OMA is only less than an hour away.

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Lincoln has more than 220,000 people.
Omaha is almost 290,000 people.

I can assure you there are things to do in both cities.

Not really directed at Sparty, but its always easy to see who has never been there by the nothing to do comments.

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When the NCAA eliminated partial qualifying, that was the end for Nebraska

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This.

Callahan, Riley and to a large extent Pelini refused to recruit the Midwest. Nebraska signs top 15-25 classes year in and out, but they have no identity. Nebraska signs all these 4 star players from Florida and the south, but if you look back at teams from the past 15 years, majority of the biggest contributors to the team are kids from the Midwest.

His first few years, I think Frost was trying to mine as much Florida talent as possible because of his connections while at UCF. This years class is much more local, a little more low key, but one where he can start to build a base around. Problem is he should have probably done that 2 years ago

Kept firing .750 coaches and now nobody good wants the job.

I've been to Lincoln and Omaha...they are fantastic places. Also went to a game at Nebraska a few years ago.