A second-year coach of no accomplishment is on the hot seat at Nebraska?
And they wonder why they can't get a head coach worth anything.
I know we have some Nebraska lurkers here so let me say it: your days as a power program are over. Gone. Like Army, who was really good when everybody else was off at war, you were a blip on the radar screen of history albeit an accomplished one. But the days of Nebraska playing the maximum number of games on TV and sending guys to pros merely because they're Nebraska are long gone and they're never coming back.
In this day and age where a guy can play football at Rice and still be seen on TV nearly every week - there is NO incentive for a non-Nebraska kid to go live four years in a cornfield. Go look at how many of their stars were from other states - Rozier, Fyar, Gill, Berenger, Frazier, Phillips, Suh - all guys who could be recruited to come to Nebraska (and except for Suh in days when not all the games were on TV).
Nebraska might be able to pull a West Virginia or Washington State back in the day - where you get a REALLY good senior-laden team that has played together and can put it all together in one year about every five years. But Nebraska will never again be anything like they were any more than Tulane will win an SEC title again.
here with a surprise or two. But I agree with all except W Virginia and Penn State. W Virginia is way out on a Big 12 island and it is hard to compete with those Texas teams from a thousand miles away. Penn State need at least one more year IMO.
