Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
I do agree with most of your posts...and most of this one as far as that goes.Availability of talent? The talent is available, there are no fences restricting the talent from leaving and coming to Nebraska.
Baylor is A P5 school in the middle of Texas and struggles to field a top 30 recruiting ranking. Oklahoma St is 90 miles from Oklahoma, is there Some sort of fence built from Enid to Prague that keeps the talent from getting north to Stillwater?
you have to have a product people want to buy, period.
I do agree with most of your posts...and most of this one as far as that goes.
In Baylor's defense....it is a very conservative school. It was the early 1990s before they ever allowed an on-campus dance. Nothing wrong with this, but I kind of have the feeling that it isn't for everyone. Even under Grant Teaff, on an 11-game schedule, Baylor was a 6-5 to 8-3 program.
You're spot on about Oklahoma State and Nebraska, though.
Availability of talent? The talent is available, there are no fences restricting the talent from leaving and coming to Nebraska.
Baylor is A P5 school in the middle of Texas and struggles to field a top 30 recruiting ranking. Oklahoma St is 90 miles from Oklahoma, is there Some sort of fence built from Enid to Prague that keeps the talent from getting north to Stillwater?
you have to have a product people want to buy, period.
Yes all would agree there is plenty of talent in the United States. So when I say there is a problem with talent availability I do not mean that there is no talent in the United States. There is a talent availability problem for Nebraska for a number of years now.
Excellent coaching and the fact they are kissing Texas on the head according to the map.
Such close proximity to a huge pool of recruits shouldn't be under valued when comparing Oklahoma to Nebraska.
I would say the main difference's are
3. Nebraska going away from the run, and trying to out recruit other teams for players that are more for passing.
So was Nebraska inevitably done for then, due to the shift in college football? Because the military schools are the only ones left still running the option, it appears that ship has sailed. Nebraska wasn't the only run-heavy school out there at the turn of the millennium, plenty of other schools were able to successfully pivot. The only current top-25 program out there that I'd consider "run-heavy" is Wisconsin. So if you're saying the only way for Nebraska to be successful again is to be like Wisconsin... well... fair enough, but I don't want to believe that.End of the program. I said it when Callahan was hired. There is no way to outrecruit the USC'S and Miami's at the time when striving for the same players.
So was Nebraska inevitably done for then, due to the shift in college football? Because the military schools are the only ones left still running the option, it appears that ship has sailed. Nebraska wasn't the only run-heavy school out there at the turn of the millennium, plenty of other schools were able to successfully pivot. The only current top-25 program out there that I'd consider "run-heavy" is Wisconsin. So if you're saying the only way for Nebraska to be successful again is to be like Wisconsin... well... fair enough, but I don't want to believe that.
Stoops became head coach in 1999 and won NC in year 2. John Blake brought in some good recruitsSome of you are probably too young to remember this but Oklahoma had a 9 year drop off when Barry Switzer left in 1988. Oklahoma got to be pretty bad during that time until Bob Stoops arrived in 1996.
So the real question should be "Why did Oklahoma have only a 9 year drop off while Nebraska has had a 20 or so year drop off?"
The main answer is coaching. At pretty much any school it takes elite coaching to keep a team at the top over a long period of time. To some of you, Alabama has always been an upper echelon team. Heck, even when Bear Bryant was their coach they had some bad years. Once Bear Bryant left, Alabama was pretty up and down until Nick Saban arrived.
I remember thinking that Pete Carroll and USC was going to be the dynasty forever but once Carroll left, they have been mostly mediocre.
Nebraska may have a little tougher job because of distance from talent pools but elite coaching is the main issue.