The landscape of college football has changed dramatically since Osborne retired. Everyone is on TV, everyone is flush with cash, and everyone has really good to great facilities. It is highly unlikely that Nebraska can consistently get the elite recruits teams like Ohio State get. Furthermore, a lot of teams run an offense similar to Frost’s. There really isn’t anything that unique about it and defenses have caught up and adjusted to it. Osborne, despite the recruiting advantages he had back then, still understood the difficulty of recruiting top talent to Nebraska. He eventually did, starting in the 80’s, but he understood something important in order to do so. Namely, that Nebraska, especially on offense, needed to have a unique system that was run oriented and was a kind of talent equalizer. I would love to see us return to some version of that offense. I would freak out for joy if we came out against Illinois and lined up in the I formation with a fullback. Imagine memorial stadium if that happened too in our first home game.
I know this is just an old man’s nostalgic pipe dream and given that Frost’s seat is a bit warm I know he won’t change offenses now. Too risky in a year where we need consistency. Still… would love to see him gradually work in some old I formation plays.
I know this is just an old man’s nostalgic pipe dream and given that Frost’s seat is a bit warm I know he won’t change offenses now. Too risky in a year where we need consistency. Still… would love to see him gradually work in some old I formation plays.