Ive been on this board 20 years buddy. If people that base their opinions on REALITY bug you, then you need help.
Everyone perception of reality is a bit different. Everyone knows that football and basketball have been poor and absolutely bottom of barrel for BCS performance in the past. Basing your opinions on "reality" does not necessarily mean you still think the teams will suck in the future because they have sucked in the past if variables are changing.
Basketball (this one is easy)
- Two extremely high level recruits who are basically Freshman (McGowens and Edwards)
- Sprinkle in 3 more top 150 guys for good measure
- Legit Big Ten size with some experience
- Will no longer need to start/play anybody that is Big Ten uncompetitive like we have past two years
- Coach who has a Sweet 16 and two round of 32 and four overall tourney appearances in his five years at ISU
- Roster revamp that looks similar to ISU, although a year longer.
Most of the folks I talks sports with who aren't Nebraska fans and know situation believe it is an almost a certainty the basketball will be good in the next two years. I am a slightly more pessimistic being a Nebraska Basketball fan who feels cursed but still have very high expectations.
Football (this is more of a stretch but not out of realm of legit possibility)
- Head coach with multiple top ten offenses as coordinator
- Head coach that has been a national coach of year, with undefeated team that lead D-1 football in points, went undefeated and beat a once beaten SEC team. Took that team from zero wins to 12 in couple years.
- Offensive success at Nebraska with AM where team averaged 37 PPG in his last 7 games (all one possession) in his first year in 2018 which was only year overall offensive talent was not in bottom Quarter of league until 2021
- Current offensive roster expected starters and contributors higher RR than any West team with massive upgrade at both WR and O-line for 2021 compared to what Nebraska has been rolling out last couple of years.
Both coaches took over absolutely crappy situations in a tough and well established conference with tough well established coaching and have struggled. The programs have absolutely stunk it up of this period. However, both situations outcomes are very far from written in stone at this point as some of the "realists" claim.
As for the JBL thing. Dude is a Sociopathic non Nebraska fan that gets off on trolling passionate fans whose team have absolutely been hot garbage lately. It wouldn't suprise me if he visits the cancer ward after posting on this board to let the patients know just how bad that prognosis is. This is wholly different than real fans (such as yourself) that are just tired of the crap and aren't interested in looking for real or perceived reasons for optimism until they actually happen. I completely get that and felt that way while Riley was here. Not there yet with either of these coaches.