I hope you, Nikki, Tuco and a ton of others never lose your passion. I can read the frustration in your posts as well as others. I've been a NU fan since 1962, so like some of the old timers in here, I've seen it all. Our downfall is we KNOW what great football looks like, we also know what a horseshit football team looks like, and we've had a fair dose of of each over the years.
I've tried to petition Congress for a "Lemon Law" with coaching contracts but to no avail.
I don't want to write a book this post cause I don't read long posts either, but I'm a guy who charts plays, alignment, sets, formations, and all that good stuff and have done so since 1980. Don't mean to imply I know anything, but I do know what schemes work and don't work.
You mention Alabama in another thread here. So I look at them as the epitome of what it takes to be truly great in an ever changing sport. If you were to describe Bama offensively it would be something like 50=55% pass, and 45-50% run. And yes, they will smash mouth the shit out of teams.
But if you take a look at what they do running the ball it is extremely hard to prepare for. And it seems kinda simple. Of the 45%-50% of their running plays, they will straight ahead block 60% of the time and then they pull the guard and tackle the other 40%. They use their tight ends the way NU used to us our wingbacks and sometimes used the tightend. When they pull that tight end comes opposite the pullers and picks up the back side defender. It reminds me of that team that did that to very big success from the 60's all the way thru the 90's and a few times in the 2000's.
I'm not trying to make this sound simplistic, they have unbelievable talent, coaching, tradition, fan base, and they have a system in place where those type of offensive linemen want to play on their way to the NFL.
And heck, it's still working in 2021. Bama has got it going on.