That is how Nebraska will get back to bowl seasons no matter who the head coach is.
1: Downhill rushing attack. Running this out of 4 and 5 WR set's is not the way to do it though. You create an identity that you are a run-first offense that will use multiple RB's, hit the TE's, and pass the ball to your WR's about 15 times a game. Be in through the option, I-formation, diamond, that isn't as important as the identity. You can do this out of the shotgun (Coastal Carolina) or under the center (Jeff Monken) or sound fundamental rushing attack (Klieman).
2: There hasn't been a single team in the Big Ten West to win this division in it's entire history that has not been sound in stop the run, good special teams, and run-oriented attack.
3: While there were tons of people that thought Scott Frost would work out at Nebraska, there were some people who said it would never work here for various reasons and one of those reasons is the inability to recruit the right type of player. When you are spamming out 400+ offers to a single recruiting class, you aren't recruiting to an identity, you are just trying to find easy takes so you don't have to work as hard.
There is no system that will ever be used at Nebraska that will win at a high level that doesn't include these three things - run the damn ball (identity), good run defense, and good special teams. Ameer Abdullah, Rex Burkhead, etc, and go back.
When you establish a run first identity, then you don't have to try and recruit a WR room that is 8 deep of 4-stars, you can have 3 or so solid kids in that group that can play at a high level, be 4 deep at RB with pure studs, a good game manager that doesn't lose you games at QB, good TE play, and most importantly, an offensive line back pushes back the DL every fracking running play all game long.
There are two guys that come to mind that can accomplish these things at a very high level - Chris Klieman and Jeff Monken.
