their WRs/RBs are high draft picks who make an instant impact on NFL teams.
first game of the year for a new QB and new head coach. I don't think there's any question that OSU has improved each and every week. BTW, FAU has some very good talent and probably better talent than NU at some positions. I would venture that their upperclassmen bring more to the table right now than ours do.
They for sure wouldn't start but I think it's a little harsh to say they wouldn't make the scout team. OSU is loaded.
No, they will send more to the draft this year than we have the last 3.
This article says 14 Buckeyes in the 2020 draft. That doesn't count Fields, who is slated for one of the top two slots in 2021.
Iowa has a decent team but yeah, this OSU team is totally different ESPECIALLY on the defensive side. Urban's problem (he didn't have many) was not being able to fire his assistants - many were his close friends. Day parted ways with all of Urban's defensive assistants except DL coach Larry Johnson who might be the best DL coach in the country. This year's OSU defensive team is a lockdown unit.
We had better recruiting rankings than 2 of those teams in the years leading up to those drafts.
Your recruiting ranking doesn't play when some of your highest ranked guys bust and when your strength and conditioning program is optional. We've been a mess for years and we haven't played up to the potential of most of our recruiting classes. That will change.
The '90, '92, and '93 classes were ranked pretty highly and performed as such. I believe one recruiting service ranked NU's '85 class #1 with Broderick Thomas, Steve Taylor, and LeRoy Etienne as the headliners.
Your crazy tonight leodis. #28 is not an nfl player unless he gets tougher, sturdier, and stays out of prison
Wisconsin has never won a widely-recognized national championship (they got a share in 1942) and hasn't won a conference title since 2012 when Ohio State wasn't allowed to go to the CCG and went 12-0 under Urban Meyer. That Wisconsin team was 8-6.
I believe you have completely missed the point. Modern day Wisconsin is not vintage Nebraska, not at all. We had big time talent and NFL players. We also had a big time schematic advantage. Modern day Wisconsin is much more like the KSU of old.
Yep. I made a whole thread about 90s recruiting and how those NU teams had elite athletes on them. Tom didn't win any rings with Wisconsin's caliber of talent. He got Wisconsin results with Wisconsin talent. 9 wins, Big 8 champs (remember no CCGs in those days), get smacked in the bowl game by some team from Florida with better athletes.
You don't remember Bo screaming in Bill Snyder's face for running it up on his defense?
They would crush the current version of Nebraska. Those were very good teams, that maximized talent, they just were never talented enough to beat the Nebraska's and Florida State's at that time. Kind of like Wisconsin today.
2002: KSU 49 NU 13
From 98-04, they beat us 5 of 7 years. And the two we won were 99 and 01. The '99 team finished #2 and the '01 team #6. Comparing the Nebraska teams KSU beat to the ones on the field today is just silly.
As I recall Burrow was a high 3 star and in fact had little to no interest in coming to Nebraska. Likewise Nebraska didn't exactly beat Burrow's door down. That wasn't Pelini or Riley's style unfortunately. I don't remember for sure but I think Burrow was kind of a backup plan for Meyer as well. Seems to me that he was hot after a higher ranked prospect that he didn't land.
Burrow's father was a player and coach at Nebraska. Burrow definitely wanted to come. He was ranked as 4-star by 247. https://247sports.com/Player/Joe-Burrow-36575/ Am pretty sure he was Mr. Ohio in football.
