USC runs what they do because they can find the athletes to run it walking down the street from their football office. Take Joseph Lewis and Greg Johnson for example, if Lincoln Southeast produced kids like Lewis and Johnson every single year Nebraska would be pretty dang explosive on offense as well. The fact of the matter though is they don't produce talent like that in Nebraska HS Football so we must go outside the state to recruit kids like that. A kid like Lewis who grew up in LA will 9 times out of 10 stay home and attend USC/UCLA/Stanford/Cal....So we are constantly fighting an uphill battle as a program and taking the leftovers and scraps that schools like USC don't want or don't have room for (in MOST cases) There are always a few exceptions. Watching Nebraska from a far, as I did for most of my life, I saw a dominant program that played to their strengths. Those strengths were neutralizing speed with power, hence the traditional power running game they have always had when Nebraska is successful. (See 96 Fiesta Bowl as the primary example) it was when Nebraska moved away from that thought process under BC that Nebraska lost their identity as a program and have been floundering in mediocrity ever since.
Now that Nebraska has moved away from that, it is time we throw the kitchen sink at top level akill players and pray we steal 1 or 2 and then hope to god they aren't busts. It's the only way we can be successful as a program! Nebraska now has their man at the helm and in Riley we trust!!!! He is going to be the one to steal one of those elite game changing skill players and put Nebraska back on the map for years to come.
