Just ridiculous..32 teams.🙄I'm a Gopher fan. I want a 32 team football playoff...basketball style...no byes, no home field. Give 32 teams a chance to keep their season meaningful.
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Just ridiculous..32 teams.🙄I'm a Gopher fan. I want a 32 team football playoff...basketball style...no byes, no home field. Give 32 teams a chance to keep their season meaningful.
Agreed.You are assuming that the games will be tough. Generally speaking, 1vs 32 would not be tough for 1 very often at all. Heck 1vs 16/17 may not be tough 1/2 of the time.
Green Bay was nowhere and a joke in the NFL until Vince Lombardi. Nebraska was a has-been lost cause since before WWII, then came the one-two punch of Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne. Bill Snyder, Bear Bryant, Nick Saban and many others have proven that coaching outweighs all else (location, weather, fans, populace, etc.) but talent, and talent seeks good coaching like a moth to the light. No top coach, no top talent.I watched the two playoff games and thought they were great examples of why college football is so much fun. But it also left me depressed. I was depressed as I watched the quality of the athletes all the teams had on the field and the programs that made their appearance in the playoffs possible. It depressed me because we once had that many, many years ago.
It led to a question that has been rattling around in my head for months now. Given the nature of modern day college football is it even possible for a team with the geography and demographics of Nebraska to reach that level of play again? And let's be real here and not just spout the usual "si se puede" bullshit. Every team that is in the playoff comes from a part of the country that is rich in recruits. There are probably more D1 caliber players in Seattle alone than in the entire state of Nebraska in any given year. Of course, that did not stop Devaney or Osborne from getting recruits but that was a different era of college football. Callahan I guess proved that you could recruit to Lincoln, but he was at Nebraska when the Nebraska brand still meant a lot.
Can we do it? I am pessimistic. We have great facilities. We have great fans. We have money for NIL. We are in the premier conference. But in a conference with Washington, Oregon, USC, OSU, Michigan and PSU, how in the hell do we avoid being a perennial middle of the pack team in the B1G? How do we compete against that kind of recruiting firepower?
We were lucky that Raiola was a legacy recruit. For once we got a break. But had he not been a legacy guy he would not be coming here and we would be looking down the barrel of another year of shit QB play. Here is to hoping that our luck in landing him pans out...