Omaha World Herald: Will the Huskers ever get good enough to win championships again?

per the World Herald:

Will the Huskers ever get good enough to win championships again?

No excuse exists for a school that spends the time, energy and money on football that Nebraska does to go 16 seasons without a conference title. That goes double when you play in the woefully average Big 12 North and Big Ten West.

Swallow hard before you read the following:

Nebraska has the third-longest conference title drought among the 14 Big Ten schools. Only Indiana and Minnesota (both 1967) are more barren. You are known by the company you keep.

We all realize the landscape of college football has changed dramatically the past 20 years. Many of the competitive edges Nebraska used to hold — in strength training, nutrition, facilities, TV appearances, academic support — are gone or dwindling.

So is something else: toughness.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/footba...cle_ca3a8550-c230-51ba-8c16-19747d57b4e9.html

Go Gophers!!

Not with Mike Riley at the helm.

Nebraska has some fans and media folk who think the 1990s are always just around the corner and somehow they deserve it or something.

Really they're just another in a large group of 2nd tier college football contenders on the outside looking in who would be fortunate to win their division, let alone their conference, let alone get to the playoffs....

I wonder what they mean by academic support though. Are they pining for the days in the 90s where they managed to pull in a large number of athletically gifted, but with questionable academics, and even criminally problematic players?

If only they were tougher - that's the ticket, yeah.

Seems like this article is tugging the strings of the Osborne generation by appealing to a notion that the answer is always "work harder" and failing to recognize that things are fundamentally different in today's college football. No more non/partial qualifiers, everyone is recruiting with a national perspective ... these are advantages they had in the 80s and 90s that just aren't there any more. They have good-to-great facilities and cash though, so the chance they can get a great coach again is pretty good. That can take them to a division and maybe even conference title on occasion.

Gopher07 said:

If only they were tougher - that's the ticket, yeah.

Seems like this article is tugging the strings of the Osborne generation by appealing to a notion that the answer is always "work harder" and failing to recognize that things are fundamentally different in today's college football. No more non/partial qualifiers, everyone is recruiting with a national perspective ... these are advantages they had in the 80s and 90s that just aren't there any more. They have good-to-great facilities and cash though, so the chance they can get a great coach again is pretty good. That can take them to a division and maybe even conference title on occasion.

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Boot straps man!

If you live in what is literally fly over country, have a state university that has no academic standing and have no professional sports football is what had made NE "relevant" on the national stage.
I had a discussion a few weeks ago at a family gathering with two hard core NE fans. The older was just glad Bo was gone and seemed a bit resigned.
The younger kept up the mantra of five national chamionships and was agitated.
No matter what I said he returned to that theme. I told him recruits today are 17 and the 90's seem like the last ice age to them.
Some fans there still have the delusions that NE made a step down in going to the BIG and a conference championship is just around the corner. For reasons noted above that is very unlikey to happen.
An interesting thing is that some MN kids who want to go away to college and can't get admitted to the school to the SE are going to NE.
To get more students with reasonable academic records NE is offering in state tuition rates.

olddoc said:

If you live in what is literally fly over country, have a state university that has no academic standing and have no professional sports football is what had made NE "relevant" on the national stage.
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And Cabellas....

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Zeppelin Gopher said:

Not with Mike Riley at the helm.

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We have a winner!