Why are we here on a free board at all? It is to air grievances, get a nugget of inside info, and find crumbs of hope. Generally, this time of year is the time for false fantasies, hope in the new the recruiting class, or discussion about returning starters. or where former huskers will go in the draft. College football, in its gutted state, offers none of this off-season entertainment. We have new players and coaches, from mid-major programs, nobody getting drafted in the top 3 rounds, a recruiting class of 11, and the one thing we could rely on, a soft big 10 schedule, is suddenly not so. At the very least we could have watched Rhule squirm without an extension and known that our program and state were holding him accountable by withholding his next contract...but alas.