Problem is they brought in a lot of new team members that have missed out on growth.
What type of culture did he build at Ohio? I personally think Solich would’ve made us comparable to Iowa.
Really! The guy who played for Devaney, assistant running back coach for Osborne and he was the head Coach for Nebraska for 6 seasons and some of you are telling me he didn’t know Nebraska’s culture.LMAO..
Which has nothing to do with the subject about Nebraska culture but changing the narrative..
Sure it does. Does the Neb culture exported to another school translate into conf championships? After all no one was more of an expert in “Nebraska culture” than Solich.Which has nothing to do with the subject about Nebraska culture but changing the narrative..
No it doesn’t. Just like I doubt Osborne wins a national title at Colorado..
If Bill McCartney could win a title copying Osborne’s system then I’m confident TO would have won some titles running his own system at CU. I apparently hold TO in higher regard than you
This is so true. This conference, especially for football, is basically a dozen teams that are all the same.
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Experiencing it and maintaining it is entirely different. Frost experienced the culture when he played under TO - how’s he doing with it?
Never have I seen fans so freaking happy for an 8 win season.
that can't be correct ... any half way competent power 5 coach should be able to clean up in the MAC
Scarlet, you and I go way back in Husker football.
NIL I think is a Nebraska advantage BUT I think the only thing that really has been lacking is coaching. Nebraska has got its share of recruiting talent. Not at the Ohio State level of course but usually better than the rest of the West Division foes but we haven't been able to beat teams with presumably less talent, at least on paper. That says coaching to me.
I’m not saying Osborne wouldn’t have been successful in Boulder but saying he would have two or three national titles is questionable and he wouldn’t have had the talent or walk on program in Boulder, but I’d agree if Osborne left for Colorado,1971 still might be our last national title..
I know you are a Solich guy, but NU eroded heavily under him. Lot's of things changed, but Solich started the process. The death of NU football was Black Friday 2001.
Losing one game wasn’t the down fall, If Nebraska played someone else other than Miami in the bowl game this wouldn’t even get brought up when it started..
That Penn State game is when we all knew the magic was gone. Before then, almost all of us were still convincing ourselves that Nebraska still had it.
No it was that complete *** kicking by the buffs that was the beginning of our demise.
And I look at it like TO *** kicking by Oklahoma..
It set off what was to come. Got our *** beat twice in a row and his recruiting was already declining. 2002 went poorly, but our soul was crushed in Boulder and add that to Frank didn’t adjust his staff, recruiting, etc it was a perfect storm. Frank should have never been the head guy and Byrne should have been allowed to do his job. Frank was a good assistant, but shouldn’t have been a head man at a major program.
Nebraska lost that game because of defense and Solich let Craig Bohl go after that season..
I will definitely agree that at the time, it was going to be hard to go outside, but I do remember a lot of people talking about going outside just because a lot of the assistants were starting to age. There was also talk during that time frame that Frank might not be the guy. Hindsight is 20/20 for sure, but that was a failed experiment and Frank was just lucky to basically have something turn key handed to him for 4 years of success. He drove the program into the ground with how he managed things. He just wasn't head coach material at a major program.