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tmfr15

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Colorado and Nebraska's struggles dating back to Frank are pretty closely tied. That 2001 game was the first time I had ever seen my Husker team on the wrong end of a bad beating. Miami repeated that in the Rose Bowl, but that might have been one of the best teams ever. So it was the Colorado loss that stung.

We've had our moments since, the kick and the pick being a big one. 

Then Frost took over. Colorado edged us in 2018. They rallied past us in 2019.

That's not what gets me mad. Close games. We're breaking in new coaches and trying to restock the roster.

But Scott needs more time...the rebuild is big... Blah blah blah

Colorado doesn't have our tradition, or support. Or facilities. They pay their HC poorly and his assistants don't make much and don't have job security. Their school just doesn't love football. Fair weather fans.

And their recruiting is bad. 

They've had three coaches in three years. How is it that they're 2-0 against Scott and 3-0 this year?

They beat San Diego State today. Big deal. But they beat Stanford, which beat Cal this week.

I don't know what to make of this. It just bothers me

Anyone else feel the same way?

 
We end up with good kids, but I think overall we don't ever end up with the pick of the litter.  We really never have.  Some very good classes under Osborne, and what were considered good classes by Callahan.

I have always asked the question in recruiting, do the stars reflect heart, dedication, loyalty and other traits needed to rebuild a program.  The want to, not just the ability to.

It does seem we lose the top kids rather easily after they once arrive.  Not all but a large number.  Maybe every program has this problem, but it doesn't seem like to me.

I have never really coached football, other than my son's Pop Warner team as an assistant.  Played football in high school and in the Marine Corps for a couple of different base/unit teams.  My claim to fame was Ed Podalak  running over me as a Sophomore in high school, breaking my collarbone.

I have coached Olympic and World class athletes in Mountain Biking and motocross.  All individual athletes.  I never had the problem of buy in.  Either they did or I didn't mess with them.  Lines drawn in the sand from day one.  I can not comprehend the difficulty of coaching 100 kids, on their own, away from home and the main guidance system they have had their whole lives.  Getting them to all to march to the same drum beat has to be extremely hard.  Especially today with the way kids expect so much because they have been told they deserve it since they started playing.  

I met Scott Frost during his Junior year.  I know the drive he possesses.  I know the guidance and the love Coach Osborne gave and has for him.  I know the love he has for this program.  I know he gives his all to this program and state.  He has for a very long time and I don't see it changing.

I have watched this board change so many times, over and over, good to bad, bad to good.  Many saying things that truly hurt the team and the staff.

We have a good coach,  who is trying as hard as he can and you can see the disappointment he is going thru.  Far more than any of us without doubt.  He needs the fan base to support him, give him the time he thinks he needs.  He sees the process every day.  We see it for a few minutes a few Saturdays a year.  He and his family live it every second of every day.  Lets give him the time he has given us.  He has sacrificed a lot to be here, yea we pay him a lot of money, but if we run him off, Nebraska as a program will be doomed.  No other big name coach would come here other than to take the money.  

Patience I guess.  I know it is hard.  But it is what is needed.

 
I pretty much agree with the OP but have one clarification. CU's recruiting is not markedly worse than ours. At least it wasn't at the time HCSF dropped two to them. I think they do better recruiting than their record usually indicates. Location, mountains, snow/skiing, laid back atmosphere, etc. They always seems to have as good or better skill position players than NU has been getting.

 
I’m going to sound bitter in this post so I will acknowledge quickly that there’s probably nothing more impressive right now than Colorado being 3-0 given the weird circumstances around their new coaching staff. To not even get a true spring camp to figure things out? Wow. Also have to credit ILB Nate Landman, that guy is a throwback to a different era of LBs and I love watching him play.

With that said, fluky is the only word I can come up with to describe them being 2-0 against Frost for one reason: Steven Montez. If your only experience with Montez is watching him torch our Huskers, then you’re probably wondering why he wasn’t a 2nd round pick, or honestly even a 1st round pick (I don’t feel that’s an exaggeration, he was that damn impressive against us). But he finished last or close to it in the Pac12 in QBR the last two years because he was pretty mediocre to terrible in every game besides ours. I browsed their boards and it sounds like he was a frat bro who partied the night before games. He often struggled to make the simple plays, air-mailing or skipping easy 5 yard passes, and he had a bad time deciphering opposing defenses. But he made sure to show up against us two different times. 

 
Flippin hate Colorado fans...  Could care less about their football team.

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