I was just responding mostly to your quote about magically getting good players. My point was it sounds like we now have good players and they have been in the program developing physically for a few years. So we dont need any magic. Supposedly they are here.
Riley was an average coach, and left Frost with a bare cupboard. But people way over exaggerate how hard it is to get back to 6-7 wins and a bowl. Hell Penn St won 7+ games every year since getting the modern day equivalent of the death penalty (up until this past season). Good coaches can navigate these things. Pretty obvious Frost didn’t come in with the chops to turn it around quick, now we’re all hoping he has the chops to turn it around at all.
From the athletic. We are #7 in the country for having the biggest disparity between recruiting rankings and on field results since 2017. We are the only blue blood on this list. Florida State and Tennessee are borderline.
Arkansas
Rutgers
Florida State
Maryland
UCLA
Illinois
Nebraska
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
KansasFrom the athletic. We are #7 in the country for having the biggest disparity between recruiting rankings and on field results since 2017. We are the only blue blood on this list. Florida State and Tennessee are borderline.
Underachievers: Power 5
TEAM
RANK
247
+/-
1
103
30
-73
2
112
54
-58
3
61
5
-56
4
87
32
-55
5
71
16
-55
6
108
55
-53
7
76
25
-51
8
62
13
-49
9
99
51
-48
10
117
70
-47
Well, there it is. The Power 5 programs that are doing less with more since 2017. If your favorite team made this list, you can’t act too surprised. The common theme among the top 10 is fairly obvious, too. Each program has gone through at least one head coaching change since 2017, and a few have experienced multiple firings.
I get it. But everyone deals with departures. Its not exclusive to Nebraska. The transfer portal is hurting every P5 team in America. So since all teams are dealing with the same issues. That just sounds like an excuse to me.
He inherited a roster without much depth, but at the same time inherited the only standout players. JD Spielman, Stanley Morgan and Ozigbo all did well in year 1 and Frost is yet to find replacements for any of those players.
The last Mike Riley's coached team got destroyed by 100 points over the last 4 games.
And Frost got blown out by a bad Illinois team and lost to Minnesota when they where missing THIRTY FIVE (35) scholarship players.
Frost is going to have a few bad losses trying to build a roster that has talent across the board to compete in the B1G.
That could be true. Which I think sometimes what side of the fence(excuses vs reasons) you are on depends on what your expectation was. I think many expected Frost to come in and be this generational coach. We heard how we was the next Nick Saban etc. So I think when that kind of hope and expectation gets put out there people obviously have high standards. Now a coach of the caliber of Saban, Meyer and those generational coaches would turn things around quicker, they would have bad s#!t happen and over come it. Frost has not overcome most of these issues. So perhaps it may just be true that Frost may turn out to be a good coach- but he is probably not the next Osborne, Saban type of guy we hoped we were getting. I hope this is the year that turns it all around and we get on the right path with a projection towards future conference championships and national championships.