With all of the talk last week about players still not being bought in and a failure to establish the culture SF needs to win, this weekend i started wondering if some of that failure is on the fans not being bought in. How taxing can it be on the players (coaches not so much, they know how this works) to hear all the negative from the fans. Some have said they are deleting or unfollowing social media. Many players have been through coaching changes (head or position) multiple times and now they hear, read, see talk of "SF just can't get it done", etc.
Maybe the UCF experience was a fool's gold and made everyone expect 13-0 or 11-2 would be easy. Rebuilding in college football is not easy, no matter the name on the uniform. Ask FSU (4-5, fired the new coach), Miami 5-4, Michigan St. 4-4, USC 5-4, Stanford 4-4, Texas 5-3, UCLA 4-5, Tennessee 4-5, Washington 5-4 just to name a few who haven't been to the depths NU has been for rebuilding, but are struggling. What about a B1G West winner from last year having ONE win this year??
CFB is a hard game and P5 football is really hard, regardless of what your "history" is. All Husker fans need to buy in to the depth of this challenge and understand there is only one way for NU to get back to any where near the success as fans want. It is going to take time.
Also, all the venting of "fans" who expect (demand?) more due to the coaches being highly paid, or "knowing what they signed up for", or a couple dozen other things i often read on the forums really, in the long run mean very little. Regardless of what these people (myself included) say about the program, the future success or failure will be determined by others. At best we can simply go along for the ride....and hopefully enjoy it as much as possible. If you get no joy out of Husker football (despite the frustration and sadness it may bring) it is probably best for our health to find other things which do give us happiness. At least until the "results" are a little more tolerable.
Maybe the UCF experience was a fool's gold and made everyone expect 13-0 or 11-2 would be easy. Rebuilding in college football is not easy, no matter the name on the uniform. Ask FSU (4-5, fired the new coach), Miami 5-4, Michigan St. 4-4, USC 5-4, Stanford 4-4, Texas 5-3, UCLA 4-5, Tennessee 4-5, Washington 5-4 just to name a few who haven't been to the depths NU has been for rebuilding, but are struggling. What about a B1G West winner from last year having ONE win this year??
CFB is a hard game and P5 football is really hard, regardless of what your "history" is. All Husker fans need to buy in to the depth of this challenge and understand there is only one way for NU to get back to any where near the success as fans want. It is going to take time.
Also, all the venting of "fans" who expect (demand?) more due to the coaches being highly paid, or "knowing what they signed up for", or a couple dozen other things i often read on the forums really, in the long run mean very little. Regardless of what these people (myself included) say about the program, the future success or failure will be determined by others. At best we can simply go along for the ride....and hopefully enjoy it as much as possible. If you get no joy out of Husker football (despite the frustration and sadness it may bring) it is probably best for our health to find other things which do give us happiness. At least until the "results" are a little more tolerable.