Here's the question for everyone because it is the best comparison you can have...
How would Scott Frost do if he had no +3 that he could recruit to every cycle, and had to have the scholarship open immediately to be able to recruit a kid? For example, if he knew of three kids leaving after spring ball, he could not offer their scholarship until the kids were truly gone, leaving only grad transfers or JUCO guys in the summer to go after, not able to use those scholarships for high school kids that recruiting class? Further, a great high school player could go pro right out of high school, and if you go after the top end guys you run the risk of them leaving and getting drafted, and that scholarship if they accepted and signed with you, could not be back filled so you play with one less scholarship that year. Further, if a guy leaves early in the draft after his sophomore or junior year, you can not back fill that position either with high school recruits. Now imagine that Scott Frost and the Big10 are one of the only conferences that have that rule, and the SEC, Big12, ACC, Pac12 all can recruit the same way we currently know for football. They can recruit over the limit and not have to worry about the draft or attrition, because they can recruit to it, where Nebraska could not. That's the literal situation we are in right now.
The literal example is Cole Stobbe out of Millard West, an infielder that was getting high draft grades. Erstad can't match the offer Arkansas gave him, because if he does go pro, we would lose out on the 75% scholarship we offered, we would be penalized that for the year. Arkansas can offer Stobbe 75%, but also go use that same 75% on 2 or 3 other kids and say "if Stobbe goes pro, this is yours." Arkansas gets 3 or 4 kids committed with the same 75% scholarship and can provide a safety net for themselves while going after the top talent. If Nebraska would have gained Stobbe's commitment, he ended up signing after getting drafted, and we would have been playing without that scholarship for the next season.
Would we still expect Scott Frost to be able to compete with any of those other conference schools with that big of a disadvantage in recruiting? Would we still be comparing what he needed to do to what was going on when he was playing here?