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Losing My Religion
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So you’re saying a top 25 roster shouldnt expect more than 6 wins? Ok gotcha. Oregon isn’t unbeatable. NU should compete against them. They aren’t chopped liver. Indiana beat them twice last year, with only 6, 4* players on its roster. Location is BS excuse. Nebraska constantly does less with more.
Losing your religion is fine.
Just don't lose your faith or sovereignty.
It's a game, played by teenager's.
And the "religion" ( college football) is changing.
So is it's relevance, in my world
I don't support Bad Religion, unless it's the punk band from California.
Fan since the 90's.
Just don't lose your faith or sovereignty.
It's a game, played by teenager's.
And the "religion" ( college football) is changing.
So is it's relevance, in my world
I don't support Bad Religion, unless it's the punk band from California.
Fan since the 90's.
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We definitely don't develop players well. Part of that is our revolving door coaching staff and constantly changing offensive and defensive schemes. I highly question the ability of the recruiting services to predict anything outside of the top 10 recruiting classes. As I posted previously, here is the breakdown of All American and NFL draft picks by high school stars. We overwhelmingly get 3 star guys out of high school. Only 1 out of 19 three star players get drafted. only 1 out of 200 becomes a first round pick. We get a few four stars a year and almost never any 5 start players. Contrast that with Oregon who gets 10-20 4 and 5 star prospects a year.
Indiana rebuilt 70% of their starting roster. They were smart enough and had the funds to find those 2 and 3 star guys who proved they could play at a high level in college and brought them in through the transfer portal. They have 3 player threatening first round pick status. It's not a coincidence.
We recruit roughly at the level of a mid-tier big 10 program. Mostly 3 star who, as shown below, are mostly a crapshoot who usually don't become stars. Iowa and Wisconsin (before they blew themselves up) succeeded in part by having continuity and consistency in vision. We just keep blowing things up and trying to start over. Wisconsin is getting a taste of how that goes.
Reality is that the best players don't want to go to Nebraska. A big part of it is geography, but guys want to win and we haven't won anything in a generation. I had hoped NIL might entice some guys to come to Lincoln, but to this point it hasn't made a material difference.
We are in the bottom half of the big 10 in terms of producing NFL talent. Yeah, some of that is our sorry player development driven in no small part by a lack of continuity.
Every reasonable metric says we are mid tier big 10 team.
| Prospect Rating | Population (Annual) | All-American Rate | NFL Draft Rate | 1st Round Draft Rate |
| 5-Star | ~32–35 | ~33% – 38% | 63% – 71% | ~34% |
| 4-Star | ~300–350 | ~10% – 12% | 22% – 25% | ~3.8% |
| 3-Star | ~1,800–2,000 | ~1% – 2% | 6% – 7% | ~0.4% |
and probably at the lower end of the middle tier.
Barely.
Here's a list of average conference wins per team since we joined in 2011 (I left out the west coast teams because they've only been in the conference for two years.)
We are at the bottom of the middle third. We've had 5 .500+ seasons in 15 years, 4 of them occurred in the first four years (Bo's last 4 seasons and Riley's 2nd.)
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Unfortunately, in today’s world, player development means that you have created a more valuable commodity on the open market who is either going to demand more money or move on. That’s why I question whether player development is even important anymore. It really boils down to how much money you have.
I was probably being generous calling us a mid-tier program. I think we have traditionally recruited as a mid tier program but I'm not sure how much that matters in 2026 with the portal
You must be my lost twin. Almost identical story, except I did give them up this year.
I’ll go to a game or two, but watching a team with no identity and less interest in the game than me is not fun.
bingo! Player development...we develop 'em, they get paid somewhere else.
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That is happening all across college football…not just at Nebraska.
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I believe our basketball team showed that our fans would positively respond when Nebraska puts a winning program on the floor. Look how our fans attended all our home games and the NCAA tournament run. Our major problem with our football program is CLEARLY lack of success imo. Who wants to watch endless loses to teams like IA? Then get pounded by the big names like Michigan, OSU, USC, OR. and now IND? That clearly sucks and it’s hard to watch even on TV let alone going to games. How about the fan support of our Volleyball program... as good as anywhere in the country. Sadly our football program clearly has SUCKED in boxcar letters most of the last 25 years. What happens now with millions of dollars deciding who gets most of the best players is another issue.... Start winning and Nebraska fan enthusiasm will greatly improve imo...
Yep. With the top 10 money programs gathering the developed talent. Rinse, lather, and repeat.
It's not about your tradition, conference, or fan support anymore. It's about who your billionaire sugar daddy is.
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