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Who the AD was certainly had something to do with it tho. Who you can hire, who you can recruit, and how you should spend your free time not being told to you by your AD is a pretty big deal. The shortcomings that we saw were absolutely multiplied by how Bo handled them, so I think you are right there. I'm not trying to claim Bo is some mastermind coach, I just would have liked to see what he could do if we would have kept an AD that didn't insert themselves where they have no business. I would have liked to see what Bo could have done if he was given the resources Frost and Riley had. Maybe his recruiting shortfalls would have been alleviated? Frost has to get to 3 conference title games in the next 4 years to match what Bo did, that would be an incredible run and certainly solidify our thoughts that we brought in the right guy. I'm expecting a conference title the next 4 years, so that will trump everything.In a list of reasons why Bo had better seasons in his first 5 or so years, I don't think who the AD was is at the top.
In short, the shortcomings we saw under Bo were primarily the result of Bo.
I just don't think it's a coincidence that when we hired Steve Pedersen and Shawn Eichorst we had some of the worst runs in Nebraska football history. There's too much smoke there.