ESPN: Is Nebraska football too far gone, even for Scott Frost?

Wow, talk about a fluff piece with minimal current day context that lacks the concept of a coherent story.  Outside of a few quotes its nothing more than a rambling thought piece mixed in with a ground breaking statement that Scott Frost is from Nebraska, as his are parents, and he played for Coach Osborne.  15 minutes I'll never get back in my life

 
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If this Hallie Grossman is who I think she is, she doesn't actually know what she thinks she knows about the program.

Minnesota was one of the best programs in football, what, 70 years ago or something? Was their program too far gone to put together a decent season? No.

So neither is ours. 

 
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I'm in the click bait crowd on this one, the story was fine.   My response to the headline:  Hell Know.   

Too many things still going right to think the program is gone.  Now we will see what Frost can do if he can show that he can be Great. 

I think Nebraska Still puts a great car on the Track but needs to find a driver that can get the most out of the car.    If it were F1 i'd say Red Bull possibly Ferrari quality .......... due to geographical constraints the Mercedes team will probably be in the south most of the time.   But a good driver can still win  high level. 

 
Did you guys actually read the article?

It's well-written, well researched, fair and honest, and, yeah, having an outside journalist with a non-homer perspective spend a week in Lincoln and talking with Frost, his parents, his mentor, his staff, his former teammates and his current teammates is how you tell this story to the larger college football audience. It also weaves together specific info and perspective that is new to me as a lifelong fan, and I actually walked away from the article feeling better about the future of Nebraska football.

The headline might seem like ESPN clickbait: but it's essentially the question posed by our own Jason Peter. Sports journalists can either ignore Nebraska out of pity or irrelevance, or write articles like this. It's pretty much the opposite of fluff. 

 
For Husker fans, most of these issues are very well known and understood. But for most of America, they do not follow Nebraska football nor do younger fans even know much about the great Husker legacy. What they see is mostly the Big Red getting smoked by Ohio State or Wisconsin on the rare Saturday night that the Huskers are on nationally.

This - for better or worse - is the Great American Story. It is another example of the story of someone or something that was very successful and known great heights and has since fallen down mightily. Even for non-football people, that kind of story is interesting. And when you add the angle of the successful former player who comes back to resurrect the program, the story is further enhanced. And when that player doesn’t perform instant miracles... even more drama.

Stepping back a bit, the Husker story is puzzling. How is a “franchise” that knew mostly nothing but success for so many years so apparently incapable of righting the ship? Coach after coach. Assistant after assistant. Recruiting class after recruiting class. Nothing seems to work. That is mysterious and puzzling. How can you get things right for so long and then not seem to get much of anything right?

ESPN is Disney. Disney is in the business of manufacturing drama - either legitimate or contrived. This is the kind of piece that Disney would encourage. Click bait, yes. But it is also based on a true and real dilemma that great minds for over 20 years have not been able to solve. That is, what is wrong with the Huskers and how can you fix it.

Sears was a great company. It was so big that nothing could touch it. Now, it’s barely breathing. Slow to innovate. Slow to adapt to changing times. Bringing in the wrong people. Other companies have followed a similar course.

In some ways, the Huskers are like Sears. Huskers were slow to adapt to changing times. Huskers let “competitors” - other major college programs - catch up and pass them by. And when you’ve lost market share, it’s not easy to get it back.

Frost is not the only person who could right the ship. But he may or may not be the guy to do it. Some things are just not meant to happen.

 
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For Husker fans, most of these issues are very well known and understood. But for most of America, they do not follow Nebraska football nor do younger fans even know much about the great Husker legacy. What they see is mostly the Big Red getting smoked by Ohio State or Wisconsin on the rare Saturday night that the Huskers are on nationally.

This - for better or worse - is the Great American Story. It is another example of the story of someone or something that was very successful and known great heights and has since fallen down mightily. Even for non-football people, that kind of story is interesting. And when you add the angle of the successful former player who comes back to resurrect the program, the story is further enhanced. And when that player doesn’t perform instant miracles... even more drama.

Stepping back a bit, the Husker story is puzzling. How is a “franchise” that knew mostly nothing but success for so many years so apparently incapable of righting the ship? Coach after coach. Assistant after assistant. Recruiting class after recruiting class. Nothing seems to work. That is mysterious and puzzling. How can you get things right for so long and then not seem to get much of anything right?

ESPN is Disney. Disney is in the business of manufacturing drama - either legitimate or contrived. This is the kind of piece that Disney would encourage. Click bait, yes. But it is also based on a true and real dilemma that great minds for over 20 years have not been able to solve. That is, what is wrong with the Huskers and how can you fix it.

Sears was a great company. It was so big that nothing could touch it. Now, it’s barely breathing. Slow to innovate. Slow to adapt to changing times. Bringing in the wrong people. Other companies have followed a similar course.

In some ways, the Huskers are like Sears. Huskers were slow to adapt to changing times. Huskers let “competitors” - other major college programs - catch up and pass them by. And when you’ve lost market share, it’s not easy to get it back.

Frost is not the only person who could right the ship. But he may or may not be the guy to do it. Some things are just not meant to happen.
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A bit off topic, but are you by any chance related to 84HuskerLaw?

 
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