WNYHuskerFan

No doubt, The old strategy was brilliant. Take a bunch of farm boys, put them through your proper S&C program while everyone else is bodybuilding or thinks weights make you slow, gain an edge because of it and then run everyone over with what comes out. I don't think it can be argued in that scenario the walk on program was great for extra ammunition to feed into that strategy. That weight room edge is long gone exactly because it worked so well at Nebraska that it is just standard now. The edge that came from the walk on program is also gone because of that. Traditions are no good if it locks you in the past and hinders finding new edges in order to actually win today. It is going to get progressively more absurd to be talking to recruits about a winning tradition when you haven't won anything in the kids lifetime.