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That puts a lot on the shoulders of Bo, I'd say, and it doesn't address the overall athletic profile of NU. Bo has no affect on the baseball and basketball programs, and while I quite like the two basketball coaches, the situation is tenuous at best over there. baseball, too, could go either way. At any rate, Bo can't pay the assistants. That's admin's call, and Watson is a crucial part of the success. He needs to be compensated to the point where it'd take a BCS coaching job to tear him away. Bo can't mandate that. And Bo can't fight TV networks that dump NU on pay-per-view in favor of equally crappy Texas games. And Bo can't argue for across-the-board equal TV revenue sharing, which has helped the SEC gain more parity. Hiring Pelini is a start. It's not the finish.

Didn't I bring this up before and was shouted down? Texas kids wanna play in Texas, so if Baylor, improves the kids will stay there... NU and the North schools are actually competing with TCU and UH for 0-3 star Texas kids most of the time, while UT, OU and LSU are getting the best 3-5 star kids from here. I am a native Austinite, UT grad and a Big Red fan since childhood, but facts are facts. Hard to beat UT, Ou or even Baylor, Tech or OSU if they are getting better Texas kids. The key is to get the walkon program rolling again for depth and a few hidden gems, lock down all instate talent, hit Big 12 north and beat out the Iowas, Missouris and Kansases for for great talent next door, then we must hit on some 3-5 star RBs, WRs, TEs and QBs and defensive skill players from CA, AZ, LA, TX, FLA, GA, SC, OH, PA, NJ... What made us successful, minus the partial and non-qualifiers can be repeated, with better recruiting. This is a BIG state vs SMALL state problem, and it is nationwide. Pac 10, is dominated by the CA/USC Trojans, not Oregon, WA or AZ teams. The SEC is dominated by FLA, not UGA, Tenn and LSU is great, why, becaus eit border Texas and recruits nationally. Big 10, its OH and PA dominating. ACC, the FLA are in Flux, but VA Tech dominates because of size and recruiting. More folks, state schools, more alumns and fans, bigger TV ratings. Why do you thing ABC allowed UT move up the Tech game to early season when the Red Raider might likely be ranked as opposed to later, when they will not be ranked with 3-5 losses? UT has POWER and INFLUENCE!!! The fact that Mack Brown has 1 conference title in 11 years is a JOKE! He is in GRAVY train land in Austin, excellent weather, talent galore, 700K folks in the city more than a millon in metro, state capital, load of alumns, 90k stadium... He has it all, but has just 1 big 12 title to OU's 6 in lil bitty, cold weather Norman!!! Bo can do it, just like the other Youngstown, Big 10 safety did at OU!!! Let's talk Mack Brown being a joke for a moment. I mean, really talk about it. He took over a program in 1998 that was a mess. A total mess. John Mackovic was like the Steve Pederson of Texas football...he told off all the boosters and made them look in a mirror on facilities, etc. And Brown walked into a football program no less broken and angry than Nebraska's in 2008. Yeah, having Ricky Williams that first year helped. But Brown has consistently turned out 10-game winners since then with four different defensive coordinators. He was smart enough to turn Vince Young loose when Young asked to simplify the offense and, what's more, the man win bowls games. Since 2005, he's 3-2 vs. OU and 5-0 in bowl games. If you look at Osborne's track record in this regard in his 8-12 years (1980-1984) you'll see something oddly similar - a coach whose teams found their stride. Let's also not kid ourselves. Texas was jobbed out of the Big 12 south title last year, losing in the last second, on the road, while Oklahoma was handily beaten, head to head, on a neutral site.

True!! However, a little tool called knowledge can battle this technique quite well. I agree. However, if Nebraska continues winning and performing well on the field, that'll go a long way in equalizing the recruiting playing field. Texas has almost all the advantages when it comes to recruiting in the Big 12 and other schools, such as USC and Florida, have those same advantages in California and Florida respectively. The good news is that if Bo and Nebraska can keep putting a winning product on the field, we'll be able to recruit the best of the best. For me, if we start consistently losing all recruits to all the Texas schools, then there will be reason to be worried. Until that happens, which will again be very unlikely, it is as Shakespeare said, "Much ado about nothing..." It's instructive to note that while Texas had these advantages for 30 years, the Horns nevertheless squandered most of them. Texas dithered around after Royal left until Mack Brown was hired. Yes, UT is merely fulfilling its massive potential. But let us be clear: That wasn't happening at the inception of the Big 12. The machine Brown's running down there is considerably more formidable than it was 5-6 years ago. It's lot like what happened when Ohio State got its crap together and dumped John Cooper. No more Iowa and Wisconsin flouncing through the Big Ten and stealing a title here or there. Over. Ohio State has a death grip on it, Penn State is occasionally invited to the party and Michigan could go either way. So it will be in Big 12. The Big 12 North hasn't won a league title since 2003, Nebraska hasn't since 1999, and unless NU wants to become a team that only gets to bite apple once or twice a decade, it needs to act. JMO.

The reality is, it doesn't matter how much money you have if you don't spend it wisely. Texas sits amid an embarrassment of football riches, but they squander those riches by failing to produce consistently world-beating teams. Even in the midst of the worst era of Husker football in my lifetime, we lost to Texas two times by a total of five points. And that was with ridiculous coaching and inflexible game plans. Texas can double or even triple our income. It won't matter a hill of beans until they start to dominate on the field. Texas does dominate on the field. It's now begun to happen in baseball, too.

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Kind of a surprise...Doc got to this guy before other schools could get in and offer him http://www.huskerlocker.com/blogs/view/bid...ds_one_for_2010

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