There's a reason, relatively speaking, why Nebraska wasn't very successful from 1988 to 1991.I disagree with your assessment of those years' success. But even accepting it, a QB recruited in '90, for example, wouldn't have been playing in most cases those years anyway. Recruiting is a lagging indicator.
That's why I said "relative"; comparative to the previous 4 years or the successive 4 years, that time period could be considered "down years".
Yes, but then by that theory, we should look at the 2 to 4 recruiting classes proceeding that cycle.
Anyway, the point is, without context that list posted by the recruitnik "reporter" is pretty meaningless and obviously designed to incite just these sorts of arguments.
What context does there need to be, though? All of the QBs mentioned were hard misses by Pelini and staff.