You've done this in the past, and you are doing it again now. Your "wish" for an offense at Nebraska is completely unrealistic and is based on how offenses operated 30-40 years ago.
You want 550 yards of offense a game? Well only one team in the country achieved that in 2021 (Ohio State).
You want 300 yards rushing? That was done by 2 military academies, Air Force and Army.
You want a 70-30 run-pass ratio? Again, only done by military academies.
You want a top offense in the country while having more rush yards than passing yards? Of the top 20 offenses, only 1 team is anywhere near a 50-50 ratio and that Coastal Carolina.
You need to have an understanding of how modern football actually works, because your posts make no sense when you make posts of your "wishes". The only thing that will make your wish come true is if you get in that Delorean of yours and go back to the 1980s and 1990s.
What your arguing was also claimed back then too. Dam few teams ran the Osbone or wishbone then. That’s why it worked better than any other offense - when run exceptionally well. Two primary advantages to a different run based offense:
1 Teams never practiced against it and really couldn’t even simulate it at the level needed to defend it. Because nobody could as didn’t know how and didn’t have time.
2. Recruiting was much easier when you recruited athletes that nobody else wanted. In the everybody else offenses, NU and OU have to search high and low and try to lure guys away from home. OU has had success because of Texas being close and the SW conference imploded basically leaving lots of guys available for those two. Texas used the bone along with half a dozen others in the 70s as well. Today - to run what virtually everybody else does, NU must out recruit the top 5 to get the very best fun n gun guys. Can’t be done.
Even TO tried, unsuccessfully to run the popular offenses in the 70s but couldn’t best teams with comparable and better talent. So, he wisely converted to an offense nobody else ran and the 80s and 90s resulted.
if NU goes even further away from power run / option, things, things will get worse, not better. Bama sits in the heart of football talent. Ohio Stste similarly. Clemson draws off the SE pool (AL, GA, Fl with scatterings from outside.
Milt Tenopir built his pipeline - he didn’t recruit it essentially. We recruited guys who were all but ignored by most non-power / option. Finding future NFL guys was NOT a Neb recruiting goal. We wanted the tough, hardest working guys we could make into Husker football players. Some became pros but mostly defensive guys. We had many great QBs but not many NFL QBs. OU the same way. Bama and Texas likewise. But all 4 programs won lots of games.
It will be a terrible mistake to try to go all pass happy (ier) in the effort to get over the hump. Frost and many others say we are ‘close’ and we were this year. But close to what? Winning 6 more games by 3 or 7 pts and being 9-3 instead of 3-9? That’s still a long ways from 12-0 and winning a natty. That gets us up to where TO was before he switched offenses and then changed defenses from big and slow to small and fast. Our defenses which became good at beating the air raid teams had trouble stopping our own offense, even though we saw it everyday in practice. We usually stuffed the other Big 8 foes who tried to play BB on grass but with lesser talent overall. Miami beat us with great defense, not offense.
TO and BD both also made sure the special teams were exceptional. Period. Frost is so focused on offense (trying to out fun n gun the rest) he loses sight of the other aspects of building a championship caliber team. He uses too many scholarships on skill offensive spots, he fails to get great defensive guys and specialists. He even ignored the O line - I guess thinking the big dummies are easy to just grab off the street.
