This is not UF or UT or OSU where coaches will be lining up for the job. It has nothing to do with the name, with the tradition of the facilities but it has everything to do with the recruiting. NU is not an easy play to recruit.
You build the best style of team that your recruiting shortcomings afford you. So why don't we go back to our roots and get the big, local farm boys like we used to (and like Wisconsin does now)? Those were the kids that would play above their heads and to their last breath for their team and their fans. They gave the team a soul. It just feels like these Pelini teams don't have a heart and soul. Bo has said it himself: They play for themselves.....and therein lies the problem. If they had any sense of pride, heart, and soul, they'd beat down the cupcakes that they were supposed to beat down, and Memorial would be a horrible place for an opposing team to visit (like Camp Randall). We have a very poorly motivated team, bordering on outright laziness, and it shows in how they play.
I'm sick and tired of hearing that our old formulas for success wouldn't work today. We just got thoroughly schooled by a team that directly patterned itself after our old philosophies. Wisconsin didn't do anything fancy with a bunch of 5 star recruits. They just gave us a good, old-fashioned Nebraska beat down---and guess what? It still works today like it did in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Just like a house, a team starts with a foundation. We didn't build a good one, and for every wall we seem to build, another falls down.