As many of us said during his playing years, Martinez's success, or lack thereof, here had far more to do with the talent around him that it did his own. He had the worst line Nebraska has had since before Devany, no name running backs, and receivers that struggled to catch a ball. How many touch downs did Cade Warner drop? Martinez was the only reason we had so many one loss games under Frost, without him we would have looked like a MAC school out there, just as we did at the end of Riley's tenure. You remember him not being great because he had no room for error whatsoever. For us to win he literally had to be perfect every snap of every game. His 1-2 errors out of 75ish snaps seemingly cost the game because he was literally the only one who could win the game for us so if he wasn't perfect it didn't happen. I, for one, will always say Martinez was way better than most give him credit for and its good he's getting the chance to prove it.
