No, that's the problem. We are not the "Kansas" of anything. We are sill Nebraska and Nebraska is 3-6 and just lost to 1-6 Purdue. That's the program we are right now, and it's taken many years and lots of effort to get us here.
Wrong. It took one year. We were NEVER this bad in many years...and we will never get much better with this coaching staff. I really feel bad for these players...
You're wrong. This has been building for years.
Getting pushed around twice by the Jacks of South Dakota State. The hail mary joke over Northwestern. The worst Special teams in the country for several years. A miracle win over McNeese. Losing to Iowa after being +3 in turnovers, but able to squeak out a win in OT.
Getting pushed around at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. A liability taking snaps a QB for almost a decade now.
We were a fringe top 25 team for the last 7 years, and now we're a bottom 25 team. And your comment about the "worst special teams in the country for several years" is unequivocally false.
Before DPE we couldn't field a punt. Every team flipped the field on us punting. I don't remember if it was 2012 or 2013, but the team averaged something like 3 yards per return.
No one keep these stats so it will be impossible to prove, but around that same time we had one of the worst kick off defense teams in the country. I'm thinking it was in Bo's 2nd-3rd year when the defense was really thin. Nearly every drive started past the 35.
There have been strong individual efforts (Henery and DPE) but I'm positive that at times we had one of the worst efforts in punt returning and kick off defense for multiple years.