[Husker] rankings and results

[Mike Nolan]

As people know, I hold a relatively low regard for recruiting rankings.
If Jimmy the Greek wasn't dead, he'd probably be doing recruiting point
spreads.  :-)

I'm not convinced it measures anything other than conventional wisdom,
And that's not what Nebraska was known for in the past.

If this year's recruiting class is in the top 5, is that a measure of
how much better the recruits are or is it really a measure of how much 
more conventional the Huskers are compared to what they were during the 
Osborne years?  How many of the 8 man football players who have gone on
to be All-Americans at Nebraska made Rival's top 10 at their positions?
(I suspect the answer is zero, that may still be true if you expand
it to the top 100.)

UT is an interesting example, because I think that's likely to be the
next school that fires a successful coach because he wasn't successful
ENOUGH.  (Notre Dame and Nebraska may be the two most recent examples
of that, though there are plenty of folks willing to say that both coaches
deserved their fates.)  

If Mack Brown ever has a 5-6 year, he better hope ESPN needs a color 
analyst, because he'll be lucky not to get tarred and feathered in Austin.
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Mike Nolan