So, because Frost has failed at Nebraska to make his team better BB will also fail at Illinois? Don't count on it. Bret will make Illinois competitive. Book it.
Nevada,
I hate to agree on this one...but I feel the same. Bielema will get the Illini into the West Champiosnhip in a few years. He knows Big 10 country and style. That said...GO HAWKS!
There is quite a lot of parity in the B1G West.
Despite his circus antics ... Fleck has shown that he can field decent teams coming out of Minnesota.
Wisconsin remains the primary "big dog" of the West until someone else can prove that they can regularly unseat them.
Iowa and Northwestern are both solid programs ... Northwestern owning 2 divisional titles to Iowa's 1 over the past 6 years. Both are fine and strong programs.
Brohm has pulled Purdue out of the sewer ... but they have still been pretty consistently inconsistent. Obviously they show the potential to be extremely dynamic on offense ... at least via the passing game.
For a while, it appeared that Illinois had been a dumpster fire ... however, part of that may have been youth on the squad ... because, it had appeared that Lovie Smith had the Illini on the "upswing." Brett has something to work with there in Urbana-Champaign. I agree that Brett will likely field a competitive squad there. However, will it ascend to the upper echelons of the conference or division? That will remain to be seen.
As for Nebraska ... it's hard to say. It's probably best to still describe them as being consistently inconsistent. If I were to guess ... culture seems to be the biggest problem there. They suffer from some of the same sort of issues that Michigan faces ... a lot of entitlement issues where they automatically think that the emblem on their jersey makes them great. They need to "earn the right" to be that level of stupid-cocky. It strikes me that Scott Frost is too close to the Huskers of yesteryear to realize the error in that side of things. Unlike Michigan ... the Huskers don't benefit from the same immediate bed of recruiting talent ... so their level of performance has been well below that of Michigan.