While I normally agree, I think it was who Eno was that is the problem. This guy recruited guys for us which helped out tremendously in Texas.
Okay, true. But need I to remind you of the NFL quality development that goes on there? Your program is the most impressive development program in all of college football. I say this because your setup doesn't live and die by impact freshman, it will find impressive bodies and character to build. It's quite impressive and something I wouldn't change (except for the puzzling receiver deficiencies).
Your program always strattles the like between four win and undefeated seasons. And that is okay because almost all games are always physical and go down to the wire. You can be 4-8 and beat an undefeated team or go 12-2 while losing to a nobody. Your opponents get beat up and always leave worse off for having played you no matter the outcome.
The only thing I'd change would be to double up on the wr and qb walkons and hire a specialized development "trainer" and buy specialized "equipment" in the hopes of enhanced development.
Also. I see how you guys like to say "That's just too sexy". Sexy doesn't guarentee success. In fact, it guarentees that you must gain significantly more yards than your non-sexy opponents to have a chance of winning.
Take our game last year. We had 450 yards of offense to your 250 (same as psu and osu last night, actually). Guess who won both games? The non-sexy teams. Why? Because 450 to 250 yards doesn't even tell half the story, it's like taking a sentence out of the full story (context). Sexy is not efficient, it is more risky, it guarantees more mistakes, it's choosing the dark side of the sport which works well if you aren't too unlucky with your carelessness.
I also admire your program because all opponents are afraid to play you regardless of your record. Your mean, physical, smart, efficient and will get more out of each yard than the rest of us.
I mean I get it though. You probably get frustrated at how much better the sexy programs look. You also hear so much about them while you typically get a little bit more overlooked. Nebraska has been on both sides of that coin. And let me tell you, the grass is always greener and I am excited to work away from sexy and go back to cleaner ball. It's all hindsight fellas.
So forget Eno, Calloway etc.. You dont have rb or cb deficiencies and probably never will. You were fin even during the airbag years. I guarantee they wouldnt have made a bit of difference to the outcome of your games. Get more wr and dual threat qb bodies (walkons or scholarship) while keeping everything else the same, then I think you'd be strattling more on the right side of the aforementioned thin-line of consistency.
