Making Sense of the Most Intriguing Spring For Nebraska Football

Not only don’t we know a lot, I’m not sure we know what we don’t know at this point.

The last seven or eight months have been rather atypical for Nebraska football. Losing to MAC schools, or having schools like Minnesota hang fifty-burgers was unfamiliar territory. Likewise, the hiring of Scott Frost and his bringing his fusion of offensive philosophies from Chip Kelly and Tom Osborne to Lincoln with a roster that, for the most part, recruited by Mike Riley for 1980’s style professional offense leaves far too many questions going into the spring. (And let’s not even begin trying to figure out what-the-hell Bob Diaco was trying to do last year.)

Bottom line is that we don’t know what’s going on. We get little bits of practice reports, and we’re trying to reconcile what we, as fans, saw in the Peach Bowl with the players that got boat-raced by Iowa last Thanksgiving. (*shudder*)

After signing day, our fearless leader wanted the CornNation team to start writing previews of spring practice, but several of us stopped Jon at that time. Yes, we always have written these, but what were we supposed to write this year? I mean, we knew the names of players and what position they played or were recruited for…but we really have no idea how they will fit into Frost’s program. And to be honest, I’m not sure Scott Frost really knew either, going into the spring. He had his systems, and how players fit (or don’t fit) is all going to work it’s way out this spring and possibly into the summer.