Why do Nebraska fans always do this when people leave our program, the coach or player wasn't that good because ______? Our scoring defense was 20th in the country and 11th the year prior, but now that our DC left us it really wasn't that great of an accomplishment because the offenses were inept?
Nebraska held 9 of the 13 opponents they played last year under their scoring average (UTEP, Northern Cockeye, Colorado, Purdue, Rutgers, Ohio State, USC, Cockeye, and Boston College). We can only play who is on our schedule. If we want to say having a top 25 scoring defense two years in a row with him isn't that great because we are in the B1G and the teams aren't that good, I'm not sure what we do to make people happy.
For the record, last year here are the top25 scoring defenses from our conference:
Ohio State (1st) - National Champions
Penn State (6th) - CFP Semifinal
Indiana (7th) - CFP
Minnesota (10th)
Cockeye (15th)
Oregon (16th) - CFP
Michigan (17th)
Nebraska (20th)
4 CFP teams, Cockeye and Michigan who are known for defense, then Minnesota. I think that's pretty good company to be keeping as a DC. Butler may need to be top10 this year to make people happy since the only top 25 scoring offenses we played last year (Colorado, Indiana, Ohio State) are no longer on the schedule.