It's true that AM has all the physical tools and a good coach has to see that and think "I can coach him up" Clearly he can't be coached up but its easy to see why coaches got it wrong.
The amazing thing with Adrian/KSU is that after the horrendous Tulane loss (which was almost all Adrian's fault), the entire KSU fanbase turned on AM. "Nebraska fans were right about Adrian" and on and on. I figured Adrian was done for.. yet Klieman went right back to him the next week.
I actually thought Adrian was gonna be Klieman's Kevin Cosgrove this year. Like, let's sit back and watch this HC tank his entire season due to loyalty to one guy. Thankfully for Klieman, Adrian kept getting injured so that kind of made his decision for him. But I watched every KSU game this year and it looked pretty evident to me that Klieman was prepared to ride the Adrian train to a 6-6 record.
I lose zero sleep over Frost passing on Burrow because I know with 100% certainty that Frost would have fucked that situation up. And I bet that Burrow would have had to transfer a 2nd time if he came to NU that year. I don't think it even cracks the top 10 of things I'm pissed at Frost about.