The main reason Nebraska is trending in the right direction...

Nebraska has a crunch game under the lights of Memorial Stadium against Big Ten foe Illinois, which will go a long way to seeing how good this Nebraska team is. That being said, one has to take a step back to get the 1000-mile view of the program and analyze how healthy it is.

Matt Rhule is a CEO-type leader with natural speaking ability and charm that comes across so well in the media. College football is in flux at the moment and no one can claim they have a crystal ball of what it may look like next season, let alone in 5 years.

Get old and stay old.

This has been a saying repeated for years at Nebraska, but no coach has replicated it. The talent level has been so thin at crucial positions…