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Nebraska Football: 3 takeaways from ugly loss at Minnesota

By Connor Muldowney

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - OCTOBER 12: JD Spielman #10 of the Nebraska Cornhuskers is unable to catch a punt by the Minnesota Gophers during the third quarter of the game at TCF Bank Stadium on October 12, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Gophers defeated the Cornhuskers 34-7. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - OCTOBER 12: JD Spielman #10 of the Nebraska Cornhuskers is unable to catch a punt by the Minnesota Gophers during the third quarter of the game at TCF Bank Stadium on October 12, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Gophers defeated the Cornhuskers 34-7. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) /
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LINCOLN, NE – OCTOBER 5: Head coach Scott Frost of the Nebraska Cornhuskers watches action during the game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Memorial Stadium on October 5, 2019 in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images)
LINCOLN, NE – OCTOBER 5: Head coach Scott Frost of the Nebraska Cornhuskers watches action during the game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Memorial Stadium on October 5, 2019 in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images) /

1. Good turnarounds take more than two years

Before the season started, I think everyone and their brother were predicting Nebraska to be the Big Ten West favorite. The Cornhuskers finished the 2018 season with a 4-8 record, but won more in the final month than they did in the first two. They were carrying plenty of momentum over into 2019 and they had one of the brightest young quarterbacks in the nation.

But we were all victims of the hype train.

Nebraska was given too much hype for a team that had just four wins in Scott Frost’s first season and because he turned UCF around quickly, everyone just assumed he’d do the same with the Cornhuskers. But the situations were not the exact same.

So for that reason, the Cornhuskers are looked at as a disappointment after falling to 4-3, but in reality, Frost is doing a solid job of turning this program around as four wins have come by the first week of October and last year it took until the last week of the season.

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Good turnarounds take more than two years, so we should be giving Frost a little break here — just look at what PJ Fleck has done in over two years at Minnesota.

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