No Big Ten team has reshaped its coaching staff to the degree Nebraska has so far this offseason. Entering year three of a new coaching regime, that much change is somewhat extreme. When we’ve seen it in the past, it has more often been a marker of one of two extremes:
A) The reflection of success in that things are off to such a fast start that original assistants are getting plucked away. Or…
B) The more classic “nothing else is working so maybe change will” move of desperation that often means a head coach has one year to turn things around. This can happen at any point in a coaching tenure, doesn’t have to be year three, though it’s usually1 right around then.
The Huskers in 2025 don’t really fit into either category. After going 7-6 this season, NU can point to progress, even if it’s slight. It also lost a valued coordinator to a coaching staff that is closer to Extreme B than the Huskers are, which remains odd.
With the dust mostly settled from Nebraska’s staff reshuffling, now seemed like a good time to try and take a bottom-line approach to all of the changes. Did the Huskers come out ahead, even or behind with each one, and how about overall?
