The bottom-line of Nebraska's 2025 coaching changes

Are the Huskers ahead, even or behind given what they lost?

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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?