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Originally Posted by CoMoChief
MU pissants were crying in an earlier thread after a Husker fan stated that MU wished what OU TX and NEB had (Tradition).
I many ways he was right.......then MU fans came in whining and bragging how they kicked NEB ass etc.....
Which is great.....I hate NEB football more than any other program on earth. But they have a great tradition as well as OU and TX and they don't have to recruit as hard because players come to them because of the programs prominence around the country. Every year usually those teams are in the hunt for a NC.
Now MU had one year like that.....and this is the year to win it all because Chase and co will all be gone next season and MU's not a big enough program yet where they can just pick up where they left off and reload.....MU is going to have to rebuild and etc...
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Nobody in that thread said that MU had the same tradition as Nebraska. That thread was about a Nebraska fan trying to pat Nebraska on the back for something that has no bearing on the current reality of college football.
Nebraska currently has much less prominence around the country than Mizzou. If you think that they don't have to recruit as hard because elite players want to play there, you are out of touch with reality. This is true of Oklahoma because of their recent success under Stoops, but those days are long gone for Nebraska.
Texas doesn't get the recruits because of their tradition. They have been a good program for the last 25 years, but they haven't been elite. They get recruits because they are swimming in local talent and they are the flagship university in the state. If you put a team with the tradition of Texas in a state like Nevada, they would be a good team, but they wouldn't have the recruits pouring in the way they do now.
Nebraska has neither the recent success of Missouri nor the in state talent of Texas. (Actually, they also have neither the in state talent of Missouri mor the recent success of Texas if you really want to put things into perspective.)
Missouri doesn't have the tradition, but they have a great coach, great talent, and a (possibly) repeatable formula. That's how great teams become great programs.