The 2023 Nebraska football season didn’t finish off the way Husker fans, players and coaches hoped. That doesn’t mean that the future doesn’t still look bright. Matt Rhule and company saw development and progress that wasn’t a part of the Scott Frost experiment.
At least one former Nebraska football star agrees the program is still in line for a turnaround. Former wingback Clester Johnson took to X earlier this week to let it be known he has faith that the Cornhuskers will eventually turn it around.
“At a point,” Johnson started his post. “Michigan was down Notre Dame, Alabama, Georgia, even Ohio State was a side bar Miami was down and Florida State! I donât know when it will be or who turns it around but if you got resources like Nebraska itâs just a matter of time someone uses the resources correctly.”
The sentiment by Johnson is one that countless other Nebraska football players and fans have held for years now. But it does raise the question as to just when the turnaround will come. What’s going to happen the rest of this weekend could be one sign that Matt Rhule is the guy to finally pull it off.
The idea that Nebraska football’s return to glory hits harder coming from a guy that was there during those glory days. He knows what it takes to have the ultimate success. He knows what the program has looked like since Tom Osborne left and the Cornhuskers started their slide past mediocrity.
