Yeah people are overthinking this Nebraska performance and trying to say joining Big 10 lost them recruiting grounds, etc. Their recruiting started going down gradually 20 years ago. The combination of not being quite as good, no longer being able to add partial qualifiers, the scholarship reduction and no longer being one of a handful of teams always being on TV all snowballed to reduce their recruiting. Still, Pelini, Riley and Frost have recruited pretty well. They just have been way too inconsistent at QB for years and very undisciplined overall, esp on defense.