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Just something I realized recently.

I noted several years ago that our 9+ win seasons in 2008, 2012, and 2015 led to above-average (for NU) recruiting classes in 2010, 2014, and 2017 and 2017 was key as that would be the first time NU would have two of their above-average recruiting classes at the same time so we needed to get 9+ wins in 2017 to keep the recruiting momentum.

We accomplished that and now have a good recruiting pipeline, but now the B10W has a bunch of talented young coaches. Wisconsin will keep Wisconsining and Iowa will do the Ferentz thing of having a great season every 5 years or so and being mediocre the rest of the time (results-wise, Fitz's NU is now kind of like Ferentz's Iowa except with more frequent but lower highs). But I expect PU and Minny to improve and Frost will have UNL back contending by 2021at the latest but probably by 2020.

That means that our best chance at winning the B10W will be this season and 2019.