I was using the barely in relationship to time. I don't know if our relevancy could handle another Frost era. Another bad coach might have seen us slip into irrelevancy. Frost era was rough.
Probably so.
And BTW, I'm not really celebrating the fact that we're so relevant. It's not really merit-based because we certainly haven't earned it on the field.
NU is just lucky that the 2024 CFB landscape values things that we happen to be strong in: brand strength, online engagement, visible HC, NIL $$$, etc. This has made NU a more relevant CFB program than programs who win *a lot* more than us (like Cockeye, Wisconsin, Minnesota for 3 quick examples).
Much to my chagrin, this also allows Colorado to be a very nationally relevant program. Though that evaporates the second Prime quits there.