My memory is fine. I thought he was a complete a—hole and couldn’t stand him. He was a better coach than I gave him credit for at the time though.
I want him to be a successful coach again far away from us.
Anyone else’s respect for Pelini go up?
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My memory is fine. I thought he was a complete a—hole and couldn’t stand him. He was a better coach than I gave him credit for at the time though.
I want him to be a successful coach again far away from us.
He may still be here if he wasn't psychotic.
After hearing what he said to the players after he was fired got leaked, I don't think he should be in any position where he is leading young men.
After hearing what he said to the players after he was fired got leaked, I don't think he should be in any position where he is leading young men.
Wooooow, two whole guys out of 4 years post-Suh.
The 2010 DL/DE recruiting class:
Tobi Okuyemi who?
Chase Rome meh
Walker Ashburn who?
Donovan Vestal meh
Jay Guy meh
Jake Cotton was listed as OL/DL, obviously played OL, most famous for false-starting by falling over.
2011:
Joe Carter meh
David Sutton meh
Todd Peat meh (had a famous brother)
Kevin Williams played some IIRC, but not great
2012 finally got some decent recruits:
Avery Moss wasted potential
Greg McMullen meh
Vincent Valentine
Aaron Curry meh
2013:
Dimarya Mixon who?
Ernest Suttles meh
Randy Gregory good pickup
AJ Natter meh
Maliek Collins
Kevin Maurice meh
This list sucks outside of 3 guys.
Actually, Pelini was calling for investments in a beefed up recruiting operation, but was rebuffed. Those resources came after he was canned. Bo was an angry dick, but his admins were passive aggressive dicks.
Bo Pelini rips Nebraska AD Shawn Eichorst in expletive-laced rant
Former Nebraska coach Bo Pelini criticized athletic director Shawn Eichorst and the school's administration in an expletive-laced rant during a 30-minute meeting with players a few days after he was fired late last month. Nebraska dismissed Pelini last month after he led the Cornhuskers to a...
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If he was a good coach, why isn’t he coaching now?
If he wasn’t an out of control jerk, I think he would still be here.
When everyone was sick of his antics and few liked him, he became expendable. He burned bridges with the fans and administrators with his bs, but 9-10 wins for 7 seasons straight looks better and better. Hopefully Rhule can do that or better while being likable.
If he was worth a shit, he'd be a head coach today instead of fired from his last gig, almost fired by his hometown school, and fired from the job before that.
Nobody has any use for a defensive coach that doesn't know shit about defense.
If the question was 'how much money does Bo Pelini owe Ndamukong Suh for making people believe he could coach defense?" it's double digit millions.
Nobody has any use for a defensive coach that doesn't know shit about defense.
If the question was 'how much money does Bo Pelini owe Ndamukong Suh for making people believe he could coach defense?" it's double digit millions.
Nothing more needs to be said, BUT what caps it is he could have hired an interested Whittingham and instead we get the corpse of Mike Riley
As soon as Nebraska stops reaching for it all and starts settling for just better than avg. I will stop caring.
I am glad he has found greener pastures and Nebraska has moved on.
Now just waiting to see if Nebraska will hire winners at HC instead of unwinners and losers.
I am glad he has found greener pastures and Nebraska has moved on.
Now just waiting to see if Nebraska will hire winners at HC instead of unwinners and losers.
Don’t misunderstand me I definitely want to get back to winning 9 plus games every year and you are correct Bo did that. I for one thought Bo was up coming hot commodity young coach but I was wrong but at least he wasn’t the failure Scott lost. Bo just had to many inner demons
He did some good things.
But he was an absolute prick who turned on the fans and embarrassed the university with his behavior. He had to go.
But he was an absolute prick who turned on the fans and embarrassed the university with his behavior. He had to go.
I do miss FauxPelini and his cat, tho.
Firing Pelini wasn't a mistake, hiring Riley was the mistake
If rumor is true that Eichorst blew off Kyle Wittingham because he wanted the anti-Bo in Smiling Mike then THAT is the real turning point
If rumor is true that Eichorst blew off Kyle Wittingham because he wanted the anti-Bo in Smiling Mike then THAT is the real turning point
His record was good but he never won any games that truly mattered. Lost badly in the BIG-10 Championship game against Wisconsin (a team that got there only because Ohio St and Penn St were on probation).
Riley was most certainly the anti-Bo. We were trying to give an enema to our program. Sure, we wanted to win, but Bo went scorched Earth when he left. He poisoned the well. I would have loved to have hired a Coach Rhule back then, but an exorcism was needed.
I don't really like any coaches since solich...and I wasen't too thrilled about solich.
the jury is out on rhule
the jury is out on rhule
He won for 7 seasons. Hardly Callahan's players. But he's gone, so no point in doing anything other than reminiscing.
I've just let it settle in my mind that he was crass, didn't really rep NU well, won at least 9 games, 10 twice, and it was a mistake to fire him for that clownshoe Riley.
Water under the bridge. But it was dumb to do without a ringer in place.
Would love to see an alternate timeline for Nebraska. What would have the last 25 years looked like for Nebraska if…
What if TO coached 5 more years?
What if Bill Byrne could have had HIS choice and gotten Mack Brown as coach?
What if Callahan would have had a better Defensive staff?
More recently…What if someone other than Mike Riley was hired? Would they still be here?
What if TO coached 5 more years?
What if Bill Byrne could have had HIS choice and gotten Mack Brown as coach?
What if Callahan would have had a better Defensive staff?
More recently…What if someone other than Mike Riley was hired? Would they still be here?
At the least, what if Eichorst hadn't forced Riley to fire Banker and hire Bob Debacle? Does that 2017 team at least make a bowl, and no Frost? Just delay the inevitable hiring of SF? Lots of forks in the alternate universe road.
A bigger question...is riley the only NU coach since TO that no fan can say (or make up) anything at all about him?
I can't think of anything that was made up about Callahan but maybe there was?
I can't think of anything that was made up about Callahan but maybe there was?
The Jury is still out on Rhule? So you are saying our minds shouldn't be completely made up on a guy who hasn't coached a single game and was just announced as coach a few days ago?
I mean, made up. Look at all the stuff about Frost the last 3 months. It can't ALL be true, we know that.
Bo was "physically removed" from two middle school games while head coach, I mean, come on.
Frank ****ed a bunch of cheerleaeders, I mean...did he?? Didn't he also say he was drugged? ha
But for Mike, I can't think of anything, real/made up that was "bad".
It's the 4 losses each yr that got him on the hot, then all his baggage he brought on like Carl was his down fall. Along with "f you fire me"
It shows how bad our 2 hires have been since Pelini that a "bad coach" won 9 games every year and now we are winning 4 games a year.
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iMO a great deal of any success he had was his assistants and the support staff Tom put in place for him. He failed miserably at Youngstown when he didn’t have those things.
The best defense I saw us play was the half where they took Pelini to the hospital at halftime because he was having heart issues from drinking too much Redbul
That offensive staff was MUCH better than they got credit for and they had enough guys who had worked for Tom or Frank to know the ropes. Bo was lost on his own.
