Best NU FB coach in the last 25 years?
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Solich
Pelini
Callahan
Riley
Mickey Joseph
Doane college coach
Bat dung
Frost
Pelini
Callahan
Riley
Mickey Joseph
Doane college coach
Bat dung
Frost
I have bat dung just a notch above
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Technically Osborne was our coach in 97 for the NC game, so I choose him.
But in reality let's move on and forget most of the last 25 years.
But in reality let's move on and forget most of the last 25 years.
agree with this.
but had we just left Bo at the controls we’d probably still be in the top 10 in wins for the past 25 years.
we dropped to ~29th in this timespan.
couldas, wouldas, & shouldas…I guess.
spoiled fanbase + incestuous ath dept.
If Trev connects with Aranda, I think we’d all be pleased.
I voted Callahan. Dude could straight up recruit and was a decent DC away from having a great run here. Dude was a straight weirdo sometimes but he was the only one in the list that could have turned this sinking ship around.
My God the ship was not sinking with Solich compared to Callahan Riley and Frost..
Callahan replaces Cosgrove and he’s still here, and we’d have not fallen off.
I like Solich but he could not recruit well enough to maintain the ship. He had his chance to hire new coaches and took recruiting specialist Barney Cotton & Bo Pelini. Yes they got 9 wins his last season, but I believe 2002 was probably going to be his ceiling most years.
That would have had to happen after a winning year. Tom wasn’t retaining Callahan even if he had won out or fired Coz. I don’t care what TO said, Callahan was history the minute they fired Pedy
Of course, but when Devaney and Osborne created this monster it eventually was going to be hard to feed..
Some of you think Mack Brown would have won a National title in Lincoln..
He could only win one in Austin..
Maybe, maybe not, but he certainly would have recruited better players for Nebraska.
Callahan's program was the sinking ship that needed turning around by Pelini.
His downfall in Lincoln was very much like what happened at the Raiders. He's a great tactician but a horrible leader. He's doing what he best at now as an assistant coach but there is good reason why he was never given a HC job again.
Holy s**t. There are three people that actually voted for Frost in this poll. Someone needs to check their houses for lead paint.
Pelini is the best technical coach as far as scheming and system goes. Callahan probably second. Solich inherited a national championship team and turned into .500 before Pelini came and almost saved his bacon.
Wrong. Nothing short of a championship could keep him here. A specific group of people weren't going to allow him to stay here.
That 2003 schedule was pathetically easily. There were 4 above average teams on the schedule (Texas, Kansas St, Missouri and Michigan St). The bowl game was the only win of those four and Solich wasn't coaching, Pelini was. The other three games were blowout losses. Penn St was historically bad that year (3-9 overall and 1-7 in conference play) and NU just squeaked out a win at home. I get sick of hearing about the 9 wins in 2003 because most top programs wouldn't fixate on that but have fired their coach in the same circumstance if a number of measures including recruiting and the overall staff were subpar.
Had Solich continued you can pretty much expect the following several seasons would have been a gradually worse each year as the schedule got tougher.
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That group was grouchy when NU was playing for the Big 12 championship in 2006, and really seemed like a better team than OU that year overall with Zac Taylor as QB. They also played a very good Auburn team close in the Cotton Bowl and were one badly muffed fake punt away from winning.
The Callahan teams were so undermined by negative influences stemming from the old regime that it was hard to get to where they otherwise could have gone. I'm actually still embarrassed/disappointed by the stories I've heard about how Cosgrove's kids were treated at school, etc.
This was everyone’s thought at the time, and it was 6 years from winning a National Title so it was different time. But I doubt the wins (not recruiting rankings) would have been worse over the next four years than it was. Bottom line is nobody will really ever know.
I don’t think I could vote for Solich here. It’s easy to look back on the good times, some of those teams were damn good. But his last couple years it was apparent to me that were being passed up. And recruiting wasn’t good. Who knows, maybe Barney Cotton launches us into the next level with a new offense…but I don’t miss the QB draw on 3rd and 18.
I think we were headed there. That last year when he spread it out with Ganz, we were putting some great offense on the field. It never looked as good under Shawn Watson. I think a new DC and we’re in the picture.
Mods please do us a favor and ban the 3 goof balls who voted for Frost. Give a harsh warning to the 2 that voted for Riley as well. Thanks in advance 
Solich held a job at Ohio for 15 years. They named their field in his honor. It's only the MAC, but still he got them to a level they had never seen before.
Pelini lasted 3 years at Youngstown State. He made the title game his first year, then the wheels came off. That wasn't even a D1 program.
Callahan never got another head coaching gig after being fired. Pretty good position coach in the NFL. I don't know about the other guys.
Pelini lasted 3 years at Youngstown State. He made the title game his first year, then the wheels came off. That wasn't even a D1 program.
Callahan never got another head coaching gig after being fired. Pretty good position coach in the NFL. I don't know about the other guys.
Callahan easy. Good Offense, very good recruiter, but didn't care enough about the job to can his buddy. If he has a good D coordinator, he's does well for a long time.
Not if he only gets credit for 2002-03 when he couldn’t just ride Osborne’s coattails anymore. Anyone could have ridden out that dynasty.
When Osborne’s recruits and culture were gone by 2002, Solich proved to be fairly mediocre coach.
So you say, could be but never given the opportunity because Pederson hated his guts..
I feel that if he wasn’t to be fired after 2002 then he should have been given a real chance with his new coaches. Firing him at 9-3 was dumb.
This is absolute fact, Solich was a lazy recruiter and not only that, When he took over the reigns of the program the stallwarts of that staff already couldn't stand him and that was McBride, Tenopir and Darlington.
