Coaches Working Schedule

[LagunaHusker]

Can't imagine the working schedule the Husker coaches must put in on a daily basis. Sure they make 100's of thousands to millions so they are highly compensated but they must be putting in 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week. Missing family birthdays, anniversaries and other family events. Constant recruiting going on 12 months of the year. Most all recruit visits to Lincoln are on the weekend so you have to be available and always with a smile and cheery attitude while selling the program. Then recruiting alway from Lincoln going from state to state into the prospective recruits home putting on a sales pitch to a 17-18 year old day after day. When your not recruiting you have to actually do some coaching, breaking down film and drawing up a game plan. Dealing with fan expectations and the media makes being a football coach at Nebraska (or any other big time program) one of the toughest jobs around.

No hate here but basically destroyed the previous coach.

 

[timnsun]

Solid post.

 

[dinglefritz]

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No hate here but basically destroyed the previous coach.

So you're saying the schedule basically destroyed the previous coach? I think you over estimate the time our previous coach spent out of season on recruiting and coaching. It certainly appears that the current staff is putting in a lot more time than the previous. Bo had plenty of time to make it to his kids' games, take trips and play lots of golf. No sympathy here. The clown made 3 million/year and pissed on the people paying his salary repeatedly. I agree that the job is demanding at times, but there are people making a fraction of that kind of money that deal with similar demands. You want to have some sympathy for somebody, go visit with a hospital nurse trying to feed his/her family by dealing with illness and death on a daily basis. No golf outings, no free cars and country club memberships, just work your ass off and try to deal with the unrelenting mental grind of the work. Pelini had it made and he pissed it away. He was a piss poor choice to be head coach at NU. Period.

 

[anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi]

So you're saying the schedule basically destroyed the previous coach? I think you over estimate the time our previous coach spent out of season on recruiting and coaching. It certainly appears that the current staff is putting in a lot more time than the previous. Bo had plenty of time to make it to his kids' games, take trips and play lots of golf. No sympathy here. The clown made 3 million/year and pissed on the people paying his salary repeatedly. I agree that the job is demanding at times, but there are people making a fraction of that kind of money that deal with similar demands. You want to have some sympathy for somebody, go visit with a hospital nurse trying to feed his/her family by dealing with illness and death on a daily basis. No golf outings, no free cars and country club memberships, just work your ass off and try to deal with the unrelenting mental grind of the work. Pelini had it made and he pissed it away. He was a piss poor choice to be head coach at NU. Period.

The guy had more than plenty of time off. But that didn't stop him from playing victim about it, like someone or somebody was forcing him to stay here.

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

That's why not everybody is cut out to be a coach, and that's why some people fail at the job, and that's why the good one's make so much money. MR doesn't want our sympathy, nonetheless I respect the amount of effort that goes into the job, but at the same time he is making some serious bank so while I respect the job, I feel sorry for nobody who signs up for it and then complains about it. Everyone knows the score going in.

 

[northeastNebraska]

So you're saying the schedule basically destroyed the previous coach? I think you over estimate the time our previous coach spent out of season on recruiting and coaching. It certainly appears that the current staff is putting in a lot more time than the previous. Bo had plenty of time to make it to his kids' games, take trips and play lots of golf. No sympathy here. The clown made 3 million/year and pissed on the people paying his salary repeatedly. I agree that the job is demanding at times, but there are people making a fraction of that kind of money that deal with similar demands. You want to have some sympathy for somebody, go visit with a hospital nurse trying to feed his/her family by dealing with illness and death on a daily basis. No golf outings, no free cars and country club memberships, just work your ass off and try to deal with the unrelenting mental grind of the work. Pelini had it made and he pissed it away. He was a piss poor choice to be head coach at NU. Period.

POTW.

 

[MOhusker12]

So you're saying the schedule basically destroyed the previous coach? I think you over estimate the time our previous coach spent out of season on recruiting and coaching. It certainly appears that the current staff is putting in a lot more time than the previous. Bo had plenty of time to make it to his kids' games, take trips and play lots of golf. No sympathy here. The clown made 3 million/year and pissed on the people paying his salary repeatedly. I agree that the job is demanding at times, but there are people making a fraction of that kind of money that deal with similar demands. You want to have some sympathy for somebody, go visit with a hospital nurse trying to feed his/her family by dealing with illness and death on a daily basis. No golf outings, no free cars and country club memberships, just work your ass off and try to deal with the unrelenting mental grind of the work. Pelini had it made and he pissed it away. He was a piss poor choice to be head coach at NU. Period.

While I agree with everything you said, you have to remember that Pelini needed that time off to come up with an effective game plan to shut down Melvin Gordon. If you rewatch the Wisconsin game, Gordon played right into Bo's hands. Bo had determined that if you let him run wild for three quarters, then he will be to tired to run in the fourth quarter, that is why Wisconsin took him out of the game.

 

[inWV]

If the coaches, and by extension, their families, don't know what their job entails, that's on them. It would seem that the AD is making a lot of human resources available to them. It's on Riley et al. to leverage those resources to the maximum.
I do not think Pelini wanted to be a head coach of a major college FB program, even though he was one for several years and had a fair amount of success. Riley, otoh, seems to be pleased with the tools at his disposal.

 

[Husker.Wed.]

No hate here but basically destroyed the previous coach.

The previous coach destroyed the previous coach.