Please don't tell me Bielema....His agent circulated that rumor to get a pay raise. There was no way in hell HP was going to let SE hire him after what he had just gone through with Pelini. As I've stated earlier, I wonder who we could have gotten to take the job given the turmoil with Pelini and such.
I was standing next to a D-1 football head coach at a hockey game (our sons played together) who had coached in Wisconsin when he took a call from a coaching buddy. He knew Callahan from way back and didn't have any kind words about him. The gist of his conversation was a coaching opening and who was looking at it. It's a fraternity and they have each other's cell numbers. I believe what you're selling. Names would be interesting though just from a what if standpoint.
Bummer that Saban turned us down right?
Scratch him off as one of the two coaches you were talking about
I'm going out on a limb and guessing Richt was one guy you're eluding to. The other hmmmm....maybe Cutcliffe? I'm not sure either fits as a home run hire though. Spurrier? After all he did visit saying it was one of his bucket list things. Franklin was already gone. Jimbo's not in the SEC. Kirby Smart? Malzahn? The problem is that generally when you start looking you send out multiple feelers at the same time to judge interest rather than wait for replies from one guy so it's impossible to say who was first on the list.
Sure but as I added with an edit to my last post. Generally in hiring you send out multiple inquiries to gauge interest and then interview starting with your first choice of the people who show interest. It's impossible to know who the first guy on the list was even if the agents of others were contacted. It is possible that Riley was at the top of the list and the only person interviewed and in fact I doubt they would interview someone they weren't sure would take the job.
As I posted earlier you have to look at several things when you consider a job. 1. money 2. talent already there 3. stability of the administration (SE was a dead man walking the minute he fired Bo IMO) 4. recruiting base 5. facilities and support. IMO, the AD situation and Tom hiding in the wings were not positive attractions for a head coach and that is why I question who we might have gotten other than somebody getting a huge raise. That's why the next AD HAS to have Osborne's endorsement. Period. It will be that way until Tom has breathed his last.
IF I were a coach in a relatively good situation making similar money there is no way in hell I would have stepped in to the Nebraska situation when Riley did UNLESS I knew I would have the full backing of Tom, the Regents and a stabile AD. I don't think we had any of those when we hired Riley.
I think it tells us he is very interested in the Nebraska job. If he were not interested he would say so, unless he is angling for a pay raise at UCF.
I suppose but he wouldn't be my idea of a home run hire either which is the one I'm reaching for.
Just read the piece. I like what he said.
Well Tuco floated the homerun possibility and my idea of a homerun is a guy that virtually guarantees success and I don't think anybody but Saban probably does that. Cutcliffe would have been good. I would have been okay with Richt even though I think he's an average at best game day coach. I guess at the time we didn't know about Mullen's transgressions and he was hot. Not so much now. Any of them would have been a huge upgrade over fhcbp.
A solid, definitive recruiting strategy? Really, because the PR on this site says so? How many under the limit are we? What is our quarterback depth? We have likely one decent QB on the roster and we are not actively recruiting one. In year three the only formidable QB on our roster is a redshirt freshman. How can that be possible? They knew when they got here we had not recruited to their offense yet we didn't take a juice QB and we got a piss poor transfer from a piss poor school and O'Brien who will likely never play here, and if he does we are screwed.
You're right, he made it up. I'm sure 2-13 is acceptable to most AD's. Two of the last three coaches at OSU were Mike Riley at the time those articles were written.. The other one had OSU ranked in the top 5 in the country.
Older than TO but younger Saban. And TO retired largely because of health concerns. Riley doesn't have those issues.
Ok. None of those guys excites me. And I think talk of a homerun hire, whoever that would be, makes the perfect the enemy of the good. Because if we can't hire a homerun people will say keep Riley even if he is losing. I am increasingly leaning in the direction of Scott Frost for many reasons. Assuming Riley gets fired at all
We don't know yet if he's failing or not. Last time I checked there's still quite a few games left. He may fail. He may do just fine. He won 9 last year. He still could win as many as 10. Little early don't you think?
So your role on this board is to combat any post that says Riley is doing something good here. Got it.
Because Riley has had only 2 full recruiting classes? Which JUCO QB should Mike have brought in? Doesn't matter, you'd still bitch. At least you tried to be objective your first few posts, now your true colors are showing.
A discussion with your AD to re-evaluate your contract does not mean you're on the hot seat, especially when that contract was heavily one-sided. Doesn't mean Riley's seat wasn't starting to warm up, but to state as an absolute fact that "Riley was on the hot seat so that's part of the reason why he came to Nebraska" is complete bull.
I stand corrected on Cutcliffe not sure what the hell I was thinking there. But Mullen is dirty.
If you go to any list of the top 25 college coaches, the only guy I can think if that was hired away from another P5 school is Franklin. The top 25 coaches consist of :
