was an absolute joke as athletic director.
My sleep schedule is absolutely f’ed from being sick (flu, bronchitis, pneumonia) so in the waning hours of the night I have nothing to do other than sit here and ponder the current state of Nebraska football as whole.
I can now see what a joke FADSE was when it came to actually understanding what needs to happen in big boy college football. For all his faults Bo nailed it on the head talking about him in that final recording.
Interesting stat:
Mike Riley’s salary now stands at the 11 highest in the Big Ten.
Instead of going out and using the universities resources. This idiot (FADSE) with no extraordinary football knowledge went out and got himself a cheap coach who he thought was a person of good character, with plenty of experience. Did he really think that Riley was just going to come in with those two things and light the world on fire? That with a bigger budget Mr. Nice Guy could all of a sudden turn everything from a .500 coach to a .750+ coach.
I seriously think an AD needs to look at coaches lifetime winning percentage like they do a credit score. Resources don’t totally matter. They help but they won’t change everything.
FADSE defys any type of logic in football circles by simply going out and finding the exact opposite of your former coach. Nothing about it worked. We went from a younger coach to an older coach with a worse lifetime win percentage. He had to convince everyone it was his personality that would bring us to glory. Not his hot shot new assistants or this great scheme he had just adapted to. I doubt there’s anyone in the state of Nebraska that would have cared if we paid $5 million to someone who could actually get the job and do it right. For goodness’ sakes Kirk Ferentz makes $4.5 million a year.
We have now been passed up by what our coaching salary demands by Purdue and Minnesota. Why? That’s what it takes to go get a coach that will bring excitement to your program. At least the ADs in those programs understand that you have to pay someone well to try to build something. You don’t take a step back based solely upon someone’s personality. How does someone with so little football knowledge decide to make that decision on his own?
For that matter can we blackball Harvey Perlman for creating this dumpster fire? This man should be ran off our campus anytime he tries to set foot on it. Oh he’s an attorney who hired another attorney. I’m sure they’re still calling each other telling each other how great they are. Sorry if there are any members of the bar association reading this but you guys really tend to enjoy your circle jerks. Perlmans lone wolf move created Eichorsts lone wolf move. Each by the attitude of a lawyers ego which could only allow them to think they were the smartest guy in the room.
So now we’re stuck in the middle of a $h!* show!
Everything that has been going on is killing the only thing we had going for us. Yes, that’s recruiting (maybe we on this message board tend to like recruiting more because let’s face it this is a recruiting based website) but that’s probably not going anywhere unless Moos gives Riley a vote of confidence.
For the record I hated the Riley hire when it happened and really thought we should have gotten rid of him during season 1. At this point Mikey .500 has kind of grown on me though. I don’t know if it’s because I’m totally afraid of the next shit show to come or because I liked what he was doing in recruiting and wanted to see if it could go somewhere. Either way it doesn’t seem like it will get to any sort of fruition because any momentum that was there has been totally killed.
So with it being killed and looking into what I now assume will be the next search. Here’s what I looking for in a coach:
A good to great recruiter.
A top 5 coordinator or someone who has proven their coaching can make a difference.
Someone who will bring on a great coordinators on both sides of the ball.
Brings excitement to the program.
Hires the best available not just all their friends.
I really don’t care how much it costs to get this person and I doubt many of you do either. If we would like to talk about how we might not have as big of an athletic department surplus every year that’s fine. Making mediocre hires will only lead to an eventual athletic department shortfall and a half full stadium much sooner than later.
With that I leave this to all of your great opinions.
P.S. I think this has been a really tough year on all of us. In hindsight it was probably easy to see coming. We just always want great things from our team. There have been flashes but there is also seemingly an inability for the coaches to get it all together at once.
P.S.S. I’m curious if our strength and conditioning program for football is behind what the current top programs are doing.
My sleep schedule is absolutely f’ed from being sick (flu, bronchitis, pneumonia) so in the waning hours of the night I have nothing to do other than sit here and ponder the current state of Nebraska football as whole.
I can now see what a joke FADSE was when it came to actually understanding what needs to happen in big boy college football. For all his faults Bo nailed it on the head talking about him in that final recording.
Interesting stat:
Mike Riley’s salary now stands at the 11 highest in the Big Ten.
Instead of going out and using the universities resources. This idiot (FADSE) with no extraordinary football knowledge went out and got himself a cheap coach who he thought was a person of good character, with plenty of experience. Did he really think that Riley was just going to come in with those two things and light the world on fire? That with a bigger budget Mr. Nice Guy could all of a sudden turn everything from a .500 coach to a .750+ coach.
I seriously think an AD needs to look at coaches lifetime winning percentage like they do a credit score. Resources don’t totally matter. They help but they won’t change everything.
FADSE defys any type of logic in football circles by simply going out and finding the exact opposite of your former coach. Nothing about it worked. We went from a younger coach to an older coach with a worse lifetime win percentage. He had to convince everyone it was his personality that would bring us to glory. Not his hot shot new assistants or this great scheme he had just adapted to. I doubt there’s anyone in the state of Nebraska that would have cared if we paid $5 million to someone who could actually get the job and do it right. For goodness’ sakes Kirk Ferentz makes $4.5 million a year.
We have now been passed up by what our coaching salary demands by Purdue and Minnesota. Why? That’s what it takes to go get a coach that will bring excitement to your program. At least the ADs in those programs understand that you have to pay someone well to try to build something. You don’t take a step back based solely upon someone’s personality. How does someone with so little football knowledge decide to make that decision on his own?
For that matter can we blackball Harvey Perlman for creating this dumpster fire? This man should be ran off our campus anytime he tries to set foot on it. Oh he’s an attorney who hired another attorney. I’m sure they’re still calling each other telling each other how great they are. Sorry if there are any members of the bar association reading this but you guys really tend to enjoy your circle jerks. Perlmans lone wolf move created Eichorsts lone wolf move. Each by the attitude of a lawyers ego which could only allow them to think they were the smartest guy in the room.
So now we’re stuck in the middle of a $h!* show!
Everything that has been going on is killing the only thing we had going for us. Yes, that’s recruiting (maybe we on this message board tend to like recruiting more because let’s face it this is a recruiting based website) but that’s probably not going anywhere unless Moos gives Riley a vote of confidence.
For the record I hated the Riley hire when it happened and really thought we should have gotten rid of him during season 1. At this point Mikey .500 has kind of grown on me though. I don’t know if it’s because I’m totally afraid of the next shit show to come or because I liked what he was doing in recruiting and wanted to see if it could go somewhere. Either way it doesn’t seem like it will get to any sort of fruition because any momentum that was there has been totally killed.
So with it being killed and looking into what I now assume will be the next search. Here’s what I looking for in a coach:
A good to great recruiter.
A top 5 coordinator or someone who has proven their coaching can make a difference.
Someone who will bring on a great coordinators on both sides of the ball.
Brings excitement to the program.
Hires the best available not just all their friends.
I really don’t care how much it costs to get this person and I doubt many of you do either. If we would like to talk about how we might not have as big of an athletic department surplus every year that’s fine. Making mediocre hires will only lead to an eventual athletic department shortfall and a half full stadium much sooner than later.
With that I leave this to all of your great opinions.
P.S. I think this has been a really tough year on all of us. In hindsight it was probably easy to see coming. We just always want great things from our team. There have been flashes but there is also seemingly an inability for the coaches to get it all together at once.
P.S.S. I’m curious if our strength and conditioning program for football is behind what the current top programs are doing.
