We've seen it a few times now. We fire a coach (I still think this move was forced by how our admin handled this season and how it impacted the team this year), we hire a guy who probably wasn't on our top 2 or 3 list of potential options, we have a decent first season and say okay give the guy a chance it's not his team yet, have strong second year with positive momentum, then we say "this coach has got it right!" Then a weak trend moving forward, growing resentment by half the fan base, our AD retires or moves on and we fire the next guy. I'm not sure why people think it will be different this time, it's how it's been for almost 20 years.
Half our fan base is never going to accept someone besides Scott Frost as our HC and will make it hard on whoever comes in to replace Riley when he is inevitably let go after the Iowa game.
I posted a few weeks ago but I'm still not encouraged by the outlook of our program moving forward. We have survived on the successes of the '90s in terms of being relevant and being labeled a blue-blood program but every year we are further removed from that is another year we get closer to having to accept reality of us being in a recruiting no-mans land with an increasingly rabid (in a bad way) fan base and apathy beginning to set in.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong but I'm starting to feel pretty grim about the long-term prognosis for our beloved Husker football program. We've always been an outlier in terms of location versus recruiting hotbeds and success and with the increasing timeline between where we are now and our last national relevance, it's only going to get harder moving forward.
When you look at the isolated teams that have had success in major conferences, it's been mainly due to long-term stability (Nebraska and Devaney/TO, Kansas State and Bill Snyder, Michigan State and Mark Dantonio, Iowa and Kirk Ferentz (barf), etc.) and we have been the poster child of instability.
Half our fan base is never going to accept someone besides Scott Frost as our HC and will make it hard on whoever comes in to replace Riley when he is inevitably let go after the Iowa game.
I posted a few weeks ago but I'm still not encouraged by the outlook of our program moving forward. We have survived on the successes of the '90s in terms of being relevant and being labeled a blue-blood program but every year we are further removed from that is another year we get closer to having to accept reality of us being in a recruiting no-mans land with an increasingly rabid (in a bad way) fan base and apathy beginning to set in.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong but I'm starting to feel pretty grim about the long-term prognosis for our beloved Husker football program. We've always been an outlier in terms of location versus recruiting hotbeds and success and with the increasing timeline between where we are now and our last national relevance, it's only going to get harder moving forward.
When you look at the isolated teams that have had success in major conferences, it's been mainly due to long-term stability (Nebraska and Devaney/TO, Kansas State and Bill Snyder, Michigan State and Mark Dantonio, Iowa and Kirk Ferentz (barf), etc.) and we have been the poster child of instability.
