I'm getting tired of Rilely's nice guy routine

[ExxHusker]

I think it is strategic - i.e., people will go easier on a mediocre coach who is a nice guy. I think he knows he is a mediocre coach. He brought his buddies and they a extending their years of good pay by getting out of O St while the getting was good.

 

[scarletred]

Seems like he was going to be fired and our AD gave him a ticket out of Corvallis.

 

[Lincoln100]

I think it is strategic - i.e., people will go easier on a mediocre coach who is a nice guy. I think he knows he is a mediocre coach. He brought his buddies and they a extending their years of good pay by getting out if O St while the getting was good.

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[huskernut1]

Seems like he was going to be fired and our AD gave him a ticket out of Corvallis.

Ding ding ding...we got a winner. Gave medicore Mike a nice retirement package.

 

[tithay01]

Seems like he was going to be fired and our AD gave him a ticket out of Corvallis.

They were going to make him fire Banker and he did not have the balls to do it.

 

[B1G RED RULES]

Seems like he was going to be fired and our AD gave him a ticket out of Corvallis.

Two people that work for my company told me this after we hired him - but I was sucking the kool-aid. They said most fans were glad to see him go, but the media were not.

Remember his explanation when any media member asked him why Nebraska when he was over 60 years old? His only reply was, "it was the right place at the right time".

 

[scarletred]

Two guys

And Pearlman.

 

[TheRifleman86]

I think it is strategic - i.e., people will go easier on a mediocre coach who is a nice guy. I think he knows he is a mediocre coach. He brought his buddies and they a extending their years of good pay by getting out of O St while the getting was good.

How do you know it is a "routine"? Maybe he really is a nice person. Maybe he sees the big picture better and knows what is truly important. Life is too short to be miserable.

Tom Osborne was a nice guy, and he didn't win the big one for a long time. In fact, his teams lost quite a few bowl games before they turned it around. I was at an event where he was asked what his biggest win was and he mentioned a Sun Bowl in around 1980 -- he said that a regent told him after the game if they hadn't won, he was going to be let go. So, he would have never had the chance to build the legacy that he did, had that happened.

Get some perspective and RELAX a little ... life will continue on tomorrow

 

[Tulsa Tom]

Don't you mean Mike...RiLLLey.

Sorry...sometimes you just have to laugh.

 

[ExxHusker]

TO was classy. Not "nice" in the way Riley portrays himself. It is just my sense but the feeling I get is Riley's niceness has to do with wanting breaks from the media to help keep his job. I didn't get that same vib from TO.

 

[scarletred]

How do you know it is a "routine"? Maybe he really is a nice person. Maybe he sees the big picture better and knows what is truly important. Life is too short to be miserable.

Tom Osborne was a nice guy, and he didn't win the big one for a long time. In fact, his teams lost quite a few bowl games before they turned it around. I was at an event where he was asked what his biggest win was and he mentioned a Sun Bowl in around 1980 -- he said that a regent told him after the game if they hadn't won, he was going to be let go. So, he would have never had the chance to build the legacy that he did, had that happened.

Get some perspective and RELAX a little ... life will continue on tomorrow

You may have that wrong he wrote in one of his books that his job was on the line after being told he better win the AstroBluebonnet bowl against Texas Tech which they won. NU ended up 9-3-1 in 1976 when they lost to Mizzou, Iowa St and Oklahoma.

 

[TheRifleman86]

You may have that wrong he wrote in one of his books that his job was on the line after being told he better win the AstroBluebonnet bowl against Texas Tech which they won. NU ended up 9-3-1 in 1976 when they lost to Mizzou, Iowa St and Oklahoma.

I'm just telling you what he said at the event I was at .... maybe there were multiple games where he was told that. Coming in, in the wake of Bob Devaney, is a tough spot. Glad for Coach Osborne that he was able to build the legacy that he did. He is doing even greater things through his Teammates organization.

 

[ThereIsNoPlace]

Get some perspective and RELAX a little ... life will continue on tomorrow

Classic hippie liberal excuse to not care...are you from Oregon too?

I want a coach that is HUNGRY to better the pride of the state our BIG RED. Not somebody that is just glad the sun is rising tomorrow. Get Frost out of that tree huggin' Nike Nest and back to where he belongs.

 

[studed]

Two people that work for my company told me this after we hired him - but I was sucking the kool-aid. They said most fans were glad to see him go, but the media were not.

Remember his explanation when any media member asked him why Nebraska when he was over 60 years old? His only reply was, "it was the right place at the right time".

yea Oregon state fans were happy. riley goes to Nebraska and they get the wisconsin coach. that's a win win

 

[TheRifleman86]

Classic hippie liberal excuse to not care...are you from Oregon too?

I want a coach that is HUNGRY to better the pride of the state our BIG RED. Not somebody that is just glad the sun is rising tomorrow. Get Frost out of that tree huggin' Nike Nest and back to where he belongs.

I'm the exact opposite of a hippie liberal -- but continue on with your mindless "go get 'em" blather.