Lea Miles for head coach
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Ummm, no thanks. Fire one 64 year old for another? Granted Miles would be better than what we got now, but no thanks.
No thanks. Although I think he gives Kent Pavelka a run for his money on being the biggest homer announcer in sports.
If we had hired him a couple years ago everyone on this board would be ecstatic. Trust me.
Les Miles got fired from LSU for not getting it done with arguably the best talent in football. His game management and coaching decisions were criticized more than about any coach I've seen. I'd support miles as a head coach but man, do you guys research any of these guys or know anything about them before you declare you want them? Because Miles lost the LSU job for the same things you hate Riley for currently. miles just had better talent.
No more old people, please. The landscape of football is changing.
People would be calling for his head the second they're enlightened to his clock management skills. Les is in a league of his own there..
If people question our offensive coaching and decisions they wouldl go insane watching the Mad Hatter. Like the guy but man he pulled some head scratchers. Patience.
Luck and talent. He wouldn't work in Lincoln. I'm sticking with who we have. Love Riley and I'm willing to give him plenty of time to fix things. Corn Nation has a great article on the state of Husker football since 2001 touching on coaching carousel we've become.
It's a tough situation. Riley and co have struggled but they were also put in a bad spot. Our talent still isn't great, we don't have a ton of experience, and a lot of guys that do have talent/experience don't fit the talent profile the coaches are looking for. That said, it's tough to maintain momentum in building a program when you lose to NIU at home in year 3. The flip side is that starting over by firing Riley could cause us to lose a lot of talented players already here or already committed to us. Can we afford to take a further dip in talent right now that would be inevitable with a coaching change?
Idk the answer, but if I had to choose, I choose to give stability a chance. We haven't fared well trying to start over. But I'm not sure the fan base will support really committing to giving Riley a chance.
I posted before the season that I thought we are still a year away. We've got some great young talent recruited by Cav for the O line. It may be the best O line talent we've had since the late 90s. I love our young DTs. I love our freshman QB and WRs. IMO any coaching change now would be extremely foolish but ultimately we have to win games this year. We have enough talent to win games in the B1G west and we better or some of our spoiled impatient fan base will demand change.
I'm more of a fan of his offensive style over what we've seen in the recent past but him behind the clipboard would make me cringe. I like the physical ground game he ran but you put him in a close situation and some strange things unfold that will make you pull your hair out. I've watched a lot of LSU football when he was coaching down there, I'd pass without question if the decision was mine.
We're really no different than others on a quest for a coach though. Alabama had like 4 or 5 coaches after Stallings in the late 90's up until Saban was hired. OU had 3 or 4 after Switzer, USC is most certainly a coaching carousel, etc. It sucks to be in that position but we're not the only ones to ever be there.
^^This^^
People seem to forget the struggles of other schools that really shouldn't struggle.
Everyone had written Alabama off as a dead program that would never be good again during Shula's final season because it's "not a destination job", they couldn't "out recruit other $EC schools" and their fans were "living in the past".
Funny how one coach changed all that.
USC wasn't doing much the decade before Pete Carroll and certainly hasn't done anything since.
Oklahoma after Switzer but before Stoops was a joke.
Georgia despite 11 top ten recruiting classes under Richt, did nothing with that talent except drop a bowl game to a bad Nebraska team.
Despite tremendous talent, Florida stunk after Spurrier and has again ever since Meyer left.
Texas?? Miami?? LSU?? So many teams have no reason to be down given their talent level. Yet, all these programs struggle.
A top 15 recruiting class isn't going to fix Nebraska's problems, just like top 10 and top 5 classes don't fix the above schools problems.
A competent coaching staff is what turns programs around and sometimes you have to burn through half a dozen staffs or more to get the right one.
The difference between Nebraska and those other programs is that they continue to recruit at a high level, even when they are down and they can recruit elite talent when they get a good staff. We can't say that. We are always playing catch up with talent, which is why we won't be a quick fix like OU, USC, Alabama, and the others. Even when those teams weren't good, they had good athletes. Not the case in Lincoln right now. And if we want to make whole sale changes and go back to power football, then we are in real trouble because we aren't built to do that currently. Any large Change in scheme takes time. Like more than 2 or 3 years
That argument doesn't pan out when Nebraska is losing to NIU, BYU, Northwestern, Iowa, Purdue, Illinois, and incapable of exhibiting just basic fundamentals and clock management.
If they hired another bad coach then the carousel continued though. That Alabama fan base just before Saban was about as whipped as I've ever seen one, everything was doomed to them.
Regardless of that I think we get enough to see a better product on the field. We're a freaking mess out there in more areas than one.
I think that when you lack elite talent and you're trying to put some square pegs in round holes, you'll drop games to teams you shouldn't. Nebraska's situation is more complicated than other blue bloods in that it's harder to build here and coaching staffs will need more time to establish than at places that can land top 10 recruiting classes. If your recruits are elite from day one, then it's going to take more time to develop and mature those guys than what a place like USC needs for their 5 stars
