If Mike Riley is your guy, you forget that dumb idea and just hire Pelini a new recruiting coordinator and life coach.
Our administration better have an awesome hire in the works…
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Sir, Callahan brought in two losing seasons out of his four seasons at NU and only "one" year of 9 winning games.
And he also developed a great offense (which they kept with Pelini) and was awesome at recruiting. My point is that in our region of the country, with our recruiting issues, the guy should have been given a shot with a new defensive coordinator prior to tossing him. These guys that can get up to those 9 win seasons deserve more patience and time to correct. Frost, the one guy we were patient with, only won 3-5 games a season.
Honestly you can't try to please the fans with the name of the head coach hire. That's not the right reason to choose the next head coach. You'd never satisfy 100% of the fans no matter how hard you tried. But you don't need to either. You need to hire a coach who will win/win/win and just about every fan will then turn from a critic into an enthusiastic supporter.
I think you forget that probably 90% or more of the fan base would consider Mickey a home run hire. The handful of people who frequent boards or were high school football stars or coaches that want Fickell and consider MJ woefully under shooting the mark are insignificant as a barometer within the ADs office.
The culture of old Nebraska is dead. Eventually the old timers will die off and even if we were national champions next year under Urban Meyer no one in your generation will collectively remember enough husker history to bridge the divide that is the wildnerness we are now in.
the eric crouch era was fun, but also the start of the decline. The death of the I-back began, the Colorado embarrassment, and of course not being good enough to sniff the U’s jock. NU now is split into younger more fairweather type fans and the older generations for whom a few Johnny Rodgers clips and the sell out streak will keep the illusion going for a while longer.
we may return to dominance with B1G money leading the way, but considering the game is NFL lite now, the storied past will mostly stay in stories that fewer people remember.
That was depressing...
I'm kinda upbeat bout things, got nil to at least balance things away from the sec, ohio state and usc..it's legal to pay players now.
plus trev is picking a coach. not a wisconson ad..
and folks don't forget the past, baylor365 sports would'nt spend so much time saying aranda ain't going anywhere, unless there was a possibility of aranda going somewhere...
mickey would'nt be playing the race and asu card, unless there's other coaches looking at NU
I seen us win 5 nc's, and I'm ready for more. nothing is over...
post tenebras lux
Pelini was able to turn around NU on a dime basically because Callahan left behind all-league talent on the roster. Riley had enough talent left behind by Pelini to win 9 games the first season (he won 6 including the bowl game). The Oline has under performed the entire time under Frost. The Dline looked good when there was age and some talent on it, which is currently not the case. Not a real difference maker among the bunch. So there is a player deficit.
The offensive and defensive plans of the next coach are of interest. But his plans on how to recruit and develop a competitive B1G roster are perhaps even more important.
The offensive and defensive plans of the next coach are of interest. But his plans on how to recruit and develop a competitive B1G roster are perhaps even more important.
Josh Heupel is flexible. He develops his offense year to year, based on what his QB can do. He doesn't ask a guy who can't run to be Cam Newton.
I wouldn't care if they did and I don't care if we do.
I hope its not 90% were supposed to be 1 of the smarter fan bases in cfb. I suspect that the 90% drops significantly over the remaining games. I like Mickey but I think the fish bowl in Lincoln mite be to much over the long haul. Who knows maybe he kills it as a HC somewhere. But as a 1st time HC he will be an experiment and I hope the UNL administration understands how critical this hire is. Can they afford to gamble on another experiment? I dont think so.
And if that P5 coach happens to be Fleck or Leipold and fans get so pissy they want to bounce then peace out
Minnesota had a reasonable excuse since their downturn coincided with the Vikings coming to town
Lol if 90% think Joseph would be a home run hire, 90% of the fanbase are morons. He objectively would not be. Honestly if Nebraska hires Joseph I will be pretty apathetic about the program. We officially will be at the kid's table of the sport since it shows we don't care about winning. There are too many proven coaches to try out an experiment
"Just"?
Isn't that every teams goal? Win/win/win? The question is not what but who? I still submit the list of people who can accomplish that is very small when you look at current options. Out of that small group, how many smare coming to Nebraska?
Les had some indiscretion problems at KU as well. There were several sexual harassment accusations at KU
That issue has become more prevalent over the last 10? years or so when those head coaches make such enormous amounts of money. JMO
Just like in society, there will always be a percentage of spouses who will look the other way or pretend it's not happening as their husband, who is making a very nice living, has a mistress or two on the side.
Some women will not put up with it, others will just accept it for what it is.
I'm not judging those spouses, but if the hubby is hauling down 500K a month and the wife is not the divorcing type, it just goes on.
The bottom line, there is a small percentage of head coaches that are just dogs. Dogs with a shit load of money for off-season free time and travel.
Nebraska is like the current political situation, not good. I don't know about everyone else but Nebraska has ruined my Saturdays to the point where I have little interest in watching. The Nebraska fix would be easy if Nebraska was located in the South or West and that would create a solid recruiting territory but Nebraska is not located anywhere close to either, it's not even close.
When Nebraska crashed it crashed hard and it will take one hell of a coach to raise Nebraska from the trash heap and there is a coach who can do it but it won't come from a lot of re-treads. In my opinion and it's only my opinion Nebraska should sign Joseph with a modest contract to see if he can turn this thing with new staff members that are solid.
Nebraska is located in the middle of the country and so you have to have a coach who can convince kids from the South and the West to venture to the middle of the country to play for the Cornhuskers and Joseph is that coach.
It's time Nebraska stops pulling names out of a hat hoping just like the national lottery you draw a winner. Josephs name was never in the hat, time to play the hand we have and see what plays out.
When Nebraska crashed it crashed hard and it will take one hell of a coach to raise Nebraska from the trash heap and there is a coach who can do it but it won't come from a lot of re-treads. In my opinion and it's only my opinion Nebraska should sign Joseph with a modest contract to see if he can turn this thing with new staff members that are solid.
Nebraska is located in the middle of the country and so you have to have a coach who can convince kids from the South and the West to venture to the middle of the country to play for the Cornhuskers and Joseph is that coach.
It's time Nebraska stops pulling names out of a hat hoping just like the national lottery you draw a winner. Josephs name was never in the hat, time to play the hand we have and see what plays out.
Delusion runs strong among all of nebraska football. The Indiana basketball of college football. The killer of coaching careers. Another bad hire away from being Colorado football
loll.. There Stupidity and most of you Huskers fans who wanted this dog turd Scott as a head coach! How many on here will admit to this? I never wanted him, because i never thought he proved he was a Top coach,But i saw on here most licking Scotty sack in hopes of getting him at the time!! loll
But now its the leaders of Husker nation, Which is true that they make the choices,but as fans we sucked wanting Frost! Saw the same thing on here when they wanted Bo! So save your blame game for those who also was licking the sack at the time !! loll
well we could always do what your school has done. You know, keep a crappy coach for eternity and watch your program die a slow death. At least we have some trophies to look at in our trophy case. National Championship trophies not participation trophies like your Hawks.
It doesn't have to either be hard or take a long time to bring Nebraska back. You can turn over the roster faster than ever these days and with NIL you now are able to be much more competitive in recruiting. The issue though is that the horrible record over the past several years has destroyed the confidence in much of the Nebraska fanbase so many are pessimistic about coming back.
In theory and on paper but the reality tells us a completely suffering story. There is chance and there is probability.
I read in here, the phrase "right hire" will make the difference and get the job done. So I have to ask who that would be who would actually come to Nebraska. Crickets.
Sure. I can't guarantee any given young person will outlive any given older person. But one thing we can guarantee is that as a group, the old timers who remember pre-2000's/pre90's/pre80's NU football are going to die before any of the kids who can barely remember Crouch running the ball and Frank being let go. Hence the history will more or less go with them.
What is a decently good hire? Can you define that? LOL, greatest coach in Husker history, TO, was elevated from the OC position and most of you twits if you were around would have gone apeshit at the time.
An internal hire makes sense when you're coming off two nattys and a Heisman trophy winner. It does not make sense when your program is a dumpster fire.
So if not MJ, then who?? There ain't shit out there unless TA goes after Freeze or Sanders and I highly doubt he is smart enough to go for either.
