OWH reporting Rimington has been contacted for the interim role
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#Nebraskaman - why else. I mean running a non-profit and and athletic dept are the same. Everyone hires United Way presidents to be ADs
We could get Graham Spanier to make another recommendation. Bill Bryne worked out pretty well and since Graham is at home under house arrest, he has time to work the phones.
Mark Boehm should have been fired long before Eichorst. How he still has a job here is one of the great mysteries of our time. I'd rather Dennis LeBlanc, as academics are the only thing that has been consistently good in our athletic department the last 20 years.
But if you're going to go outside with an interim, why not someone like Meyers who actually has administrative experience here?
Bill Byrne would have hired Mack Brown in 1997, not Frank Solich. Things could be different.
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I liked everything but the last paragraph. I don't really prefer a "take my ball and go home if I don't get my way" kind of "leader".
I get that and I don't want Meyers for the permanent job, but it just seems strange to bring in someone who hasn't worked in this field and doesn't even live in Nebraska.
And if Trev Alberts is the guy (not my choice, but people like Severe seem to think so), why would you need to bring in an outside interim A.D.? I think Brasfield or LeBlanc could handle things until then.
If we truly need an interim AD, then shouldn't we ask Osborne to do it? He's had the job and he's local. The only logical explanation I see to this is that Rimington is being considered permanently. How is it that playing for Nebraska is the number one qualification. Would any other school be bringing in this guy to run their Athletic Dept (in the interim or permanent basis) because of his mad CEO skills?
Osborne as AD is a large part of why we are in this extended mess.
Lets let TO live his few remaining years without any added stress
Interim. The mess is made. We're talking about running day to day operations. The interim isn't hiring. My point is that we had someone perfectly capable and qualified of being the interim on our doorstep and we are (apparently) bringing in Rimington. This sounds like he is being considered more than interim.
Totally disagree. Football is the cash cow and if our players even know a little history then they will respect Rimington. The guy also shows that he understands the big picture. We don't need an interim running the day to day operations. We need one who is steady, who understands football, who has the pulse of Husker nation. Most importantly we need someone who knows how to talk to donors. It is a tenuous time with those money guys. Rimington can speak their language in a lot of ways.
I hate the idea they are even consulting TO. He was a decent (not great coach) in a week conference and people made him into a god. This entire mess is his fault.
Oh for God's sake. He wasn't a great athletic director but in what universe was Tom Osborne not a great coach? He had a higher career winning percentage than Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Nick Saban, Joe Paterno, and pretty much every other coach who's ever coached college football. That's your definition of decent?
BS. He was one of the greatest college football coaches to ever live, the best IMO. For any cfb fan, let lone a Nebraska fan, to say otherwise is ridiculous.
Integral part of five national championships and could have been more. Ummmmm...if that is your definition of merely decent I wonder who might be good.
Will never believe a word you say, ever again. Complete idiocy.
If that was sarcasm, that was a WEEK attempt...
While a good mention, he is on medical leave from coaching and will be pushing 70 by next football season so not sure
I didn't realize he was 70. I knew he has been battling health issues, but remember reading they were not serious in nature, just needed addressed.
He left the corporate world to coach football. If he wanted to be on the business side he wouldn't have left the business world.
Well, there certainly has been no shortage of uninspired and totally asinine statements on here for a while, but this one is about as uneducated and ridiculously stupid as any I have ever seen. Remind me how many National Championships he won again. Oh, and those weren't league patsies when he won them as well. My goodness, tell me you have been drinking or smoking something so there is a legitimate excuse.
If Remington is the option for interim, then why on Gods green Earth are they just contacting him? He doesn't work for another school. He should have been in place before SE was fired. This is mismanagement at its finest.
I agree. Rimington will be the man for the long haul I believe if he accepts the interim role.
