Pelini on being out of Nebraska

[swihawkeye]

Bo knows football. He will be a success at YSU. Getting a big paycheck for a relatively "cushy" job probably doesn't hurt his personal situation either.

 

[huskerhomie]

At the same time, he was winning 9 or 10 games each season. I could have understood if they fired him at the end of 2013 after the Iowa game, but apart from his abrasiveness, how do you fire him before that? 2012 he was in B1G championship game, tell me when he should have been fired sooner?

And what were his assistants doing that would have landed us on probation?

I am not trying to defend Bo here as I am soooo happy he is gone, but I don't think it is a cut and dried thing that he should have been fired sooner. The earliest I could advocate was after the Iowa game in 2013...

Bo could have EASILY been fired after that 2012 B10 champ game debacle. Remember he got woodshedded by a 7-5 Wisky team that remember was 3rd place in their division and played in the B10 champ game by default. Cause tOSU was on probation and PSU was still banned from playing.

It is not like Bo lost to an undefeated tOSU team in the champ game cause they were better, we played a one dimensional team that only needed to throw the ball 9 times the whole game to put 70 points on us.

Bo should have been gone after 70-31, as it was pretty clear what we hired him to do as in fix our D, was simply not going to happen.

 

[HuskerTimOmaha]

No pressure at all, no expectations, he can coast and as long as he get winning seasons here and there its all good.

Huh!?! You couldn't be more off...

Wolford was fired and he had 4 straight winning seasons, 4 of 5 overall. Heacock "resigned" after 6 winnings seasons in 9 years.

 

[timnsun]

Bo could have EASILY been fired after that 2012 B10 champ game debacle. Remember he got woodshedded by a 7-5 Wisky team that remember was 3rd place in their division and played in the B10 champ game by default. Cause tOSU was on probation and PSU was still banned from playing.

It is not like Bo lost to an undefeated tOSU team in the champ game cause they were better, we played a one dimensional team that only needed to throw the ball 9 times the whole game to put 70 points on us.

Bo should have been gone after 70-31, as it was pretty clear what we hired him to do as in fix our D, was simply not going to happen.

I hear you, it was a huge dumpster fire... But the team did win something like their last six conference games, and didn't they beat tOSU and Wisconsin in the regular season? They showed a ton of heart during that stretch.

The only coach that comes to mind being fired directly after the conference championship game is Gary Barnett, but he had lost the team completely and was under fire for the Katie Hnida incident. I don't remember if any other coach has ever been fired after making an appearance in the CCG. Am I missing anybody? This may be too PC, but how do you fire someone who got the team that far?

I think some might make that case that he should have been fired at that point, but a similar argument could have been made for osborne after some of those blowouts to Oklahoma and bowl game blowouts in the early 90s...

I think that one game didn't warrant him being fired. Just my opinion tho.

 

[otismotis08]

Huh!?! You couldn't be more off...

Wolford was fired and he had 4 straight winning seasons, 4 of 5 overall. Heacock "resigned" after 6 winnings seasons in 9 years.

But Bo is Mr. Youngstown. The golden boy has come home.

 

[anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi]

But Bo is Mr. Youngstown. The golden boy has come home.

Let it go.

 

[HuskersMan34]

I hear you, it was a huge dumpster fire... But the team did win something like their last six conference games, and didn't they beat tOSU and Wisconsin in the regular season? They showed a ton of heart during that stretch.

The only coach that comes to mind being fired directly after the conference championship game is Gary Barnett, but he had lost the team completely and was under fire for the Katie Hnida incident. I don't remember if any other coach has ever been fired after making an appearance in the CCG. Am I missing anybody? This may be too PC, but how do you fire someone who got the team that far?

I think some might make that case that he should have been fired at that point, but a similar argument could have been made for osborne after some of those blowouts to Oklahoma and bowl game blowouts in the early 90s...

I think that one game didn't warrant him being fired. Just my opinion tho.

Not to pick nits, but the Ohio State team we beat that year was one of the worst they've had in the last decade. They were also crushing us until their QB got injured. And as has already been pointed out, that Wisconsin team wasn't very good either. I agree with you that one game shouldn't have gotten him fired, but it was indicative of the terrible job of coaching he did over the course of his career.

 

[timnsun]

Totally agree with you. This was one of many nails in his coffin.