http://www.knowitallfootball.com/2015/10/11/nebraskas-mike-riley-supporters-wrong/
You’re wrong, and it’s time you admitted it.
I questioned the hiring from day one. I was shouted down. Others questioned the hiring. They were shouted down. We question the coaching staff every week, and we’re still shouted down.
Anyone who mentions Bo Pelini’s name is shouted down. “Bo needed to be fired.” “Bo didn’t represent Nebraska in a positive light.” “Bo couldn’t beat good teams.” “Bo never won a championship.”
This is no longer one, two, three, four or five games. The 2015 college football season is half over. Nebraska is 2-4, with the only two wins coming over two bad teams.
The Michigan Wolverines are going through a coaching transition. They are playing the best football in the country right now. The Florida Gators are going through a coaching transition. They look like the best team in the SEC right now. Wisconsin is going through a coaching transition.
They just beat Nebraska in Lincoln.
You sit there and bash Kirk Ferentz. You scoff at Minnesota. You laugh at Illinois.
Right now, you’d trade places with any of those teams in a heartbeat.
All I heard all offseason was how much better off this team — the 2015 team — was going to be with Mike Riley at the helm. There was no talk of giving him time. This was, at the absolute worst, a 7-5 team, according to the biggest Nebraska homers on the face of the planet. There was no rebuilding to do. The talent was there and Riley and his staff were good enough to mold it into a winner until they were able to get their own recruits in. That was the story. That was all I heard, and you cannot deny it.
Mike Riley is failing. That is a fact.
He is a great guy. He’s a respected guy. He’s calm, polite, soft-spoken. You want to root for him. Nobody has ever rooted against him. But damnit, the guy is not a winner. He never has been. His mediocre football coaching resume is propped up by excuses and some success in another country, coaching a sport that is a shell of the one you and I watch on Saturdays and Sundays.
His teams are not disciplined. They never have been. They’ve always been among the most penalized in the nation. His offense does not work here. You already knew this because of Bill Callahan, but you chose to ignore it because Mike Riley is not an asshole. This is the Midwest. You don’t pass the ball and win games in late October and November. Not in the NFL. Not in college.
Mike Riley was a bad hire. It’s time to admit it.
Stop trying to erase Bo Pelini. He happened. What he did was real. Lost some games. He got blown out in some games. He yelled. He called you out for leaving games early — you the fans who were supposedly more dedicated and passionate than any in the nation. He was right. He trashed the administration that fired him, and he did so in front of his former players. He was right. Those players are not children. They’re not boys. They are men, the same age as the men and women who wear your country’s military uniforms. They can handle the truth.
In order for the 2015 Nebraska team to achieve what Bo Pelini did during his worst season at Nebraska, the Huskers must win out. You can’t ignore that. It’s real. It’s the truth.
You were wrong. You were wrong to support a chancellor and AD who sacrificed a known — winning games — for a prayer and a pipe dream. Tom Osborne is gone. What he did will probably never be done again — not at Nebraska or anyplace else. You have forgotten how to appreciate success.
Mike Riley was a bad hire. I know this because you are Nebraska. I know you are Nebraska because you never stop talking about it. Nebraska wins. Nebraska is a blue blood. Nebraska belongs among the nation’s most prestigious programs. Nebraska is Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame and Michigan. That’s who you are. And you hired Mike Riley. And you sat back and let it happen.
Now, every Saturday, after each heart-breaking loss or ho-hum win, you sit back and spew the same excuses over and over and over. “Give him time.” “These are Bo’s players.” “He needs his guys.” “Don’t talk bad about the program because it hurts recruiting.”
Losing hurts recruiting. Winning sustains it. Winning at a championship level improves it. Mike Riley has never won at the college level. 91,000 fans packing an old stadium overlooking shiny facilities were never going to change that.
Harvey Perlman is leaving. When he leaves, Shawn Eichorst should be next, and with him, the football coach he hired.
You CAN fire a coach after one season, because you are Nebraska and this is not who and what you are. Nebraska wins. Mike Riley does not. It’s really that simple.
Swallow the pride, admit you were wrong, open the checkbook and go get your coach. Florida did it. Michigan did it. Ohio State did it. Notre Dame did it.
It’s time Nebraska does it, and it’s time you dropped the exhausting charade that is throwing every fiber of your being behind a losing football coach in the name of not having to admit that you are wrong.
.........................................
He spoke the truth.
1) Chancellor is being hired.
2) Fire SE
3) Hire Trev Alberts
4) Go out and get a coach that knows how to f'n win.
You’re wrong, and it’s time you admitted it.
I questioned the hiring from day one. I was shouted down. Others questioned the hiring. They were shouted down. We question the coaching staff every week, and we’re still shouted down.
Anyone who mentions Bo Pelini’s name is shouted down. “Bo needed to be fired.” “Bo didn’t represent Nebraska in a positive light.” “Bo couldn’t beat good teams.” “Bo never won a championship.”
This is no longer one, two, three, four or five games. The 2015 college football season is half over. Nebraska is 2-4, with the only two wins coming over two bad teams.
The Michigan Wolverines are going through a coaching transition. They are playing the best football in the country right now. The Florida Gators are going through a coaching transition. They look like the best team in the SEC right now. Wisconsin is going through a coaching transition.
They just beat Nebraska in Lincoln.
You sit there and bash Kirk Ferentz. You scoff at Minnesota. You laugh at Illinois.
Right now, you’d trade places with any of those teams in a heartbeat.
All I heard all offseason was how much better off this team — the 2015 team — was going to be with Mike Riley at the helm. There was no talk of giving him time. This was, at the absolute worst, a 7-5 team, according to the biggest Nebraska homers on the face of the planet. There was no rebuilding to do. The talent was there and Riley and his staff were good enough to mold it into a winner until they were able to get their own recruits in. That was the story. That was all I heard, and you cannot deny it.
Mike Riley is failing. That is a fact.
He is a great guy. He’s a respected guy. He’s calm, polite, soft-spoken. You want to root for him. Nobody has ever rooted against him. But damnit, the guy is not a winner. He never has been. His mediocre football coaching resume is propped up by excuses and some success in another country, coaching a sport that is a shell of the one you and I watch on Saturdays and Sundays.
His teams are not disciplined. They never have been. They’ve always been among the most penalized in the nation. His offense does not work here. You already knew this because of Bill Callahan, but you chose to ignore it because Mike Riley is not an asshole. This is the Midwest. You don’t pass the ball and win games in late October and November. Not in the NFL. Not in college.
Mike Riley was a bad hire. It’s time to admit it.
Stop trying to erase Bo Pelini. He happened. What he did was real. Lost some games. He got blown out in some games. He yelled. He called you out for leaving games early — you the fans who were supposedly more dedicated and passionate than any in the nation. He was right. He trashed the administration that fired him, and he did so in front of his former players. He was right. Those players are not children. They’re not boys. They are men, the same age as the men and women who wear your country’s military uniforms. They can handle the truth.
In order for the 2015 Nebraska team to achieve what Bo Pelini did during his worst season at Nebraska, the Huskers must win out. You can’t ignore that. It’s real. It’s the truth.
You were wrong. You were wrong to support a chancellor and AD who sacrificed a known — winning games — for a prayer and a pipe dream. Tom Osborne is gone. What he did will probably never be done again — not at Nebraska or anyplace else. You have forgotten how to appreciate success.
Mike Riley was a bad hire. I know this because you are Nebraska. I know you are Nebraska because you never stop talking about it. Nebraska wins. Nebraska is a blue blood. Nebraska belongs among the nation’s most prestigious programs. Nebraska is Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame and Michigan. That’s who you are. And you hired Mike Riley. And you sat back and let it happen.
Now, every Saturday, after each heart-breaking loss or ho-hum win, you sit back and spew the same excuses over and over and over. “Give him time.” “These are Bo’s players.” “He needs his guys.” “Don’t talk bad about the program because it hurts recruiting.”
Losing hurts recruiting. Winning sustains it. Winning at a championship level improves it. Mike Riley has never won at the college level. 91,000 fans packing an old stadium overlooking shiny facilities were never going to change that.
Harvey Perlman is leaving. When he leaves, Shawn Eichorst should be next, and with him, the football coach he hired.
You CAN fire a coach after one season, because you are Nebraska and this is not who and what you are. Nebraska wins. Mike Riley does not. It’s really that simple.
Swallow the pride, admit you were wrong, open the checkbook and go get your coach. Florida did it. Michigan did it. Ohio State did it. Notre Dame did it.
It’s time Nebraska does it, and it’s time you dropped the exhausting charade that is throwing every fiber of your being behind a losing football coach in the name of not having to admit that you are wrong.
.........................................
He spoke the truth.
1) Chancellor is being hired.
2) Fire SE
3) Hire Trev Alberts
4) Go out and get a coach that knows how to f'n win.
