Tom could have restarted the “tradition” complete with Frank and he chose not to. He could have hired Turner and he chose not to. Instead he brought back Bo and his screwed up brother. Blame Pederson for firing Frank and hiring Callahan, but Tom’s choices weighed heavily after that.
Hiring the best assistant coaches possible would have helped.
Pederson mistakenly was set on hiring an NFL coach with very little college experience. Eichorst wanted the anti-Bo. Poor criteria. Promoting Beck would have been a better option than Riley or Callahan IMO. (Edit: hypothetical obviously as Beck was an assistant for Bo after Callahan).
Some of the staff was dictated by Pederson because of their reputation as recruiters. Elmassian was an awful coach.
I think Rhule is equipped to handle it. Whether he wins, we'll see. But he appears to have the work ethic, vision, and demeanor to be successful here.
Riley but also Callahan looking backwards. Better fit than Callahan. Beck was one of the best organized and hardest working recruiters on Bo’s staff. Hell, I honestly believe he could have kept the whole staff other than Bo and we would have kept winning 8-9 games. The best half of defense I saw that last year was with Papuchis calling the shots when they took Bo to the hospital at halftime.
I honestly think IF Eichorst hadn’t made Riley fire Banker we easily would have won 7 that last year if not 8. The “strain” was too much. I mistakenly thought it was okay because it led to Frost🤢🤢🤢
I'm confused by what you're saying. Tim Beck was a HS football coach in 2004.
It’s a hypothetical scenario. Beck after being on Bo’s staff IMO would have been a better choice than BC was previously. I admit my presentation was confusing. Obviously the timing wasn’t correct for it to have actually happened.
The problem wasn't firing Frank Solich even though it was done as poorly as possible. It was hiring him in the first place when much more candidates were no doubt available if a national search had been done..
No. It was always Wannstedt. I knew a week before Frank was fired that Wannstedt had agreed verbally to take the job. Pederson shared that nugget with a few large donors one of whom I knew at the time.
That's sad that they thought Wannstedt was a big fish.
Why would an AD help negotiate a Head Coach going to another program..
I think you have to separate the firing and the replacement. The terrible job of finding a replacement doesn't mean FS was the answer.
You remember things differently (or maybe were told things differently) than what Harvey Perlman remembers, according to this article:
Perlman as an attorney was a skilled prevaricator. There might have been other names but on the Saturday a week before Frank coached his last game it was Wannstedt according to a booster who was in the Pederson inner circle in Lincoln. I don’t doubt that other coaches were approached that we don’t know about though.
So "The Athletic,"article is wrong? It seems pretty well written.
Probably the only thing we know for sure is that it was a complete cluster f*ck.
The problem was the hire of Callahan. You make a right hire, as Ohio State did with tressel and Georgia did with smart you can fire a guy who won, but didn't win enough. You hire a Callahan or a Riley it sucks
Where is that statue of Steve Perfecthair that they were going to erect for him?
What a boob that dude was. Even his number one choice Wannstadt that jilted him wasn’t a very good college coach. He began our 20+ years in the wilderness, Only briefly interrupted by the modestly successful Bo who couldn’t control his own temper. It will be interesting to see if MR has any big quirks.
Yep .then Miami didn’t fire him and Steve P was screwed. At least he thought he had his guy.When Eichorst canned Bo he and Perlman had no clue who to hire. Fast forward to Trev . Trev had his guy from the get go MattR. But also had a backup plan in Fickell if he couldn’t manage the Rhule Carolina situation.
Was Perlman the guy who hired eichorst who fired Bo and hired Riley? The whole sordid Deal, No wonder Perlman is in “who me?” mode
