Hire the very best AD from the very best football school.
Let him do his thing.
No matter the cost.
Let him do his thing.
No matter the cost.
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You think Dannen is the problem? If anything, he's our only bright spot
Give him a few minutes.
Do you buy a new pickup truck every time you need a new set of tires?
We're not buying out Dannon for $12 million so that we can hire the "best" AD with a $2 million bonus and $2 million a year. Then he can fire Rhule and staff for another $65 million. And hire a new staff for $12 million in the first year. That's upwards of $100 million dollars. How about we just hire a new OC instead?
Unaffordable and not a wise use of financial resources.
Dannen isn’t going to force Rhule to make any in season changes. And why should he? I’m sure they’ll be conversations after Black Friday(if they’re not already being had now) about multiple staff changes in the off season.
You shouldn’t be drinking martinis at 5:00 in the morning..
Cost matters. And we have some of the highest wasted costs in college football, and we aren't #1 in revenue or profit from the AD, and we pay for a lot of sports at NU compared to better football schools like Bama. Nebraskans are independent minded and conservative with their money. We aren't a big financial state, we don't have major industry or explosive corporate profits, and where we do have it, many of those folks don't care about anything West of Omaha. NU football is fed by everything west of Lincoln, one of the top agricultural producing states, but generally big AG guys aren't putting billions into a pointless endeavor like an oil man or Nike executive might, who is relying on slave labor for profits anyway. People had to wonder what it means when a state with almost no football talent wastes 50 million on buyouts over three coaches..well incompetence breeds incompetence and you get the worst program in college football. We need a dramatic reset, no name...small contract, small expectations, run the option or variant of power football. Fail, you are fired and start over. We have to do something nobody else is doing. Playing the same game, when we are 10-15 yards behind everybody else just leads to crappy seasons. We would have 2 wins with many teams schedules this season.
In fairness to Dannen, we’ve already seen this tried before (Eichorst to Riley with Banker), and it was a disaster of epic proportions. The AD shouldn’t have to force the head coach at Nebraska to see what’s painfully obvious to even the most casual of football fans.
This fiscally conservative attitude is what got us in this mess. Rhule was supposed to be the fiscally minded option as Alberts would say, and I think is the reason why Albert's was even interested in the first place. Well, Rhule balked at the first offer that was made, and then dipshit Albert's was scrambling to put a new offer together and way overpaid for Rhule with a huge buyout and contract term. But this is just the epitome of Nebraska leadership in recent years.
Here we are, this is Nebraska where fiscal conservatism means $50 million buyout for coaches every few years, $200 million facilities upgrades which haven't amounted to jack shit, and half a billion dollar stadium renovations that significantly reduce seating capacity and makes it harder for families to see a game.
promoting from within was the fiscally sound option.. but Ted Carter nixed that idea.
Troy can promote from within again.. but if Troy and Rhule are buddies.. well then you gotta jettison the AD too if he wants to sit on his hands.
If Rhule does nothing, and Troy does nothing.. then what?
Will the BOR sit on their hands too?
What about Jeffrey Gold?
According to Rhule, Troy told him that going toe to toe with Ohio State means nothing when you can’t replicate that same level of play the next week.
Troy is doing what he should, and that’s allowing Rhule to fail on his own.
There is nothing that can fix this. It's not fixable. We suck, the end. How many years do you need to watch this trash to realize the happy ending isn't happening? We are the worst major conference program in existence. How about fold the program, wait 10 years until the last scrap of connection to RIGHT NOW is nothing but a distant memory, and then start anew without the mentally fragile 1-150 players and coaches that continue passing this virus on year-after-year? That's as realistic as thinking a different AD is THE solution, FFS.
No kidding...
NU is a lame super average team right now. It can literally all be different and they can be very good next year. Just get the right coaches in place. And there are a few players that just finally need to be gone and done with their time at NU.
You can go back 10+ years and pick a team every year and say "If they can fix ______ Nebraska sure as hell can be fixed." You're ignoring a decade of black and white evidence.
IMO we’re a good OC away from being an 8-9 win team. Satt has to lose his play calling duties at the very least. Hopefully Rhile takes it over. A trained monkey could do a better job than Satt.
Our hires have had issues. Frost was his own worst enemy. Riley would have been bowling his last season if he hadn’t been forced to hire Diaco and switch to a 3-4. Rhule has made a mistake it appears by hiring Satterfield as his play caller. I’m going to give him a chance to either fire him or dictate to him how plays are called.
It’s been 25 years since a conf championship. How long do you need? People think Neb is better than teams like Indiana. They can recruit their 500 mile radius and take the leftovers - their leftovers are better than the 500 around Neb. It’s not changing and what top AD or coach wants to come here and try and recruit? Every good coach or recruiter will leave after year 2 or 3 of living on a plane.
It’s a lack of talent. Even if you get the number 1 kid, let alone QB, we screw that up. 8 wins is our playoff and 9 wins every 15 years with a pancake schedule is out NC.
