When is the last time MFB, MBB, Mbaseball all had losing seasons in the same year?
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Hey Atleast the baseball team has a coach who will stick around. That was the most important thing for Dr Tom Osborne. Now we are stuck with Erstad until a MLB team decides to take a chance with him.
Always a great time to be a Husker fan! Gotta take a few lows with the highs we've been fortunate enough to have had.
I think it's an exciting time to be a Husker Fan! GBR!
I think it's an exciting time to be a Husker Fan! GBR!
Speech Team is dropping some serious verbage ...so there is that
Third game in a row that the starter has been shelled. I saw where the last 3 stating pitchers have gone a total of 2 2/3 innings. This team can't pitch, they can't hit and their defense is subpar. Other than that, they are pretty good.
Oh, and they can't run bases either. They had multiple runners picked off base when they were down big.
Ya but this was against a top 5 ranked team in America, oh wait. We made U San Diego look like the Florida Gators and that is hard to do.
It will be pretty depressing if the Huskers don't make the B1G baseball tournament in Omaha in May....
I would express some concern about whether or not Erstad is the right guy, but until a few certain posters on here tell me it's OK to do so, I won't. Last week it was to early, not sure about this week.
8 series's in conference play by the time the spring football game rolls around we will be in our 4th week of play we will know by then If this team will be any good to make it to Omaha.
We're now at fourth game in a row where that happened. Remember when Erstad supposedly got the best staff money could buy? And his MLB resume was going to bring in all this super talent and teach the guys how to lay great baseball? Tom was a hell of a head coach. He made some truly bad hires as an AD.
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Hold your tongue sir!!! Truly elite, great coach means anyone he hires is elite.
It's funny that a lot of the same people who swore up and down that Erstad would absolutely steamroll the Big Ten and take NU deep into the postseason every year now get their garments in a bunch at any suggestion that he's not meeting expectations.
I never had high expectations, because the just-hire-our-most-famous-former-major-league-alum strategy rarely seems to work out. But even I thought it would go better than it has.
Well he was hired by Osborne thus despite his lackluster results Erstad must be a damn good coach. In reality he should have never sniffed the job....but Osborne just couldn't help himself because Erstad just loves Nebraska so darn much. That makes him qualified for this position.
It's not TO's fault. Who has the authority to do anything about the sub par results (hint: Not TO)?? It's a real rough go for Men's Huskers sports right now...we're all hopeful for better future results but we're not making a change in any of these coaches for a while..
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Love T.O. and some of the criticism he draws on this board infuriates me sometimes, but his track record for hiring coaches is horrible, period. Of course Miles and Erstad could both turn it around and be nothing short of awesome, but as of right now this very second, T.O. is horrible at hiring coaches. That's OK, that's not why I will remember him, but I'm not going to sugar coat his track record on that issue either.
The facts are that TO did make the decision to hire Miles and Erstad. So far, those coaches haven't shown the winning level that we had hoped. However the facts also show that he has 0 current authority in our athletic dept/university over our coaches. Any current/future issues on coaching job performances can only be held accountable to our current AD. So yes, to clarify I don't understand how a person who hired them, but isn't in charge anymore (and hasn't been), is at fault currently still...
How about this analogy: A man buys a car, man dies and car is given to his neighbor. Car worked ok for man but for the neighbor it isn't working as well. Is it ok for neighbor to blame man for the car not working as well? If so, what good does that do since the man can't do anything about it anymore?
How about this analogy: A man buys a car, man dies and car is given to his neighbor. Car worked ok for man but for the neighbor it isn't working as well. Is it ok for neighbor to blame man for the car not working as well? If so, what good does that do since the man can't do anything about it anymore?
what in the name of holy crap are you talking about? That's a terrible analogy. So, by your logic, Tom isn't responsible for the people he saddled the program with because he left? So should we ALWAYS fire the guys the last AD hired, just out of the gate? This is bending over backwards to excuse Tom for bad decisions or potentially bad decisions like I've never seen before.
Even if Erstad eventually "works out" that was a bad hire, unless "works out" means all of the sudden we become a super power in baseball. I'll never forget him making the comment that "he had no idea so many people were interested in the Nebraska baseball job." And then announced he hired the volunteer who had almost no coaching experience. I was freaking LIVID. Osborne was like Devaney before him. Set in his ways, and disinterested in anything other than protecting his legacy. And in the end, that approach will likely tarnish it a bit.
No...my point is (again) that you can't blame TO for what is happening currently. He has NO authority to do anything about it currently. Yes, blame him for the hire and the performance while he was AD. He has 0 control now-and don't worry, no office to visit either even if he wanted to....
This guy has done more for the UofN than any other person ever and it's not even close. If you don't like him, than you don't like him...but to think we'd be better off without him is asinine.
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This guy has done more for the UofN than any other person ever and it's not even close. If you don't like him, than you don't like him...but to think we'd be better off without him is asinine.
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He did more for the University as the head coach than anyone around. He set it back a good bit in his stint as AD. Of course he has no authority NOW. He had authority to hire someone who wasn't a volunteer with no real coaching experience when he WAS in charge. He had authority to hire someone other than Bo Pelini, I don't really blame him for Miles, we got turned down by a lot of people and the guy we really wanted is actually having a worse time at Illinois.
Since you like analogy's here one for you.
Say I embezzled a good sum of money from my employer to the point where the company struggled to pay its bills anymore. The company didn't actually go under until two years after I left. Are you going to claim I'm blame free for the business failing?
As far as Miles and Erstad hiring...
It is much tougher to win in the B1G in Basketball than it is in Baseball.
We also have more talent Baseball wise in this state to be more successful than we do in Basketball, this is a no branier.
Criticize all you want but he was in consideration for the L.A Dodger job and before you give me crap HE wouldn't have won that job when it was all said and done but he did make the first cut.
yaaa I hate Peelini too but at the time the majority of us wouldn't admit NOW but everyone thought he had a ton of potential to be a good Head Coach.
It is much tougher to win in the B1G in Basketball than it is in Baseball.
We also have more talent Baseball wise in this state to be more successful than we do in Basketball, this is a no branier.
Criticize all you want but he was in consideration for the L.A Dodger job and before you give me crap HE wouldn't have won that job when it was all said and done but he did make the first cut.
yaaa I hate Peelini too but at the time the majority of us wouldn't admit NOW but everyone thought he had a ton of potential to be a good Head Coach.
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Does the neighbor have a bunch of uneducated idiots claiming the car is ok simply because the man who died owned it?
Yes it is. The fact that your post could even be a topic of interest is evidence alone. How many losing seasons has our Football team had since most of you have been alive or the rest of us can remember? Our baseball team played at old Buck Beltzer off the railroad tracks with 50 fans sitting in aluminum bleachers and we just dialed in losses with the lineup card for decades, the last few years or so have been different. Our MBB team has been just as up and down competitive as anyone else and have played well against the elites in all 3 Conferences we have played in. It is and always will be a great day and time to be a Husker. If you can't see, Husker Nation can't help you.
Manager of a major league baseball team is VASTLY different than head coach of a college baseball team. There's WAAAAAY more teaching going on at this level than in the majors, especially from a manager.
He was in consideration for that job because he was a successful major league player because he could communicate with other major league players. And then there's the fact that he spent the majority of his career playing in Los Angeles. None of that means he's a good college baseball coach.
As for Pelini....I was certainly hoping he worked out, but I was less than impressed with the hire. I have never liked Nebraska being the first head job for anybody. It's why I was staunchly opposed to hiring Scott Frost last year. I also saw a guy who's defense was pretty up and down everywhere he went. I'm not sure where the defensive genius stuff came from (his camp?) but he was a very good defensive coordinator when he was given very special talent. Look at the LSU's actual schedule breakdown the year they won the title. His defense got lit up plenty. His best defense EVER was when he had a guy named Suh, who he could just point at the ball carrier and yell "get him". Suh also had about three or four defensive teammates that were also NFL caliber, none of them were recruited by Pelini.
I was also really uneasy about the number of people who branded him a "Nebraska Guy" because he was an assistant coach here for about 11 months.
Miles, I don't really blame Osborne for but I blame Osborne for when he made the hire. He probably was the best coach we could have hope to get at the time, considering how moribund and talentless our program was (thanks to Tom giving Sadler two (2) too many years. And the facilities. These days? We have some of the best facilities in the country and some pretty damn good talent ... except for a big man, who Miles can't seem to get.
I thought Erstad did a very good job hiring assistants when he got here. Bolt and Silva did OK, improved their standing in the conference the first 3 years. The bats since Bolt left have been whatever the opposite of clutch is. Witness an LBSU relief pitcher retiring 8 batters via the strike out, especially with a guy on base and no outs. Not clutch, at all.
Which is a major problem with the head coach, who I could have sworn was hired in part because he "knew how to hit" And the pitching staff has consistently gottten worse every year. Even if Silva can teach, it doesn't appear recruiting is a talent.
