I read somewhere that he wanted to come here but we said ‘no thanks.’
Why didn’t we recruit Joe Burrow?
- Thread starter Charlie Marlow
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What? Joe Burrow wanted to come here? Why hasn't anyone pointed this out?
Why did urban Meyer pick a half ass qb to start over joe when he saw joe play for 3 years
Because Haskins had more stars to his name and was higher rated. Haskins HAS to be better. So you start Haskins, but you will have to ignore how good Burrow looks in practice. -Urban Meyer, from his little known book Always Travel Home With The Team.
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Would it have mattered? Why does this thread reappear every ****ing week?
In 2014, Perlhorst was hell bent on firing a staff that won at least nine games in their seven seasons. Would Burrow have come to play for Riley after Pelini and his staff was fired?
I get that this dipshit fanbase just wanted a shitty coach whose priority would be saying how much he loooooved THE GREATEST FANS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL. That's ALL THAT MATTERS TO THEM.
I mean, who cares if he can coach. Just recruit STARZZ baby! CALABRASKA!! And tell the local media how wonderful and intelligent they are!
Kudos to Riley for his brilliance in cashing NU's checks and sucking.
Hasn't NU football been the better because of Perlhorst's wisdom? Remember when Iowa wasn't a game that mattered!
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I think the rumor was that he wanted to possibly transfer here, but we had Adrian locked up and still had Gebbia, so Frost didnt think he needed him. And you’re kidding yourself if you think Burrow does as well here under Mario as he did at LSU.
And why did he have a tiny, pretty boy with a noodle arm ( who ended up being a journeyman WR) ahead of him at second string.
We obviously didn’t have 3 starting NFL WRs. At best, he’s have had Stanley Morgan and Joey has him now and still never throws to him.
We’d have won a lot more games and been better off short-term with Joey. But Joey was way better off going to LSU and we were better off Long-term because the pretender coaches weren’t able to hide behind him
...and if Burrow came here, he would have been sitting on the couch liker you and I watching NFL games on TV. SF did him a favor for not bringing him here!
Because Tim Beck had his eyes on Lamar Jackson, then after whiffing on him went all in on a QB that ended up not committing here either and eventually got moved to TE.
All the while, Burrow at his signing day interview, openly stated his “dream was to play for Nebraska, but it didn’t work out”.
Then when Joe was going to transfer, we had that wonderful quote of “is he better than what we already got?”.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, it worked out best for Burrow to never have come here. I doubt he’d be in the NFL, let alone about to play in the AFC championship game if he had committed here.
All the while, Burrow at his signing day interview, openly stated his “dream was to play for Nebraska, but it didn’t work out”.
Then when Joe was going to transfer, we had that wonderful quote of “is he better than what we already got?”.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, it worked out best for Burrow to never have come here. I doubt he’d be in the NFL, let alone about to play in the AFC championship game if he had committed here.
Burrow is lucky he didn't come as he would have been working behind a pretty jenky offensive line.
My cable guy, and word on the street , have the real story
the owners of rivals knew what burrow would become. There was a concerted effort by them to pay burrow not to come here and to pay the coaches not to pursue him. The “ better than what we’ve got” quote was also written by a PR firm to ensure maximum longevity.
the goal in all of this was to piss off an otherwise disinterested fan base and drive clicks on a message board for a team that has gravitated to mediocrity. How many “why no burrow” and “better than what we’ve got” posts did this generate and what was the resulting ad revenue?
worked like a charm.
the owners of rivals knew what burrow would become. There was a concerted effort by them to pay burrow not to come here and to pay the coaches not to pursue him. The “ better than what we’ve got” quote was also written by a PR firm to ensure maximum longevity.
the goal in all of this was to piss off an otherwise disinterested fan base and drive clicks on a message board for a team that has gravitated to mediocrity. How many “why no burrow” and “better than what we’ve got” posts did this generate and what was the resulting ad revenue?
worked like a charm.
I think it depends on which recruitment you are talking about. Why Beck didn't recruit him out of high school is much different than why Frost didn't recruit him from the transfer portal.
I think there's smoke here. I too heard that Burrow wanted to come to NU. He was legacy, but Scott Frost said, "Is he better than what we got?" I kid you not. National championship at LSU and number one draft pick left many of us shaking our head at Scott Frost.
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1. Pelini sucked. He didn't meet the standard. He would have never won a conference championship, let alone a national championship here at NU.
2. Scott Frost is worse than Mike Riley. Pathetic.
He doesn't need a good offensive line. Cincinnati has a putrid line and how is he doing?
Yep. I've seen some absolutely dipshit takes up here, but I don't think I've ever seen one that can hold a candle to this mixture of words:
"this dipshit fanbase just wanted a shitty coach whose priority would be saying how much he loooooved THE GREATEST FANS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL."
Yeah.
There was a huge groundswell of fans in 2014 asking Eichorst to hire a shitty coach.
I remember the hunger strikes, the message board posts, the newspaper articles, town hall meetings, banners hanging on campus -- all united around the theme "Give us a shitty coach or give us death".
Then, when Mike Riley was hired, it was like a veil was lifted. Celebrations galore. It was like New Year's Eve, the official end to a pandemic, an announcement of year-round NFL, and a permanent Kardashian ban from all media platforms all rolled into one glorious afternoon, and spilling into the next day.
Liquor stores sold out within 10 minutes. Runzas across the state flung their doors open -- free food for all.
Valentino's made an immediate comeback if only for the one day. Not the shitty Valentino's but the awesome Valentino's with that glorious buffet.
Bonfires erupted almost spontaneously. Herbie Husker was seen riding a bull down Vine.
The campus barely survived the ensuing celebration. Every functional adult in the state got laid. The population of Nebraska exploded 9 months later and schools are over capacity to this day.
All because the fans got what they wanted all along. What they had been pining, begging, and pleading for all along.
A shitty coach.
Burrow doesn't win the Heisman and get to be the number 1 draft pick if he played in Lincoln.
We wanted a shitty coach because we didn't want HOF head coach Bo Pelini. We didn't appreciate his greatness so we got what we deserved. Husker fans suck! /sarcasm
He seems to have outstanding talent at the skill positions to work with.
You have no clue what he does in Nebraska, but we obviously know he doesn't need a good offensive line to produce a high rate.
Because our coach is bad at his job.
At the time, our coaches thought Adrian Martinez was better than Joe Burrow.
I heard we also said no to Barry Sanders, Imagine how great we could have been with both of them on the same team!
The person who thinks not recruiting Burro means that our coach is bad at his job.
