Worse sh!tshow: Miles or Riley?
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Close one, but I'll have to go with Miles. When you've had 7 years to build a program and only accomplished 1 tournament & 1 NIT (both 1st round losses) appearances with the resources & support thrown at him, that's bad. Also a .397 conference winning percentage in the past 5 years (.411 overall) is pretty awful.
Easily Riley. The amount of financial support this program gets, it should NEVER go 4-8 for multiple seasons. And yes, I'm blaming Mike why we went 4-8 in Frost's first year.
Yeah riiiiiiiight......he took over a marginal Bo program that at least won 9 or 10 games for seven consecutive years......something Smiling Mike with his awesome Beaver-ball staff couldn't even comprehend.
Have no idea why you would think this..
TM is .0411 in wining pct in conference play, he hasn’t won enough and Pelini had a losing season over all or in conference play..
Gotta say Riley. Miles took a middling program and kept it middling. I don’t think he made it worse. I also think he had a plan, it was just a plan that failed.
Riley definitely made NU football worse. He turned NU into Oregon State in less than 3 years. At least Miles kept Nebraska, Nebraska.
Riley definitely made NU football worse. He turned NU into Oregon State in less than 3 years. At least Miles kept Nebraska, Nebraska.
Riley proved he was a 500 coach.
Miles made it to the Tournament previously.
Make of that what you will.
Miles made it to the Tournament previously.
Make of that what you will.
Yes, if you look at winning percentage over time. Good point. My comparison really was about this year. Every time Tim's team got ranked, it got beat by someone that wasn't ranked. Same thing happened about every year of Bo's stay.
Miles can't coach. He can recruit a little. If you look at the guy, it's obvious he never played the game at a high level, and knows squaadoosh about teaching the sport to his players.
Bring somebody in who has played and understands basketball. Bring someone in who is young. Take a shot on someone new. I'm talking somebody who played and coached at the P5 level, or NBA.
I think tim actually tried it just didn't work for him, where Riley he didn't care, when his wife doesn't even move to lincoln it should have been a tell tail sign his heart wasn't in it
Tough one. Both their last years were equally as bad. Can say both teams just gave up before the season was over. My vote is going to have to be Riley. Basketball has never been anything great. Miles just kept it that way. While football has had some down years. He took a good to average program and turned them into one of the worst teams in the country and one of the worst Neb has seen, in just a matter of 3 years. That takes some pretty horrible coaching to accomplish that.
Bo beat Clemson, Georgia and Ohio State. He won 9 games a lot.
Miles recruited ok but his coaching stinks, and he is about ready to head into the sewer with the way these guys execute on the basketball court.
Time to go.
Well I'd say that Miles is worse only because his teams offered little bits of hope now and then that kept delaying the day of reckoning to get him fired. So his tenure has dragged on for far too long IMO. At least Riley had the "good" sense to be so bad so soon that we could give him the boot quickly without creating any controversy in doing so. It was clear cut right away that Riley was a huge mistake.
