He’s the ultimate hotheaded jerk.
yeah, when you’re a jerk, you need to win 10-12 a year, like Saban.
And no, Nebraska does not seem ready to embrace that recruiting to the cold plains and industrial rust belt is just not as easy as recruiting to the south and the west.
Players see everything now, they see weather, they see crowds, they go where they want to go for reasons beyond just football, and none of them are old enough to have lived through the glory years of Osborne.
Heh, knew it was coming. I’m a long ago UNL alum, living in NE who has never given a rat’s ass about football. Big Red Rooters repeat the same sorry pattern over and over. Winning big in the early 70s when I went back to school there has never left their stupid spot in their brains. They think that every season has to be perfect or the coach is not worth a crap and they continue to throw more money at finding the perfect coach who will bring them the perfect season. Now local talk radio around here will be nothing but Yak Yak Yak about firing right or wrong and what kind of coach will be better and how much more money they should pay for a “winning” coach, a better recruiter. In the end, it won’t make a bit of difference. He’s no more of a jerk than any of the previous and I’ve met some of them close up.
The players seem to think he cares about them.
My dad was a hot-headed man all my qrowinq up years but I never had a moment’s doubt that he cared deeply about me. The one thinq that DOESN’T speak care to me is “Meh.” And people with that response come a dime a dozen.
I’m not the huqe Biq Red fan I used to be, and it’s mostly because way too many Nebraska fans are jerks.
But hey, what’s not to love about rewardinq an overtime win over a very qood team by firinq the coach? The same fans that booed our own quys shouldn’t even think twice about slappinq our players in the face like that.
Meh.