Posted on 11/30/2014 8:47:34 AM PST by FlJoePa
Who's next? Hoke?
He’s the ultimate hotheaded jerk.
The last time NU fired a 9-3 coach they hired Callahan and had 5 really bad years. Sometimes that new direction thing does not go in the direction they expect.
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.
Cornhusker fans can’t forget the years of Devaney and Osborne.
It is not about education it is about winning and money. this is why there is problems in the NFL. They don’t care about the athletes or the quality of education that they get. Just winning and money.
Probably. Hoke's Michigan winning percentage is significantly worse than Pellini's at Nebraska (about 61% vs. 72%), and what makes it worse for Michigan fans is that Michigan's decline (a putrid 5-7 this year and no bowl game) is coming at the same time arch-rivals OSU and MSU are dominant.
But Hoke scores better than Pellini in intangibles: personality, media relations, high graduation rates of players, low off-the-field problems with players.
Nebraska does it best recruiting in south central LA.
Pelini's prolific use of the F bomb didn't sit well with many Nebraskan's either. When he stated if they didn't like it they could fire him, I think that was then beginning of the end.
To some people 9 wins is OK. To others, include me as an alum, wins against losing programs & getting blown out in the most important games does not get it. Does anyone think that a coach stays in assumed top schools if you can’t make the top 25? What does it convey to recruits & their families when Bo goes ballistic on the sidelines yelling profusely instead of coaching. I look at this as an end of a mediocre reign & a bright new beginning. I look at a new coach that brings in experienced coordinators & can adjust during a game. Best to Bo & his family wherever he lands.
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.
Nebraska would not be alone in their recruitment locales....
- Roll Tide -
Is it just me or does this seem like a horrendous amount of money for UNL to flush down the toilet? If they do a clean sweep, it’s $11 MILLION and if it’s “just” Pelini, $7.65 million.
How do you justify that to people that are paying to send their kids to school there?
So Bama plays Indiana now for the SEC? Heh...
I’m sure UNL’s athletic department (unlike most) doesn’t need to funnel cash from student activity fees. This is ticket money, booster money. Not really State or University money.
Good to know, thanks. It just seems incredible to me.
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