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breaking news for Nebraska huskers

diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭✭
edited December 2014 in General Discussion
http://m.journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/pelini-fired-as-husker-head-coach/article_f9bd4f82-8ea1-5446-9d49-9489c5a1ad6a.html?mobile_touch=true


Bo Pelini fired as the Nebraska Cornhuskers head coach, effective immediately.
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    diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Breaking rumors are he was told to let his pathetic offensive and defensive coordinators go, or his job was gone, along with all his staff. He wouldn't, so they're all gone.
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    grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 53,466 ✭
    edited November -1
    He was the Main reason for me not liking the Huskers.[8D]
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    diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    He was the Main reason for me not liking the Huskers.[8D]


    Me, too.

    Really glad he's gone.

    It'll be more rebuilding years to get over the damage he and Solich and Callahan have caused.
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    rmillrmill Member Posts: 595 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah. It was time... I think he was worth a shot back in 2007 but it seems pretty clear that he ended up in over his head as far as recruiting, coaching / motivating and hiring assistants. He was very passionate but that sideline demeanor was pretty tough to watch / swallow! Hope my Huskers can get back in the hunt...! GBR!
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    grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 53,466 ✭
    edited November -1
    Then they take an Oregon Coach to replace him.



    quote:Nebraska, apparently, you really, really didn't like Bo Pelini.

    The biggest knock against Pelini was his inability to win the monster games - and getting embarrassed in some of the key moments with everything on the line. So what does Nebraska do? It hires the guy who hasn't won a championship, has only finished higher than third once in his tenure at Oregon State, and is coming off a blowout loss at home to the school's arch-rival.

    Riley is a good guy with a great personality and the right demeanor to handle a massive job like Nebraska, but how much of a grace period will he get when Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost would've immediately appeased the fan base and wouldn't been a coach to build the program around. He would've been the potential generational hire, at least to appeal to the masses. You have one shot with Mike Riley.

    There's no honeymoon with this and no grace period, partly because nine wins weren't good enough in the Pelini era, and mostly because Riley is going to be 62 years old by the start of the 2015 season.

    That means he gets one recruiting cycle, and then the negative recruiting becomes easy - "son, the Nebraska head coach is going to be 68 by the time you graduate."

    Okay, so what are you expecting, Nebraska?

    If Riley goes 8-4 next year, is that okay in a first-year, stepping-stone, needing to reboot sort of way? You can't blame the new guy if he doesn't take a Big Ten title in Year One, so he has to get the pieces in place right away to make sure everything rocks by Year Two and beyond. That's asking a lot to take a program like Nebraska's and make an abrupt left turn.

    Riley's offenses have been terrific over the long haul, and he knows how to get a passing game going, but Nebraska already tried that with Bill Callahan with the idea of fundamentally changing up the program's identity. The one massive difference, though, is that Riley is exactly what the program needs right now in terms of simply representing the University of Nebraska.

    Of course, everyone would've loved Pelini had he put the program in a position to be prepping for the Big Ten championship and a possibly playoff spot this week, and Tom Osborne wasn't exactly the life of the party, but for now, Riley works in terms of the talking points. He works with how Nebraska wants to be represented to the rest of the Big Ten, and the rest of the college football world, even if his roots are from everywhere else but Nebraska.

    On the field, though, Nebraska just canned the nine-win guy and got one with just one ten-win campaign in his 14 years at Oregon State, and before you say, "yeah, but that's Oregon State," Dennis Erickson came up with an 11-win season in his four years with the program. Riley didn't have any.

    It's also not like the Pac-12 North was the SEC West, but Riley's Beavers closes out losing six of the last seven games including home losses to California and Washington State. The offense finished 70th in the nation in total offense, the defense 76th, quarterback Sean Mannion regressed in a huge way without Brandin Cooks to throw to, and there were massive problems on third downs and with penalties. All this, apparently, added up to getting one of the plum jobs in all of college football.

    It would be nice if this works. It would be a great thing for Nebraska, and a step forward for the idea of good guys and good head coaches succeeding with a shot in the big spotlight.

    Now go win ten games yesterday.
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    pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ......Riley (Al. Alum)turned down the 'Bama job before they hired Mike Shula....
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    diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All the talk is they just hired another Callahan.

    This will be interesting.
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