NateDawg

yes, he can coach this year. it has been mentioned in numerous threads on here. iirc he cant coach the first 4 games and the university has to report to the ncaa every time he goes to the bathroom. okay, the second part might not be true but they will have to make reports to the ncaa more often. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show-cause_penalty His show-cause is through Dec. 2016. The initial punishment was that he couldn't coach or have contact with the team/assistants for the first 5 games he is employed (I believe this includes fall camp) or any post-season (CCG or bowl) games during his first season as coach. There is also a monitoring piece required of the university through 2016. Now what the penalty could be negotiated down to, I can't say.

Losses happen. blow outs happen. Hard fought losses happen. I hate losing just as much as everyone. DPE was the goat last week and a hero this week. He don't fumble twice we beat Minnesota. It happens. You might be to young to remember, but blowout losses didn't used to happen at Nebraska, neither did getting out coached. These days, both happen every season. You might find these things acceptable, I don't. In 25 years Tom Osborne's teams finished up the season ranked outside the top 15 in the AP poll exactly one time. That was in 1990 and he finished 24th. After that season he made changes that resulted in a 60-3 run with 3 National Titles. No Pelini's best finish so far is 14th and in 2008 wasn't even ranked. And that 14th ranking? That was his only final rank above 15th. Osborne had 24 season ranked 15th or above. We are mediocre at best. 25 years ago. That's all everyone keeps saying. It's not 25 years ago any more. Everyone loses. nebraska will never be like they were 25 years ago. Alabama seems to have figured it out. They won one conference championship from the 1993 season through Saban's arrival in 2007. That's 14 seasons with not much to show for it.

Losses happen. blow outs happen. Hard fought losses happen. I hate losing just as much as everyone. DPE was the goat last week and a hero this week. He don't fumble twice we beat Minnesota. It happens. McNeese State (if we'd only tackled Ameer, we could have won) and Iowa (if we hadn't kicked to DPE twice, we could have won) could make a similar argument against us. Great, well-coached teams don't let games get into that situation as often as we seem to find ourselves in that situation (at least yearly), and definitely don't have a now-traditional yearly blowout loss to a (maybe) Top 10 team. Plus, if DPE doesn't fumble twice, we may well have still not beaten Minnesota. Without the first one, we'd have been 1st & 10 from the Minnesota 11 with 21 seconds left in the half - not a guaranteed TD. Without the second one, we'd have received a penalty and had it 4th & 9 from the Minnesota 30 - again not a guaranteed TD.

Or we are a few plays away from being 7-5 with losses to Iowa and McNeese St. I'm more worried about what I see than the outcome.