Bo's Job Security - 2013(ish)

[Count 'Bility]

Pelini only did a great job righting the ship because he had T.O.'s hand in his back. "We will give you your first head coaching job if you do this", so to speak. Don't act like he did it on his own accord. I may never be a Boliever . The guy is a cartoon. I have a relative that played golf with him once and said he was a major d!(k. No way to prove that to anyone, but if you think he acts like that just on the field, your nuts. I thought the bowl game was a big improvement in all phases of our game. Those are the type of consistent improvements you look for. If they would have lost, I would have been satisfied with the game plan, effort and clean game. But those improvements have not been consistent over 6 years. we have went backwards in areas. Everybody can change, Bo handled himself like a head coach of a major program during the bowl game. If that continues, my opinion could change as well. But in 6 years that has yet to happen. I will always support the program.

Oh great. Another "Bo was mean to my 3rd cousin's brother-in-law" story. We've heard this before on here.

 

[It'sNotAFakeID]

I enjoyed this a lot.

I have to admit, Bo's attempt at suicide by cop after the Iowa game I feel is going to take a long time to wash off, if it can at all. That was one of the more embarrassing moments by a University of Nebraska leader in recent memory.

It also just furthers the belief (I won't say "fear", because to truly fear something about Nebraska football is lame) that Bo is suffering from some pretty extreme hubris. His "I don't apologize for anything I've done" stand (before apologizing) can be grouped in with his "you never apologize for ten wins" after the Wisconsin CCG trampling. This kind of attitude has leaked over to some of his more fervent supporters. Our own resident rental car worker/"head coach", before falling on his sword said himself "Bo had completely turned the program after the 2010 season...."

No he hasn't.

Bo did an admirable job in 08-2010 in getting the program back to where it was. It was a team that played for a conference title before having a horrific year. That team showed flashes of brilliance, made a ton of mental errors, made plays that excited us, lost games it shouldn't, and had some really transcendent talent on it.

Throwing out 2007, which year am I talking about? 2009? 2006? 2010? All of them?

I think the biggest difference between 08 and 07 was obviously the coaching changes. Fresh ideas, new looks, clean slates. If Bo truly thinks this is the ceiling, and this is the staff to do it, well the bowl win was nice but it's really hard to hope for anything to improve. Obviously we don't know what. Bo is going to do yet, but I hope it's something.

In 2008 Bo won a Gator Bowl against a team he likely should have lost to. He just did it again to complete the beginning, peak and end of his first six years. I'm hoping he's starting another climb with a higher peak than just an identical one again, but he's not changing any of his gear.

It's never hard to hope. Ever.

 

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Pelini only did a great job righting the ship because he had T.O.'s hand in his back. "We will give you your first head coaching job if you do this", so to speak. Don't act like he did it on his own accord. I may never be a Boliever . The guy is a cartoon. I have a relative that played golf with him once and said he was a major d!(k. No way to prove that to anyone, but if you think he acts like that just on the field, your nuts. I thought the bowl game was a big improvement in all phases of our game. Those are the type of consistent improvements you look for. If they would have lost, I would have been satisfied with the game plan, effort and clean game. But those improvements have not been consistent over 6 years. we have went backwards in areas. Everybody can change, Bo handled himself like a head coach of a major program during the bowl game. If that continues, my opinion could change as well. But in 6 years that has yet to happen. I will always support the program.

lolwut?

 

[southernoregonhusker]

it'd be interesting to see how many of you folks that think Bo's a d!(k or just feel entitled to winning championships went to the Gator Bowl. I did, and out of the few dozen fans I talked to, not one of them thought Bo was a bad coach for us- that said, another interesting thing (for me) was most of them were not from eastern Nebraska, but places like Texas, Georgia, Florida and California.(me included)

Could it be that wieners like Dirk Shatforbrains influence the views of eastern Nebraskans ? Seems like the further you are from the Weird Heralds reach, the more you appreciate what Bo has to put up with-

Of course, when I'm dealing with fools, I tell them to F-off too, so maybe that brash and honest behavior turns off the otiose, panty wearing part of our fan base. Who knows?

This is interesting to me because all of the press outside of NE is shocked Bo still has a job. The only positive press I heard for Bo is from within Nebraska.

 

[IvabigN]

the national media are lazy- they get all their information from the Weird Herald or make crap up during the games sort of like ESPN's SEC love affair, notice all reports mentioned the injuries to Georgia, but didn't say a word about Martinez and the entire O line? also Georgia gave us that game via dropped passes, but no mention of Turners "dropped" TD?

Yes Sipple is the only member of the Nebraska media that gives Bo and/or the team a fair shake and that is unfortunate because the national vermin media are a bunch of lazy sententious tards that copy what is said in the Omaha media and make crap up- also it doesn't help when old harv and his sock puppet undermine our football program- We're bringing in a new Admin CFO- want to bet, he says no to the list of things Bo actually needs to compete on the field?

 

[Branno]

I'd like to see next year's poll centered around your satisfaction with the job that Bo is doing - not the likelyhood that he is fired. Too many outside influences to a firing. I'd actually like to see 3 questions.

1) I am satisfied with the job that Bo Pelini is doing as head coach at Nebraska. 1-6 (strongly disagree - strongly agree).

2) I am satisfied with the current state of the program.

3) Bo Pelini should be retained for an additional season.

I'd like to see the discrepancy between the 3. I vary, especially with the second. I think the program is in a decent place, which is why I think the next guy would be coming into a great position, with talent, support, etc - which is also why I can't strongly disagree that I'm satisfied with the job that he's doing. He's not doing a terrible job, not even close. However, I strongly disagree that Bo Pelini should be retained for another season, for many reasons outside of just wins and losses. It's the job that Pelini did righting the ship, that makes me confident that the next hire would be successful.

For interval data you need at least 7 numbers, and the reason you want interval data is to increase the types of statistical testing you can use to interpret the data. I'd also make the second question on a scale instead of a binary choice. You can't do much with nominal data.

 

[Malth]

I'd like to see next year's poll centered around your satisfaction with the job that Bo is doing - not the likelyhood that he is fired. Too many outside influences to a firing. I'd actually like to see 3 questions.

1) I am satisfied with the job that Bo Pelini is doing as head coach at Nebraska. 1-6 (strongly disagree - strongly agree).

2) I am satisfied with the current state of the program.

3) Bo Pelini should be retained for an additional season.

I'd like to see the discrepancy between the 3. I vary, especially with the second. I think the program is in a decent place, which is why I think the next guy would be coming into a great position, with talent, support, etc - which is also why I can't strongly disagree that I'm satisfied with the job that he's doing. He's not doing a terrible job, not even close. However, I strongly disagree that Bo Pelini should be retained for another season, for many reasons outside of just wins and losses. It's the job that Pelini did righting the ship, that makes me confident that the next hire would be successful.

For interval data you need at least 7 numbers, and the reason you want interval data is to increase the types of statistical testing you can use to interpret the data. I'd also make the second question on a scale instead of a binary choice. You can't do much with nominal data.

The questions also need to be worded in such a way to reduce bias. Instead of asking, "I am satisfied", simply ask to rate Bo on a scale of 1 to 7.

 

[NUpolo8]

I enjoyed this a lot.

I have to admit, Bo's attempt at suicide by cop after the Iowa game I feel is going to take a long time to wash off, if it can at all. That was one of the more embarrassing moments by a University of Nebraska leader in recent memory.

It also just furthers the belief (I won't say "fear", because to truly fear something about Nebraska football is lame) that Bo is suffering from some pretty extreme hubris. His "I don't apologize for anything I've done" stand (before apologizing) can be grouped in with his "you never apologize for ten wins" after the Wisconsin CCG trampling. This kind of attitude has leaked over to some of his more fervent supporters. Our own resident rental car worker/"head coach", before falling on his sword said himself "Bo had completely turned the program after the 2010 season...."

No he hasn't.

Bo did an admirable job in 08-2010 in getting the program back to where it was. It was a team that played for a conference title before having a horrific year. That team showed flashes of brilliance, made a ton of mental errors, made plays that excited us, lost games it shouldn't, and had some really transcendent talent on it.

Throwing out 2007, which year am I talking about? 2009? 2006? 2010? All of them?

I think the biggest difference between 08 and 07 was obviously the coaching changes. Fresh ideas, new looks, clean slates. If Bo truly thinks this is the ceiling, and this is the staff to do it, well the bowl win was nice but it's really hard to hope for anything to improve. Obviously we don't know what. Bo is going to do yet, but I hope it's something.

In 2008 Bo won a Gator Bowl against a team he likely should have lost to. He just did it again to complete the beginning, peak and end of his first six years. I'm hoping he's starting another climb with a higher peak than just an identical one again, but he's not changing any of his gear.

It's never hard to hope. Ever.

You're right, it's incredibly easy.

To expect, and for someone to meet those expectations is actually difficult.

Bo has said he expects championships here. I say we hold him to that.

 

[It'sNotAFakeID]

I'd like to see next year's poll centered around your satisfaction with the job that Bo is doing - not the likelyhood that he is fired. Too many outside influences to a firing. I'd actually like to see 3 questions.

1) I am satisfied with the job that Bo Pelini is doing as head coach at Nebraska. 1-6 (strongly disagree - strongly agree).

2) I am satisfied with the current state of the program.

3) Bo Pelini should be retained for an additional season.

I'd like to see the discrepancy between the 3. I vary, especially with the second. I think the program is in a decent place, which is why I think the next guy would be coming into a great position, with talent, support, etc - which is also why I can't strongly disagree that I'm satisfied with the job that he's doing. He's not doing a terrible job, not even close. However, I strongly disagree that Bo Pelini should be retained for another season, for many reasons outside of just wins and losses. It's the job that Pelini did righting the ship, that makes me confident that the next hire would be successful.

For interval data you need at least 7 numbers, and the reason you want interval data is to increase the types of statistical testing you can use to interpret the data. I'd also make the second question on a scale instead of a binary choice. You can't do much with nominal data.

The questions also need to be worded in such a way to reduce bias. Instead of asking, "I am satisfied", simply ask to rate Bo on a scale of 1 to 7.

And even then we're not absolutely sure that the population in the sample is actually representative of the entire population.

But hey, better than nothing. Thanks for doing this this year knapp!

 

[Foppa]

It may have been a different type of season without all the injuries...maybe not. But I'm pretty sure if NU had stayed healthy and we had the same record, Bo would probably be gone.

 

[TheSker]

It may have been a different type of season without all the injuries...maybe not. But I'm pretty sure if NU had stayed healthy and we had the same record, Bo would probably be gone.

Highly doubtful......coaches with records like Pelini's don't get fired unless there are significant off the field issues.

 

[QMany]

It may have been a different type of season without all the injuries...maybe not. But I'm pretty sure if NU had stayed healthy and we had the same record, Bo would probably be gone.

I'm pretty sure if we stayed healthy, we wouldn't have had the same record.

 

[SWAMI]

it'd be interesting to see how many of you folks that think Bo's a d!(k or just feel entitled to winning championships went to the Gator Bowl. I did, and out of the few dozen fans I talked to, not one of them thought Bo was a bad coach for us- that said, another interesting thing (for me) was most of them were not from eastern Nebraska, but places like Texas, Georgia, Florida and California.(me included)

Could it be that wieners like Dirk Shatforbrains influence the views of eastern Nebraskans ? Seems like the further you are from the Weird Heralds reach, the more you appreciate what Bo has to put up with-

Of course, when I'm dealing with fools, I tell them to F-off too, so maybe that brash and honest behavior turns off the otiose, panty wearing part of our fan base. Who knows?

Here's one for you. I'm two states east (Illinois), played frosh ball at N in 72, and try to get back once a year for a game. Four years ago I bought a Yorkie pup (thinks he's a Rottweiler - I knock him around a bit, he loves to play ruff) and named him Bo Pelini Blackshirt Husker cuz I believed we were on our way back. I'm not delusional any longer. My question to you is "What more do we need to see?". Don't you get tired of constantly playing from behind? The game I came back for this year was the UCLA. 21 to 3 game, hey, finally an early lead against a decent foe; then came the 38 unanswered.

Don't you get fed up with the excuses? "Nobody mentions our injuries." "Frentz wouldn't have been flagged for that if he had done what I did." "All of this talk about my job has hurt our play."....

Don't you get tired of the turnovers (far more than any other team in this weak conference); the returners taking it out of the EZ only to get hammered at the 15 and then backed up half the distance cuz of penalties; the pre-snap disarray on both sides of the ball, the non fair catching at the 19 only to have it downed at the 1 then fair catching the next at the 3, etc.? All this speaks to a lack of quality coaching.

You want pure examples of being out-coached? We beat Washington at their place in 2010 56 to 21 then lost to them 19 to 7 on a neutral field in the bowl game. Our guys man-handled Wisconsin on both sides of the ball in the 2nd half of last year's regular season game to overcome a huge first half deficit, and then lost 70 (ya, you read that right) to 31 to them in the conference title game. Oh, by the way, THE Ohio St. hung 63 on us earlier in the year. And this guy is a defensive minded coach? Don't you remember getting excited before that Wisc. title game? Boy I do! Then it was over in like 5 minutes even with the 85 yard Martinez magic trick. NO TEAM should ever put up 50 on us.

I read those sugar-coaters and their arguments of 9 win seasons. How about mentioning the 4 losses and the none rankings. Nine wins, let me see: Wyoming, So. Miss, South Dakota St. (We're lucky we got the right Dakota St. there cuz we wouldn't beat the other), Illinois, Purdue - that's an auto 5 for you, yet we almost lost to Wyoming. Wyoming? Aren't they the team that took what should have been our hire? Yep! We beat them in Lincoln 37-34. Didn't you google up their record from last year? I did. Wow, not very good. Maybe vastly improved this year? NOPE! Finished 5 and 7. Well who did they play? Well they lost to Texas St. (ever hear of them? Me either.) 42-21, Colorado St. 52-22, San Jose St. 51-44, Fresno St. 48-10, Boise St. 48-7, and Utah St. 35-7, but they did beat Hawaii 59-56. OUCH! Maybe they got injured like us?

Put all that in and shake it up, stir in a little dissing of an iconic QB with an F bomb description of what arguably could be the best and most knowledgeable fan base in all of sport (nothing like pissing in your own nest to get you booted from it), and what do you have? Sounds like a twisted version of an exit strategy to me.

Actually, I thought he was better than this. Much better. Oh, by the way, I don't read the Omaha paper here.

And my dog, well, we just call him Husker now

 

[TheSker]

Our guys man-handled Wisconsin on both sides of the ball in the 2nd half of last year's regular season game to overcome a huge first half deficit, and then lost 70 (ya, you read that right) to 31 to them in the conference title game.

I'm guessing as a knowledgeable fan base, we might know why we didn't man-handle Wisconsin in the CCG. Check who played on the Husker DL that game........

 

[SWAMI]

Our guys man-handled Wisconsin on both sides of the ball in the 2nd half of last year's regular season game to overcome a huge first half deficit, and then lost 70 (ya, you read that right) to 31 to them in the conference title game.

I'm guessing as a knowledgeable fan base, we might know why we didn't man-handle Wisconsin in the CCG. Check who played on the Husker DL that game........

That's not the point.