No, you and your group feel that only your opinion is right. Most likely somewhere in the middle.
Bo is not a great course, Bo is a coach learning his job. May payoff this year, may not. Nothing that has happened in the past 6 years indicates it will change much.
Most on this board, expected to be back in the MNC hunt the first year Bo was here. We would win the Big 12 every year, and we would bomb through the week Big 10 due to his recruiting and the speed we had.
These have all been stated since the day he got here. Half truths at best. So those that say Bo is the best we can expect I feel are wrong. Those that say Bo is the worst, I feel are wrong. He is a middle of the road coach, with a fan base that expects excellence. He has not delivered and some of us have began to accept where we are. Not being a bottom feeder, not being a top 10 team. We are at a cross road this year. Must be much better in every aspect for some to be happy, others just want to see improvement. Some just want him gone.
Wow, really I didn't think we would do all those things just because BP became our head coach. What most of you just don't seem to get is that TO was a special coach, one of the best all time. His accomplishments at Nebraska may never be repeated, and that is not a knock on Bo Pelini, that is just saying that TO was that great.
Give BP a chance let him grow into the position just like TO did. He didn't start out being great, he was not even close to as good as Deveney.
i would be happy with steady improvement at this point.
Me to, patience is what is needed. No one seems to remember anything, everyone lives in the here and now.
For 25 years after Bear Bryant and how many coaches did Alabama muddle through being very mediocre to downright bad. They had about 4 good years with Stallings as the coach in the early 90's but that was about it.
After John Robinson left for the pros how many years did USC go through of being very much an also ran before Pete Carrol came on board, 20 years or so.
Terry Donahue retires at UCLA in 1994 and it takes them almost 20 years before they may have found that special coach in Mora.
How bout Washington, Auburn, Texas, these are all historically great programs that have had or our in the middle of a downturn for a protracted time.
Look at Tennessee right now, they are on there 3rd coach in what 6-7 years since they fired Fulmer.
My point is that Nebraska has not been as great as we want them to be, but they haven't been as bad as many feel. All of those teams I have mentioned have had many really down years over long periods of time. Nebraska hasn't had that.
I guess I just look at things with a little perspective. You can't always just look at the here and now, you have to look at the long haul.
