Bravo to HP & SE. Disagree (*or rabble) all you guys like. I'm confident too that we are going to see better days in Lincoln, and thankful for the folks working to get us there.
You're being sarcastic, right? You don't honestly approve of the way Perlman and Riley have done their jobs this season?
I'm totally serious. I don't mind -- and understand -- that a lot of people will disagree. This is Nebraska, and this has been a terrible season. A lot of fans are going to want everybody fired.
Bo's a good guy, I'm sure, and all appeared fine for a while. The way he responded to the heat was completely disgraceful. Riley isn't the only guy in the world who could have taken the task of undoing Bo's legacy, but it's hard to imagine someone who's
better at it. Now, he'll still have to win games, or his tenure will only be 3-4 years. I'm OK with that. It's hard to find The Next Great Coach. If Riley isn't it, we'll look again.
Perlman has been great for the University from what I can see. I don't put a lot of stock in all the nits that
unhappy football fans will try to pick in his role as Chancellor. I get it, we're mad that 2004-2015 happened. I'm grateful for his long service to UNL. Think UNL has been lucky to have him, but of course, there are many good chancellors.
Both SE and Perlman have, and enforce, the kind of values I'm happy to see at Nebraska. The coaches an AD hires will not always pan out sports wise. How the AD handles that defines him. I have zero complaints with SE and nothing but gratitude for how he handled the Bo firing, and the Riley hiring. Yes, whether Riley lasts is TBD -- which is true even for coaches who win 11 games their first year. This is big time college football. HCs are never safe for long.
One day neither HP nor SE will be here. I'd hope their successors share similar qualities, and to even have some better ones. Whether the masses of fans will like or
hate those successors...will always depend on how the football team happens to be doing.
C'est la vie.