The Bo Pelini Curse

[OH HSKR FAN]

Liked Bo and still do, hell I still follow him on twitter. 

I said it then and still stand firm to it today, you don’t fire a coach who never had a losing record.

That decision doesn’t fully fall on Eichorst but the Regents as well. Same thing can be said with Solich firing. 

What happens when things flatline?   What if the coaches don’t take measures to correct their shortcomings.

 

[PhillyHusker]

Bo got a lot of breaks.  A generational player in Suh, a Hail Mary, week schedules, opponents in transition, etc.

His tenure looks a lot different and possibly shorter otherwise.

Bo beat Clemson Dabo, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State (on the reg). 

It will be a longgggg time before Nebraska beats Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State.

 

[Husker in WI]

Bo beat Clemson Dabo, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State (on the reg). 

It will be a longgggg time before Nebraska beats Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State.

I know the 28th seems like it's a long ways away, but it's just a few weeks!

 

[OH HSKR FAN]

Bo beat Clemson Dabo, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State (on the reg). 

It will be a longgggg time before Nebraska beats Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State.

A lot of those aforementioned wins were against watered down versions of those teams.

 

[PhillyHusker]

There is no Bo Pelini curse. It really started with losing Texas at home in 2006. Next year it was getting crushed by USC.

15 years of "Nebraska is back"  talk.  At some point, you are what you are.

And really, Nebraska hasn't had a big win since getting crushed at Colorado in 2001.

The media is part of the problem.  

Calling Johnny Stanton "Nebraska's Johnny Football" is part of the damn problem. We put players and coaches on pedestals they haven't earned. We drink this damn Koolaid summer after summer. 

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[walksalone]

I guess too many folks want this program to run before it can walk...

And that's fine, SF getting hired raised a lot of folks expectations, but tough outcomes, like what happened saturday, prepare you for the future.

 

[PhillyHusker]

 A lot of those aforementioned wins were against watered down versions of those teams.

  

Nebraska was a lot closer to those programs five and ten years ago then today. Much closer. 

 

[walksalone]

Nebraska was a lot closer to those programs five and ten years ago then today. Much closer. 

And how many of those great defensive squads were wasted on the fact that Bo had a couple of utterly and complete morons running the offense... 

 

[PhillyHusker]

And how many of those great defensive squads were wasted on the fact that Bo had a couple of utterly and complete morons running the offense... 

Sometimes the offense bailed out the defense. He's the best Nebraska coach post-Tom Osborne. 

 

[Husker in WI]

Sometimes the offense bailed out the defense. He's the best Nebraska coach post-Tom Osborne. 

I mean it's not exactly a star-studded group of competitors for that title. How about we give Frost more than 14 games before deciding Pelini is a better coach?

 

[PhillyHusker]

And yet still won 9 games.

Remind me how many seasons out of the last 18 are better than Bo's worst season here.

Bo never mailed anything in. The last game he beat Iowa, which was the last time Nebraska beat Iowa and probably will be for quite a while.  

 

[walksalone]

Sometimes the offense bailed out the defense. He's the best Nebraska coach post-Tom Osborne. 

 

[SummitB411]

There is no Bo Pelini curse. It really started with losing Texas at home in 2006. Next year it was getting crushed by USC.

15 years of "Nebraska is back"  talk.  At some point, you are what you are.

And really, Nebraska hasn't had a big win since getting crushed at Colorado in 2001.

The media is part of the problem.  

So while I don't want to call it a course per se, I would say there was a marked change in the program under Pelini after the A&M fiasco.  But you're dead on with the rest.  The program has become a lot like how a lot of folks mock Notre Dame- especially before Brian Kelly really turned things around.  There's a lot of hype due to the name but not so much on field success.

 

[OH HSKR FAN]

I mean it's not exactly a star-studded group of competitors for that title. How about we give Frost more than 14 games before deciding Pelini is a better coach?

That’s not something we are going to know for quite some time.

 

[walksalone]

That’s not something we are going to know for quite some time.

Exactly....

There's such a small sample size of SF's work here, there's no real way to grade him on his performance