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He does hold 4 of the 10 winningest seasons at OSU. Not awesome, but that's pretty cool (especially since only 1 other of the top ten is even from the last 50 years).

So he's able to see potential in players that are often overlooked? Seems so, I'm going to retract this statement the more I read. I didn't realize OSU was so hard to recruit to so considering that he's done a pretty good job. Yeah, my reaction has been evolving over the last couple of hours. The more I read, the more I think this might actually have been a very smart move. The absolute smartness of it will be determined once we see his assistants and his long-term performance.

So he's able to see potential in players that are often overlooked?

MAYBE the University got him on the cheap and gave him a HUGE budget for assistants... maybe? Because if he is a good leader and can snag some very, very top quality coordinators, this could be a bigger splash than we think. I just see the blowouts on his record and think SE bought himself another Bo, but one who won't claw up the furniture. I'd like to think that there was some kind of plan here.

I feel like I should write a letter of apology to Frost #NotAllNebraskans

This seems very lateral.

No.

Yep, and I am with the guy that said we should look past NU ties. Neither Bolh or Frost are the right guy for the job. If Frost wants to come here as an assistant, then I could get behind that. But he isn't ready to be a HC yet. Bohl is another Frank/Bo and is good for lower level schools and won't be able to take NU where it needs to go. Would you care to elaborate? His move to Wyoming has, at least so far, been less stellar than his move to North Dakota. If all we had to go on was his work at ND, then I'd probably believe he deserved a look; but once you combine his track record here under Solich and what he has/hasn't done in Wyoming, then I definitely feel that he should be pretty far down on the list. Sure, Bob Devaney had a four-win first season there, but there's not a good reason to assume that any coach with a 4-win first season at Wyoming is the next Bob Devaney.

I would assume that these people get permission before hand? I don't have a problem with it being free, but the guy should have asked. I think that's why they were charged. Schools are used for events all of the time (legally, they have to be available to the community, IIRC), but it has to be arranged. Even if they do issue post-hoc waivers, it would have raised some eyebrows in the system. They just had to do it.

If he had gone through the proper channels, it could have been waved very easily. From what I've understood, the problem is that he just sort of did it without talking to the administration first. Also, since this was so high-profile, they really had to do it all on the up and up so that anyone else who has been charged in the past wouldn't raise holy hell about it once it got out that they let Bo use it for free, you know? It would have been a pretty petty instance of corruption but a high-profile one.

Source? I think you're misunderstanding-- what that meant was "Nebraska just fired a coach that many coaches feel shouldn't have been a coach."

i still don't get why he was so upset. Because Nebraska won and he was just waiting for a chance to be indignant. I mean, you'd think he'd just be so happy after that comeback, but no. He took the opportunity to be an angry little troll. He was mad that people left, but, you know what? It was another blowout when people started to file out. I've been to games where the crowd started to thin when it was blow out in the other way. Blowouts just aren't all that fun to watch, and football is entertainment.

Said the guy who posted this to the public on Twitter. Gosh, why would Shawn measure his words? Bondi's tweet stuck out to me, too. At the risk of looking too closely into words which may have been chosen off-the-cuff, Bondi equates Eichorst's behavior toward the players to how "the media" is treated. But... how is the media treated? What metric is he using to measure that? Presumably he's using Bo's, and Bo famously has great disdain for the media. That is not a healthy metric by which to measure anything. That line about "the media" struck me as symptomatic of the bunker mentality we've seen from North Stadium. The sooner that mentality is washed away from this team the better. If for no other reason, ridding ourselves of that mentality is worth a coaching change. The players were informed about the firing through a publicist crafted email on a Sunday morning. That sounds exactly like how the administration treated the media. Did you hear about past players who learned that their coaches were fired by hearing about it on ESPN or from their parents? I'm not saying that it was ideal, but it was a holiday weekend-- at least they were contacted directly. I mean, would it have seemed better if it were a certified letter? Is it bad just because it's email? I'll bet it was very formal and thoughtul and contained no "LOLs," "FWIWs," "ROFLMAOs," or emoticons. It was the fastest and most reliable way to get a letter to the team, dispersed as they were, quickly. No matter what he did, there would have been criticism of the method-- "He let us know in a meeting he called that morning! We couldn't all make it. Bad form" or "He had a Skype conference! We weren't talking to our girls back home. No respect" and on and on. It's just picking out one tangible detail that is commonly used as shorthand for "lazy" or "off-the-cuff" to criticize someone their angry at. Without a solid argument to counter the main points (can't win the big games, stagnant, no national presence) the method of the delivery of the message is attacked.

There are a lot of coaches out there who coach well into their 70ies. I'm 68 and still work every day and plan to keep it up. Don't be so short sighted. PJ would be perfect for us and no where near the risk we would be taking with a 20/30 something OC with zero HC experience. T_O_B Actually, Frost will be 40 next month... At which point, as I understand it, he will be a man.

This is what I'm wondering. It's not "his" offense, it's Oregon's. We don't know for sure what exactly a "Frost Offense" really is. http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/combining-tom-osbornes-nebraska-offense-with-chip-kellys-oregon-offense-the-stuff-dreams-are-made-of#sthash.Zwo8CHlk.lQqWfvSL.dpbs He'd need to be able to pull in the coordinators and assistants to do it, but maaaaaaaan. And, hey, he's still young enough that he could even suit up in practice to show 'em how it's done

I listen to Cowherd a lot on my drives to work in the morning, and that man is one of the most uncritical thinkers I've ever heard outside of political talk radio (although he does get into political/social commentary when he clearly doesn't understand the situations he's commenting on). I don't have any doubt that he didn't even look into Lincoln the city before making those comments. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that he started his reasoning with a stereotype and from there made a serious of baseless assumptions leading him to a very unsound conclusion. At least, that's the pattern I've heard from him in the past. He starts with a conclusion and then reasons backwards to premises that support it with little concern about whether or not they're accurate. Was he ever pulled over for a DUI here?

Said the guy who posted this to the public on Twitter. Gosh, why would Shawn measure his words?

This is what I'm wondering. It's not "his" offense, it's Oregon's. We don't know for sure what exactly a "Frost Offense" really is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eWfe597CKY?t=2m20s This is a Scott Frost Offense

Yeah, it's weird how this meme gets started. The reasoning is very, very circular. NU tries out some new coaches who lose in major ways on the field. NU's prestige falls. NU fires coach who was one of the causes of the fall in prestige. Media goes crazy because they can't get a good coach because the prestige has fallen. It's not like prestige of a university is something that just blows in on the wind-- it's built (and maintained) by the people running the program. There are these bizarre throw away excuses like "College football has changed since the 90s." I'm still not sure why that means that a great coach couldn't attract players to this school (Bo did!). There isn't anything innate about the state of Nebraska or the facilities at UNL that make a fall in prestige inevitable. This isn't weather we're talking about-- it's how a program is being run and by whom. It would be like saying, "Oh, the University of Nebraska Medical Center just can't compete anymore because they're in Nebraska and the medical field has changed since the 90s." It doesn't make any sense for anything, but for some reason, the fact that football is different than it was 15-20 years ago means that Nebraska can never have a high-performing program again. It's just a strange, baseless belief that people hold on to... it's almost like a superstition. Football is always different than it was in previous decades. This is not some new thing-- it wasn't in a stasis between the 70s and the 90s; it is always evolving. Just like EVERYTHING! Friggin CORN is different than it was in the 90s. Football isn't magic or special in some way that means that it can change in such a way that it doesn't work at certain latitudes and longitudes any more. It's just something that gets said and repeated until it becomes a truism, so no one wants to defy it for fear of being told they don't know anything about college football.

This is a great article that in addition to predicting a quick hire, touches on the perhaps superficial appeal of getting a coach whose qualities contrast sharply with the old coach, and asks if this still would have happened had the Huskers beaten Minnesota. After the press conference, I really have complete confidence in Eichorst. Very much in charge. "Um." -Shawn Eichorst, Athletic Director, The University of Nebraska-- Lincoln. (but really, though, I agree. )

So, It's halftime on Sunday during the Nebraska Creighton game. Everyone's there, Osborne isn't back in Dallas yet for the selection show, Frost has already coached in the CCG on Friday. And out walks him and Tressel. Arm in arm. I'm just gonna ponder that. If you don't mind. Believe me when I say, without irony, that it's nice to see you happy.

So am I. The writing on the wall couldn't be more clear for Hoke. Phrasing!

Yes, seriously. You need at least a thousand posts on HB. They didn't do that the last two times; see where that got them? They wised up.

Man... after watching the Iron Bowl, I would have thought their S&C coach would be the one on the outs.

Does "going to going to" mean the same thing as "going to going to going to"? "not going to going to" means that it is no longer something that is happening in the future, so it could mean straight up "not" but may also mean "is." When you're at work, for example, you're no longer going to work-- "I'm not going to going to work; I'm at work. Stop the rumors!"