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That show clause would be the perfect thing for Frost though. He'd have the first 5-6 games as head coach with little pressure. Then Tressel gets back and stays for a few years showing him first hand how to run a complete team. Recruiting between Tressel's Ohio roots and Frost's young players coach type approach would be nothing but positives. Eichorst would have my vote to be the highest paid state employee if he could pull that off. Don't see it as a realistic scenario if a change is made. Which I am starting to believe there won't be one. In your opinion though, could you see that working? In a case where we think we have this coach like Frost who is going to be the next big thing, I see it working better than just throwing him to the wolves. He'd be completely set up to fail here if he was handed the job. It would take some of the risk away. But again, Eichorst would have to do one hell of a job pitching this idea to both of them and signing them to contracts. Hypothetically speaking if this were to happen, how would NU have to negotiate the NCAA's "show cause" order against Tressel in order to avoid incurring any other penalties? What exactly would NU have to say or show?

"That being said...it takes so much more effort to start a brand new thread than it is to put this thought in one of the hundred or so other identical threads. I just don't understand it."

Is it a one time mistake, in which a player has earned playing time by showing coaches he can make a tackle, and he has otherwise prepared well for the game? Do the coaches see the mistake and correct it/coach him up? Or do we see a pattern of missed tackles, uncorrected errors, best players not on the field, poor preparation, poor fundamentals across the whole team over a period of time.... Whose fault would that be?

Christ, Houston is really churnin' those guys out, their former coaches are doing a hell of a lot better than Boise's former coaches. Screw Chris Peterson, let's take whoever is at Houston!

For me, it's all about the staff that he assembles, and the excitement he brings to the program. Year 1 is vital. Urban comes into OSU and recruits are lining up at the door. Kingsbury to Tech and they're bringing in tens of millions more in merchandise/ticket sales. You can go on an on, but hiring some old fart mid-major coach that's had some success is not going to be as impactful as bringing in a Kingsbury type of guy. Young, relates to the kids, recruits well, and emphasizes said recruiting, etc. The product on the field however, IMO, is more determined by the coordinators and assistants than the HC. Collectively, 9-10 coaches should have more influence on the outcome of the team than 1 guy...and we're missing that right now. Which, is why I'd be OK with Frost...only if the guys around him are qualified and experienced. Right now Bo, along with his 2 coordinators, and 4 or 5 of his assistants are all borderline underqualified for their positions. You can afford to have a couple, but not the majority of your staff. Well, Frost has been fairly well traveled over the past 20 years, from Stanford to NU to the NFL and his various stops as he has risen the coaching ranks...I would bet he has some pretty good coaching connections all over the country. I'm not saying Frost is the solution at NU, but he probably has the capability to put together a pretty good staff if he had the opportunity to.

Based on how important the football program is, if Eichorst fires Bo, hires Frost, and it turns out to be a failure, there is probably a good chance that an interim AD will end up being the one firing the native son instead. There's a lot riding on what Eichorst decides to do.

Carl has previous head coaching experience AND ties to Nebraska. Those are pretty much the only qualifications. He's HC in Lincoln next year.

Well, I was about to put together a least of damning coaching scandals from the lame (O'Leary) to the serious (Woody Hayes) to the ungodly (Sandusky). I would have guessed that Carl would have been along the lines of Petrino or Mike Price.

All of the above except for taking two or three losses. I think any more than one more loss is a tall order, but 7-5 under any circumstances might be too much to bear.

WTF?!?! Carl Pelini overheard a cheerleading coach's phone conversation and simply decided to promote her to director of football operations?

Recent and current trends indicate that it is no longer correct to refer to all of these mediocre-to-slightly above average teams as inferior. We are only superior to the Southern Misses and Purdues. There are enough of these lackluster performances that we can't call them anomalies anymore.

....right, because the callahan era is the guage. then you tell me, what is the gauge?? I don't have answers but I will say that once an argument for keeping a coach is based on "It's not as bad as the callahan era" then we have a problems. That wouldn't be my point for keeping Pelini. In order for any possible next coach to better Pelini, he'd have to win the B10 title in his first season. Pelini has already won 9 games plus the division. More discipline, better fundamentals, more leadership (from players and coaches), better focus and competitiveness thru 4 quarters week in and week out would be an encouraging improvement, even if it didn't immediately lead to a championship. Most of us are smart enough to see whether or not a product is improving without simply hanging it all on particular numbers of wins (assuming the number of wins doesn't take a nosedive in the process).

I agree. One of the things that makes college football so interesting is the impact that emotion and the ability to maintain focus can have on any team at any time, and seeing how these kids can respond to it. What presidentjlh said above about some of our earlier losses being more acceptable because the team at least fought harder is spot on. With Nebraska these days, we don't see the occasional lapse of focus. We see it constantly, and the lack of discipline and energy has been a signature characteristic, along with having a fragile psyche. Teams often take on the traits of their head coach, which is how it appears here.

On a related note, I heard that the blackshirts were removed from the players' lockers and replaced with participation ribbons. And YOLO Strong bracelets.

Bo will give us a quote about how he hasn't forgotten how to coach and everything is fine.

If a player does something wrong, it's up to the coaches to correct him, sit him, prepare him, motivate him, replace him, etc. The players cannot do the same thing to an underperforming coach. Sometimes even the best prepared, best coached players make mistakes that may cost the team a game, or perhaps another team is just a little better despite the best efforts of the coaches and players. But that's not what we are seeing here. Every problem that we see with the Huskers these days, be it the team's culture, psyche, discipline, fundamentals, and personnel decisions, falls on the coaches.

I have two of those towels from the Wiscy game last year. Those aren't the ones. You're just uncool. LOL, I never get tired of this video.

My sources tell me there are 57 card-carrying Communist Bitchweeds working in the Athletic Department. We need to reclaim "Go Big Red" from those pinko bastards!

Dirk doesn't like this, but I have to (mainly) agree with Beck here. You can't look, as Dirk did, at the results of the times we did run the ball and suggest that we could've done that at any arbitrary time we chose to run the ball against any arbitrary look the defense gave us, including stacking the box. Beck is talking out his ass...We could have ran the ball all day long on them but instead, he thought he would be cute. I don't give a sh#t if they show man, cover 1 or cover 10, if your back is averaging 8 yrds/carry, you us him . We've been looking at a wide variety of talented players at all skill positions since the off-season and have wondered how to get everyone the ball enough times. So when we see lowly Minnesota lining up man to man on Bell and Enunwa, it's tempting to want to feed it to them and get some big plays. But the reality of this particular game was that Martinez was averaging 4.6 yards per pass attempt and the ball was slipping through Kenny's and Quincy's hands. There was one guy who was consistently making plays and picking up yards, running at almost twice as many yards per attempt as the QB was throwing. The benefit of having so much talent on the field is knowing that if some of your stars are not having a good day, someone else can pick you up and get the job done. Ameer looked able to do that, but Beck's eyes were bigger than his brains.

I have no idea if it's an imaginary yardstick or not. It's often referenced about our blowouts on national tv. I'm sure the national media wouldn't bother rehashing 2003 if we fire another 9 win coach.......after all, it's an imaginary yardstick. Didn't we also hold a record for consecutive 9 win seasons as well once upon a time?? Something like 30 or some in a row? think it was closer to 40... Thanks Callahan... That streak ended under Solich.

I think our days of relying on ol' Tom are over.

I agree that it's going to be damn hard (probably impossible) to pull in an elite, experienced coach. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we should keep Pelini. We are looking into an uncertain abyss either way. The future will be a gamble.

Sure, any quality band could do this. It would mostly be a matter of the creativity and imagination of whoever was writing the drill. The songs they played are simple enough, and there aren't really that many formations in this particular show. The smooth animation would take a couple days of practice, but overall not too complicated. If it was more complicated, it would be less successful. This halftime show was creatively planned, relatively simple, with brilliant results. Bo can take a lesson from this with his defensive schemes, amirite?

So Taylor was forced to think too much, and it made him hestitant, thus slowing him down and hurting his performance? Hand him a blackshirt!

This is like that girlfriend who has finally gotten too annoying to tolerate anymore, but we've been through so much together, it's difficult to break up with her. Even worse, during the time that we've been dating this girl, we've let ourselves go a little. A bit of a spare tire around the waist, some thinning hair. We want to break up with this girl, but our propects once we get out on the meat market are kinda scary. We aren't as handsome as we used to be, and maybe our flirting skills are a bit rusty. Sure we tell ourselves that we can ditch the girl and date whoever we want. There's plenty of fish in the sea! But when we really look in the mirror, we fear that the hot young blondes in our little black book will laugh at us when we ask them out. Yeah, we're classy and rich, but since we were once the hot young thing, a lot of other boys have gotten rich too, and now they have flatter abs. We deserve a girl prettier than Bo Pelini, but if we break up, will we have to rebound with the pudgy girl with the nice personality instead?