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I really disliked Callahan. But in comparing these two, I had hope going into each Nebraska season under Callahan that it was going to be his breakout year and everything was going to click. Heck, even each game I was hoping it was going to be the game that turned the program around. We all know that never happened. With Riley, I don't have that hope. Maybe it is because he is 62, a career coaching record of sub .500. The fact he came into a program loaded with talent compared to his former program and we have lost to bad teams that we are simply better than man-man.

Lets see if I made this poll correctly. I always saw Callahan as the guy who ran the program into the ground. I didn't speak of his name when referring to his tenure at Nebraska. I knew many Husker fans who banned his name from their vocabulary. There is no question Callahan was the worst coach at Nebraska in the modern day of this program. But here we are at 3-5 in Riley's first year and it feels more gasoline is being poured on the dumpster fire. I don't see hope at all in the near future, and for the first time since 2007 I am looking forward to college football season being over, and forgetting about this year completely. What I am seeing and feeling in Riley's first year is what I felt in Callahan's last year. Which begs the question...Right now who would you want as Nebraska's head coach? Bill Callahan or Mike Riley. I NEVER EVER thought I would EVER want Callahan to be the head coach of Nebraska again....but after seeing this, I felt like I had more hope in Callahan than I do Riley.

In 4-5 years we have to rebuild regardless of success.. Those who say give Riley 4-5 years to install his system and get his recruits and that we cant evaluate a coach until that time period. Ok, we give Riley 4-5 years and he is 66-67 years old and retires. We are stuck rebuilding after his system was just put into place with his players. Riley utterly failed in year 1. Worse than what Bill Callahan did to this program. So we choose, we either admit our failure of a hire, and move on now and rebuild now, or wait 4-5 years and rebuild then. All awhile enduring headache seasons for those 4-5 years. I can tell you, we give Riley 4 years, he is never going to have what it takes to out coach Urban Meyer and Ohio State; therefore there will be no championships at Nebraska, and we don't get what we were told was our expectations.

motivation starts with the coaches, and second team leaders....As a coach one of your top jobs is to motivate the team. ESPECIALLY a team that has the mentality some of these Nebraska players have. This is a lost cause. The season is done, Riley is lost here. I am waiting to read the news headlines that Banderas stole Riley's bicycle.

Riley has ended just about every other streak of ours. Why not end the sell out streak as well.

Why do people think Wisconsin would give Eichorst the AD job????? Wisconsin would be foolish to do so, unless this was some behind the scenes sabotaged ordered from Alvarez himself to tell Eichorst what to do. Look at Eichorsts resume. Give Pelini contract extension, fire him the following year. Hire Mike Riley who is a flop. Dude has done nothing to warrant a future hire.

UCF job is open. Sounds like a beautiful place for a coach to go retire at.

I wish our boosters would start being active...I remember boosters being very aggressive back in 2006-2007 with Callahan...Right now they seem very quiet. Nothing happens until the big money starts getting disgruntled.

Riley has also left Oregon State's cupboard bare. How in the world after being at a place for 10+ years you can leave and leave the place in such shambles?

I too do not understand this 2-4 years argument. With Riley being 62 and all his coaching experience it wasn't suppose to be a total rebuild....He was suppose to come in and take a 9 win program and start showing progress from it. Instead he has us on the fast track to a 9 loss season. For being such a nice guy, I find it a bit rude he is just collecting his paycheck at this point.

Is a new chancellor's first priority really going to be to fire/hire a new AD and football coach? ​

I think our best bet is Riley realizes this isn't the place for him and he resigns or retires. Probably best for all parties involved.

i don't know if his kids are quitting on him, but i am pretty sure our guys doubt his offensive philosophy at least and the defensive secondary coach should be relieved at the end of the season. Although these players are adults, they are young adults who are still learning....you start to lose enough close games and don't win you develop doubt in what a coach is coaching. I am sure there is a lot of frustration with the players because they are losing all these close games and you can go back and look at poor coaching decisions on how we lost those close games.

So lets look at Eichorst's resume.. He gives Pelini a contract extension, fires him the following year...We continue to have to pay Pelini not to coach here. He hires a life long mediocre coach who is failiing to beat even the worst teams in the conference and is having the fan base revolt like Callahan days. How does this guy have a job?

I sort of take that quote as he realizes he is starting to lose the grip of this team and players are quitting on him.... This is worse than 2007.

Yep, like Michigan got their guy in Harbaugh...We unfortunately do not have anyone even remotely close to the coaching credentials out there that is like Harbaugh is to Michigan. Too bad some of our studs from back in the day didn't get into coaching and have good success. Frost is about it...

yes you can.

the hope was that these guys came from OSU where the talent wasn't as good nor as deep, and with their experiences and all the resources, plus the talent and depth Nebraska had, they would shine... Turns out, they are having a worse season at Nebraska then what they had at Oregon State.

Don't see many top end recruits really excited about coming to a 4-8 Nebraska team with a coaching staff that will heavily be under fire.

Well you take a 12 win championship team and go ont to lose 12, you deserve to be fired. Riley is taking a 9-3 team and is on track to finish 4-8. The guy can recruit so he deserves another year. But if 2016 cant net 10 wind, I would be open to another try at getting our guy. Eichorst said we wanted to compete for titles and that 10 wins wasn't enough. Hope he stands by that. I am not trying to be rude here, but where is the proof of this? Nebraska currently has a 39th? ranked recruiting class, one of the lowest in years... Also, Oregon State under their brand new head coach just signed two 4 star recruits to Corvallis, the highest rated recruits to go to Oregon State in 2 years.

not even Bill Callahan, who i believed was hired to ruin Nebraska football ever smiled and made light of his terrible job. and I would love for a reporter to grow a pair and just straight up ask Riley some tougher questions.

Riley is still able to laugh and make light of this piss poor season? Good for you sir. Collect your millions and continue to drive the program into the ground.

yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, blah , blah, blah............pointless to listen to these anymore. They get you all excited because they say the right things, you get your hopes up, then they go out and lose. Actions speak louder than words.

IF we don't make a bowl this year, and even if we win 6-7 games next year, i'd be fine with moving on. Honestly, I don't see the issue with just accepting the bad decision and moving on now because we all know we will be moving on in a year or two from now and will just have to begin the rebuilding process AGAIN. So why not accept the mistake, admit this as a lost season and start rebuilding now. SE can simply come out and say, "Look folks, I made a mistake, I apologize, but I am not going to allow Nebraska football to be Purdue" It's like any scandal, you always look so much better in the media if you just come out and admit it first rather then deny deny deny. I'd have so much more respect for the guy if he did come out and admit his mistake and take action, rather then trying to hide this awful wart for 2-3 years and the agree it was a mistake. The longer we have this, the deeper we dig our hole. I believe Southern Miss did this a couple years ago with the coach that led them to 0-12. Only thing we can pray for is that USC makes Riley an offer he can't refuse and he takes it. What has happened here has been an absolute train wreck so far. USC is NOT going to offer Riley. Who in their right mind would hire Riley after the debacle he's created here, and they way he was on the verge of getting run out of Oregon State....USC offered Riley a HC job almost 20 years ago, they realize Riley is now approaching mid 60s and well past his prime. Plus his overall coaching record is 2 games below .500.....................And if Southern Miss did this, I have already forgotten they did such a thing. Also, I can't think of any other job where you can consistently under perform for 8 weeks and not get talked to or get the risk of losing your job. Man, if I went to work for 8 straight weeks of just under performing I am sure I would have been talked to several times by management, and probably would have never seen week 8. We're on the same team here. I completely agree its better to rip the bandaid off instead of slowly taking it off bit by bit. But it just isn't how college coaching works these days. What're we Kansas? We'd be paying 2 coaches upwards of 7 million dollars a year to NOT coach Nebraska. Just won't happen. What we really need is someone "not affiliated with the program" to go to Herman privately and tell him that if Riley does not perform in year 2 that the job is his. I would like to think we have some boosters who could help just pay off some of the debt. OR how about a strong push to have Riley retire. Knowing Riley from Oregon State, I can't imagine he is use to this atmosphere and scrutiny. He had a comfortable job at Oregon State, it was laid back, and he could do whatever he wanted, and produce whatever record was fit. He never got questioned, he never got any heat. He walked into a lions den. Although I would like to think he knew what he was getting himself into, I don't think he really knew what he was getting himself into. Being his age, near the end of your coaching career, and coming from a place where you had it all and could do no wrong, and enter this fire pit..? I'd just pack my bags and say, "Thanks, but no thanks".

I don't see how SE can just ignore this......I am sure his inbox just constantly gets flooded by big boosters who are fed up with this...I wouldn't be shocked to hear that SE is making phone calls, AND with the grace of God of hope, he somehow finds the RIGHT guy this time, he decides to pull the trigger, man up, admit his mistake and hire the correct one. But really, how can Eichorst not see this train wreck? I would venture to guess boosters were not happy with this hire from the beginning, and have probably become even more unhappy. It would be interesting to hear what some boosters think, the people who make the real difference.