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This year his Baylor team hasn't lived up to his previous success, but he won a conference championship last year with Baylor. He's a very good coach who is current. But you could substitute Aranda's name with Chris Petersen's.

Open the checkbook for a big time OC and given Wisconsin's troubles and depending on what his future holds, go get Leonhard to be the DC. That could be a really tough staff.

I think you go for the grand slam hire. Go for Urban, Kiffin, Rhule, Aranda, but if your grand slam target doesn't hit, I am completely fine with hiring Joseph. Why not? I have enjoyed watching this team play under Joseph, except for the Oklahoma game, but the progress is tangible. I would love to see what this team could look like in 2-3 years under MJ with MJ's staff and recruiting and developing. If he doesn't work out, oh well, he doesn't work out, but if I have to pick between a Campbell or Joseph, I am taking Joseph. Lance is a good story this year, but Frost was an amazing story the year we hired him. MJ's coaching ties could also get him to go and get some of those 2019 LSU coaches to come coach. Is Joe Brady going to be out at Carolina too? Because he'd be a great OC. Joseph can not do worse than what Frost or Riley did to this program. So if we can't get the big name proven successful hire, I would say go with Joseph and let him try and build this thing up because so far in his short amount of time he has made drastic improvements and may be the best thing to have happened to this program since I don't know when.

This marked the 789th game where the Nebraska offense and defense could not come together and both have a good game. Once again, one unit shows up while the other takes the night off. One of these games both the offense and defense will show up and play well. Palmer is one of the best WR's in the country. We need more plays where we just throw it deep in his general direction and just let his natural speed and ability go get the ball. I think we make our offensive plays too difficult and too much, simplify it by just throwing it deep to Palmer. Offensive Line needs to benched vs Illinois. Let walk-ons give it a try. It's been 15 years since the defense has been able to stop slant routes and 7 years since they've been able to stop the same up the middle run play over and over.

Crazy to think had we just beaten Georgia Southern and able to beat Northwestern this game would be for bowl eligibility.

I've read where there may be several playmakers out or Purdue. The problem with this is I feel the last few games vs Purdue they've been out some of their star players, including their QB's and their backups play like they are heisman candidates. So if they are out all these players, it doesn't make me anymore comfortable about our chances to win. Now if we do win, it would be huge. That gives us 4 wins on the year with Wisconsin and Iowa left to be a good shot at getting to bowl eligibility. I can't believe I am typing we have a shot vs Wisconsin, but they seem like they could be in a bit of a down year apparently. I don't like our chances vs Illinois, or Minnesota, or Michigan. I do like our chances vs Iowa as they appear to have no offense, but at the same time I could see Iowa having no problem rolling 300 yards on us by just lining up and running up the middle each play and their QB looking like a heisman. Lots of typing for this, but bottom line is if we can beat Purdue, our season has a big pulse going and it will be a fun involved ride through the rest of the season.

Pass on Rhule and wait until Kliff Kingsbury becomes available.

Mickey Joseph is 4 more wins away from guaranteeing himself the head coaching job. He is 3 wins away from being a very serious hire if 1a does not accept. He's 1-2 wins away from being a very good choice if he ends up getting the job. MJ is the maybe the first true professional and mature head coach we have had since Frank Solich. Also reading things that he has done for the players it is no wonder he is a great recruiter and the players love playing for him. Right now everything I see from MJ is if Nebraska hired him as a full time head coach I would be totally happy. Sure the names of Urban Meyer, Chris Petersen, Aranda, Kiffin, all those big names excite me too, but if Alberts and Nebraska end up picking Joseph I will be happy and supportive of the hire and be optimistic he can build something. Because in the very short 4 weeks and 3 games of being the head coach of what was a dumpster fire, he is 2-1 and the team actually looks far better than they did versus Oklahoma. I don't know the last time we saw this fast of an improvement and I think that improvement. Regardless, Joseph needs to be around this program moving forward.

What did we learn? Learned that there is fight in this team and this program was very poorly coached over the last 4.5 years on both offense and defense.

Only works if afterward it is revealed Frank Solich was the new Herbie

Whatever Wisconsin is, oh that is right Wisconsin is Nebraska's former self, is what we need to be.

Unless the coach is currently not a coach somewhere, he won't make the hire until December or very late November. That seems obvious given coaches are focused on their current season and teams and won't make that type of announcement until after their season concludes. That is what makes this season feel like it's already been 3 months long. So much has happened with us and we aren't even in October yet.

Meyer Aranda Kiffin Rhule Heck, with the way their season is going and how brutal NFL job security is, maybe Zac Taylor?

There is no way it survives this season.

It's beginning to feel like getting Frost back was just an excuse for all the former Husker greats and former big timers to get together and have a huge party and not do anything remotely responsible or mature. It feels like they got back to their 20 year high school reunion dinner and just all agreed to stay and hang out for 5 years.

I am getting the feeling that our hire is going to be an underwhelming name hire. Not that that is a bad thing, it may work out for us as we have learned over the years both within our own program and watching others, you just never know who will end up being a good coach. But these big names people keep throwing around out there, I don't think it happens.

Either that means Urban is close or is the frontrunner for the Nebraska job, or Trev Alberts fumbled this hiring process already. How in the world is Urban Meyer in Lincoln all day long and as the AD you don't have a talk about him being the head coach? He should've been conversing with Urban Meyer all day yesterday. Whether you like the guy or not, one of the best coaches in college football was visiting yesterday. You have to talk to him and gauge his interest.

I learned we probably only win 2 total games this year. With that knowledge I learned that this is the worst Nebraska team I have ever watched.

After Frost not working out when that seemed like a great hire and the perfect fit, I really have no opinion on who we go and hire. No one knows how someone is going to work out. Bill Callahan coached in the NFL and took a team to the Super Bowl and he failed here. Mike Riley overachieved at a school with limited resources and came here and failed. Scott Frost was a Nebraskan, former National Champion Cornhusker QB who played under the great Tom Osborne, had great success at his first head coaching job and failed here. So who knows. With that said, I am not all that excited about the potential of Campbell being our head coach. Granted, he could be great here, who knows, but if we can't get a huge name like a Meyer, Stoops, Aranda, etc. I would prefer we give MJ a shot, especially if he can salvage this season with a couple wins.

Interesting I haven't heard many players come out and publicly give their outcry of being upset at Frost being let go. Seems different than previous coaches of Pelini and Riley being let go. In both of those incidences players came out and showed their support for those coaches and expressed their disappointment. The only thing I've read is that the players were very happy to hear MJ was the interim head coach. Nebraska very well could have lucked into a gem here with MJ. He is a great recruiter, the current players like him, he may be the perfect head coach type. Since he hasn't been an OC it could be easy for him to trust his coordinators and let OC's call the plays, DC's call the defense and he takes over the CEO role. He could find himself as the front runner to the HC job if he finds a couple wins and at the very least the team looks better than when Frost was running the show. I'm hopeful with MJ leading the program that October could be a fun month.

Does MJ want to be the head coach? Has he come out and said that he would be and is interested in being the next head coach at Nebraska? If so, great! No better way to audition for the job then right now. If not, I hope he would want to stick around with whoever the new coach is.

Things are pretty bad now. When was the last time a Nebraska football season was over in August?

Well, I am sure his quote of making his linemen throw up 20 times a practice could be cause to do such a thing, but I don't think the University wants to make this ending messy. Everyone can go their separate ways on good terms. He came back and tried to right the ship, it didn't work out, thanks for leaving the good thing he had going down at UCF to try, but it just didn't work. No need to sour the relationship between Frost and Nebraska.

Emotionally we want Frost fired today, but the most business sense here is to wait until October 1st. He has one more game to coach and that is Oklahoma, we all suffer through that game and come October 1st he is gone. It would make no sense to fire him today or tomorrow because we will save so much money if we wait a couple weeks. We aren't winning the Oklahoma game no matter who is coaching this year, it's still very early in the season to panic over recruiting class, which that entire landscape has changed with NIL and the transfer portal, so I don't think making swift moves to save a recruiting class is that high of a priority. But we kept him and restructured his contract to make his buyout lower in October. As a business sense it would be foolish to fire him weeks before that decrease in buyout.

If he is still the defensive coordinator by Monday that will just be a sign that he is staying until Frost is gone and Frost knows he is gone. If Frost felt he had any chance at all in returning next year or really turning this season around he would fire Chinander by Monday. This guy hasn't been that great his entire time here. Last year was the first time the defense looked alright, but even then it wasn't amazing. We still played 5 yards off WR's and just run a slant in the middle on us and it's pitch and catch every time. Last year we just had a way better defensive line.