Dansker

Losing a few recruits from a 40th ranked recruiting class isn't going to do nearly as much damage as Riley will do with another season. But, we're probably stuck with him anyway. One more year couldn't hurt, right? Don't worry, this'll be us when this regime ends.

It's making me hungry.

Obviously this is ADSE trolling us.

Then its simple, don't click on the thread. Have a great day buddy!

OWH LJS Thanks for the links, Mav. Yeah, on that -- not only are the fans not buying it, the local media isn't buying it and the national media isn't buying it either. ADSE is borderline snake oil salesman. This whole debacle has gotten out of hand. I believe with the board's approval along with President Hank Bounds and Chancellor Harvey Perlman, we can get rid of Eichorst. Harvey Perlman can save face just before he steps down next year and get a Nebraska son to be the new AD and to fix this mess. He did it in 2007 but nobody knew Pelini's attitude would be a thing of controversy in Lincoln. For obvious reasons, one has to include Trev Alberts into the mix. If Alberts is hired as the new AD, Erstad stays with the baseball program. Erstad wants out and he may very well get the LA Dodgers job and I don't think he likes working for Eichorst. The administration has been the problem for so long, they've got to own up to it and do something. The stench of the football program's failures could go well beyond into next year and I know people love to talk recruiting but haven't we learned? We CAN'T place an 18 year old kid on a pedestal! The football program doesn't revolve around one single person. I don't care if we have Tommie Frazier 2.0 back there next year or Joe Montana, if we have Mike Riley and this staff here it doesn't matter. I have seen enough where I don't see the defense improving. I don't see a run game all of a sudden becoming efficient. This IS Bill Callahan part II - The biggest danger is if the administration lets this disaster continue for 3-4 years only then will our program be in the depths. It's no secret that Regents, the President, and the Chancellor have all attended practices and most of them were at the game last week. More than half of them are concerned of the same old crap week in and week out, and I am too. I'm tired of this team regressing, I'm tired of listening to Riley and his staff dupe us and do the opposite. I'm not all happy joy joy with his Monday presser's they're more like someone who is trying to defend his job providing small moral victories so the media doesn't chew him up and spit him out and the local media has been very generous to him. Riley and his staff do not know nor do they respect this football program. Riley didn't even know we traditionally wear red pants on the road. This is how misinformed he is. Eichorst made a pitch and it's almost like 75% of fans took it. Now, every week we see him on the sidelines, jaw dropped, frozen in time. Motionless, speechless, not communicating with players, not communicating on his headset. He's just... inactive. These are all signs of someone who is burned out and ready to pack his bags and get out. Nebraska cannot continue to become a national punchline through loss after loss. It is going to damage our image, it's going to hurt recruiting. The gracious thing would be for Riley to resign, but this situation is uglier than that. It's going to take a lot more and from what I have "heard" this whole thing is 50/50 and up in the air. We've got 3 games left, two of them to be nationally televised. The worst is yet to come, IMO and fans are pretty aware of that. Kind of like how he praised the defense for their success on first down plays this past weekend....I was dying at that one. Yeah, and when he responds to questions about the run game and says, "We were taking too many tackles for losses on the runs and that was really tough sledding," Riley said. "You really have to have patience to do that, and when you get behind you really don't like it. That's what happened to us." So, his mentality is, "Okay, TFL, run game isn't there but we're averaging 5.0 YPC, so let's try to pass. Incomplete. Okay, let's try that again. Interception. It's okay, shake it off, we'll try that again next series."

We've made offers in the past to top coordinators and coaches. Urban Meyer turned us down in 2003 while he was at Utah and then took the Florida job. His kids also went on social media laughing saying their dad will not be going to Lincoln back in 2007 and Mark Richt even laughed at the idea back then and AGAIN on a radio program after Bo was fired. There's been rumors we've made offers to: Houston Nutt, Bret Bielema, Mike Zimmer, Jim McElwain, Greg Schiano. And reportedly all turned the job down. The job is not as prestigious as you think BUT... out of all rumored candidates in the past, I do not think the athletic department made a lucrative offer to any of them. If we want quality, we gotta pay up. I'd much rather pay for a successful coach who intends to leave in 2-3 years rather than be stuck in the dumps with a bad coach for 4-5 years that is the world we live in now. Other programs have gotten lucky: LSU, Alabama, Michigan State, Stanford, Oklahoma. I agree to disagree with you. We can't just flash money at every coach. There are going to be a lot of jobs open at the end of the year. We have to be smart about the next hire I do agree we need to hire someone who is not only successful at coaching but is a solid recruiter as well and can surround himself with great associates and recruiters.

OWH LJS Thanks for the links, Mav. Yeah, on that -- not only are the fans not buying it, the local media isn't buying it and the national media isn't buying it either. ADSE is borderline snake oil salesman. This whole debacle has gotten out of hand. I believe with the board's approval along with President Hank Bounds and Chancellor Harvey Perlman, we can get rid of Eichorst. Harvey Perlman can save face just before he steps down next year and get a Nebraska son to be the new AD and to fix this mess. He did it in 2007 but nobody knew Pelini's attitude would be a thing of controversy in Lincoln. For obvious reasons, one has to include Trev Alberts into the mix. If Alberts is hired as the new AD, Erstad stays with the baseball program. Erstad wants out and he may very well get the LA Dodgers job and I don't think he likes working for Eichorst. The administration has been the problem for so long, they've got to own up to it and do something. The stench of the football program's failures could go well beyond into next year and I know people love to talk recruiting but haven't we learned? We CAN'T place an 18 year old kid on a pedestal! The football program doesn't revolve around one single person. I don't care if we have Tommie Frazier 2.0 back there next year or Joe Montana, if we have Mike Riley and this staff here it doesn't matter. I have seen enough where I don't see the defense improving. I don't see a run game all of a sudden becoming efficient. This IS Bill Callahan part II - The biggest danger is if the administration lets this disaster continue for 3-4 years only then will our program be in the depths. It's no secret that Regents, the President, and the Chancellor have all attended practices and most of them were at the game last week. More than half of them are concerned of the same old crap week in and week out, and I am too. I'm tired of this team regressing, I'm tired of listening to Riley and his staff dupe us and do the opposite. I'm not all happy joy joy with his Monday presser's they're more like someone who is trying to defend his job providing small moral victories so the media doesn't chew him up and spit him out and the local media has been very generous to him. Riley and his staff do not know nor do they respect this football program. Riley didn't even know we traditionally wear red pants on the road. This is how misinformed he is. Eichorst made a pitch and it's almost like 75% of fans took it. Now, every week we see him on the sidelines, jaw dropped, frozen in time. Motionless, speechless, not communicating with players, not communicating on his headset. He's just... inactive. These are all signs of someone who is burned out and ready to pack his bags and get out. Nebraska cannot continue to become a national punchline through loss after loss. It is going to damage our image, it's going to hurt recruiting. The gracious thing would be for Riley to resign, but this situation is uglier than that. It's going to take a lot more and from what I have "heard" this whole thing is 50/50 and up in the air. We've got 3 games left, two of them to be nationally televised. The worst is yet to come, IMO and fans are pretty aware of that.

I don't believe the average Nebraska fan understands the severity of Shawn Eichorst's statement yesterday. Historically speaking, more often than not, when an athletic director provides a statement of support for an otherwise failed idealistic plan, it is known as the proverbial "Kiss of Death," just as said athletic director is on the verge of becoming unemployed. The defeatists that say we're stuck with Riley for another year or 3, nothing could be further from the truth. Eichorst is feeling immense pressure that's why he has not once, but twice publicly gone against his policy of not speaking about a coach during the season. This just shows how misguided our athletic director really is and how does one with such a vulnerable characteristic remain at his post is beyond me.

Ah, I see where you get a majority of your post counts. I should start doing the same.

Ah, I see where you get a majority of your post counts. I should start doing the same.

Our beloved program has become a national punchline after ADSE PC statement. The question is... Who out there in a position of authority loves Dear Old Nebraska U the most to do what we must? ESPN BIG TEN As Nebraska descends into punchline, once-unthinkable questions surface ESPN NCAAF MAIN Nebraska AD Shawn Eichorst publicly backs coach Mike Riley USA TODAY Nebraska AD Shawn Eichorst endorses football staff BTN Shawn Eichorst tells fans 'future is bright' in open letter FOX SPORTS Nebraska AD publicly supports Mike Riley CBS SPORTS Nebraska AD issues statement in support of Mike Riley after loss NBC SPORTS Nebraska AD offers show of support for Mike Riley and staff YAHOO SPORTS Nebraska AD gives vote of confidence to Mike Riley after 3-6 start COACHES HOT SEAT 1. Mike Riley, Nebraska

Once the Board has had enough, the new president has to get approval from them and then Eichorst can be removed. Sipple stated Hank Bounds has a track record of holding people accountable. Neither Eichorst or Riley have truly been held accountable. Neither should get a pass for this failed expedition.

The Board of Regents has to see through that. It's all the more reason why this needs to end sooner rather than later.

Spot on. Not to mention, Richt is 55. I don't expect him to coach very long. UGA won't fire him. Their fans are NOT like ours. They're comfortable with where they're at. Richt has said numerous times he has no intention of leaving. He'll continue to get rid of a couple assistants here and there to appease the higher ups. On a side note, I've said it once and I'll say it again, if we fire MR we will not be able to land a splash hire. We're going to have to look at proven coaches on the rise. Tom Herman should be the one guy at the top of the list. He is basically Jim Mcelwain 2 and look at what Mcelwain did at Colorado State and now Florida. Herman is known as a solid recruiter as well. Nebraska has to get a rising star. Not a washout, not scraps after somebody has been fired unless its a top tier coach in the pro's i.e. Chip Kelly but there's no way that happens.

I'm flabbergasted that Sipple or Chatelain didn't grill Riley with this question during today's presser. I would have and I would have asked why we continually shy away from running the football and being conservative, eating up clock, keep our defense off the field, give backup QB simple high percentage pass plays. What could have been a 31-10 game in our favor turned into a 55-45 technical KO loss by slinging it around as if we has Brady back there.

Should MSU stomp us at home on a nationally televised game and Memorial Stadium clears out before the 4th quarter begins, Eichorst and Riley are finished. That I can tell you.

You can't see it right now which is OK... but you're wrong.

HC: Scott Frost OC: Turner Gill DC: Mike Minter OL: Dominic Raiola WR/TE: Ron Brown RB: Ahman Green DL: Jason Peter LB: Jared Tomich DB's: Eric Warfield S&C: Boyd Epley Team Psychiatrist: Adam Carriker

It was a rumor he was involved with a cheerleader then he turned to the bottle. Shortly after getting hired at Ohio, I believe he was drunk and passed out at the wheel and received a DUI.

Oh no the sleepy giant has awaken. Everyone RUN! Give me a break. I love when people deal in hypotheticals. Well, if we did this or if we did that then this never happens or this might've happened. The fact is last year we won and closed out those games, this year we haven't and we have seen an incompetent staff pathetically and successfully fail.

SE has had a poor choice of words within the past year. It's not like Riley inherited a dumpster fire like Bo did. In most people's eyes, he fired a 9-win coach and is now paying the price. There was nothing to rebuild, all Riley had to do was maintain the foundation and improve upon it and he successfully failed.

I would advise most people to relax. Eichorst has given two statements this season and both have been done from a position of weakness. He is feeling the heat from his constituents. The board will have to fire both the AD and place someone in there on an interim basis who's sole purpose would be to let Riley go. A 3-9 or 4-8 record is pretty idiotic to defend and I don't see that playing well to Eichorst' bosses. In his closing statement, he asks the fans to cheer on against Michigan State. I've been told that the game this Saturday carries more weight than most will come to realize.

We are not hiring Richt Mark Richt's total-debacle losses really are becoming annual things Once again, Mark Richt’s Georgia Bulldogs stumble on big stage Yet another big loss for Mark Richt and ouch... Richt and Georgia fall off stage again when it matters most and ouch... Big football games at Georgia have produced living, breathing sideshows. There's the game itself and the dread over how its coach is going to lose it.... Yeah, UGA hasn't won a conference championship in 10 years and we're on 16. I fear having him here would add 10 more years to our number. Atlanta is the top recruiting hot bed right now, so this talk of him being this glorious recruiter is BS. Any coach down there with a pulse could pull in the talent.