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We will win only 1 more game. Either Northwestern (which is no longer a gimme) or Minnesota, but not both.

Please. Give up the “no true Scotsman” BS. Just because some fans are disillusioned after 15 years of god awful results does not make them any less of a “true” fan than you.

Only for the all-Heaven team...

Why oh why dredge this old post up? Yes, many of us knew this was going to be a disaster, but at this point, what is the point of revisiting it? The fool of an AD who did this to us is gone (although with way too much Nebraska money he did not earn). Let's hope the new AD is smart enough to realize he has to get someone who has a track record of winning .700 or higher % of his games.

None of the above. We aren’t going to a bowl game this year anyway so just leave Reilly in there until the end of the year.

$5M would not be too much to pay for Frost. If we don’t pay it I guarantee another school like Tennessee will. Heck Florida might pay it.

At this point Frost HAS to come. Just think of all the fun we can have with his name if nothing else

Hot commodity? In what alternate universe is this true? His hire was a head scratcher even 3 years ago. No .500 coach is a hot commodity. I guarantee you he was not under realistic consideration by any decent team before we idiotically hired him. And statistically his recruiting is not any better than Bo’s.

JT Barret is 18/21 now... so much for the Blackshirts

What makes you think the score would be any better than the one right now against OSU?

What would it take for this game to actually have that headline? Anyone know? Edit: From what I can tell, our worst home loss was in 1945 to Minnesota 61-7....

All this speculation around having a patsy coach for 2018 due to an tough schedule is nuts. No one will care if Frost comes in and has a not so good first year. Heck, people will assume that is the way it will go first year of a new coach. No one will hold that against him. The key point is you have to get him now, cause there ain't no second chances on this one.

It's not just the O-line. It's inappropriate play calling, poor tempo, poor discipline, poor clock management, very poor wide receiver play... it's more than just the O-line, however, if the O-line was good I agree a lot of this would improve.

I don't live in Nebraska anymore but I think it would be worth going to the OSU game to see at least ONE championship caliber team this season...doh!

Sure, I don't blame you. Unfortunately lots of time we have to make do with insufficient data. I also want the best guy for the job, but at this point I can't come up with someone else who I think will a) want the job at the money we will pay and b) be a good enough coach for long enough to make it worth throwing the program into turmoil again. As long as we get a good coach I will be happy. It doesn't have to be SF, but frankly I think he is showing lots and lots of signs of potentially being a great coach and maybe the next Tom Osborne if we take the chance on him (and he wants the job).

How about this: Scott Frost as a HC at UCF is @ 0.61 W/R % through 1.5 years vs MR's Nebraska record of 0.56 through 2.5yrs. Note that this is after the previous HC record of 9-3 for Nebraska and 0-12 for UCF. You can argue which is harder, but I think the UCF rebuild was harder, which is one more piece of evidence that SF is the real deal. SF is TRENDING toward a career 0.66 W/R through 2 years if you assume his team wins the rest of the slate except USF - not unreasonable and he might even beat USF. MR's OSU record is 0.54 (forget total career because that is so long ago not sure it matters). So MR is basically performing exactly like he did at OSU. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that will change. He has certainly shown no evidence that it will. Past performance is the best predictor of future performance in employees (this is not the stock market). Oregon during SF's OC reign had a very good W/L %, about 0.75 if I remember correctly. You can argue that he was only the OC, not the HC, but do any of you remember Oregon's defense being a monster? The offense was the primary reason that team was so good. So to me, I am willing to throw those games into his total for comparison to MR's college career, which gives us a 0.73 W/L % for SF, and a 0.54 W/L% for MR. That's almost 20 basis points. That's a significant difference and that says to me that no matter what, SF will win more games here than Mike Riley. The data says so. Now, can things cause the data to go sideways, sure... but if we stay unemotional and just look at the numbers, SF is objectively a better coach than MR in at least this metric (and likely several others).

FWIW, those are almost the exact %'s that FPI predicts. There is literally almost a 0% chance of Nebraska going 6-0 based on FPI and their chance of going 0-6 is somewhere around 16% (call it 1 in 7).

That's my thoughts as well... although it could be some of his buddies who foisted that saboteur on us.

What exactly IS your point? That we should stop ragging on the coaches and players even though the result on the field is horrible? FWIW I agree about not ragging on the players. They are just kids and aren't being paid to be take fan disparagement. I personally try not to badmouth any player because a) if they are playing football at Nebraska they have already accomplished far more athletically than I ever have or will b) they are just kids and still developing their sense of self worth, it won't help them to have people on here putting them down. As far as the coaches go, sorry but they get paid BIG money to perform and to be in a fishbowl and I have very little sympathy for them if they don't like us nitpicking their screw ups. Riley's not out of a job YET, but the writing is on the wall in letters a spear's length deep (to paraphase CS Lewis) that his time is short. I don't dislike the man, he seems like a nice guy, but I don't want him coaching Nebraska football any longer than absolutely necessary either. Despite the pollyannas that occaissionaly have popped up here acting like he will not only finish this year but also get next year, I am 100% certain he will not be here next year. You don't fire the AD at Nebraska because you are happy or content with the football coach. The ONLY reasons they haven't fired Riley yet have to do with timing and when it makes the most sense to publicly let him go. He knows it too, you can see it in his face on the sidelines. He has probably already been told he is out at the end of the season. So us going easy on him won't help anything. He's already gone and everyone with a brain knows it.

Well, at this point the odds of that are slightly less than 1 in 20... which is about as long odds as one ever gets for a football game between two FBS opponents... so I guess the Vegas reaction would be that the fix was in...

I think the reason no FBS team has taken Pelini is that he wants to be a HC, not a DC. And there are two primary roles that an FBS HC plays - 1 - putting a winning football team on the field 2 - being a positive ambassador for the school. Pelini is decent enough at #1 to be a HC at a lesser FBS school, but he is godawful at #2.

True, this actually hurt the most out of the recent losses.

You know, you are right. At one point in the 4th quarter, I left the room and came back in and briefly mistook Wisconsin for Nebraska. I was so excited with the giant holes they were opening up and the big runs they were getting almost every down!!! Then I realized my mistake and reality came crashing in. But seriously there are some positive things about this team. The biggest I think is that they haven't really QUIT yet. They keep playing their best for the whole 60 minutes, which is something that did not always happen with Bo. A lot of times you could see him screaming at people and just watch the rest of the team decide to quit right there. The problem is that there are so many coaching negatives that these poor kids don't really have much of a chance.

Well, we don't have SE anymore so the odds are better that some insane decision like that won't be made. At the same time, SE's firing was directly and clearly tied to this completely baffling decision to hire Mike Riley, so hopefully the new AD will realize that his whole job pretty much rides on hiring the best coach he can get, not some nice guy who is just slightly over .500 for his career...

Agree with this. The Texas losses were mostly shock losses... couldn't believe they occurred. As bad as we are now and as far as we have strayed from our roots, Wisconsin beating us with our own strategy is annoying but completely understandable. What's NOT understandable is the consistently stupid decisions the UNL administration has made around the football team in the last 20 years...