Mad Dog

 

 

 

With time on our side, and the win basically gift wrapped and HANDED to us, we dropped the proverbial ball, again……typical.

With three runs plays dialed up that even my nine year old could predict, Wisconsin stuffs the ball back down the Huskers’ throats and forces another punt. I hate to sound like a broken record, but are-you-kidding?!

 

 

Ha ha! Last week when Langsdorf tried to be creative with a QB bootleg which went awry Husker fans almost strung him up at the nearest cottonwood. This week he calls three established running plays and Husker fans are again eyeing that cottonwood.

 

It's so freaking stupid it makes me want to literally smack the dumb f'ers that do this. These coaches have no chance of pleasing these people, not a chance. It's not anything to do with what happens on the field. They've got their mind made up already, they probably already had their minds made up in December when their beloved BoBo got canned and they pledged allegiance that they would hate whoever replaced him, as a display of respect and jock-riding love for their beloved nostril flaring jackass.

 

 

A lot of peoples' opinions on play calling has to do with the results. At Illinois, if Tommy leads Ozigbo on that pass and he makes the first down off of it, people would have been praising the guts of Riley and Langsdorf. Against Wisconsin, if the blocking were more favorable and Cross/Jano punch the ball for a first down, everyone would have praised them then as well. It all depends on results, and when the results aren't favorable, all the armchair coaches emerge with the "If I was coach, we'd have..." garbage.

 

Some might call this "Broken Spirit Week"...at least here in Nebraska.

 

 

 

Can someone translate this for me?

Translation: Your constant bitching is frustrating people.

 

 

 

 

Translation: Support the coach of your team and stop being toxic.

 

 

Wow. You guys are good. My guess wasn't even close!

 

Take your medication

 

How about just supporting the current coaching staff and players because common sense tells you they're not going anywhere any time soon?

Agreed...Mediocrity is our new reality - embrace it.

Alabama, Ohio State, Notre Dame, USC, Auburn, Oklahoma, Texas....pretty much every college football powerhouse has had stretches of multiple losing seasons and NCAA sanctions before dusting themselves off and returning to power. When it came time to recruit, they could always recruit. Even when sanctions blacked out television coverage and bowl eligibility, they could recruit. Even when they were visibly sucking, a coach could come in and tell a high school hotshot that he was the player who was going to help Alabama, etc. return to greatness.

 

In the last 50 years Nebraska hasn't had as long or as deep of a trough as its fellow college football powerhouses. I hope we don't ever suffer that, but nothing that is happening now suggests the sun is about to set on Nebraska football.

 

We are exactly one reliable quarterback away from being 6-0.

Either that, or we're one reliable Head Coach away from being 6-0...hmm...maybe the university shouldn't have fired Pelini?

 

 

I do t buy any excuse for lack of recruiti g whatsoever anymore. I do t care where were at. All it takes is a vision and good fit. Utah is a power now. Baylor. TCU. Michigan st.

 

And dont give me the regional and in state card. The game is so much more global now. Social media. TV coverage. Communication.

 

Utah has been a power for quite a while depending on how one views things. They have been good for a couple of decades. In 08', they were the only team to go undefeated that year and probably should have at least had a share of the NC. They've benefitted from some pretty darn good coaching. Baylor and TCU are located in the state of Texas. With football recruits galore, it's actually quite amazing they weren't good a long time ago. All I can say about Michigan State is they have one heck of a football coach. It's the only explanation I have for them. Of the four you mention, I'd bet that Utah and Michigan State over the past five years haven't ranked very high in terms of recruiting. This kind of negates your recruiting statement. The average rating per rivals over the past five years has Nebraska@24, Utah@43.4, and Michigan State@31.2. They aren't exactly getting elite talent either. They just have great coaches.

 

I'm not sure Nebraska was even a very desirable job 20 years ago. When TO retired, the search was basically Frank Solich or Bob Stoops. Nothing against Stoops, but he wasn't some proven head coach with an outstanding resume then. Rather, his resume looked pretty comparable to Bo Pelini's who most on here from time to time have said was in way over his head. TO pulled rank and got Frank the job. We didn't exactly have top candidates banging down the door then. The same limitations we're faced with today are the same they were back then.

 

Even if we offer the largest salary in college football, we're not going to retain a coach. If a coach is worth giving this large sum of money, he'll bolt for the first job at a more desirable place offering similar money. We literally will become nothing more than a coaching carousel if we start paying coaches record breaking salaries.

 

I just have to disagree with much of this really. Nebraska was in fact THE job or certainly one of the top 3 or 4 jobs in the country in 1997. This can't be debated. When TO retired, there was NO search whatsoever. Tom announced his retirement and the hire of Frank in the same 30 minute press conference!

 

Today, the Nebraska job is one of the twenty best in the country although it is also one of the toughest in the country. It will be that way for the foreseeable, UNLESS we as fans are willing to come to accept mediocre and or losing seasons on a regular basis.

 

Top 20? No.

Top 40? Yes, with potential to someday move back into the Top 20. Due to parity, location, growth in smaller programs, and mass-media, we will quite possibly never see the Top 10 again (regardless of our Win / Loss record).

I see this Minnesota game being the catalyst that sends TA to the bench for the rest of the season.

I predict 3-4 INT's this game, and maybe a fumble from TA - the Gophers have a much stouter D than many realize.

Blowout loss: Minnesota 38 Nebraska 6

 

 

Pull out some big $ to hire a new coach and our clout increases exponentially. We have not shown the willingness to do that.

 

Personally, I no longer believe the money is there...not for a big-name coach anyway.

 

 

It is not always about money. These guys wives have more money than they can spend anyway. If it was only about money Nick Sabin would be coaching at Texas right now and Les Miles would have taken the job at Michigan, the school he played football at, before Brady Hoke got the job. Do you really think that if Urban Meyer had his choice between OSU and Nebraska and NU offered him 2 million more he would jump at it and come to Nebraska?

 

I agree, money isn't the only factor, but it is a big factor. Would Meyer have come to NU if we would have offered $2 million more that OSU? I don't know - and we didn't try...I wish we would have (if we could afford that kind of salary).

 

Sorry, but any article that puts our school in the same tier as Virginia, NC State and Iowa loses all credibility.

Not only that but it uses being in the SEC as a trump card. Like Florida trumps FSU in terms of desireability because SEC.

 

I agree (conference affiliation makes a difference).

It's weird, because for 40 solid years of Devaney, Osborne and Solich, we had no idea how desirable the head coaching job at Nebraska was to the college football world.

 

I suppose we could pony up the money and test the waters of the big name, can't miss coaches, of which there are maybe what? Five or six? How will we feel and what is our leverage if they reject the offer?

 

Back when this first happened, in 2003, we were spurned by Houston Nutt. Apparently our first choice and considered a hot property at the time. Things didn't work out so well for us, but it didn't work out well for Houston Nutt, either. Demanding a "top tier" coach is no guarantee of a top tier program. If there are other attractive openings at the time, a hot coach may not want to come to cold Nebraska, where you have six full games to prove yourself.

 

Still, we can absolutely get a great coach. We just don't know who is is. It will involve a risk. He will be an innovative offensive or defensive coordinator, but we will have to trust his transition to HC. He will be a head coach with a short but excellent track record in a conference considered less competitive than the Big 10. He will be a coach with a longer but rockier cumulative record, but who might thrive in the right setting with the right resources. He could turn things around overnight, like Bob Devaney, or he might take a four straight years of mediocrity, like Nick Saban at Michigan State. But the Nick Saban who becomes a hot property at Michigan State is going to go to the SEC, not to Nebraska. We may not have wanted Bret Bielema, but he also didn't want us, and that is an issue.

 

I don't think anyone is content with mediocrity at Nebraska. Nobody. But the notion that Nebraska had a chance at greatness and went for Riley instead makes no sense.

 

Unless you know something I don't. Who did we pass up? Any indication they would have taken the job? Because public rejection during a coaching search is a killer. See 2003.

 

We should be grateful for Riley because he wanted to be here. That's not nothing. And a mere 12 months ago, Mike Riley was voted the second most underrated coach by his college football coaching peers. That's not nothing either. I know TheSker will be quick to point out it was aeons ago, but Mike Riley was approached by Alabama, USC and UCLA for their HC jobs. There were actually professional and objective college football analysts who considered the Riley hire a bit of a coup. The national recruiting director at Rivals.com tweeted that the Riley hire was a "home run" and "I don't think Husker fans realize what a well-respected game coach Riley is and how hard it is to win in Corvallis."

 

Considering that recruiting was considered Riley's strong suit, we may want to let him give it a go before burying him.

 

Riley may still surprise you. He may not. But I don't think we "settled" for mediocrity. We took one of the many calculated risks Nebraska has to make to hire a new head coach.

A shiny turd is still a turd.

Pull out some big $ to hire a new coach and our clout increases exponentially. We have not shown the willingness to do that.

Personally, I no longer believe the money is there...not for a big-name coach anyway.

Sorry, but any article that puts our school in the same tier as Virginia, NC State and Iowa loses all credibility.

Our football team would likely lose to all three of those schools you mentioned, and academically, all three of those schools are a tier ABOVE Nebraska...just a dose of reality for ya' although I'm sure you'll ignore it.

He has a profile you can put this in.

Several previous commits are rumored to be close to flipping...this is mainstream news now, buddy!

Radio

Edsall or Sarkasian are available. (too soon?)

Please lock and delete this thread. We've seen this crap in at least 10 other threads over the past week.

Great presser...and BTW, that coach in the Vid? He's a Leader...things will turn around, just wait and see.

I agree that Riley is a good guy, but I also agree that we can and should fire him after one season.

The university signed a contract with him and should see the contract through, regardless of our W/L record. Look at Kirk Ferenz at Iowa (he had a few bad to average seasons and now they're undefeated and ranked #17)