Magnus

1 hour ago, Isle of View said:

Huskers are underdogs in all remaining games:
http://www.espn.com/college-football/te ... &year=2017
 

Projected W-L    4.8 - 7.2 (98)

Percents are projected win percentage

Sat, Oct 14    vs    Ohio State    4.6%
Sat, Oct 28    @    Purdue    46.8%
Sat, Nov 4    vs    Northwestern    47.5%
Sat, Nov 11    @    Minnesota    39.1%
Sat, Nov 18    @    Penn State    4.0%
Fri, Nov 24    vs    Iowa    36.6%
 

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

I don't think so, I think he really did come here for that "last shot" I just think he is exactly what most of us fans thought he was going to be.  I think he is doing what he thinks is best I just think he is an average coach, at best.  

 

Like I said before.  His wife hates it here, she wants to move back and the writing is on the wall that this last stop is not working out like they (he) thought.  He very well might "retire" with a buyout at the end of the season.

Nope.   If that were true, he'd have worked harder at assembling a better staff.   Instead he decided he was captain of the Beaver lifeboat.   He simply brought his merry band of idiots from Corvallis -- Banker, Read, Langsdorf and Cavanaugh.

He's not that stupid.   There's no buyout if he resigns.   This 64-year-old gym teacher simply came here for a multimillion dollar retirement package.

5 hours ago, Danimal said:

Funny how Eichorst changed his stance on saying anything during the season when it is his coach that is under fire, what a POS

To be fair, doesn't it seem like the season is over?

Yeah, Alabama was 2 scholarships over the limit, and suddenly 2 players announce they're transferring.

How convenient!

All this does is allow Iowa to me lazy when making schedules.

All this does is allow Iowa to schedule Northern Iowa again.

Because he's a POS human being.

Occam's razor

My guess is that Eichorst told Riley on Wednesday that he was getting a new DC and Eichorst then handed Riley the phone.

Agree to disagree.

 

I'll take Riley.

Well, thank goodness Minnesota didn't steal Riley out from underneath us. That would have been devastating.

I got information that as of today Darnay Holmes is now listed on the UNL student directory. I checked it out myself and he is. Any thoughts ?!!!!!!

 

http://directory.unl.edu/#q/Darnay%20holmes

Congratulations. I never thought there was anything more pathetic that people who post FlightAware links during head coach searches.

That is, until now.

the comments are priceless

Koresh brainwashing - Players recruited by Pelini are still under mind control and won't buy into anything Riley and staff teach

 

I agree with you redux. There will be no firing, it'll be a retirement type of situation. If he was going to retire at this point I personally think he would've done it or announced that by now. Let's just hope that when he does, there is someone worth a darn waiting to take over.

He'll get us a conference championship, retire, then SE will promote Banker or Langsdorf to head coach 3 days before announcing he's leaving to take the AD vacancy at Wisconsin.

 

When are people going to realize that Alvarez recommended SE to Harvey Perlman because he didn't want that ginger tool anywhere near Madison.

Wasn't he there last year? Can one year make that big of a difference? Because we've been told over and over that it takes a lot of time to get your players in.

 

Yes, but Penn State's players weren't contaminated with the Pelini virus. For example, it was so debilitating, that it prevented Nate Gerry from attending classes all semester.

The SEC schools have figured this out. They play conference games earlier, and always schedule a scrimmage non-conference cupcake game the weekend before their end-of-season rivalry games.

Nebraska imposed their own sanctions when they fired two coaches with 70% winning percentages. NU has become such an easy school for others to negatively recruit.

He swears like a f'ing sailor.

I'm glad Milt Tenopir isn't alive to see this OL play.

Anyone trying to defend Eichorst's treatment of coaches is deceiving themselves. Eichorst was hired to fire Pelini. There is simply no other way around it. Perlman had wanted Pelini out for some time. That was Job #1 when Eichorst was hired.

 

Pelini had decided to go after the Miami job in 2010. He had an inside track - Mike Ekeler played football at Kansas State with then-Miami AD Kirby Hocutt. But Miami hired Al Golden instead. A couple months later Hocutt leaves Miami for Texas Tech. Miami then hires .... Shawn Eichorst. Pretty easy for Eichorst to find out that Pelini wanted the Miami job (one way or another at some point along the line). A couple years later, Eichorst interviews for the Nebraska job. No idea if that knowledge helped him get the job or not but now there is a Chancellor that wants Pelini out and an AD who knows he wanted out.

 

Eichorst wanted to fire Pelini after the 2013 season but couldn't get enough boosters on board to get it done. So now he's gone through a year wanting to fire Pelini and has to sit through another one trying to drum up enough support to get it done. How can anyone be surprised that there wasn't much of a relationship there. Eichorst trying to play it off as being busy is a thin cover story. After Eichorst hires his own guy, obviously they're going to have a close relationship - Eichorst has a vested interest in him succeeding.

 

The second paragraph is exactly what happened - straight from the horse's mouth. The third has been widely rumored and makes too much sense to not be true. Trying to pass off the bad relationship as being only Pelini's fault is disingenuous.

And I'm still convinced that Perlman or Eichorst was behind the leaked audio after the 2013 UCLA loss. Create a circus so that they could fire Pelini -- for cause. That's why there was no comment from either of them for days. Then we learned that Osborne already knew of the audio and gave Pelini a positive performance review, which meant the audio couldn't be used to fire Pelini per se.

To be fair... it's nice to see a school hire a coach who wins "the games that matter."

Pelini's team will be playing for a National Championship.