Huskers93-97

4 minutes ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

he looked worn down and old and he isn't even 50 yet lol.

Being hung over all the time does that

4 hours ago, Red Silk Smoking Jacket said:

 

I've always kind of felt like search firms are more to provide a layer of cover and act as the school's agent more than actually identifying candidates. Allows active coaches to say things like "I've never been contacted by the University of Nebraska" and allows the firm to put out initial feelers without anyone knowing who it's for. Trev doesn't pick up the phone and call the coach directly and say, "Hey, you interested in the Nebraska job?" He makes that call the the search firm, who makes that call to the agent, who makes that call to the coach. It's like having a buyer's agent and a seller's agent in real estate. You may find the house you want yourself, then you let the agents hammer out the details for you. They're just another go-between to keep things cleaner.

I get it. But I assume the university was planning on going to Trev at some point right. So did we need a search firm if we knew the hire ahead of time is all I’m saying 

12 hours ago, The Whale said:

 

Collegiate Sports Associates is the same search firm that conducted the Nebraska AD search that ended up with Trev getting hired. Perhaps Trev is showing loyalty to this company for him getting the AD job?

 

https://collegiatesportsassociates.com/previous-placements/ (Trev's picture is in the 2nd row from the top)

Why would we need a search firm to hire Trev? Sounds like huge waste of money. 

He is a guard for us. Tackle at Nebraska is 6-9 minimum 

5 hours ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

That's the thing -- they're not. The expectations for so many have lowered over the past 20 years to the point that they'll be happy with 7/8 win seasons and competing for the West. Campbell does not give us an edge over any other team in the West in any way - not for his coaching ability, not for his recruiting ability, not for his ability to "form a foundation and culture."

The problem with that viewpoint is it is short sighted. Because they say that now. Then once we get consistent 8-4 seasons and win west few times. It won’t be enough we will want 10-11 wins and big ten titles. Point us we say that now cause we are at our low point but expectations will never stay at 8 wins is good enough 

8 hours ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

Meyer should be far and away the #1 target. It's not close.

I agree. With an already stacked big ten with usc coming we need to step up. You would think Nebraska brass would be embarrassed of how we have looked for 20 years. We are supposed to be a blue blood and equals to Ohio state, Michigan, Penn state and usc. But we have not hired like we belong at that table. Sorry but part of why the big ten brought us on is because they thought they were adding another big name to that table 

11 hours ago, Murph105 said:

I loved Trev’s comment that we don’t need to worry about nattys or the old days, we need to start doing the little things right. I think the same goes for bringing in a coach. Let’s face it, we haven’t just stumbled, we broke our legs. We need to crawl before we can walk, before we can run. Let’s focus on someone who runs a tight ship with an eye on detail and get some consistent wins.  While there are some flashy names on this list, let’s find ourselves a teacher. Who has more experience in a variety of great conferences, leagues, etc. than Bill O’Brien? Anything but that dumpster fire Urban Meyer.

That was Trevs way of setting the stage for a hire he knew no one would be excited about 

5 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

My personal favorites are Meyer, Aranda, Herman, Stoops, Rhule, Whittingham, TODD Monken, Chadwell... 

 

The crazy thing is, I think we could land Meyer, but he won't be on our list, because he doesn't "represent Nebraska values." And that's sad. All of these guys have baggage. ALL of them. Some are just better at hiding it than others.

Exactly. Same s#!t all the coaches in the past did. They just didn’t have to battle twitter and cell phone cameras to capture it all 

Michigan, Ohio state and penn state got solid coaches. USC coming to town soon. We better make some big moves or we fall further down the pecking order and stay there is all I’m saying. But hey let’s hire another guy who ain’t done it but we believe he could some day. It’s like our recruiting- get low rated players but tell ourselves he is under valued and we could see his potential. 15 years of that s#!t and here we are 

7 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

Ok. Thanks for laying all that out. Can you give me a name or two who would actually leave their current job for NU.

 

I understand USC just did that for Lincoln Riley, but Riley liked the idea of trading Norman, Oklahoma for LA. Plus, he was worried about having to compete in the SEC in a couple years. 

I can’t but I am not in Trevs position to put feelers out there and I don’t know what kinda $$ Trev is willing to pay. If there is a guy who fits that criteria and is a TO 2.0 like Trev wants for personality and character and he is making 7 or 8 million. Offer him 10 or 11. 11 mill and coach in big ten for historic rich program in Easy big ten west. Man I bet a lot of guys would do it 

1 hour ago, ColoradoHusk said:

I don’t disagree but who are the realistic “elite” candidates?

You didn’t ask me but I will answer. Elite in my mind is a coach who has won more than 1 P5 conference championship which shows consistency. Can consistently recruit top 20 classes and some classes pop into the top 15 to top 10 every few years. Ideally has made a national championship game or playoff appearance. This is the kind of proven winner Nebraska should be pursuing and throwing stupid big ten money at to resume our rightful seat at the blue blood table. But it sounds like the standards of Nebraska have dropped so far we are going to go after guys who haven’t done it yet but we hope our resources will allow them to ascend to greatness here. I just think if we want to be thought of as a blue blood again we need to act like it. USC got tired of trying unproven people so they said f#&% it let’s go steal the coach we want 

5 hours ago, Redux said:

Why do I have a nagging feeling this hire is going to be more Riley than it is Pelini

Well after mavs post of Dave Doeren I did a google search to find out who the f#&% that is. So trending mike Riley 

4 minutes ago, ndobney said:

We can keep the coordinator we have my god we already did that last offseason. 3 games with Whipple and you are saying you want a top notch notch offensive coordinator. See this is why people make fun of us

How often does a new hire keep people from the last staff? Rarely. Probably next to never for one of the coordinators. 

5 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

I'm not hanging Trev.  Maybe it's on him.  Maybe it's not.

 

But the fact remains that there was a way to go about it that could have been much more beneficial to the program with (basically) no ill effects.  I think it would have been significantly better to get more value out of those dollars.  Not sure why that's so controversial.

I agree with you Mav. 7.5 million isn’t chump change. Upgrade a facility? Put towards next coach? 

Values are great. BUT if we have a list of the 10 best coaches in America and the top 5 don’t meet our values we hire the 6th best option? Sorry but the days of college football innocence are gone. This is a business. Conference and rivalry loyalty is gone. Players switch schools every year, NIL $$, coaches getting stolen from other schools between seasons, billions in tv contracts. Etc etc etc. 

getting another TO who was one of the best coaches in the country and a devoutly honorable man are extremely rare 

f#&% it let’s just hire the Ohio state AD to make our hire. They always get it right 

We gotta go big boys. Urban Meyer. Pull a USC Lincoln Riley kinda s#!t. We gotta go big. Not up and comer killing it at lower level. A legit dude in P5 now 

Just now, Huskers93-97 said:

We gotta go big boys. Urban Meyer. Pull a USC Lincoln Riley kinda s#!t. We gotta go big. Not up and comer killing it at lower level. A legit dude in P5 now 

$12 million Kirby smart 

Urban Meyer. Don’t give a s#!t bout baggage we need Ws 

I think he is confusing talent with being well coached 

We still suck 

Someone in Nebraska needs to put together a 7 figure NIL deal and wrap this s#!t up.

21 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

We like Watson better.

If Ohio state offers him I think we have to offer and take 2. Cannot let a kid 30 minutes from Lincoln go to a big 10 powerhouse 

1 hour ago, Decoy73 said:

4 year starter.  3 consecutive state titles.  Just lacking the prototypical size, which shouldn’t be a deal breaker.  Seems like a good get.  

I haven’t watched much film. So he is a good enough athlete to win high school games. Probably good enough to make plays with his legs in college. Is he a pass first guy though who will win games in college? We have had plenty of athletes the last 20 years trying to play QB but not enough true QBs to take our team out of mediocrity 

Just curious why is he only rated .84? 

The kid does want to get into coaching if the NFL doesn't work out. So maybe not the smartest thing to say out loud considering a good starting point would be to reach out to Frost to give him a job on his staff to kick start his career.