Hans Gruber

I'd say that's a fireable offense, but that's already been taken care of.

I would imagine there's virtually no chance Alberts would turn down the job. Even if you take out the fact that he played at Nebraska, it's still a huge promotion and substantial pay increase. All those things are true for Frost also. Let's not kid ourselves. The Nebraska head coaching job is still better than UCF. Any Group of Five head coach would have interest in Nebraska. Now they might not take the job or wait for a better job instead. But they wouldn't turn their nose at Nebraska unless there is a specific job they are waiting for. If Baylor can get Matt Rhule, if Purdue can get Jeff Brohm and Minnesota can get P.J. Fleck, I think Nebraska could get Scott Frost if that's who they zeroed in on.

It happens. More often than not the coordinators aren't kept, but it isn't crazy depending on the coordinator. When Justin Fuente was hired at Virginia Tech he kept Bud Foster as the DC. When Ed Orgeron went from interim head coach to regular head coach at LSU, he kept Dave Aranda as his DC. Urban Meyer kept Luke Fickell as the DC at Ohio State after Fickell was the interim head coach for a year when Tressel was fired. But it depends on who the next head coach is. I'm fine with a new head coach cleaning house. I'd also be fine if he kept some coaches around.

It might be Frost's destiny to coach at Nebraska. Very interesting to read what he wrote in 2005, then put it through the lense of 2011, 2014, 2015 and now.

I think sometimes we can get too caught up with a team's record when a coach is on the hot seat. Record is important, but not all 8-4 and 7-5 seasons are built the same. Nebraska went 10-4 in both 2010 and 2012. Which team did we feel better about at the end of the season and made us feel more positive about the future? All that said, I think Riley keeps his job if he finishes with an 8-4 record. He loses it if he goes 6-6 or worse. It's a tossup at 7-5.

I picked three. I'm not sure which three. This season is so eerily similar to 2007 though and I feel like this will end up roughly the same. Nebraska will be 5-6 entering the final game of the regular season needing a win to make a bowl game. They won't get it. If you want to force me to pick three wins, then I will guess Nebraska beats Illinois, Northwestern and Minnesota. Nebraska isn't beating Purdue in West Lafayette this year unless things change dramatically between now and then.

Maybe everyone should stop making the same joke in just two sentences. That is all.

Mississippi State wins at Georgia. Iowa stuns Penn State. Kentucky ends the long losing streak to Florida.

Stoops was/is a great coach. I think it's fair to want Stoops or Chip Kelly. I also think it's fair to point out that it is highly unlikely that either is going to coach at Nebraska. Either way, I think those two guys should be the first two calls when Nebraska is looking for a new head coach. Just have more than those two guys on the list of potential hires.

I wouldn't hate it, but he wouldn't be on my short list. I think he's a good and solid coach that would run into the same ceiling Bo did at 9-10 wins a year. If you crave consistency though, I think Whittingham would give Nebraska more consistency than anyone else in the last 15 years.

It would take a lot of Taco Bell to use up all that toilet paper ...

There's a lot to like about Frost. He wouldn't be my first choice. If the top 3-5 guys that Nebraska wanted to hire said no though, then I would be fine hiring him as a backup option. There's two things I really like about Frost (not related to him playing at Nebraska specifically). First, he's been both an offensive coordinator (Oregon) and a defensive coordinator (UNI). That gives him a strong grasp of both offensive and defensive football and how they play off each other. Second, look at the football minds he learned from as a player and coach. Frost has learned under Bill Walsh, Tom Osborne, Bill Parcells, Bill Snyder and Chip Kelly. That's quite the education in football. Most coaches would kill for an apprenticeship like that.

Any offense is the right offense if you have the right coach and the right players. The problem is finding a good coach that can recruit said players and get the most out of them. I honestly don't care too much what Nebraska runs on offense, as long as it's successful. Having said all that, I would be completely happy with an offense that looked like 2010 or 2011 Wisconsin.

Touché. Then it would be just once a day and therefore, even less useful than before.

I blame Eichorst much more so than Riley. If you're in Riley's shoes, and you get the chance to leave Oregon State when you've underwhelmed the last five years and your seat is heating up, why wouldn't you take a pay raise and go to a school with more resources?

Thanks. Even the broken clock is right two times a day.

Recruiting will almost certainly take a hit. But if things keep going the way they are going, most of the high-profile guys would leave anyways. I don't have any inside info, but I doubt Bookie, Josh Moore, Micah Parsons or any highly-ranked guys are going to a school that's 5-7 in year three of a head coach. As important as recruiting is, finding the right guy at head coach is more important. It sucks if a good recruiting class has to be sacrificed, but delaying the inevitable for one class will have worse long-term effects.

I've heard some people (nobody in the know, just speculation) mention Jamie Pollard from Iowa State. I don't think he'd be my first choice, but I think he's worth mentioning. Iowa State is a difficult place to win and Pollard seems to have done a decent job. I thought the Cyclones would suck at men's basketball after Fred Houberg left, but it seems like they haven't missed a beat. I think Matt Campbell was a solid hire in football. I don't know if Pollard hired Paul Rhoades or not. Pollard claimed he wasn't a candidate, but that's what everyone says until they're hired. Anyways, he wouldn't be my first choice, but I figured he was probably worth mentioning.

I like what Riley was able to do off the field. He generally represented Nebraska well. For Eichorst ... I mean he never murdered anybody or committed any felonies.

Nice find. Obviously some of those guys won't leave their current schools, but I would think Nebraska could get some of those guys.

Maybe since 2002. They were pretty good in 1999 and 2000. Other than that though, I see where you're coming from.

Makes sense. And the only way to find out if he'd leave is to ask him.

I agree with all of this.

I can only name about four ADs, and I'm pretty sure Greg Byrne isn't leaving Alabama or Joe Castiglione leaving Oklahoma. So I guess Chris Del Conte is my leader in the clubhouse until someone puts forward a better option or Del Conte says no.

Fine, if you want to pretend he won't be, then that's your prerogative. The writing is on the wall though. If he can't beat NIU, how's he going to get to 7 or 8 wins? Even if he does somehow do that, next season is the coach-killing schedule anyways.