ActualCornHusker

I don't have a subscription. Can you tell us what it said?

The roster has a ways to go to be conference championship contenders, no question about it. But this roster is good enough for a quality coach to win a good amount of games. Take this year for example. Write in Oklahoma and Michigan as losses. Maybe add Illinois to that as well, although I think they're beatable as well. With competent coaching (not including Mickey as incompetent, I'm referring to a good coach that has a full offseason and a good plan in all 3 phases), this team could win 8-9 games. That's as it's currently assembled. People really need to stop with the doomsday stuff

I've been optimistic this entire process. Yesterday with some of the narrative my confidence wavered some. But I think I agree with you. This hire just can't be a so-so hire. Trev has to inspire confidence and optimism in the fan base again.

I don't buy it. Sounds a lot like "look what he did at X school. Can you imagine what he could do with the resources here?!" Pass.

Campbell couldn't even get his team to a bowl in his 7th year or whatever he's in right now

Or at the very least, it became clear that he wasn't gonna get the job

Idk Fuke Lickell sounds kinda dirty

Well Ole Miss plays Thursday night, and Baylor plays Friday, so if either of those guys are involved, we should know soon!

On the bold, EXACTLY! Can you imagine how much money you'll COST the program by not hiring the right coach? I don't usually view things in an extreme way like this, but this really is a CRUCIAL hire. I really hope all of this is a smoke shield to hide the fact that either Kiffin or Aranda have been hired for quite some time.

We won't need Bienemy. Here soon, Ryan Gosling AKA Kliff Kingsbury will be available to be our OC

I have a feeling you'd be in the minority. And besides, this one is just playful and fun. .... And petty but I'm here for it

Hahaha! A major D1 coach interacting like this on Twitter is just magical

Exactly my read on the situation

Absolutely 1000000% correct. Which is why I can't resonate with the thought that Nebraska will never be good ever again, and bowl contention should be our goal each year. I think the fan base has been humbled over the past 8 years or so (deservedly so), but 7 wins should be what this team does in its down years, with 8&9 wins being the norm, and continually competing for our division (or pod or however that's going to work) deep into the season each year. With the resources, fan support, etc that this university has at its disposal, anything else is unacceptable. I said coming into this year that Frost needed to win 7 for us to even think about bringing him back, and 8 to be safe.

We need an offense that can move the ball with a balanced attack and score points. His scheme fits that.

The tea leaves I'm reading suggest that Rhule wants more money than Trev wants to pay him. If true, that's kind of disappointing. If Rhule is out, I think the home run hires would be Kiffin or Fickell, but I'm not sure either is attainable. Especially if my feeling about not wanting to pay Rhule is correct, then you're not going to get those 2 guys for any cheaper. I know a lot of people have cooled on Leipold, but I still think he'd be a solid hire. Runs a fun style of offense and is a really good game manager. He'd just need to hire a really good DC (maybe keep Busch as DC) and fill his staff with great recruiters (Mickey).

If that were his stance, wouldn't he have said that on his radio show? That's what I've been pondering today.

A delay with Rhule if he's the guy probably isn't a great sign. Either he's holding out to see if other jobs open, or there are hold-ups on certain aspects of the contract, or of the Panthers buyout. My hunch is if there's no announcement tomorrow, it's not very likely to be Rhule (or Urban or Peterson)

I'm putting the cutoff for Rhule tomorrow. It's possible that Trev would wait till next weekend to announce Rhule, but I would think if he were insistent on waiting for the season to conclude that he'd have said that on his radio show last week. But it's possible it's Rhule and they're still ironing out the contract details (I hope not) Edit: to be clear, I hope they're not still ironing out details. I'd be very happy with Rhule

100%. We've seen around the country, if there aren't signs of significant progress by year 2, you don't have the right guy most likely

I think Deion could be a phenomenal G5 coach, but for Nebraska right now we cannot take that kind of risk. And I think geographically he's not a great fit here. Georgia Tech should hire him - I think that would be perfect.

I'm not sure if I can't rank them, but I can put them in tiers Tier 1: legitimately excited Rhule Urban Peterson Deboer Aranda Kiffin Tier 2: good coaches but not home runs Klieman Leipold Stoops Doeren Mickey Tier 3: ugh... Campbell Deion Monken Calhoun I'm sure I'm missing a few

If Trev announces Campbell... I'll always support Nebraska but man that would be one of the least exciting hires.