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30 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

I hope we hear whispers prior to the wisconsin game and then for our last home game, the new coach appears during the tunnel walk and runs out on the field.   WWE style, I want the theatrics

That would work for me hahaha

11 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

I could see a scenario where they have a guy and MJ/new coach is also committed to keeping Mickey on the staff.  That being said, my money is still on an announcement shortly after the Iowa game.  The only reason it would come prior is if it was Urban or Rhule

I think we will hear strong whispers shortly before Thanksgiving and an announcement no later than Sunday November 27.

41 minutes ago, Red Silk Smoking Jacket said:

I dont think we know of a single interview. Not one. Which is why I always think it’s funny when people say this guy is out or that guys not coming. There is nothing to indicate who it will be at all.

#Facts 

1 hour ago, Hayseed said:

I think a lot of fans want either a splash hire or to stay with Mickey.

I want a head coach with experience. I hope the next coach can figure out a way to work with Mickey because he has earned a spot on the staff if he desires to stay,  just not the main one. 

2 hours ago, HuskermanMike said:

My updated Top 5 List:

 

1 Lane Kiffin- The best realistic hire we could get. He will run the ball and has a great offensive scheme. He has matured a lot and can coach. 

2 Dave Aranda- A realistic option that has made an impact everywhere he has been. Checks all the boxes Trev talks about. The question will be can we outbid BU?

3 Matt Rhule- He has moved up my list lately. I can get behind this hire. NFL success does not equate to CFB success and vice versa. He will bring elite assistants here. 

4 Kalen DeBoer- He has only been in Washington for a year. He has Midwest ties and would come here. His teams play hard and smart. 

5 Lance Leipold- If you can get Kansas to bowl eligibility, you can coach. Most likely wants to stay but we can pay more for him.

 

Sleeper- Bill O'Brien- Looking less likely, but wonder how he would do after Saban's school of coaches who don't coach good. Two good examples came from it LK and Sark. 

Second Sleeper- Gus Malzahn- Likely staying in the South. I really like his offense and philosophy. He could get us back to relevancy. 

I saw this mentioned on twitter so I went and I looked it up. Probably nothing, but the President of the university, Ted Carter just happens to follow two specific head coaches and I don’t see any other HC’s on his following list. 

20 minutes ago, talaricohusker said:

This loss isn’t on Mickey he got stuck with this pathetic staff and team. I know it’s just a game but ffs guys 

Please. Yes it is and it’s not debatable. Why is he playing Purdy and not smothers? Where are the adjustments at halftime? This game was winnable and yes I will put this on the coaches. 

Looking forward to hearing about how this game isn’t on the coaches 

34 minutes ago, chamrocck said:

Pretty much agree with this. I’ll add Prime just because it would be a wild ride and he’d definitely keep Mickey, publicity would go through the roof, and recruiting would improve.  I know many of us are skeptical that Prime could take the step up to the B1G but it is more than  just the Head Coach. What if he had Mickey? I’d rather have Prime and Mickey than Mickey alone. 
 

Patterson intrigued me if he’d come aboard as DC and AHC. What if it’s Mickey but we pull a scenario like that? 

I wondered the same scenario with Patterson As a DC. Huge Texas recruiting ties. Very good hypothesis 

1 minute ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

Yeah, I'm a legendary pessimist here, but I would be ok w/ Rhule

I agree with your opinion. He would be a great hire. Not my top option, but I am not Trev. He would be a good one. 

Just now, ColoradoHusk said:

I agree that the lack of experience in the Big Ten isn't great.  However, I am not concerned about recruits thinking he "sucked" at Carolina.  I think he will be able to tell recruits "I have experience in the NFL as a head coach, and an assistant coach.  I have seen what it takes to get to the NFL.  I can get you there with proper development."  If Rhule surrounds himself with a coaching staff full of recruiters (which a robust salary pool should enable), they should be able to get guys to come to Nebraska.

Totally agree. The NFL stint serves as a positive and not a negative. Crazy how negative  minds just go to negative innuendo. 

9 minutes ago, BoSolich said:

lol. the associate AD obviously doesn't want people to know it's aranda. it'd be real easy to find someone to feed sipple some bad info so people stop talking about it.

Would Be cool if you are right. 

2 minutes ago, BoSolich said:

I have zero inside information, but for mickey to sell coleman to come here i feel like he knew who the next coach is going to be and mickey felt pretty good about his chances of sticking around here.

 

that leads me to believe arnanda is gonna be the next coach, and he'll keep mickey and busch on the staff.

 

the associate AD refuting the arnanda rumor makes me think even more that it is him.

I thought so and was hoping so too until Sipple said this morning he scratched Aranda off his list of possibilities stating Baylor boosters will match any offer we send them. He will not be following the Aranda situation any more. 

35 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

i disagree. Dude makes plenty of $ with much lower expectations. 

It all depend on Stoops personality I would guess. He fits all of Trev's boxes, its just a matter of Stoops wanting to stay comfortable where he is being second fiddle or if he wants to be the man at a sleeping giant. 

1 hour ago, Red Silk Smoking Jacket said:

 

He didn't have highly ranked classes. Could be just not his style as he's more of a developmental guy. Or, could be he just didn't have enough time to get to the level where he could start bringing in top guys as he was forced his first years there to do more with less given the circumstances. Hard to tell.

 

Could also explain the never beating a ranked team thing. Hadn't gotten to the point of getting the recruits needed to beat the ranked teams.

This is spot on 

Just now, Lorewarn said:

 

 

 

They went 39-13 in the four years before he got there, with two conference championships and two NY6 bowls. 

From one USA today article among many that crush this opinion. There was no winning culture there, in fact people wanted Baylor football to be eliminated during this time.

"Matt Rhule, the coach who cleaned up the toxic culture left by Briles and spent much of his first two years trying to fix the program’s public image. And while nobody will forget how badly the university failed young women who were raped and assaulted, Baylor has basically done what it needed to do with a new administration, new athletics personnel and a legitimate Title IX reporting structure..

But for a lot of people watching Saturday night, it will be difficult to get past the name Baylor. And perhaps that’s fair. Even though the school has seemingly taken the right steps since 2016, maybe it’s too soon to look at this merely as the story of an ascendant football team"

1 minute ago, Lorewarn said:

Rhule's success at Baylor should be looked at, at least a little bit, similarly to Frost's success at UCF. Yes, the rapegate fallout was a real thing and what he did was impressive, but it should also not be given too much stock because that program had a winning infrastructure and culture in place - he did not have to build it from the ground up. 

 

He's got a lot of pros and he's got a good amount of cons as well. I'm pretty agnostic about him as a candidate but I really trust Trev.

This is completely inaccurate. There was not a winning infrastructure in place and the culture was awful. Wowza. 

2 hours ago, TGHusker said:

I know there was a discussion of Mullen not liking to recruit.  I can't recall that about Rhule.    Rhule had more experience than Frost as a HC.  So, I don't think the comparison correlates.  

Rhule is very popular with high school coaches in Texas. The recruiting argument is inaccurate about him. If anything else the recruiting classes he had were amazing considering the crap storm he inherited there and the 30 some players that left before he joined Baylor. No one wanted to play at Baylor after the Briles fiasco and he made it work. I think he is a home run and disagree full heartedly with anyone who thinks he isn't a good head coach for Nebraska. He obviously is well respected to land an NFL job, so I am not judging him on his experience there. I am sure he learned a lot about himself with that experience, and normally after college coaches make the leap to the NFL and get humbled, they come back better for it. I hope the rumor is true. 

4 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Auburn can have him if we can get the Lane Train

ALL ABOARD! If Lane is a candidate we will be waiting a while to hear our head coach because he is still in playoff contention and any leaks with him involved would probably squash the deal. 

1 minute ago, M.A. said:

I'm not advocating for Freeze. I will say that's an effective offensive scheme against a good BYU team. Aggressive with a fair amount of creativity. They open things up down the field combined with an effective rushing attack. It has a real good feel to it. 

 

 

He is a great coach. Too bad he has baggage. That eliminates him in the Trev game. I like him though. He will make a great coach at Auburn

1 minute ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. But Arizona State might want to give MJ a shot bc they know he is a great recruiter and would draw recruits there. Not saying this is going to happen just saying you can't rule it out either like some Husker Fans are doing. 

Shaun Aguano is a renowned recruiter as well. Its basically the same situation except he was the RB coach at Arizona St and is beloved by every High School coach in Arizona. 

40 minutes ago, admo said:

And that is why it makes it so beautiful, is that you can have an opinion and I can have one too. Without derp responses and reactions.  Neither of us is right nor wrong, because the bottom line is that we want to see the Huskers have success.  

 

I cannot change your mind, nor will I even try.  I am okay if we disagree and that you and some others, believe that Mickey cannot get it done here for *insert reasons and opinions*

 

I never look at Mickey as a former player and to be honest, forget he even played here.  But I always remembered his name.  What excited me was that he was on an LSU championship team as a coach and turned out some amazing NFL talent at his position.  If his guys don't run the routes, catch the throws, make the plays, then Joe Burrow doesn't have the same success he enjoyed his final year at Baton Rouge.  But also, Mickey did have some success recruiting talent away from Bama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, etc, etc...

 

To answer your question about "Would I hire him out of LSU to coach here?"  My answer would be no, obviously.

 

But that's not where we are at today.  He is the head coach here and now, gaining experience on the fly, trying to motivate his guys, working with a staff that he never chose, allowing his DC and OC to do their job on game day without interfering (CEO coach), because he put trust into his current staff and his current players on the field - to do what they practiced and prepared for all week.  Sure I would like to see more wins, but as a head coach, what else can he do in his situation?

 

In the Illinois game, when Rahmir dropped the easy catch, the next play CT got hurt, and everything went down hill.  The Huskers had more yards then Illinois was used to allowing at that time, and threatening.  Losing the game was not on the head coach, so I hope you don't use that as a reason or escape goat.  Purdy and Smothers have had reps all spring, summer, fall and up to this point to step up...... like KSU's QB did..... like Kansas' QB did when their best QB went down.  The 2nd half showed how valuable CT is to the offense, and not a reason Mickey Joseph is not a good coach.

 

I want him to be here next year and beyond.  Even though I have never thought he would get the job going forward, unless everyone else says "no thank you, but thanks for asking, click".  

Fair response. I guess I am disappointed in his decision to not jump in and stop Whipple from chucking the ball around the yard when we didn’t need to panic. I feel that lack of purpose cost us chances to stay in the game.  I am looking for a calming voice during chaos and I didn’t see it. Like you said, just my opinion, but I think he could have kept us in that game by controlling the “Whip”  

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

 

Funny how Callahan can get a tip that Mickey's representation has reached out to ASU, but he can't get any news about what coach's agents have reached out to NU.

Lol no doubt. 

7 minutes ago, admo said:

Wise man, prolly hearing good advice too.

 

I think Mickey got Fever Pitch.  He went from "How am I going to do this?" to "I think I can do this" to "I can do this, here or anywhere, and I like it".  

 

Makes sense to me.

 

Head Coach makes way more in millions than being a WR coach, and is the face of the program.  The heart and soul of a program.

 

If you fail after 2-3-4 years, you get a sweet buyout.  You can then try somewhere else, or go back to being a WR coach someplace.  But you be super rich and taking care of your family for ever.

 

Any of you would do the same.  So let's put down the pitchforks with your assuming explanations.  Maybe Arizona State is interested?  Maybe some other universities are too?  But unfortunately, to some, he isn't worth it to coach Nebraska next year or ever, because the retreads are soooo much more experienced and better.  Whatever.

If Nebraska would have fired Frost at the end of last season would you have demanded that Nebraska go hire Mickey Joseph, a WR coach who wasn't retained by Brian Kelly to stay on his own staff at LSU? A place Mickey called home and coached on a championship team? A career position coach who has never made personnel decisions or called plays? 

Now pretend he never played at Nebraska. Do you even know who Mickey Joseph is? Yet, You want him for your Head Coach though.

There are many great guys in football who are great with the kids and can recruit. He isn't a unicorn. Is Mickey a great dude? Absolutely. Can he coach receivers? Damn right he can. How can he be the top choice in this search? Did you watch the Illinois game? What did he do in that game that you liked? Did you enjoy the second half of that game? I didn't. That was all on the coaching. Please change my mind. 

Wonder if Auburn has Mickey Joseph on their short list for HC 

8 minutes ago, 3gunhusker said:

Preparedness?  Did you watch the game?

I think that guy is trolling. No way he is serious. I love  Mickey but I can’t make a case for him.