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3 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

The only reason it would come prior is if it was Urban or Rhule

Or Petersen.

18 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

If it is someone like Rhule, who isn’t coaching now but we have locked up, I agree we’d be foolish not to name now.  The only concern is impact on the current staff and team, to which I could care less at this point. The positive of announcing now so the new guy can get ahead of recruiting would pay dividends moving forward

 

If Trev does has his guy and it is indeed Rhule, perhaps he’s waiting until we’re  officially not bowl eligible 

Yeah, it would actually be a really bad look to announce now, whoever it is (unless it was Mickey). You're just saying, "we're done with this year" with that announcement. Which we probably are, but your AD would/should never just come out and announce that publicly.

6 hours ago, chamrocck said:

https://www.cornnation.com/platform/amp/2022/11/6/23443176/nebraska-football-lost-its-last-dance-partner-yesterday-huskers-minnesota-news
 

woof

 

Hire big or go home.

Nah, man. Just hire Leipold. Good enough to get Kansas bowl eligible...good enough to get us bowl eligible.

29 minutes ago, admo said:

@ColoradoHusk  Excellent 

 

I agree that we need a football program rebuild.  If we do, we need to start all over, from scratch.  Throw in the towel.  Have a bon fire, toss in the uniforms and the past fuzzy feelings and burn it to the ground. 

 

That being said...

 

We have the new AD.  Great first step.  

 

The new AD fired a beloved coach that was unsuccessful.  It was tough to do.  The right thing to do.

 

What are the next steps though, to reinvent Nebraska's future?

 

Coaching for sure, including Strength and Conditioning.

 

But I would also change up the look of Nebraska in order to get us out of the past, and into a modern new look Nebraska.

 

White N with Red Helmet, all read uniforms, sea of red at home...... all white on road... incorporate some black.  

 

Point is that if we are going to rebuild Nebraska football and its image, we need to rebuild everything.  

 

I know it's ridiculous, but I just feel like we need to go in a completely new direction.  

Teams do it all the time. We’re way overdue. New facilities will help too.

17 minutes ago, HuskerNation1 said:

I like Chadwell and Calhoun.   Do we know if Chaldwell has been interviewed?

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.

16 hours ago, WWG1_we_GBR said:

Umm. Nike can't fix this dumpster fire. all the flashy uniforms and uni combos in the world (see, eg. Oregon) won't make a difference. Not the problem.

We can have Nike without having flashy uniforms and crazy combos. All blue bloods are Nike except us and ND. If we can even call ourselves that anymore.

16 minutes ago, Husker03 said:

86 passengers

Good. Just making sure it will hold enough cash.

12 hours ago, HuskerNation1 said:

We have a flight that just went from Lincoln to Jackson Mississippi...Jackson State?

 

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N90GS/history/20221105/2200Z/KLNK/KJAN

How big is the plane?

17 hours ago, chamrocck said:

I’m all in on Deion. He is the only one who can reset this. I don’t want retread O’Brien nor can’t beat a ranked team Rhule. Deion will be a P5 coach and his teams will always have players.  This is such the right time to grab him it is staring us right in the face. He’d keep MJ too. He is the only one that can make Lincoln a destination. We are living in the past and Deion is the only one who can bring us back to the future. It’s that simple. It’s not about will we win 6 games next year. It’s about a complete reset of the program’s relevancy. That alone is worth it even if he only manages .500 ball over the next 5 years.

We're not good enough for Deion.

1 hour ago, gorp512 said:

 

This isn't the SEC. They would surely get that amount of time to get 100 percent of their players in

 

see @cheekygeek’s post above

1 minute ago, gorp512 said:

Can we all agree this is not an overwhelmingly attractive cycle of coaches?

 

Any coach you hire that is not Mickey would need 4 years to get things on track. Mickey could reasonably be gone in 2 if it doesn't work out. Wait for more coaches to develop or shake loose over the next two years, the conference likely strengthens even more, the new facility is open. And we would not be debating taking guys from Kansas, Kentucky, and Army. 

No, we can not agree. The right coach does not need 4 years.

1 hour ago, cheekygeek said:

Many people commenting have still not figured out the new college football landscape. It is not just recruiting and player development any more. The N.I.L. and Transfer Portal mean that different metrics are now at play. It is now MUCH more like the NFL - which means recruiting must morph into basically being more like a General Manager who manages the salary cap (N.I.L. money) AND potential transfers (both outbound and inbound) - in addition to the traditional High School & Jr. College recruiting.

 

Mostly GONE are the days of getting kids in raw and expecting to have them for 4 or 5 years & kids waiting their turn to develop and maybe see the field as JRs and SRs. For a lot of programs it is now going to be a game of musical chairs, from year to year - identifying the biggest areas of need and attempting to fill them.

 

A college GM is going to need to figure out how to divvy up resources for the overall good of the team. A star QB transferring-in is only going to last as long as the O-Line assembled in front of him keeps him in one piece. The game of football starts on the O-Line & D-Line and they have been mostly after-thoughts around here for a while. 
 

I personally believe that THIS is what TA means when he says he wants a CEO coach. But if you look at the NFL model, very few programs succeeded with the HC ALSO serving as the GM. The best programs had great GMs who gave the HC & staff the best roster to work with and it was their job to scheme them up and find mismatches on game day.

 

With smart use of the N.I.L. plus smart use of the transfer portal a turnaround CAN happen fast - and I believe that includes Nebraska.

This might be the best post in this entire thread. You get it. Lane Kiffen gets it. Succesful coaches today get it. Let's hope Treve gets it too.

20 minutes ago, chamrocck said:

Let’s get Lane or Prime.  Auburn can get the leftovers. 

Hahaha seems to be the top 2 choices for sure. Assuming Urban isn’t couching again. But you’ll take mark liepold and you’ll like it /Nebraska

Y’all still talking about Rhule? I thought that was yesterday. What’s today?

I’m still holding out for the top two.

If we have to settle for #3 I’m great with that

41 minutes ago, BoSolich said:

Rhule is the biggest fraud. he didn't beat a single ranked team at baylor. he was a dumpster fire at carolina.

 

i'd take anyone else besides him.

50 minutes ago, knapplc said:

I had to be away from my computer most of the day yesterday and I'm way out of the loop. Can someone give me a quick rundown of what happened yesterday?

fify

We're getting a new head football coach. A bunch of internet people are entertained by debating our own thoughts about it. We have no say in the matter. What we think has zero impact on anything. Yet, here we still are. Get it? 

46 minutes ago, skeener said:

You should be thankful if it ends up Monken.

Shiiiiiiiiii…I won’t be thankful if it isn’t one of about 8 names. And Monken ain’t one of ‘em. Luckily, today’s flavor of the day name is though.

4 minutes ago, talaricohusker said:

Monken is another “who” like MR was when he was announced so no thank you

You mean when damn near every recruit in the country has to google his name? That’s not good?

30 minutes ago, HANC said:

Didn’t have many opportunities. When he did, they play basically top rated teams. Not like they were regularly losing to teams ranked low. Easy to make blanket statement, but a deeper dig puts a little light on it. 

Yeah, this is pretty damn solid given what he walked into. Those losses were to teams stacked with 4-5 star talent. He was probably playing with 1-2 star talent. He probably just didn't have the horses. Question is whether he would have eventually been able to get them.

3 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

These comments seem to be in conflict.     It seems to me that Rhule had to be one heck of a recruiter to get anyone to come to Baylor.  He must have been good enough to pull in guys that Aranda used to win a conference championship with. 

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.

7 minutes ago, sho said:

I don't think you understand how many players and recruits bailed during the Briles downfall.   Not sure I would say they had plenty of talent.  School had facilities, but a lot of funding was shifted to legal funds, not a lot left for the programs.   The program was in shambles, talks of shutting it down completely, had less than 10 recruits for the season, most of the players, if they had the talent, transferred.  It was a dumpster fire of epic proportions.   Navigating that, and being successful as quickly as they were, is a testament to how good of a coach Rhule is.

This is spot on how it all went. NCAA allowed the current players to transfer without sitting out a year (before the portal was a thing), so the good ones did. Plus he did it all with the possibility of suspension looming. Try selling your way out of that with recruits. I still don't know how the hell he did it. Or why he even took the job in the first place. I'd accuse him of cheating, but he did it all with a bunch of overlooked diamond in the rough type recruits.

12 minutes ago, Hagg said:

WRT Rhule's possibilities here, I'd be wondering every week if the sexual assault allegations (characterized as being "a portion of Baylor culture, apparently" by some) would rear it's head and be a distraction (for him and for some fans.. a lot of fans?). 

WTF? Rhule helped clean that mess up. He wasn’t part of the problem. He’s squeaky clean from everything I’ve ever seen.

21 minutes ago, huskerpower22 said:

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. 

What he did with Baylor given their situation was nothing short of a miracle. That said, his recruiting is a "find diamonds in the rough and develop them" type of approach from everything I've seen. His classes were largely pretty crappy from a ranking standpoint. But he got results with them. Or at least it seems. Might be perfect for Nebraska if we can't get a big time recruiter. The never beating a ranked team thing concerns me. He's also has never worked the portal or NIL which also concerns me. But, he would definitely be about as good as we can probably realistically hope for.

9 hours ago, krc1995 said:

I do get the nagging feeling that it’s Joseph and has been all along. I guess we will see within the month. 

If that were the case, what would be the upside to not announcing it by now? I can see zero upside to sitting on it. Am I missing something?