JeffKinney87

This is about Iowa football?

I bolded the political commentary in the edit!

Rhule is his own downfall. He shouldn't allow that playcall in a critical situation.

I can't stand the Chicken Hawks, but could we please keep the football topics on the football board, and the politics in the politics board. I don't come to Huskerboard to read about people's stances on "racism".

Fair enough

I just have an unproven theory, like everyone else. Absolutely no proof that it would work, much less how it would be designed and executed, but I think relying on "luck" and "cleverness" isn't working. In my opinion Tom Osborne's system worked with a specialized offense, to slowly build a virtuous cycle...but who knows, I could have it bass akwards.

I was not there, but I do agree that he obviously got heat (I reference it in another post I was typing when you sent this). He was NOT mediocre in 1978, Bo was not mediocre in 2014. I think they had very similar career arcs, and I think Bo had the potential to be similar to Tom Osborne if given enough time. Obviously we will never know.

There is definitely evidence in that direction, but I don't know if I would call it strong evidence. If Osborne would have left NU for Colorado early in his career (due to his mediocrity obviously only getting 9 wins a year), and never had quite the success in Boulder than he had at Nebraska, due to the lack of resources or commitment to winning, we might be saying the same thing. I would say the strongest evidence we have is how similar Bo's tenure at Nebraska lines up with Tom Osborne's first years. I think the wake up call should be "We cannot continue to put successful coaches on the hot seat, because they don't immediately win Conference Championships or National Championships"

It doesn't take any revisions in understanding that Tom Osborne would fail to show any Conference Championships or Nattys at Nebraska during his first 6 years as well. Quoting the article above: "Osborne inherited a team that had won back-to-back national championships a year before his tenure started, and he didn’t coach a national title contender until 1982, his 10th season." "Osborne didn’t win an outright conference championship until his ninth season. He shared a conference title in his third season – but so did Pelini. In 2010, Nebraska finished the season tied for the Big 12’s best record, a feat that would have earned a league title in pre-conference championship game days."

That's reasonable, I just tend more to err on the side of Branch Rickey: "Luck is the residue of design" . I would rather have a plan and strategy, then rely on being "more clever or lucky". Even Alabama's population (not including adjacent states) is 2.5X Nebraska's population.

I think the whole "no wins of substance" and "9 wins is mediocrity" has been the main revisionist history that has been written this past decade or so. What Bo managed to do in his first several years, was and still is in my mind unprecedented. https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/tegler-pelini-s-record-stands-out-among-coaches-despite-fans-calling-for-his-firing/article_9fea7a20-5d75-11e3-9072-0019bb30f31a.html. You, however, are absolutely entitled to your opinion and standards. I hope for both of our sakes that we find a coach who can meet your expectations.

What?! If you think Bo's .709 winning percentage is bad, you have many many hard years of fandom ahead.

Hint: We are not talking so much about how good Callahan was, but how bad we are now.

Don't forget an occasional CCG too. When he was at NU, I absolutely despised him, crazy to think he is now the "good old days".

You may be right or you may be wrong, but I think the question left unanswered is how you get that O-line or D-line recruit to Nebraska? Right now, I don't care how good of a "recruiter" you bring in. At the end of the day if you have the greatest salesman in the world offering you a 1995 Blazer, or a piss poor salesman offering you a 2023 Cadillac, for the same price, everyone is taking the Cadillac. People also talk about how "winning" will bring recruits, but I've always thought that was a chicken or egg argument. I still stand by the fact that we need to offer something unique to recruits, given our small state population, lack of attractions, etc. I think that is really the only proven recipe that has worked here? Again, just my two cents.