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Sipple is so far beyond help at this point that he can only be viewed as humor.

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People are honestly still peddling the argument that a coach wouldn't want to come here because Bo won nine games and was fired?

Wow.

"Hey, I will pay you $4 million per year to coach kids playing a game. You will be in the top 0.001% of income in the history of the world."

"Sounds fantastic!"

"Oh, but in full disclosure: You will be expected to not get embarrassed multiple times every season by good teams, and you'll have to win the Big 10 championship at least once every 5-7 years."

"Are you $#%*@#* kidding me!? I can't deal with such outrageous expectations! Look elsewhere, you lunatic!"

Going to a bowl?

Saturday morning:

I remember when Ron Brown said "we don't run out of bounds at Nebraska." Well, we do now. It's just a symptom. We usually aren't the toughest team, mentally or physically, when we face quality teams.

Big money PR statements: 60 percent of the time, they're truthful every time.

Pelini avoids “beating guys down” with negative tones and harsh language.

...

 

“If I get after a kid, (later) I’ll walk up and put my arm around him and say, ‘You’re better than that, right? You know you’re better than that, right?’”

...

 

He says defensive coordinators shouldn't show panic, because their players will sense it and react accordingly.

http://journalstar.com/sports/football/college/steven-m-sipple-core-philosophies-guide-pelini/article_a3917946-a0ec-5ea7-9076-b8a93f5588b4.html

Bo in 2007:

“Our philosophy is to create a culture of swarming to the football — that’s the first thing we do,” he says. “I want opposing teams, when they’re watching film of us, to say, ‘Wow, how do they get those guys to play so hard?’”

Bo's players won't run through walls for him. A handful of them say they'll run through walls for him. In reality, they won't even play disciplined, physical football for him.

2011 Wisconsin and Michigan were the writing on the wall.

2012 Wisconsin sealed the deal for all but the ostriches.

I think it's moot, though. I expect there's no way we will do worse than 9-3, and I think 10-2 is still in the cards. I mean, it's Iowa you guys. And Minny.

 

Not sure if serious.

but W's are W's and it's going to look fine. 11-2 would actually be a pretty solid step forward.

It will only look fine to someone who wakes up from a year long coma and looks at the standings in the newspaper.

What were most people expecting out of Bo when he was hired?

1. Make the defense great again. Outside of two early years with outrageous talent, our defense has been mediocre. And on top of that, it has embarrassed itself in huge games on many occasions.

2. Win conference titles. Zero.

3. Compete for the national championship. Have never even been in the discussion headed into the conference title games.

4. Go to BCS bowl games. Zero.

5. Have top 10 finishes. Zero.

Wins against Minnesota and Iowa do not correct any of the above.

As I said in the status, this isn't an indictment on the players. I think you're crazy if you think Bo and his staff are stupid when it comes to scheme. But too often they can't get their guys to play. Not on the big stage. Not against Wisconsin. That's coaching, recruiting, and mentality. It's all on the coaches.

It's sad to say, but it is the scheme. Doesn't mean the players didn't err. Of course they did. But as C N said, there is a huge issue if one guy getting hooked leads to a 60-yard TD run on a basic running play.

The scheme came from the NFL and works with a bunch of disciplined NFL players against certain schemes. It doesn't work as a one-size-fits-all scheme.

Listen to this Sharp & Benning segment. "Backwards." "Recipe for disaster." "Why you let Wisconsin do to you what they wanted just boggles my mind."

 

Scott Shanle breaks down Huskers' D

Our D can break down just fine on its own, thanks.

Head Coach: We could probably get Moglia for 1.5 million, McElwain for 2 million or Wittingham for 3 million.

OC: I think Frost would come here for 700-800 thousand. Huge pay raise from what he's making now and a chance to start fresh in his home state. He's worked with some of the best offensive minds in football over the last 20 years. Plus he's a great recruiter.

DC: Would love to lure in a proven power five conference guy for 800 thousand or so, but more realistically we go for someone like Barry Odom who we could probably get for 400-500 thousand. He's already been looked at by a few big programs and his defenses at Memphis have gotten better every single year.

Almost like that time Bo said to the fans, "F*** you, fans. F*** all of you" and then the fans were like, "HEY! Who's the jerk that released this private audio! Let's hunt this big jerk down!"

Please bury all the Blackshirts in the grass practice field. Dig them up in some year when the defense resembles something like a great defense and contributes to this:

Why all the vague declarations about Frost and his relationship with the Nebraska administration? What did he do to piss everyone off? Surely it couldn't really be the the Stanford decision or the LP incident, which happened when Frost was 18 and 20 years old respectively.

So what was it? Unless there is some ongoing criminal investigation, why not just lay out the facts?

Tressel is in his early 60's

Snyder is 75 and one of the best three coaches in the country.

Tressel will never coach again.

He almost certainly will.

 

 

Bo looks at the big picture of course. He just doesn't analyze it for the public and he shouldn't.

 

There's plenty of criticism to go around without resorting to finding "gotcha" media moments.

 

Exactly.

 

That loss either speaks for itself, or it doesn't. You decide.

 

But like I said, if we go 10-2 & win a bowl game, it gets complicated for the administration. We know Bo's not going to win a conference title with his staff (and maybe not even with different staff), but firing a guy that goes 10-2 is intricately complicated.

 

Maybe he'll make it easier though and lose three straight to go 8-4. This'll be interesting.

 

 

the only way we're gonna know whether or not Bo's going to win a CCG is if we don't fire him!! We can't fire a coach who potentially goes 10-2 and say 'see i told you he wasn't ever going to win a conference championship'. If we clean house and get rid of the current staff and win a conference championship with a new HC, say in the next 5 to 7 years then you can say Bo wasn't able to accomplish that in that amount of time..

 

"You look at [the candidates'] individual strengths and then you look at what it appears the program needs, and the greatest concern to me was defense-- the ability to stop people." -Tom Osborne, introducing Bo Pelini on December 1, 2007.

Statistically, Bo has had two very good seasons defensively in seven years. Here are the top contributors to those teams. Players in bold play(ed) in the NFL and players in red started at least one NFL game.

2009 (Rankings: 7th total, 1st scoring), 10 NFL players.

Suh

Crick

Compton

Hagg

Gomes

Asante

Dennard

Prince

Dillard

Turner

Allen

Fisher

West

2010 (Rankings: 11th total, 9th scoring), 7 NFL Players

Crick

Dennard

David

Compton

Hagg

Prince

Gomes

Meredith

Steinkuhler

Moore

Allen

Cassidy

Thenarse

Here are the other five seasons:

2008 (Rankings: 55th total, 80th scoring)

2011 (Rankings: 40th total, 50th scoring)

2012 (Rankings: 35th total, 58th scoring)

2013 (Rankings: 40th total, 50th scoring)

2014 (Rankings: 41st total, 41st scoring)

In other words, the only time a Pelini defense broke the top 30 in either of the two important categories was when over half of his starting defenders were future NFL players. In the other five years, his average ranking was 42nd in total defense and 56th in scoring defense. His best in those five was 35th in total and 41st in scoring (this year, having faced only two top 40 offenses: MSU and Wisconsin).

Bo's average ranks with all seven seasons is: 33rd, 41st

Here are some other numbers for comparison.

Cosgrove:

2004 (Rankings: 56th total, 71st scoring)

2005 (Rankings: 26th total, 25th scoring)

2006 (Rankings: 56th total, 24th scoring)

2007 (Rankings: 112th total, 114th scoring)

Avg.: 63th, 59th

Bohl:

2000 (Rankings: 26th total, 26th scoring)

2001 (Rankings: 8th total, 6th scoring)

2002 (Rankings: 55th total, 45th scoring)

Avg.: 30th, 26th

Sipple's back on the boat:

Nebraska fans certainly deserve better than what they saw Saturday, from both the defense and offense. However, I do think this staff has shown it can produce a conference championship. It's consistently been in the hunt and twice came up just short (2009-10). Just a week or so ago, folks were talking about how NU was poised to move into the national top 10. Remember that?

How close have we been once we didn't have 4-5 future NFL guys (mostly Cally recruits) on the defense? In four years in the mediocre Big 10, we have appeared in ONE title game, and we lost in embarrassing fashion to the #2 team in the Leaders division.

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