Nebraska Alum

1 hour ago, moveitforward said:

Geesh - What ever happened to “we have great player talent, we just need a new coach?”

I do not remember anyone saying that. Mike Riley was a terrible coach and a horrible recruiter. It is going to take time for Frost to rebuild after the absolute disaster that was the "Riley era." Fans just need to be patient. 

It's obvious: Bo should have been kept until Frost was ready to become our head coach. Hiring Mike Riley was the biggest, stupidest mistake that this program ever made. Period. And that is why we are 0-3 this season...

Obviously we are in a very s#!tty situation right now, but a 1-3 Purdue team is definitely a beatable opponent at home. Hopefully our guys will have three wins by the end of October -- Northwestern and (of course) Bethune-Cookman are winnable games too.

I'd rather see us join the MAC or cancel football than go back to Texass' corrupt conference. Joining the Big Ten and hiring Scott Frost are the only two good things that have happened to Nebraska football in the 2010s.

On 8/17/2018 at 11:45 AM, Creed said:

Do you think ESPN intentionally tries to knock B1G programs via negative press to support its primary partner, the SEC?

Yes, there is no doubt about it. And it is very obvious why. The "Big Ten Network" is 51% owned by Fox (the ESPN empire's main competitor). Meanwhile, the so-called "SEC Network" is owned exclusively by ESPN. This is so laughably corrupt that it mirrors politics.

Riley is still an overpaid coach. Not much else to say about it.

Incredible season for Frost and UCF, very happy for them. Can't wait for next season.

Good. Scott Frost belongs in Lincoln, Nebraska and Mike Riley belongs in Corvallis, Oregon.

Bill Callahan is officially no longer Nebraska's worst, modern era coach. Let that thought sink in as we await the news of Riley's firing. Callahan won 55% of his games, while Riley only won 50%. Many of us here warned the day that Riley was hired that he would turn out exactly like that, but our warnings were ignored or scorned. Clearly, this program never should have fired Pelini after a 9-3 season, repeating the same idiotic mistake of firing Solich after going 9-3 in 2003. And now we have just suffered the consequences. &$@*!

Those timeouts proved that Mike Riley is not a nice man. A nice guy would not have let that dumpster fire of a game burn any longer than it needed to. Riley needs to be fired immediately. He should have been fired after the Northern Illinois game along with his boss.

4 hours ago, Thurston from Pender said:

The coaches are doing their best. Riley and his assistants didn’t come here to fail.

Hahahahahaha! Riley's losing record and "aww shucks" attitude is powerful evidence against your highly misguided line of thinking.

Shawn Eichorst was a terrible AD and an even worse parent. I'm very thankful that we fired him when we did. Hopefully his sick, evil son will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Riley will definitely be fired and will finish with a worse winning percentage than Callahan, making him the worst coach of the modern era. Everyone who supported him is to blame. Anyone who looked at his record at the day of his hiring should have seen this disaster coming.

He's gone. Sure, for the sake of argument, if he went 9-3 he probably would get another year just because we can't keep firing coaches after 9-3 seasons. However, he is obviously not going to make 9-3, which would involve going 8-1 in the last nine games (i.e. only losing to Ohio State or Penn State). We'll probably finish the regular season somewhere between 6-6 and 3-9... He's gone, folks.

On 9/19/2017 at 10:54 PM, Ostateman said:

Do you guys miss being in the Big 12?

Hahahaha, hell no! Dumping the whorns and joining the Big Ten has easily been Nebraska's biggest sports victory in the 21st century. I'd rather see us join the MAC than return to the Texas-10 conference.

Shawn Eichorst is the one person that needs to be fired more than Mike Riley. We definitely don't want that idiot hiring anyone else. Fire Eichorst. Find any random Nebraskan to replace him. Then bring in Scott Frost as the next head coach.

Not going to happen. We just gave up another 42 points and 566 yards to an unranked opponent. Best case scenario is 7-5 at the end of the regular season with losses to Ohio State, Wisconsin, Penn State, and Iowa. And I don't want to even think about what will happen if Tre Bryant is out for the season...

I was expecting us to go 7-5 in the regular season. Now I think 5-7 is more likely...

Wow, I hadn't paid much attention to Baylor's epic meltdown until I read up on it tonight. I found Art Brile's biography to be darkly ironic:

Beating Goliath: My Story of Football and Faith, by Art Briles.

 

Growing up in Rule, Texas, Art Briles learned at a young age the importance of hard work and faith from his parents. Soon that faith would be tested.

On their way to see him play in a college football game, Briles' parents and aunt died in a car crash. This event shaped Briles into the man he is today. His father, Dennis, left him with a series of lessons. He taught his son that the world doesn't just hand you things, you have to earn them. And he taught him the influence that faith could have in his life.

Briles put these lessons to work as a football coach, where he established his reputation for turning struggling teams into winners, from high school to the staff at Texas Tech to head coach at the University of Houston. Hired to coach Baylor in 2007, he was faced with a familiar task. Within three years, Briles led the Bears to their first bowl game in 15 years.

Today, he instills those same lessons into his young players, helping them find a reason to excel. There are plenty of excuses for failure but Briles surrounds himself with people who are fearless when it comes to chasing success. That is one of the many lessons he imparts to his readers in Beating Goliath, with chapters that include:

* God and the Teaching of Dennis Briles
* Finding Your Passion
* You Can Change Attitude, Not Talent
* Passing in the Land of Earl Campbell
* Everybody is a Captain

Filled with dramatic football stories and lessons learned, this book will inspire and entertain.

 

While anything is possible, I do not see Wisconsin losing at home to Minnesota this year. I'm pretty sure that they will win the West.

Wow someone is un-American

Well, I don’t think that anyone has to love the US government or its institutions (e.g. the military) to be a ‘true American.’ For instance, one of my ancestors fought against the United States during the Civil War because his father was murdered by a pro-Union paramilitary organization (the Jayhawkers). I don’t think he was ‘un-American’ just because he fought against the US Army.

 

 

At least we have finally heard the last of the Clintons; and we have a pretty good looking immigrant first lady (oh, the irony)

Yeah, that oughtta make up for the impending crises we have coming.

 

 

 

What Crises? avoiding WWIII with that sweet No Fly Zone in Syria and her calling Putin the "New Hitler"(obviously greasing the American people for another war just like Bush did with his rhetoric).

 

Exactly, WoodyHayes. If Hillary would have won and attacked the Russian military in Syria (as she promised) there would have been a nuclear war. No doubt about it. I'm very thankful that that evil old woman was defeated.

Bo Pelini's worst margin of defeat was 39 points in the 2012 Big Ten Championship game. Now Mike Riley's worst margin of defeat at Nebraska is 58 points. Discuss.

Tom Osborne did this constantly. I love my huskers, but truth is truth.

Exactly. Legendary coaches run up the score regularly because they can.

God, what a nightmare. Hope Tommy is okay.