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Purdy's ceiling may be higher than Smother's but what matters is what you do when the bullets are flying and Purdy has been incompetent the last two weeks. You can work around Smothers not having a big arm better than you can work around Purdy not being able to settle-down and hit the broad side of a barn.

Not really. Dude started having winning seasons back in 2016, which is a major achievement at a program where he has less to work with than any other P5 school in country. Took til 2021 to start competing for conference championships. Turnaround would be WAY quicker here. It's the transfer-portal and NIL era, he can get instant help here he couldn't at WF. He'd have much more to recruit to with our VASTLY superior stadium, facilities, and tradiiton. He'd have much more money/cache to optimize his staff with, our coaching would likely be up a notch from Wake's

I know his pressers would be legendary but I would not hire Pootie Tang to coach Nebraska.

No link needed, just living in reality. First, Sanders just doesn't have the resume, very unlikely Trev will think he's qualfied. Dude has two seasons coaching in FCS, and we're talking the SWAC here, not even like he coaches in the Missouri Valley against the better FCS teams. Second, hiring Sanders would piss-off WAY too many people with money and power. Why did Frost get another season when it was obvious Trev didn't really believe in the move? Because folks with stroke wanted to give Frost another season. The folks that keep the program flush are more important than ever in the NIL era and Trev needs a hire that will make a lot of them happy so the money keeps flowing. Third, it would be Trev's career on the line, if he makes this risky hire and it doesn't work-out he will not get to make another one. There's too much going against the move for it to happen.

Trev is not offering Deon in the first place AND I doubt Deon wants to come to Nebraska anyway. A job in his southeast stomping grounds will come calling sooner or later.

Was really disappointed by our tackling against Purdue. I hope we're really working on it with the extra prep time. Getting Reimers back should help.

If we're going with a guy of questionable resume I also would rather go with Mickey. When it comes to bringing kids to Nebraska I think he'd do fairly comparably to Neon. Mickey knows the landscape and culture here. Mickey would put in the ridiculous hours needed that Frost wouldn't. I like Mickey's demeanor and how he interacts with the kids, knows when to be supportive and when to be tough. Big thing I would want to know about Mick is who his staff would be, that's absolutely huge. There are several reasonable options I'd take before Mickey but with the right staff I can see Mickey working.

He has had winning seasons at Wake since 2016 and as I've repeatedly tried to explain it is a damn tough place to win at, everyone in their con is working with significantly more. Last guy to do anything there was wanted by TO, things hit a snag because Grobe wanted to bring his own guys in, and Grobe was coaching in a considerably inferior ACC to now. Nebraska is WAY easier to turn around. We can provide VASTLY superior facilities, a VASTLY superior stadium , VASTLY more money for his staffing and recruiting needs, and VASTLY more NIL money to get and keep talent here. Not to mention the transfer portal makes things easier now. Patience wouldn't be needed.

I really didn't like our defensive gameplan, it did feel like Chin's. Why was our best pass-rusher back covering a zone rather than trying to take O'Connell's head off? Purdue lacks explosiveness but they're well-coached, well-schemed, and have deadeye for a qb. This is not a team you just try to make nickel-and-dime you down the field, that's what they're good at doing. They picked-us apart and put together drives that kept our offense off the field. Didn't help obviously that tackling regressed to what we saw under Chin. Damn I wish Robinson hadn't whiffed on O'Connell on that 4th down, if he doesn't we could well have taken the game. Having Reimers out really hurt, dude was on-fire the previous two games. We REALLY need to use this time off to work on tackling. The Illinois game could easily get down to whether we're able to tackle Brown. He'll get his but we can't let him run roughshod. Should have Reimers back, should help. Hopefully Newsome is 100%, dude was getting absolutely abused against Purdue.

He built a conference champ at Bowling Green then after inheriting a garbage team at a VERY tough place to win at he's managed to build a winner at Wake Forest. You don't win in football at Wake unless you're a quality coach.

I'm sure I've said this in this thread before but I don't get why Dave Clawson's name doesn't come-up WAY WAY more. Wake Forest is a small college with G5-level stadium and facilities, building a winning program there is tough. We can at-minimum double his salary and staffing-budget. He should be one of our top targets.

Bill Callahan went to a Super Bowl and Larry Coker won a natty in their first years as head coaches after inheriting quality teams. Aranda did have an impressive first year but year-two he's probably doing no better than .500. Aranda is obviously a top-notch DC but as a HC I wouldn't say he's proven just yet. Wonder if we take Aranda does Grimes come along or get the Baylor HC job? That's Aranda's best guy. Would rather have the previous Baylor coach but I see Rhule enjoying his insane buyout and waiting for the perfect opportunity to come along.

Who said anything about Mike Farrell's dumb a$$? I sure didn't. Fact of the matter is Riley was a hot name his first stint at OSU, he went to the Rams and Ericksen did good things at OSU, Riley came back and started solidly then the last several years were meh. They were 5-7 his last year and overall dude was a career .500 coach. His best years were behind him and I said so at the time too.

He was underrated for a career .500 coach, big wow. Dude, had one good season out of his last five, look up the records. He was a north-of-60 coach obviously past his prime. Dude was not a hot coaching-search name when we hired him, thus a bunch of fans had to google who he even was.

Disagree that Riley was on lists like this, hadn't been a hot name in years. Oregon State was consistently mediocre and it looked like he was on the downward slide of his career, that's why he was such a surprise. Clawson coaches at a program that doesn't even really belong in a P5 conference. It's a small private school with G5-level stadium and facilities with little football tradition. What he's managed to do at Wake is impressive. He'd be a hell of a hire IMO. I think Doering or Klieman would be solid hires but I wouldn't be over the moon. Throw Campbell in that same camp. Out of those three I'd lean towards Klieman, with some ace recruiters and our NIL to give him more talent to work with could see him breaking through. Gundy I'd be stoked about but I'll believe it when I see it. He's used the coaching carousel to get a raise out of Okie State before. Agree about Whittingham, he'd certainly be a quality hire but he isn't leaving Utah.

Seems like he's found the right job. He's proven he can raise money for husker athletics. He's no boyscout but that fits the grey-area world of NIL, it is largely buying/paying-off players under the guise of them marketing themselves afterall.

He's got a good thing going at TCU and after his experience at Cal I think he well knows it. I don't see him leaving the Texas/Louisiana region again.

Definitely the actions of a guy that wants to jump right back into the fray and figures he has enough market value that taking less money but in a lump-sum is worth it. With the amount of turnover seen now can see him landing a decent HC job in the next couple months. As far as Chryst's old job goes rumor is it's Leonhard's to keep if he does a solid job for the rest of the season.

Pederson hire was pretty widely supported at the time. Eichorst was Perlman running-off and hiring a stooge while Osborne wasn't looking. We overpaid for a guy that was doing a meh job at Miami because he had Alvarez ties and would do what Perlman wanted.

We aren't Ohio State but we're fine on talent compared to the rest of the West. Plus the transfer portal can obviously be heavily worked, if you can attract players it's a new era in terms of turning a team around. Think a S&C update will help too. Under Riley S&C was halfassed, under Frost it's fullassed but we're working hard rather than smart. With the right staff in place we may well not be world-beaters out of the gate but we can have a winning season. From there we can build towards a team that plays on New Years.

Busch has considerable experience with safeties, seems more qualified to help us out there. I'd rather have Chin focus on how we're getting exploited and get to work on fixing it.

Trev should not only look at record but also our competition Let's be real, the West is not looking good, and we got the rare break of getting Rutgers and Indiana out of the East. Only Mich and OU are more talented. Plus Trev should look at what personnel moves MJ can make with the HC job and obviously compare all of this to whom Trev can hire from outside the program. In terms of the court of public opinion I'd say 5-4 gets MJ lauded for his efforts with some support for permanency. 6-3 gets a significant amount of the fanbase supporting he stay HC. 7-2 and the bulk want him hired.

I'm Joe Schmuck and could see this coming a mile away, how can Chin not?

I wouldn't put much stock in Davison's title, dude has mainly been a fund-raiser for the massive facilities upgrade and he's been quite effective at it. I doubt dude is going anywhere.

First game of the damn season and we're just waiting October for the buyout to go down, depressing.