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2 hours ago, teachercd said:

Shoot, I would take Kelly faster than I scroll past @Mavric s posts.

lol

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/nebraska-a-d-bill-moos-says-no-decision-has-been/article_ae897ca6-c3e8-11e7-9e21-d3de7eba9e12.html

2 hours ago, Ziebol the Red said:

Why search when Jessica probably has it pulled up and ready to go?

Ziebol,

Are you in some way suggesting that Jessica and The Sock Puppet are lovers, and that they are sharing inside information, and posting it to the board?

13 minutes ago, jessica0 said:

 

Don't let speculation get the best of you. Just because media people didn't know who the AD was before it was announced doesn't mean it was a bad process. There were only two people who did the actual interviews so the chance for real leaks was minimized a great deal. None of the USA Today, CBS Sports, ESPN, etc, people knew who was actually hired. 

 

SE made an incompetent hire. 

 

 

Jessica,

I just want us to get this thing right, that's all I ask...that's all that so many of us ask.

I don't want A long time loyal assistant who has no HC experience or a A fired NFL coach who's players wanted to kill him the season before or A mediocre DC and certified nutball or A nice guy in his 60s with barely a .500 record and clear weak talent assessment skills.

We are up against a history of incompetence that is staggering. Maybe the better question here, is in spite of all the above, beyond a "feeling", what makes you think we will not bungle this situation like we have done with EVERY previous coach?

I don't know what to think at this point.

I was poking around a few different places, and came across some interesting information, none of which is necessarily credible, but appropriate for this area of HB. 

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Without getting into too many details out of respect for those who were also present to witness what I heard it appears the plan to get rid of Riley started even before Moos was hired (after Northern Illinois before Eichorst was canned).

I’m a big Frost fan and hope he will be the coach someday down the line but do feel there was somewhat of a sabotage to get Riley out. I can’t say for sure if Frost will take the job or not but can assume it is likely if certain metrics are met. I do know some talks have already been had. Please don’t get me wrong because I know Riley hasn’t helped his cause either.

I feel I’m stating the obvious however considering a verbal or written statement of even the slightest confidence was never provided regarding Riley and staff. Based on that it was only a matter of time before the recruiting class (the one Riley crutch he had) would go into disarray.

I do hope the next coaching hire works out because we seem to be putting a lot of eggs in one basket with this next coach, regardless of who it is.

Hopefully that offers a little something but Riley being gone is about 100% based on what I’ve heard and look for it to happen fairly quickly after the Iowa game.

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With all due respect, this is really not plausible.

No one knew how our season would unfold that early in the year....nor UCF's season. Not a knock on OP.....but whatever he heard sounds like a bit of a bar story.

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Sure it is because that is exactly what happened. It was never so much about our season as it was Scott Frost. Once he started hot and Green and Bounds got the word through back channels he'd come back, that was the focus. The NIU loss created the opportunity because it tilted the odds heavily in favor of us finishing with at least four losses, but more likely five.

And at that point it’s an easy sell to a portion of the fan base, regents, and boosters that never liked Riley from the start. Just fire the AD to fan the flames of uncertainty, have Hawks the money man get the OWH to start pumping out Frost the native son articles, and then watch the fire grow. Run out the West Coast guy to bring in a homegrown one who knows the Nebraska Way.

This type of stuff has been going on since the Bo era. Twice they stepped in to save him because he was a TO coach, and they never liked Eichorst for canning him and possibly tarnishing that legacy. You think it’s a coincidence that Lee Barfknecht wrote a series of very personal attacks on Eichorst over the last year? It’s not. It was all very well organized by the money men.

Ultimately Shawn deserved what he got because he waited far too long to can Miles and he let the major sports hang up mediocre records. But it was also a certainty that when he got clipped, his lone major coaching hire was going with him. So whether it was 8-4 this year or 5-7, it mattered not so long as Scott was coming home.

What’s sad, though, isn't that Riley will be fired. It’s that there were a ton of ways they could have executed it better while preserving the recruiting class and easing the transition. They also could have shot for the moon with a better coach than Frost. Instead, for the fourth straight coaching search we settled for less than the best, and we compounded that by handing Frost a s#!t sandwich for a recruiting class.

That type of administrative incompetence has become the true Nebraska Way.

 

Color me jaded...

Hate to say it, but I've seen nothing which makes me think we are going to right the ship.

the Moos hire has eery shade of the Riley hire, in that it was completely out of left field. For whatever reason, the leadership at our school continuously chooses to make head scratching hires at multiple levels. 

Instead of making moves to hire individuals that Conventional Wisdom says would have a good chance of succeeding, we make these oddball hires, and then the media machine that is the OWH, LJS, Et al. cranks up, and begins to construct a narrative to convince us all why Coach "X" or AD "Y" was a good hire despite many of us knowing in our gut that something smells. They use buzz words/phrases like "sneaky good hire", "under the radar", etc., etc

This is a pattern which repeats itself over, and over, and over. Rinse and repeat.

I don't know what to think about this whole coaching situation. I do know that in the absence of any verifiable detail, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, which makes me think that if Riley were going to fired, it would have happened already. I also don't believe that Eichorst was fired SOLELY because of Riley. Eichorst had many issues, Riley was just one of them, and the blowout loss was the  straw that broke the Camels back.

Whether you want Frost, Campbell, Patterson, Fuentes, whoever your dream candidate is. If Moos truly does intend to hire a new coach, and is playing a figurative Chess game right now, then he made a colossal stupid opening move by     Painting himself into a corner and saying no mid season coaching changes. IMO, he should have been decisive, fired Riley, and given his program the one month lead that Florida now has.

If I had to guess at this point, I think Riley is retained for another year.

Like i said, I expect us to go full "Nebraska", and figure out a way to screw this up. We will either retain Riley, or hire some candidate  out of left field that no one saw coming. It will be interesting to see what the narrative is this time...

31 minutes ago, famoustitles said:

Hahahaha

23 minutes ago, alwayshusking said:

It's over, let it go man.

This.

Move on OP, he's not the right man for the job, and never was. 

Acceptance.

What do you all think is the more impressive coaching job between what Frost has accomplished in year 2 at UCF vs. what Campbell has accomplished in year 2 at Iowa State?

2 hours ago, Football Guy Bob said:

Part of me wants Frost to go to like Tennessee or Florida, if those jobs open, just to see the meltdown from husk fans.

Savage.

lol

1 minute ago, Isle of View said:

10% off for anyone wearing Husker gear.

lol

1 minute ago, KingBlank said:

http://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings

 

 

lol

2 hours ago, Isle of View said:

If we beat Ohio State . . . I will set up a retail snow ski shop in hell staffed with flying pigs.

Will you offer discounts to Huskerboard members? =)

50 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

 Questions: So can NU compete wt the SEC group of schools that might be looking his way?  After all, loyalty only goes so far and we can't expect Frost to come here out of loyalty and a can of beans.  So what does NU need to offer to convince him to come here? Do we need to out bid every other school money wise or are there other intangibles that we can offer - such as  salaries for attracting the best DC and OC and staff?   Can we compete wt those schools?  And are we willing to do so.  By what we heard from the school leaders and the acting DA, I think we've finally faced the reality that we have to compete there first before we can compete on the field. 

 

From the article:

This off season, there could be plenty of SEC jobs available. The likes of Arkansas, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas A&M could all have vacancies.

They’d be wise not to whiff on Frost.

Yeah, to my way of thinking, this is the million dollar question. Have the leadership of our University gotten to the point where they understand that righting this ship is potentially going to require a serious investment way beyond what we've spent collectively up to this point? If so, and perhaps more importantly, are they comfortable with ACTUALLY doing so?

Expecting substantial success from a coach who you are only willing to pay 2-3 million dollars is just not going to work. If they are serious about this thing, then they are going to have to be willing to at least double that figure and possibly go beyond.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/frost-vacancy-sec-coveted-herman-2017/

This is a good read, and the author makes a good poInt about Frosts' experience on both sides of the ball.

If the opportunity is there,  and assuming Frost is interested, I really hope we don't let Frost be the one that got away so to speak.

The notion is laughable, and I don't see any remote chance of it happening, but if we do beat Ohio State, it would be classic Riley.

At Oregon State, he had this strange pattern of leading a string of clunkers, and bookending it with an inexplocable head scratching win against. Ranked team he had no business beating. He did this at USC's expense several times.

2 hours ago, jessica0 said:

 

Things are being run by the leadership right now. Heck, they are meeting with recruits on their officials before games and the following day. They are active and they want to win. I'm sure a final decision to fire Riley hasn't been made yet, but with the way things are going, and it will get ugly again on Saturday, that they pretty much already know the direction and are planning for it. 

 

I'm sure the leadership will be talking about Riley's status during the interview process. 

 

I really hope you're right.

He needs to resign, that's what he needs to do.

That will improve things.

Is this guy for real?

The D didn't get mauled, really??

Hahahahaha

1 hour ago, huskered17 said:

I guess we should be ready for OSU then. Problem solved.

And I was worried they would steam roll us.

 

GBR!!!

lol

47 minutes ago, jessica0 said:

Mike Riley will be fired. There is a post on Scout from a p oster that has connections to real insiders and that is the plan. 

 

Mike has not been told he will be fired but he knows he could get fired and is getting desperate not to get fired. Hence why he is now begging for more time. 

 

Riley has been a career failure everywhere he has gone and he will continue to have losing seasons at Nebraska. There is no point in keeping Riley around. Cut bait, deal with the impact, hire a new coach and move on with life. 

It's hard for me to believe the part about Riley's dismissal being a foregone conclusion, mainly because we haven't hired an AD yet.

I can't see the administration hiring an AD with the condition that he dismiss a coach. That just sounds strange, buy maybe not.

Good looking out, I was going to post something about this as well.

This joker (Riley), is absolutely clueless. Spewing the garbage he did yesterday is an absolute joke, he is in over his head and needs to gtfo so that we can get a coach who can give our program some actual hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The sooner we jettison this perennially average coach, the better. 

At at this point, many of us are simply tolerating Grandpa, and counting the days. Also, it would be nice if he released us from our contractual obligation(s) ala Andersen at OSU.

1 hour ago, bugeater17 said:

No kidding!

 

Speed- is the one place you've heard from one guy or have you /any others heard this elsewhere?

I have only heard it from the individual I referenced in my previous post, someone who works in the University of Nebraska system.

I am curious to know if there has been any similar talk/suggestions about Del Conte in the last 24-48 hours, that's why I posted the topic. 

5 minutes ago, Hayseed said:

Shouldn't this be in the rumor section? Why are you asking us if you know?

True (about this being in the Rumors section).

Can any Mod's out there move it for me? Thx.

6 minutes ago, lo country said:

Good success while AD at TCU.  Be interesting to see what happens. If Riley is fired, would Patterson follow him here?  Might that even be the plan.

 

To the original question, I have heard nothing.

 

Interesting times to be a Husker fan.

I'm not sure how far back you go in the Pedia days, but for what it's worth, the individual who told me this is the same individual who told me about the imminent firing on Callahan. If you recall, I posted that to the board about 4 days before TO made the announcement. I had actually known for a couple of days prior to that but went back and forth about whether or not to post anything on it before ultimately deciding to do so.

In this instance, I feel like we could all use some good news.

There are rumblings afoot that Chris Del Conte has accepted the AD gig in principle. If this is true; in so far as AD's are concerned, this would be a home run hire.

Here is his bio: http://www.gofrogs.com/genrel/delconte_chris00.html

Anyone else seeing/hearing talk of this anywhere?