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The 2008 squad also benefited from having a coach with the sense to keep the D off the field as much as possible.

I remember one of Callahan's favorite lines when asked about his players' performance toward the end: "It's completely correctable!" So, uhh... why isn't it being corrected?

I wonder if that was part of why we ended up with Moos: some candidates might prefer to finish the academic year at their current school, or at least the current semester. Green and Bounds wanted to have someone ready to replace Riley at the end of the regular season.

Well first of all, we'd have to have a rebuilding year. It's not a rebuilding year unless there's some actual building going on... Kansas City area.

Hell, your standard Husker red isn't really even scarlet...

How often do you see Nebraska stuff in an actual cream color, as opposed to plain white?

The jackass at bottom-left with a Wisconsin cap?

And that's one thing often pointed to as the downfall of guys like Les Miles: they fail to evolve their offenses, and their opponents start to pass them by. A lot was made of our historic coaching staff continuity, but if you look at guys like Saban and Meyer, they seem to almost embrace having new coordinators on a regular basis. They don't seem to care so much what kind of system their new coordinator hire has run in the past, as long as they're a good coach that gets results, and they can incorporate each other's ideas. Like they know and accept that if they're really hiring the best guys, it's probably just a matter of time before their assistants get a higher-up job elsewhere. The turnover keeps things fresh and evolving. But it's kinda one of those things where you have to ask: it works there, but would it work at Nebraska? Or are we better off keeping the continuity going and hoping that our coaches can evolve things themselves?

It often felt like as soon as one hole was plugged, another one sprang up. It's already started: https://huskercorner.com/2017/10/21/nebraska-football-darkhorse-dino-babers/ Just for fun, I looked up some SoS ratings for UCF and Wisconsin. They vary quite a bit from source to source, but the average of the four actually ends up being pretty close. UCF Wisconsin Sagarin 86 62 Team Rankings 59 60 Congrove 102 70 GBE 46 87 Average of 4 73.25 69.75 Sounds like the Bill Stewart -> Dana Holgorsen transition at West Virginia. It was forced, and it was ugly.

If you're not familiar, do some research on pre-WW2 Nebraska football. Bob Devaney was not the first great Cornhusker football coach. Rather, he was the one that revived the program after over twenty years in the darkness. (Demographics are a big part of collective memory - Baby Boomers grew up with Devaney, but by definition they're too young to remember the pre-WW2 era of Nebraska football.) Ewald O. Stiehm and Walter C. Booth had higher win percentages than Devaney and Osborne. Dana X. Bible coached Nebraska for eight seasons and won conference championships in six of them. Fielding H. Yost, Eddie N. Robinson, and Biff Jones are all College Football Hall of Fame coaches. It was when Biff Jones left to serve in WW2 that things went downhill for the Cornhuskers, and it didn't pick back up until Devaney was hired two decades later.

I don't think Osborne fixated on Pelini, unless by 'fixated', you mean what anybody does with the person they ultimately hire. Even before he'd fired Callahan, he'd made arrangements with a search firm and told them not to tell him the candidates until he'd made up his mind about BC.

See my thread in the Daily Skin forum.

Go back and read some articles from when Bryant first got here. Riley was totally gushing about Bryant, but it was all about his pass protection ability, not his ability to run the ball. That to me spoke volumes about how Riley really wanted to run his system - he'll give plenty of lip service to running the ball, but ultimately it's the passing game that really excites him, and to him the RB's most important job is to support that.

I suspect that if he'd been kept around, his ceiling would've been about like Bo's - generally pretty good, but never really great.

Not too many coaches at top programs get to retire on their own terms. Usually it's more like things go downhill, and then they 'retire'.

"I'd like to go back and replay particularly some of the early games -- just be a little better coach -- and see what that would've done for my career. Maybe nothing ..." - Mike Riley, probably

There was a group of 20 people that they sought input from. They didn't discuss any specific candidates, just about what they felt was important in an AD candidate. The group included volleyball player Briana Holman, ex-Huskers Eric Crouch and Jordan Burroughs (wrestling), volleyball coach John Cook, softball coach Rhonda Revelle and former football coach and Athletic Director Tom Osborne. http://www.omaha.com/huskers/rural-boy-bill-moos-who-oversaw-turnaround-at-washington-state/article_1870473a-b1d3-11e7-8423-67b618bf6f6d.html

I think you'd see Tanner Lee crying, since he transferred to get away from Fritz at Tulane.

Not to derail the thread, but speaking of trusting Eichorst to fire someone, I wonder how Bounds and Green feel about SE keeping Miles around?

I'ma go out on a limb and say there won't be as many of those posts if we don't hire another .500 coach. Are you familiar with Husker fans? TBH, I'd probably take Frost just because the potential for him being a long-term coach here is much higher. Callahan took us to a conference championship game in year 3... Don't forget his 'special' teams coordinator.

I've been to Florida once. Bowl game against South Carolina a few years ago. I was sitting by the corner of the end zone where that Hail Mary right before halftime was. Worst. State. Ever.

2007 Oklahoma State. "A lot of legroom in Memorial Stadium," as Matt Davison put it that day, and it was one of the few times I've ever turned off a Husker game. As Davision said, "It's not that they weren't being supportive of the team, it's that they were sick to their stomachs!"

Incidentally, I had to crop that picture because there was too much space on the left side. Maybe I should've left it in to match the title?

I like the new thread title.