Danny Bateman

No, it would be the right decision for the program moving forward. Nope. It will make us a joke, just like in 2003. And we'll get another sh**ty coach like Callahan. Live through 5-7 seasons, fire him, and get a coach like Bo that can take us to the promised land but because it takes longer than a few years we fire him after winning seasons. Then we get a sh**ty coach..... repeat ad infinitum.You realize Callahan and Bo are pretty much the same guy at this point, right? I'm guessing you didn't do well in math growing up. No worse than you at analogies. Some of us so not get that there are other ways of thinking of coaches outside the scope of wins and losses.

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No, it would be the right decision for the program moving forward. Nope. It will make us a joke, just like in 2003. And we'll get another sh**ty coach like Callahan. Live through 5-7 seasons, fire him, and get a coach like Bo that can take us to the promised land but because it takes longer than a few years we fire him after winning seasons. Then we get a sh**ty coach..... repeat ad infinitum. You realize Callahan and Bo are pretty much the same guy at this point, right?

By the numbers, we're closer to 11-1. The last two paragraphs are the stuff people use to argue we're closer to 7-5. He doesn't own those blowouts. He goes out and says the players didn't execute and didn't do what they were coached and then at the end of that rant says it's "on him."

This is right. If they're gonna do it, now is as good a time as any. Seven years in, the ceiling is clear. Nationally it is well known where it may not have been before. Hell, we even have nation wide analysts and writers asking if this is what Nebraska has settled for. It wouldn't be seen as a ludicrous move. As long as we have a plan for a replacement. If not, we may as well stay the course and Eichorst should force some staff changes. If Bo is not willing to at least compromise in that area, you begin to ask why his allegiance to his buddies on the staff overrides the success of this program. +∞

Or we are a few plays away from being 7-5 with losses to Iowa and McNeese St. I'm more worried about what I see than the outcome. The really funny part is that there were a lot of people that tried to say that McNeese State was a Div 2 juggernaut and that game wasn't as bad as it looked. Well they sit at 6-5 right now, so I would have to say that the kool aid drinkers were wrong on that one.At this point, I'm convinced Beck, in all his arrogance and hubris, thought he could use the McNeese game to try new things out in the passing game and didn't prep properly in the rush game leading up to that game.

Why would anyone replace Kaz with Pap as DL coach? Our DL is arguably the one position group that progressed as a whole this year.

Getting a migraine but feeling affirmed after looking at Bo's column. Nice work Landlord.

Yes! Let's set the program back another 9 years! You're right. Let's just bury our heads in the sand and go back to being happy about being new Iowa.

People who say change up the staff and bring the man back just don't get it. The problems are systemic. That means they start from the top down. He ain't changing jack about his system, even if he shuffles more yes men around. That means another year in effing football purgatory.

If we need Beck to get hired at KU if he's going to leave, we're more screwed than any of us realize. I'm tired of 3rd place division finishes with weak ass schedules being the norm. Might be acceptable for so me of the fan base who doesn't really give two spits about the direction of the program, but not me. Clean house and let's try again.

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I just hope whoever takes up the mantle next returns to just handing them out to the starters at the beginning of the year and is done with it.

Really nailed it with this post Guy. +1 I pared it down to what I care about most. Whatever offense you implement, if you want to be able to do anything with consistency (a trait this offense currently SORELY lacks... They're about as predictable as Charlie Sheen in the middle of a month long bender), you need the best offensive line play you can get. We've done very well recruiting OL during Bo's tenure, but all those stars haven't translated into good play on the field. Once again this year, we've had extremely subpar OL play with AA's ridiculous skills covering up just how poor it has been and instead making it seem passable. I pray whatever happens with the staff, we spare no expense in hiring the absolute best OL coach we can possibly procure. I'm tired of underdeveloped guys not maximizing their potential.

I expect Eichorst to feel the same as he did then. Bo isn't going anywhere. Shawn understands we're not going to win championships every year. This is his second season serving as Bo's boss and two winning seasons. For Pelini to save face IMO a full evaluation of his staff should be in order. I think you cut the weak links out. The coaches who are not on the same page up to this point and those who have made no improvements. I'm not going to point them out. It's pretty obvious which assistants need the pink slip. The question is whether Bo has the stones to make such a decision. It's realistic to think that we can't win championships every year. But with the schedule that Bo was afforded this year, a 8-4 or 9-3 record with a 3rd or 4th place division finish is inexcusable. We had 2013 built up for years in advance because the schedule was so soft. The schedule this year was very much the same. Bo has been given every resource imaginable and couldn't even give us a crack at the title game in either year. This record with this schedule is simply not meeting job expectations, IMO. The sad thing is that the rest of the nation WANTS to believe in us. When you look at the AP, Coaches, and CFP polls, we were nearing top ten all of them before the past two games. They see the talent on this team now, they remember the rich tradition and the dominant teams of ole. But Bo continues to curtail our potential. The blowout losses are frankly extremely embarrassing and further prolong a return to our rightful spot as a true power program by severely damaging our national perception. At this point you have maybe three or four assistants worth saving. Brown, Warren, Fisher, and Kaz are really the only ones who have pulled their weight. So you're talking about essentially gutting the staff, new coordinators for both sides, and who knows how they feel about wanting their own assistants or not. Also, you can tell Bo he needs a new DC, but he's so proud I guarantee you he's going to want to keep his system. So he's not going to want to go outside his coaching tree to get a proven, dynamic hire like Muschamp. Essentially we're probably going to be replacing Pap with another Pap to signal in the ad and bring Bo his coffee. I don't know that I buy replacing only a LB coach is going to fix the D. I also don't trust Bo to make necessary changes, so I expect us to be about the same distance from being a true blackshirts defense as we are this season... That is, too damn far away. My favorite analogy for the situation is a clunker car. If you have multiple parts that need replacing at once and it's an old, inefficient car, does it make more sense to keep putting new parts in it over and over or just get a new car?

Worked with Joe... he yells more than Bo. NO JOE! He learned from the best.

That's an interesting candidate, Dorn. Although I will say that LSU's QB development worries me a bit. They typically have an athlete running around playing QB with a cannon but very little in the way of touch or accuracy running around back there. Very similar to TA, actually. They are however a power running team, and with Cameron you'd know that getting bizarre or bipolar in our use of the running game wouldn't be a problem. We'll have to see how this shakes out though. Most think we're going with an offensive coach anyway so we'd probably implement his system.

Between Moiraine posting weiners in the Daily Skin forum and saying this, I think she needs to go. I'll second it. She is starting to be the female version of Polo. I don't know if it is right to classify Polo as entirely "male."

I will take you back behind the shed and slap you until it leaves marks. Don't make me. It hurts me more than it hurts you.

At least they don't run around bragging about sh!t that happened decades ago like it was last year At least they don't talk like they are superior in every way as a fanbase, claiming to be such good sports, then utterly failing to live that way. Let's face it. We suck. We are frustrated. But until our team shows up against a decent opponent, on the road, I think we should tone down the Iowa sucks talk. It just isn't true. 100% agree. Gets a bit embarrassing when you constantly talk s#it up until the point you get jacked right in the face - then want to call foul. Hate to break it to ya, fellow husker fans, but we have absolutely no reason to a) talk down Iowa or b) believe we have the ability to just stroll into Iowa City and win simply because we have a red N on our helmet - yesterday's game should illustrate this quite well. I'm gonna talk s*** to Iowa simply because their Iowa. My family lives there, so I feel like the banter between me as an NU fan and them is just a given. They're always a solid program that can give anybody a game, but they tend to lose 4-5 per year. I like to refer to them as consistently mediocre. We used to be at least a notch above that every year. The sad reality now, though, is the line between us and that is narrowing... in fact, we may already be there.

Weird footnote, but I think I saw the play during highlights that prompted this outburst. I'd be P***** off is I was Bo too. I really would. Cross was given the ball off tackle, met a defender, and tried to spin outside-to-inside to get around the guy. He didn't make it. #lowertheshoulder