If I had TO as my boss, I would've asked him for the blue print on how to be successful at Nebraska. I would've applied every tangible aspect to my football team. Bo had the greatest resource of them all and squandered it.
You don't know that he didn't make every attempt to do just that. It's possible he's just not capable of it. If you have a blueprint for making a nuclear power plant it doesn't mean you're not going to kill a crapton of people trying to make it.