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No But, I still don't get why we are not going after young head coaches that are proven winners at lower tier schools. I will still give Riley and co. time, just confused by the thought process in hiring.

8-4 is my pick, lose to Michigan State and Wisconsin. Riley inherited a pretty bad team from Bo and I don't believe Bo would have fared any better with this team. Let Riley get a few years to get his type of players on the field through recruiting and then we can better judge his performance.

Good read. http://www.cornnation.com/2015/9/21/9363423/corn-flakes-the-last-time-nebraska-was-1-2 Edit: Sorry, forgot the link.

Still way to early to tell but this reminds me of the Callahan era but as I said, still way to early to tell. And after watching GT run for nearly 500 yards, just keep on dreaming of the day we bring in a option coach and get back to our roots.

9-3 seems to be the agreement from SB Nation: What Will Nebraska's Win Total Be In 2015? http://www.cornnation.com/2015/8/4/9093527/what-will-nebraskas-win-total-be-in-2015

Marquel Dismuke Nebraska COMMITTED (06/15/2015)

Marquel Dismuke Nebraska COMMITTED (06/15/2015)

Riley hasn't even coached his first game for Nebraska and the negative nannies are out in force. And as for recruiting, lets see what Riley can bring us in '16 before we comment.

Was this posted? DE Alex Davis and S Antonio Reed Commit To Nebraska Sunday Morning http://www.cornnation.com/2015/2/1/7959433/alex-davis-antonio-reed-nebraska-football-recruiting-verbal-commitments

We made the ? category. Biggest winners and losers from the college football coaching carousel http://sports.yahoo.com/news/biggest-winners-and-losers-from-the-college-football-coaching-carousel-065221084-ncaaf.html

Why is it that everyone wants to hire a coach for tens of millions of dollars because that is the only way that we can become an elite program again? When LSU hired Nick Saban in 1999 (coming from Michigan State), I bet many LSU fans were not thrilled (like many on these boards) because he didn't have a national championship trophy under his belt; or when Urban Meyer was hired at Florida (coming from Utah) for the same reason. Why not give Riley a chance to prove himself before making an assumption that because he doesn't have a national championship at Oregon State (lol!) that he will automatically fail to bring one to Nebraska.

Hah, I was going to post that very same idea that with a 4 team playoff, the likelihood that the SEC would have came out on top all of those years would have been a lot less likely.

For Auburn it was "SEC fatigue". I guess the tough schedule they had playing big boys week after week...... I loved that being the reason the SEC was doing poorly but in years they win most of their bowl games it is due to their superior league.

I want to see competitive (no blow out losses or giving up 400+ yards rushing to one back), competent football with no sideline sideshows or off the field antics by the coach. A conference championship and football playoff in the first year might be asking a bit much but in the next three years I would hope to see that.

GT rushed for a Orange Bowl record 452 yards against a SEC team; the option can still work in college football but everyone jumped to the spread to run up the scores which sells more tickets. I for one would love to see us go back to running it with play action out of the pro set. The look on opposing teams defenses was classic when they knew what was coming and could not do anything to stop it.

They beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl last season, they would be nuts to fire him for one down year.

Ratings are one thing, actually playing to that level once in college is another. Could be that the player was not evaluated well or the coaching at the college level was the problem. For the record, I would love to have a few 5 stars come in every year, even one would be nice.

If this was posted before apologies, couldn't find any reference to it on the boards and wanted to share. From what I have researched, looks like Riley was able to beat him two times. "Note what Harbaugh said of Mike Riley in October of 2007, when Stanford was preparing to play Oregon State. "When you try to think of the top five people you know in this world, there's no doubt about it that Mike Riley is in that top five. He's just a tremendous person," Harbaugh said then, in this San Francisco Chronicle story. "Knowing coach Riley is knowing how well our team is going to have to be prepared to be in a position to compete with his ballclub."" http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/life-in-the-red/riley-harbaugh-have-a-history/article_7b9c340c-8faf-11e4-a82d-530cebc3b3f5.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/jim-harbaugh-reportedly-heading-to-michigan-141952911.html Thoughts if true?

Can I vote All of the Above?

I don't believe I've ever seen a head coach as childish as this in my life, perhaps some high school out there has one? Glad he's gone.

Any chance of landing him? http://www.sbnation.com/college-football-recruiting/2014/12/13/7388829/jarrett-stidham-decommits-texas-tech-red-raiders http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Jarrett-Stidham-151696

I agree with the conference champions (Big5) getting automatic bids. You could have a conference champion some year with 3 or 4 losses but they could actually be the best team in the country due to the difficulty of their conference (or they could suck and lose in the first round). You would have been completely fine in 2012 granting Wisconsin an automatic berth because they won the B1G despite being unranked? Point taken, but at the same time can you imagine a SEC where the conference champion might lose 3 games, be outside the top 8 but in all probability, be the best team in the country and win the national championship had they gotten in? I guess there simply is no foolproof method.

I agree with the conference champions (Big5) getting automatic bids. You could have a conference champion some year with 3 or 4 losses but they could actually be the best team in the country due to the difficulty of their conference (or they could suck and lose in the first round).

I am one that agrees with Troy, at the current 4 teams no team outside of the Big5 (maybe Notre Dame) will ever get in. I would prefer 8, not too watered down which 16 or more teams would do (and basically make the regular season worthless), but also enough to allow for the occasional Boise to slip in. Air Force coach Troy Calhoun says four-team playoff is 'un-American' http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/air-force-coach-troy-calhoun-says-four-team-playoff-is--un-american-221755992.html