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I'm sorry - win/lose I am not going to excuse the behavior anymore. I was yelling at the TV while it was happening - before we'd lost the game. It's just no right to me. It's wasted effort. Pointless. Detrimental. I just can't agree with it. Maybe some can. I crossed that point sometime during the SC game.

 

What's weird is that you're doing here what you get mad at Bo for doing in the game. You are way overreacting to the situation with a wild analogy. You even admitted it when you said you knew plenty of people would disagree with you for that analogy. So how is your overreaction any different than Pelini's?

Mine isn't seen by 15 million people - and I don't represent the University/state?

So do as I say not as I do.

I'm sorry - win/lose I am not going to excuse the behavior anymore. I was yelling at the TV while it was happening - before we'd lost the game. It's just no right to me. It's wasted effort. Pointless. Detrimental. I just can't agree with it. Maybe some can. I crossed that point sometime during the SC game.

What's weird is that you're doing here what you get mad at Bo for doing in the game. You are way overreacting to the situation with a wild analogy. You even admitted it when you said you knew plenty of people would disagree with you for that analogy. So how is your overreaction any different than Pelini's?

you found an article (or really a blog) in support of Bo's sideline antics? That must have taken you half the night. "A" perspective from the outside = proper subtitle. It's certainly not the predominant opinion on the matter.

 

i'm w/ a few of you on here - if his "passion" inspires the players, motivates them, etc...then I'm all for it. But is that when his "passion" shows? Is that the "passion" people have an issue with? Or is it the "passion" he shows when adversity kicks him in the teeth? I'm going to go w/ the latter. You can say he's showing the players he's got their back - but that can be simply done w/ a quick "wasn't your fault kid" comment on the sidelines.

 

Unfortunately Bo's "passion" we discuss is rarely on display when we're winning, or leading a comeback drive, or just had a great defensive stand. No, this "passion" everyone supports is shown time and again after a bad call. This "passion" is rarely directed at players but instead the refs. Is he trying to motivate the refs too? This "passion" is also reserved for the media. In fact, this "passion" isn't passion at all - it's and emotional roller coaster that falls somewhere between anger and rage. Don't confuse that "passion" for the passion he shows towards his players. They are not one in the same. No one has a problem w/ passion - but some of us have a problem w/ Bo's sideline antics.

 

Calling it passion is excusing his issues, much in the same way calling it love is the way a wife excuses her husband's occasional beatings.

 

Bo getting pissed off at refs is in the same ballpark as an abused wife justifying spouse abuse. Way to go full retard, man.

 

I read so many things on here that yell lack of perspective, but this is just . I understand the point you're trying to make, but man are you way off in your effort. Same ballpark? I wouldnt call it the same country.

 

Anyway..

 

People want to criticize his behavior and so on and use it as an excuse (not a reason, and EXCUSE) for why this team is getting beat or things turn south. Here's some numbers. So many were so riled up after the bowl loss about us being 10-7 in our last 17 games. But think about this. Everybody knows Bo has tuned it down subtantially after the A&M game last year, and that's when this little skid began. Before that? We won 15 of 17, with Bo supposedly in excessive maniac mode. So it can be suggested that the team is better of with Bo acting the way he used to on an overall basis.

I don't think you meant to quote me did you? It seems like you're talking to kchusker-chris not me.

His bowl game referee chewing wasn't as bad as people are saying. If you think so then we're just going to have to agree to disagree. If you think he lost everything in one angry reaction to some really bad calls, you were never going to see it any different.

He lost me. I was a Bo supporter (still am in other regards), one of those people that thought he'd changed (or could change). I was seeing it different 10 weeks ago. I excused his behavior as passion. Tollerated it with the wins. Defended him as best I could. Not any more. He has no excuse IMO. It's not acceptable. It needs to change. It can't happen - and we can't be successful so long as it continues to. The margin for error is just too small. When you're a 25ish ranked team you can still get your 9 wins w/ that going against you. When you're a top 5 team...that might be the margin of difference in a game.

 

Now, don't confuse my opinion of this aspect of Bo...with my opinion of his coaching ability or fit for this program. I support Bo there, I want him to be here. I dont' agree w/ some of his staff decisions, and am strongly against his sideline tirades. But I like the guy as our coach. I just don't like being embarassed he's our coach once or twice a season.

Nick Saban does it and just won the championship. We are only having this discussion because we lost the bowl game. That is the perspective everyone lacks in the last few weeks. If we win that game we're not in panic mode not in blame everybody mode not in the world is coming to an end mode. You say Bo needs to change and he has changed. Instead of seventy explosions he had ten this year. But since we lost the game he exploded in last we get all the outrageousness of posts like these.

His bowl game referee chewing wasn't as bad as people are saying. If you think so then we're just going to have to agree to disagree. If you think he lost everything in one angry reaction to some really bad calls, you were never going to see it any different.

It adds to the discussion to equate a football coach reacting to BS calls to spousal abuse? There is a lot of room for criticism for Pelini and he makes it easy on people without having to go so far overboard in your comparison that you end up looking silly.

If you had read, I wasn't equating his outbursts to a man beating his wife. That's your words. I was equating a fan's use of passion as an excuse for Pelini's outburts, to a wife's use of love as a reason for her tolerance of abuse. Do you see it as much different? Both are slightly delusional, both twist the reality behind the event. The seriousness of the event is irrelevent.

Those are the same thing in my opinion. You have a point that Bo needs to calm down on the sidelines but you ignore that he has and that this year he was a different coach than before. You are reacting as if he just had an outburst like Texas A&M or Virginia Tech when he had a really calm year. There were a lot of times we were getting screwed on calls and Pelini did nothing. That doesn't seem to be making it into your equation and that makes it really hard to take you seriously.

It adds to the discussion to equate a football coach reacting to BS calls to spousal abuse? There is a lot of room for criticism for Pelini and he makes it easy on people without having to go so far overboard in your comparison that you end up looking silly.

Bill Callahan never wanted to come here in the first place and he isn't coming back here to celebrate the glory days of his coaching stint at Nebraska. What would we celebrate? The Alamo Bowl win? Purify in the end zone against A&M? The good times were few and far between under Callahan.

you found an article (or really a blog) in support of Bo's sideline antics? That must have taken you half the night. "A" perspective from the outside = proper subtitle. It's certainly not the predominant opinion on the matter.

 

i'm w/ a few of you on here - if his "passion" inspires the players, motivates them, etc...then I'm all for it. But is that when his "passion" shows? Is that the "passion" people have an issue with? Or is it the "passion" he shows when adversity kicks him in the teeth? I'm going to go w/ the latter. You can say he's showing the players he's got their back - but that can be simply done w/ a quick "wasn't your fault kid" comment on the sidelines.

 

Unfortunately Bo's "passion" we discuss is rarely on display when we're winning, or leading a comeback drive, or just had a great defensive stand. No, this "passion" everyone supports is shown time and again after a bad call. This "passion" is rarely directed at players but instead the refs. Is he trying to motivate the refs too? This "passion" is also reserved for the media. In fact, this "passion" isn't passion at all - it's and emotional roller coaster that falls somewhere between anger and rage. Don't confuse that "passion" for the passion he shows towards his players. They are not one in the same. No one has a problem w/ passion - but some of us have a problem w/ Bo's sideline antics.

 

Calling it passion is excusing his issues, much in the same way calling it love is the way a wife excuses her husband's occasional beatings.

Bo getting pissed off at refs is in the same ballpark as an abused wife justifying spouse abuse. Way to go full retard, man.

Your first sentence is pure retardation.

 

SP taking any reference to Frank away was stupid. As I said before I'm not a defender of SP. He totally botched Franks situation and screwed over the school, but that doen't hide the fact that Frank deserved to be canned.

 

And I'm sure they will give him an ovation, that's because we have a very dumb fan base that does't look at facts. Then you throw in arrogance in thinking that we are the best fans in the country on top of that and it gets worse. That's why I want to puke every time someone mentions that NU fans are "the best in college football" because this past decade proved otherwise.

With fans like these, who needs enemies?

I was down on the University of Texas campus today. I ran into a coach on that staff. I have known him for a few years. I have decided to become a Full Blown Texas Longhorn as of today. Screw Nebraska. They suck. The reason I am changing sides is because the coach influenced me and actually we are having dinner in Round Rock on Saturday night. So screw all of Nebraskas traditions and you fans that they call great. In fact cell phone flipping and calling Tom to tell him. That is all. Did not need 5 thousand paragraphs to tell you guys that.

You missed the boat on this one bub. You can't try to steal someone else's thunder this late in the game.

I have one question for all that think Bo is a good face for the program.

 

Why has he changed, why after every blow up, does he seem to calm it down even more?

 

I have two reasons I think it happens, could be one or both.

 

He has been counciled that his actions are inappropriate, buy Tom and Pearlman or he has embarassed himself and feels bad about the situation.

 

If those are the two reasons, and you guys may have more, but if they are it says that it is a problem.

 

Just want your thoughts, not trying to start world war 9 here.

I don't think it's right for any of us to respond without knowing how your wife feels about this first.

Yep, the sky is falling. Everyone panic.

None of this is happening if we win the bowl game. That's how "real" this huge, huge, huge, huge problem is that everyone is panicking about in this thread. If we win the bowl game this thread doesn't exist, people aren't quitting on the team and nobody is worried about how their friends talk about the team.

One half of bad football in a meaningless bowl game and we're gifted with an offseason of this.

Worst thread of the year candidate.

Brandon Kinnie doesn't like your NBA team. So you cry about it. And you do it publicly so everyone can see it.

If he's going to jump on the Alabama bandwagon, what's he going to do in five years when they have back to back season like they did in 2006 and 2007 where they lost seven games and then six games?

Can someone make me a sig? I want Calvin in his rocket that I have in my picture, but with lines going across like he's zooming along. Just on white background.

Anybody got time to do this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9jHYgLhJV4

Nobody wants to see your home movies, man.

If people were looking for the fair weather fans, here's one. When you are a fan of a team you stick with that team through the good times and the bad. You don't jump ship because you decide you don't like the coach or where the team is at today. You stick it out and wait for it to get better.

The funny thing is, it is better now. People keep posting stuff about how we are one of eight teams to be ranked each of the last three seasons, and one of six teams to win nine or more games in the last four seasons. If being in that company isn't good enough for you, then don't let the door hit your butt on the way out. And you won't be missed. You aren't that important to this team or the fan base. You are just one person.

The ideas embodied in the first post are exactly opposite of what the Huskers stand for. It isn't about wins or titles. Those just happened to come along the way. It has always been about making young men better, and playing good football came second.

Jason who? Had a nice run....trying to promote a book. Outside of Nebraska no one knows who he his. Support the program and leave it at that.

Like saying our greatest defense ever isn't as good as Alabama's defense? Got it.

If your not a blind following fing duck you are not a fan. Got it.

I figured it out. Your wife reads this thread, and the more you defend her, the more she makes it worth your while right? I see where this is going. Carry on with defending your wife. I hope you get some from all of this.

Congratulations on being a Tide fan.

I can't believe this thread has two pages of justification for some guy's wife's opinion of Bo Pelini.

Only 8.5 months until football starts.

tom died

Oh, NOOO! Tom DIED?

How can you take all the bias out of your answer when everyone responding will be a Husker fan?

Anyone else notice that he almost never comes back to post in the threads he starts? That's just weird.