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do you have normally worry about what other people "feel" or say about something to form an opinion?

I don't, and if the media local or nationally want to laugh or say he's a lunatic so be it, Bo is a real person and while not perfect it is nice to have someone who tells it like it is- did you buy into the hatchet job ABC did on TO back in 95 too?

People think for yourselves for a change

I agree, but like I said you can't prove a negative, so we're both right

A lot of you have good points but it seems to me that more than a few of you are still a little butt-hurt that Bo made that one statement about our "Fans" the fact that he was right doesn't seem to matter- if you leave before the game is complete you deserve to be called out, I think his comments were pretty mild

I am praying for the anti-Bo crowd to NOT show up next year so we can put to rest the sell out streak and that "Greatest Fans" BS

I predict the sell out streak will end next year and that will actually be a blessing for the program moving forward

I'm wondering how many on this board have actually played or coached football higher than a HS level

Since I can't prove a negative, you seem to be right- however if the regents wouldn't have clipped old Harv and Bo got fired I believe there was evidence that RG was going to leave

uh RG is going pro so forget about him "next year" thanks to Perlman

I thought we should look up the food chain to see if the problem starts at the top

The man has made more mistakes than a in a spelling bee, so I guess you know my answer to the question

Bo is a smart man- he has about eight million reasons to defecate on the floor on his way out- Did anyone of you who want Bo gone care to even listen to the players who week after week told you what a good man Bo is? that they'd run through walls for him- Kenny Bell said he'd be willing to fight Satan (Perlman) for Bo- so the guy is emotional, so he says what's on his mind, and calls out idiots - he doesn't suffer fools, and I like that, I guess old Harv will get some mealy mouth coach and then with the mealy mouthed AD he can be completely in charge- bully for him,

You guys (BO haters), along with Perlman will never get it, winning is obviously important, but its about more than winning, When we look for the national or local media to form our opinions, or worse, we kneel to them because of some sort of shame that they fabricate, then we have no spines and we need to added to the compost pile. The real story is, why is Harvey still our chancellor.

So called "fans" that keep saying that we're Nebraska we expect more, seriously need to examine the need to be so invested in a short term solution to a problem that is base on spurious reasons.

I remember one game where a QB named "Green" showed flashes of having "it" looking smooth and a born leader.....what happened to him?

this thread should be shot- way too many opinions dressed up as facts

I live in SoCal, drive a GMC Dually with Huskers accross the back window, normally wear a Nebraska tee shirt or sweatshirt. I get stopped like I said an average of once a week by another Nebraska fan. I live near Palm Springs, in the mountains above near Idyllwild. Both heavey tourist areas. When I work it is in the area of Temecula/Riverside and normally drive my own vehicle to work sites. So I cover a lot of ground, see a lot of people. I will say those that are dissatisfied out number the ones happy two to one.

 

California is the largest booster state as I understand it from Californians for Nebraska, so the thinking those people do not have an affect are contrary to your thoughts. When people stop sending money to the program and name the reason, it is heard, not so much at the beginning, but it is heard and the more that are unhappy the less the money comes in. I know, my wife will not send a penny until Bo is gone. Makes it hard for me, so just keep my mouth shut about Nebraska around here. lol

 

I must say that lately it has gone from what an embarassment Bo is on TV to not being prepared, lost in game settings and getting blown out in major games. Thenumber one question is. Do you think we are getting better?

 

As I have stated over and over, I think Bo has made tremendous progress on his image problems, and the reason for the blow outs are inexperienced coaches, from head to all assistants. That was caused when we hired him, not his fault by any means, but we could have done better and we should have. If he is let go, or leaves I hope we hire someone that knows how to be a head coach at the college lever, with years of experience. No more projects.

 

Again, I do not want him fired. I want him to do the job he was hired for, and do what he promised he would do. I know the recruiting the first year was in the tank when he took over, so I feel he deserves one more year at least to get his kids here. But if there are blow outs again next year I will most likely be done with Bo.

I'm glad you know the reasons we get blown out and the cause as well-

However, you'd be wrong in my opinion- I will say the reasons we get blown out is the other team scores 30+ more points than we do and it is because we either didn't score 30+ more or allowed 30+ more than we scored, also I feel Bo should be named imperial husker pooh-bah should he win 9-10 more games next season.

If Bo were to leave tomorrow I would actually be curious if the roster talent would be worse than what Callahan did when he got canned. Looking at recruiting classes etc it would appear Bo took over a talented roster. Would the hypothetical new coach have the same amount of talent Bo did when he took over?

 

I'm not saying I believe or do not believe this. Just curious on others thoughts?

We're better stocked on offense- better recievers, better backs- equal, maybe a little worse in the o line and QB, well we know what "stars" did for callahan at QB, other than a JC recruit callahan missed on all his QB's and left a lowly 3 star sitting on the bench untill he had no choice- as far as defense goes the only thing that callahan (blake) did was bring in Suh- Bo has been very unlucky with injuries on the defensive line.

Over-all i'd say a new coach would be in pretty good shape, but if the mom's basement crowd would JSTFU and play their video games, we wouldn't be talking about any of this

yeah, Pierre Allen, Phillip Dillard, Barry Turner, Zack Potter, Zach Bowman, Larry Asante, Ricky Thenerse, Jared Crick, Eric Hagg, Baker Steinkuhler, Cameron Meredith, and Prince Amukamara were all washouts recruited by Callahan that never amounted to crap (sarcasm)

One could make a case for Bo's staff making coaching up a two of those players- ie Hagg-Prince were only 3 stars out of HS- Baker, Potter, and Jared would've come to NU no matter who was coaching- anyway I guess the other few were good players sort of like what Bo has been recruiting one defense.

If Bo were to leave tomorrow I would actually be curious if the roster talent would be worse than what Callahan did when he got canned. Looking at recruiting classes etc it would appear Bo took over a talented roster. Would the hypothetical new coach have the same amount of talent Bo did when he took over?

 

I'm not saying I believe or do not believe this. Just curious on others thoughts?

We're better stocked on offense- better recievers, better backs- equal, maybe a little worse in the o line and QB, well we know what "stars" did for callahan at QB, other than a JC recruit callahan missed on all his QB's and left a lowly 3 star sitting on the bench untill he had no choice- as far as defense goes the only thing that callahan (blake) did was bring in Suh- Bo has been very unlucky with injuries on the defensive line.

Over-all i'd say a new coach would be in pretty good shape, but if the mom's basement crowd would JSTFU and play their video games, we wouldn't be talking about any of this

Next year if there are blow out losses to quality teams, I will be done saying we need to keep him. Bringing in unexperienced head coach was the worst thing we could have done. We are suffering for it now, and the question is how long does it take for Bo to learn exactly what he needs to do. Others have hired new coaches with experience and seem to have moved ahead of us very quickly or brought their team up.

 

I am hoping our problems are being corrected in the recruiting department, that is what we need to make a lot better, or at least try and make up for the two years we did not do so well.

 

This job should not be an on the job training site, truly for any reason. GA's are for that, not the whole staff. But it is what we have, and I am hoping that what you said is correct. There will come a day when we are more than competent and we really start moving forward. I just do not see it now.

wrong- we already did the worst thing prior to Bo- hired callahan

"Bo isn’t good enough to get over the hump. He isn't bad enough to fire. Nebraska is stuck in purgatory."

 

As awful as it to say this, these three sentences sum up our current situation perfectly.

 

The rest of the article here.

 

Totally agree...things will have to change if Nebraska ever wants to contend for a NC again....Bo will not get us there.

Said another debbie downer nebraska fan

they're everwhere

yep them and the ahole from the OWH will cause recruits to decommit- count on it- if you don't think other schools use this negative crap against us, well you probably believe callahan was just "miss-understood" and a real fine coach

"Bo isn’t good enough to get over the hump. He isn't bad enough to fire. Nebraska is stuck in purgatory."

 

As awful as it to say this, these three sentences sum up our current situation perfectly.

 

The rest of the article here.

 

Totally agree...things will have to change if Nebraska ever wants to contend for a NC again....Bo will not get us there.

Said another debbie downer nebraska fan

I think most people have gotten numb about expectations since we haven't won a conference in more than 10 years. We only won the Big 12 twice. I wouldn't expect us to always win the conference but i don't see why every year we can't contend for it. I'm with you that expectations have gotten too low for a lot of posters and as long as we win 9-10 games and go to a bowl they seem content. That would be ok for a school that hasn't won national titles a lot or even wins the conference but at a school that has 5 national titles the stakes are much higher for the coaches to perform and specially since all the coaches will be compared to TO.

 

The reason most of us are still a little butthurt is the fact that we played the third best team from the other division and just got taken behind the shed and abused over and over again. This was our best chance to win a conference championship in a long time and possibly in the near future. I have a gut feeling Meyer is going to be Bo's Switzer to TO.

 

You know why Wisconsin won? they play power football and they mixed it up with some trickery. We play finesse football and when things aren't going well then that's why we get the ass kickings we do. Power football is what top teams run. They never give up on the run, they wear down most opponents, they give their defense a breather, they rarely get blown out. hmm.... i remember US running this during the 90's and during the 09 and 10 seasons. Those two seasons under Bo were the most succcessful he's had. Also Martinez seemed to break long runs 2-4 times a game then more than once a game now. Mabye Bo needs to go back to the offense scheme that got him were he his today and why we thought better days were ahead of us at the point in time.

Oregon is a power running team?

tOSU?

I could go on a bit - I think when Burkhead was healthy, he ran a bit of "power" and since you didn't clearly define power, I'd like to challenge the term as well as another one people here seem to be using- "finesse" is finesse defined as a few QB read option plays? or is it a Tighend finding a soft spot in the middle of the field in zone cover? not sure other than a little blocking that might be called finesse in nature, how we've become a "finesse" offense.

Wisconsin won because they ran to the corners, with some mis-direction, and having had 3 weeks to look over film from the OSU and to some extent the UCLA games, it was only when we "adjusted" to the 7 man lines and off-tackle runs, did they have any sucess in their, as you call it, "power" game- which I guess, you'd call runs between the tackles

Bo can't recruit or coach and is a big meanie- we need callahan back wah wah wah

God it's hard to be a fan of Nebraska

I just still dont understand this entitled attitude. Does anyone think that maybe this is just where our program is, and could be for a long time? Sure many dont want to settle for that, but I guess I'm one that doesnt want to risk what success we do have in a blind attempt to make it better, because we as a fanbase have this generalized notion that we "deserve better". That elitest thinking is what helped to send this program down the crapper 10 years ago to begin with. I personally believe we are fortunate to have had as good as it has been under Bo. I'm not understanding all the angst I guess because I am comfortable admitting that we probably will never win another National Championship again. The logistics of college football is just not going to allow it for us. I hope I'm wrong just like anyone else. We are hungry for the dominant days again that we forget that that run was the lightning in a bottle not these days of 9-10 wins.

 

It's not entitlement to expect Nebraska to be a top 10 program, it's pride.

 

The article was spot on. We are in a stalemate and Bo has to find a way to get the program progressing again. Bo's not wrong when he says it's a process, but right now his process is stuck in an infinite loop.

the article was written by a hack and the premise is crap- how many times do people need to be told that Bo is doing things the way TO did them, to understand he needs people to support him.... and if people like dick Shatonmyland would crawl back into the anus he was deposited into the world from, we'll have a better shot at keeping Bo so maybe he can have his "Miami" moment too

 

I think you're predisposed to dislike Dirk. I live in MN so I don't read the LJS or OWH as often as I would like to, so I really don't know if the guy is a hack or not. But this article was aimed dead-center. Bo is at a crossroads and has a lot of really tough decisions to make over the offseason.

of course i'm " predisposed" to dislike dick diggler- he;s a richard head about ANYTHING he writes about Bo- and that wasn't some sort of insightful article he wrote- The OWH should be firebombed for allowing dick diggler to work there- the little dweeb- BTW what was your first clue that I'm predisposed to wanting Dirk to ESAD?

Who was Oklahoma's coach before Stoops?

 

John Blake. One of if not the best recruiter the sport has ever seen. He lined up 3 years of top recruting classes for Stoops when he took over.

 

Also talking about Saban and Meyer, it's easy to turn around a program with very good coaching into a juggernaut overnight when you have that top notch talent in your backyard. I'm sorry, but recruiting for those guys is down there is 100 times easier than it is here. It's just the way it is.

you still have not explained why it is hard to recruit in nevada. i think that was his point.

 

also, stoops declined and is now stagnant since his first 3 yrs.

I'll explain it- it's called being a traditional power with a stadium of over 70k seating and being in a real BCS league-

come on folks let's get real

Haha that team won as many as Bo and lost 2 fewer. Ended up nationally ranked still and didn't lose to a 7-5 team. As many have said we cannot compare the past to the present as it is completely different. Both sides continue to try to use the past while the other side says it doesn't apply and is "apples to oranges"

 

We also need to stop comparing Bo to TO. It is insulting to TO at this point in time and that can only change is Bo grows as a HC. I hope he does as it means we will jump the 4 loss hump and get a Conf Championship.

 

Good football teams can get beat. That is why the games are played. Lets just stop comparing the past to the present.

uhh ok then the "I love" callahan nitwits can stop with the recruiting comparisons too-

Although, I think TO wouldn't mind the comparisons to his situation in time when the fan base almost ran him out of town- sort of the same thing that seems to be going on right now with Bo

I just still dont understand this entitled attitude. Does anyone think that maybe this is just where our program is, and could be for a long time? Sure many dont want to settle for that, but I guess I'm one that doesnt want to risk what success we do have in a blind attempt to make it better, because we as a fanbase have this generalized notion that we "deserve better". That elitest thinking is what helped to send this program down the crapper 10 years ago to begin with. I personally believe we are fortunate to have had as good as it has been under Bo. I'm not understanding all the angst I guess because I am comfortable admitting that we probably will never win another National Championship again. The logistics of college football is just not going to allow it for us. I hope I'm wrong just like anyone else. We are hungry for the dominant days again that we forget that that run was the lightning in a bottle not these days of 9-10 wins.

 

It's not entitlement to expect Nebraska to be a top 10 program, it's pride.

 

The article was spot on. We are in a stalemate and Bo has to find a way to get the program progressing again. Bo's not wrong when he says it's a process, but right now his process is stuck in an infinite loop.

the article was written by a hack and the premise is crap- how many times do people need to be told that Bo is doing things the way TO did them, to understand he needs people to support him.... and if people like dick Shatonmyland would crawl back into the anus he was deposited into the world from, we'll have a better shot at keeping Bo so maybe he can have his "Miami" moment too

Bo doesn't recruit 5 star players like callahan did, Bo sucks

hmmmm a man with thought and perspective- are you sure you're a Nebraska fan?