So, the common narrative round these parts that are reticent to a change goes something like "you can't fire a 9 win coach". Often, this is followed with a "this isn't the 90's anymore".
Fortunately, this article covers both bases in assessing where we are in the Bo Pelini era.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/111092/old-debate-hard-decisions-face-nebraska
Notable quotables:
I think it's past time that argument gets a slug between the ears here. Here's a Espn writer saying that's garbage.
Consider,
We can put the lame "he has to clean house on his assistants" to bed too.
And one last one:
It's really unfortunate we have a coach who hates the big picture and falls back on the #9wins, then.
This also shows the crapstorm that ensued when Solich was axed isn't coming when Bo leaves. It seems they're wondering what took so long.