At face value to an outsider, it seems somewhat ridiculous. A head coach who has won or shared three division titles in four season, narrowly lost two conference championship games, and won nine or more games in each of his four seasons being on the hot seat? Well, maybe not a "hot seat"...but it's definitely warming up. SBNation's Bill Connelly asks it point blank when he asks if merely being "
good isn't good enough
" at Nebraska. Tom Osborne's final five seasons set the bar high at Nebraska, and while nobody honestly expects anybody to ever go 60-3 over a five year period again, Husker fans are hungry for just a taste of that type of glory.
http://www.cornnation.com/2012/7/9/3147093/a-warming-seat-for-bo-pelini