ESPN Best Coaching job poll

[UGAHusker]

You have to consider that it may be hard to fill the Nebraska vacancy because you have to live there/live in the weather, I mean, I'm wanting to kill myself in 40 degree weather and it was like, -12 in Lincoln on Saturday. Harder to generate interest when you're dealing with those winters.

[sd'sker]

You have to consider that it may be hard to fill the Nebraska vacancy because you have to live there/live in the weather, I mean, I'm wanting to kill myself in 40 degree weather and it was like, -12 on Saturday. Harder to generate interest when you're dealing with those winters.

not true, many capable polar bears have been sniffing around, wondering if BO would stay or go. also, all you have to pay them is salmon.

[junior4949]

I see the only bad thing about being the coach at Nebraska being the weather, but that is no worse than the rest of the midwest teams. Nebraska has a lot of funds that go through the football program (I think it was the 4th richest the last time they gaged these things, which was recently), and the coaches generally get a couple years before the fan base turns on them, and that's only if they lose more than they win. I'd like to be a coach at Nebraska because it's hard to think of a better culture that surrounds the program.

 

 

The only bad thing about Nebraska is the weather? How about being located smack dab in the middle of nowhere trying to convince recruits to come here when they could go to schools with warm weather, beaches, hot co-eds, etc.? There's already a thread here on Huskerboard about whether to give up the sellout streak for more to do in Lincoln and Omaha. If I were a high profile coach, the first job I'd run from is the Notre Dame job. They have the money and the fans, but they also have tough academic standards. It's no coincidence that none of the previous three coaches had a record there of winning 60% or more of the games. The next tier of run from jobs were Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, and Nebraska. The jobs I'd run to would be the Florida jobs, Georgia, LSU, Texas, and OU. If you want to recruit the best players, then having a college amongst them is great.

 

Since 1998, Ohio State is the only school to win a NC other than the schools listed as my run to schools. It doesn't mean other schools can't win the NC, but I do think it demonstrates where it is the easiest if you will to win a NC. Nick Saban could coach at lets say the University of Wyoming in Laramie. I think it's naive to believe he could turn them into a perennial contender because he just wouldn't be able to get the players up there. It's interesting how Les Miles jumped at the opportunity to leave all the T. Boone Pickens money at Okie State for LSU. Nebraska can and will win, but it won't be because we have better players than Texas, the Florida schools, USC, etc. We will win because of work ethic, coaching, and player development.

work ethic, coaching, and player development is what will give us the better players; we will have better players because of those facets. we had the best player in SUH and he did here what he never would have done at UT.

 

 

Let me rephrase then, better raw talent.