Nebraska should be able to attract top candidates

[Eric the Red]

OWH: http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/in-search-for-bo-pelini-s-successor-at-nu-talent/article_d2957daf-0fc6-5a47-8fed-91f2ab104a08.html

 

"It’s been said that the head football coaching job at the University of Nebraska isn’t as attractive as it once was...Don’t believe it, say three college athletics consultants, a former coach-turned-TV analyst and two other network analysts."

 

LJS: http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/national-analyst-nu-still-one-of-the-best-jobs-around/article_cee8037c-f854-5fbb-8d1b-e9a1240b47ca.html

 

National analyst: NU still one of the best jobs around

 

[grandpasknee]

Well dang...I thought mine was one of the best jobs around.

[Glendower]

Yeah, it's weird how this meme gets started. The reasoning is very, very circular.

NU tries out some new coaches who lose in major ways on the field.

NU's prestige falls.

NU fires coach who was one of the causes of the fall in prestige.

Media goes crazy because they can't get a good coach because the prestige has fallen.

 

It's not like prestige of a university is something that just blows in on the wind-- it's built (and maintained) by the people running the program. There are these bizarre throw away excuses like "College football has changed since the 90s." I'm still not sure why that means that a great coach couldn't attract players to this school (Bo did!). There isn't anything innate about the state of Nebraska or the facilities at UNL that make a fall in prestige inevitable. This isn't weather we're talking about-- it's how a program is being run and by whom. It would be like saying, "Oh, the University of Nebraska Medical Center just can't compete anymore because they're in Nebraska and the medical field has changed since the 90s." It doesn't make any sense for anything, but for some reason, the fact that football is different than it was 15-20 years ago means that Nebraska can never have a high-performing program again. It's just a strange, baseless belief that people hold on to... it's almost like a superstition.

 

Football is always different than it was in previous decades. This is not some new thing-- it wasn't in a stasis between the 70s and the 90s; it is always evolving. Just like EVERYTHING! Friggin CORN is different than it was in the 90s. Football isn't magic or special in some way that means that it can change in such a way that it doesn't work at certain latitudes and longitudes any more. It's just something that gets said and repeated until it becomes a truism, so no one wants to defy it for fear of being told they don't know anything about college football.

[Hunter94]

$5 mil should get us our first choice, with the right incentives.

[Kernal]

If I were a top coach I would be beating down the door to come to Nebraska. Great facilities. Great tradition. Enormous fan support. Bottomless pockets. Managable division/conference schedule. (And a well-stocked cupboard of current players).

 

Anyone who thinks otherwise should be immediately removed from consideration. No more #9wins #GoodEnough coaches. No more excuses.