StPaulHusker Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I don't know what is true or not true about the hiring timeline but I will say this. His quote about Bielema is all I need to hear. Quote: “If he came here do you think we’d have much confidence he would stay?” Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH Perlman on Bielema: “If he came here do you think we’d have much confidence he would stay?” Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH Perlman on Bielema: “If he came here do you think we’d have much confidence he would stay?” Trying to steal my posts? Quote Link to comment
carlfense Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Or is it more believable that Eichorst had his man already locked up before he ever brought Bo into his office on 11/30/14? This makes far more sense. IMO it's far more likely that this was a 1 year coaching search than a 2-3 day search. All done well in advance . . . and very under the radar. Quote Link to comment
Igetbored216 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I don't care what the timeline says or show. I'm just glad as hell Bret is not the new HC. +1 If Harvey and RHA didn't like Bo's demeanor, how would they be okay with Bret's? Quote Link to comment
NUinID Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Wow Marvic didn't think you would feel that way about things. My feeling on Bret B is that he really was too much like BP to go after. I believe that we never offered. I don't have a hard time thinking that he only targeted Riley, I think Wisconsin took a hard look at him so he knew him coming into the situation. To me it sounds like you think he didn't do his homework. I think it is the opposite. I think he did a lot homework decided this is who he wanted and went after him. If Riley said no than move to second choice. Whether MR gets it done or not is to be seen, but I think it is a bold out of the box choice 1 Quote Link to comment
drmathprog Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH Perlman on Bielema: “If he came here do you think we’d have much confidence he would stay?” Trying to steal my posts? I hope this doesn't imply that Perlman wants only HC candidates that nobody would ever want. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 Again, I don't think Riley is a terrible hire. But when we knew this was coming for at least one year and probably several, were certain that's what we were doing for about a month then settle on a guy who's main selling point is other schools wanted him 12 years ago, he had some good seasons 8-10 years ago, he SHOULD do better at a bigger school and he's a nice guy, I'm not sure why we had to go for that four days after we fired our previous coach. Solid take on the situation, Mav. I'd say the four days was simply due diligence on our Administration's part. I agree that hiring a 61-year-old coach is odd, and there were seemingly better candidates out there. Perhaps hiring a man in the waning years of his career is part of a long-term plan? Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH Perlman on Bielema: “If he came here do you think we’d have much confidence he would stay?” Trying to steal my posts? Of course! It's how I stay relevant with today's youths. Quote Link to comment
cg_8 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH Perlman on Bielema: “If he came here do you think we’d have much confidence he would stay?” Trying to steal my posts? I hope this doesn't imply that Perlman wants only HC candidates that nobody would ever want. Considering BB ditched Wisconsin for Arkansas. Then after two years, ditched Arkansas for Nebraska. How long before he ditches us? That was my major red flag with BB. Quote Link to comment
Paul in WI Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Riley was on Alvarez's short list. It doesn't surprise me that he was on Eichorst's as well. I firmly believe that this was a done deal before Pelini was ever out the door. For obvious reasons, NU just had to make it look like it wasn't. When institutions are making strategic decisions on that level, they typically like to make damn sure of the outcome so they don't look stupid (especially after the Steve P debacle). Quote Link to comment
Ric Flair Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 If Rob Zatechka is right, I don't think Osborne comes out of that looking very good. If Perlman and Eichorst wanted to replace Pelini, that's their call. Going behind the scenes and getting boosters to threaten to cut off funding to the program to get his way seems very unlike TO. Quote Link to comment
74Hunter Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 As i said previously, if #2 is how it went and this was his #1 target, with all of the other candidates out there, we really need to be concerned with the direction of the program and university. Quote Link to comment
MasterPulverizer Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 As i said previously, if #2 is how it went and this was his #1 target, with all of the other candidates out there, we really need to be concerned with the direction of the program and university. There you go again. Quote Link to comment
papersun87 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 basically everything Football Scoop tweets this week has turned out to be not true. 2 Quote Link to comment
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