C N Red Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Nobody is going anywhere but...... I think Tom Herman would be good. Pretty damn amazing what he's done at Houston already. Offense like he ran at Ohio St. P.s. He likes running the ball and uses the QB very well. 2 Quote Link to comment
commando Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Cutcliffe (from Duke) would be a great hire IMO. He's done a great job at Duke in his tenure, and has made them relevant again. He took his team to the ropes with Northwestern. Think he would have been a great hire, though he might not want to leave with the program he is building there. It's also easier to coach at Duke because there's zero pressure relative to a school like Nebraska. Playing in a bowl game is a successful season for Duke; here, people will start discussing replacing you after losing three of your first five games. Not all coaches are cut out for that kind of pressure and scrutiny. to be fair....we didnt wait till 3 losses to start talking about firing him....there were many here calling for him to be fired after the first loss. Quote Link to comment
Kernal Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Cutcliffe (from Duke) would be a great hire IMO. He's done a great job at Duke in his tenure, and has made them relevant again. He took his team to the ropes with Northwestern. Think he would have been a great hire, though he might not want to leave with the program he is building there. It's also easier to coach at Duke because there's zero pressure relative to a school like Nebraska. Playing in a bowl game is a successful season for Duke; here, people will start discussing replacing you after losing three of your first five games. Not all coaches are cut out for that kind of pressure and scrutiny. to be fair....we didnt wait till 3 losses to start talking about firing him....there were many here calling for him to be fired after the first loss. That's true, and I almost wrote that. But the board really blew up after the Illinois game. The other things about Cutcliffe that people would complain about: he's 61, has had health problems, was fired from Ole Miss when he refused to change some of his staff after a 4-win season, started at Duke with five losing seasons before finally winning 10- and 9-games the last two years. Really, I don't see much difference in "resume" between he and Riley. Some people are in panic mode. It will change if the Huskers start winning their won games. A few people will continue banging the drum no matter what, but without a lot of other people giving them time they'll become mostly invisible. Quote Link to comment
74Hunter Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 it seems like only last year when we had Tressel in as head coach, Frost as OC, and Orgeron as DC. wonder how that worked out for us? Considering we have a chancellor who doesn't value a successful football program because it over shadows academics, he decided to hire a less than qualified hatchet man, I mean AD, to carry out his plan and get the last laugh in his pissing match with the former coach/AD, so we never got that dream team. And now we're paying for it. Man, the sock puppet trolled the crap out of us. 1 Quote Link to comment
MichiganDad3 Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Cutcliffe (from Duke) would be a great hire IMO. He's done a great job at Duke in his tenure, and has made them relevant again. He took his team to the ropes with Northwestern. Think he would have been a great hire, though he might not want to leave with the program he is building there. It's also easier to coach at Duke because there's zero pressure relative to a school like Nebraska. Playing in a bowl game is a successful season for Duke; here, people will start discussing replacing you after losing three of your first five games. Not all coaches are cut out for that kind of pressure and scrutiny. But this is the first time a coach has lost 3 of the first 5 games in over 50 years, so unless you are an incompetent coach you don't need to wory about it. Quote Link to comment
lo country Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 it seems like only last year when we had Tressel in as head coach, Frost as OC, and Orgeron as DC. wonder how that worked out for us? Man, I bought into all that. Bring back the sock puppet! Quote Link to comment
speedtoburn Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) From time to time I see people suggest that NU isn't what it once was and that no proven successful head coach would have taken the job. FWIW, I think Whittingham would have considered the job if offered and would have been a great hire that logically would have made a lot of sense.He was always my #1 (realistic) target so to speak but we'll never know. That's all, carry on and GBR. Edited October 7, 2015 by Thanks_Tom RR Merged because there is already a thread to discuss alternative coaching hires. Quote Link to comment
BoNeyard Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Really in hindsight any other coach that was younger than say 55 would be a great choice. Quote Link to comment
Kernal Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Cutcliffe (from Duke) would be a great hire IMO. He's done a great job at Duke in his tenure, and has made them relevant again. He took his team to the ropes with Northwestern. Think he would have been a great hire, though he might not want to leave with the program he is building there. It's also easier to coach at Duke because there's zero pressure relative to a school like Nebraska. Playing in a bowl game is a successful season for Duke; here, people will start discussing replacing you after losing three of your first five games. Not all coaches are cut out for that kind of pressure and scrutiny. But this is the first time a coach has lost 3 of the first 5 games in over 50 years, so unless you are an incompetent coach you don't need to wory about it. Is there some sort of special award for that? It's a meaningless statistic. This is also the first season we lost to BYU. Imagine that! No Husker football team has ever lost to BYU, but somehow Ol' Riley managed to do it in his first game! Quote Link to comment
San Diego Husker Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Even if we only win one more game, Mike Riley and Co will most likely last through at least next year. I don't necessarily feel that we should even be debating firing him 5 games into his 1st year. That being said, there are threads that are talking about it so hypothetically if he were fired between now and the end of the season, who do we go after? Keep in mind I'm just being hypothetical so there's no need to defend why Riley should not be fired on this thread. who would take the job? we consistently fire coaches who are 9-3 (understanding Bo's behavior got him canned as much as anything). At this point, the damage to the program may be such that a new coach would need 3 years to just be competitive with the good teams in this conference. Clearly we struggle with the middle tier teams. Quote Link to comment
GOAT Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Even if we only win one more game, Mike Riley and Co will most likely last through at least next year. I don't necessarily feel that we should even be debating firing him 5 games into his 1st year. That being said, there are threads that are talking about it so hypothetically if he were fired between now and the end of the season, who do we go after? Keep in mind I'm just being hypothetical so there's no need to defend why Riley should not be fired on this thread. who would take the job? we consistently fire coaches who are 9-3 (understanding Bo's behavior got him canned as much as anything). At this point, the damage to the program may be such that a new coach would need 3 years to just be competitive with the good teams in this conference. Clearly we struggle with the middle tier teams. It's this type of logic that totally baffles me. It's all about the almighty dollar. You throw enough $ at someone, they could care less about who was fired in the past. Any coach with any mettle will be confident in his abilities and not be concerned about what might happen if he fails, because failure isn't in his repertoire. 1 Quote Link to comment
San Diego Husker Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Even if we only win one more game, Mike Riley and Co will most likely last through at least next year. I don't necessarily feel that we should even be debating firing him 5 games into his 1st year. That being said, there are threads that are talking about it so hypothetically if he were fired between now and the end of the season, who do we go after? Keep in mind I'm just being hypothetical so there's no need to defend why Riley should not be fired on this thread. who would take the job? we consistently fire coaches who are 9-3 (understanding Bo's behavior got him canned as much as anything). At this point, the damage to the program may be such that a new coach would need 3 years to just be competitive with the good teams in this conference. Clearly we struggle with the middle tier teams. It's this type of logic that totally baffles me. It's all about the almighty dollar. You throw enough $ at someone, they could care less about who was fired in the past. Any coach with any mettle will be confident in his abilities and not be concerned about what might happen if he fails, because failure isn't in his repertoire. True it is about the $$. Any we can clearly find coaches with big enough egos to take the job. now find a really good/proven coach that would take this job over all other jobs. given two schools with exactly same finances and facilities, one is NU and the other in the SEC. The NU program appears to have problems getting the highest caliber of talent in the door the SEC school doesn't. both pay the same. which job do you take? My guess is that the coach goes to where they will win the soonest with the best talent pool. they go to the SEC. Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Wrong forum to discuss the Utah coach Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Wrong forum to discuss the Utah coach Seems like the correct forum to discuss the Utah coach at Nebraska... 1 Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Great thread choice. The discussion so far has been outstanding. Not sure what we would have done without this. It's not like we could discuss all possible coaches in one thread but rather is much better if everyone who has a fleeting thought would start a new topic. Quote Link to comment
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