Good Blurb in USAToday

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6. Nebraska is paying for a bad hire: Mike Riley is a good guy and a good coach, but he wasn’t the right hire for Nebraska. As schools tend to do when they don’t like the coach they fired, they went for the complete opposite, trading the high-strung and often abrasive Bo Pelini for the quintessential laid-back, West Coast good guy. At this point in Riley’s tenure, Nebraska should be better. Forget changing the culture or changing offensive systems or whatever excuse you want to use. You can’t lose at home to Northern Illinois in Year 3, as the Cornhuskers did Saturday, 21-17. Even worse, Nebraska didn’t exactly look like the superior team at the line of scrimmage in the fourth quarter. Pelini may not have endeared himself to a lot of people in Lincoln, but even his worst was better than this. If you’re a Nebraska administrator, you have to be very concerned about the direction this program is heading.