Mavric Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Quote Pick your favorite target for Saturday’s loss, Husker fans. I’m pointing the finger at The Pelini Curse. I’m kidding (mostly). Bo took a lot of flack for Mike Riley’s failures. He surely doesn’t bear the burden for Nebraska’s second-half meltdown in Boulder. But man, sometimes I look at the Huskers’ late-game failures and wonder what kind of deal Shawn Eichorst struck with the devil five years ago. Remember Black Friday 2014 in Iowa City. Pelini’s Huskers rallied from 17 down in the third quarter (sound familiar?), pushing the game to overtime at 31-31 (ahem), held Iowa to a field goal (ahem) and won it with a subsequent touchdown, 37-34. Two days later, Eichorst fired Pelini. We can argue all day about the wisdom of that decision, but that’s not the point here. I bring it up because of a head-spinning shift in the program since then. Patterns have flipped. OWH ($) Quote Link to comment
Huskers93-97 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Is the firing of Frank Solich actually our version of the "Curse of the Great Bambino" up in Boston. Dear god dont let us go like 100 years. 5 Quote Link to comment
Undone Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 If we can load up our offensive line room with recruits like Benhart & Banks and we get guys like that into a culture of weightlifting 12 months a year...and then combine that with skill player recruiting of the likes of Martinez, Washington, and Wan'Dale, we're going to have a good program again. Expectations of being great in year two are really shining through. Thing is, the season's just begun. 4 Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Bo's teams from 2012-2014 went something like 10-2 in one score games. We were bound to revert back to a median on that but holy s#!t it's been painful. 1 Quote Link to comment
CapoValley Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 13 minutes ago, Undone said: If we can load up our offensive line room with recruits like Benhart & Banks and we get guys like that into a culture of weightlifting 12 months a year...and then combine that with skill player recruiting of the likes of Martinez, Washington, and Wan'Dale, we're going to have a good program again. Expectations of being great in year two are really shining through. Thing is, the season's just begun. I don’t disagree with you about getting our S/C program to a very high level and instilling that culture, but I don’t think we need multiple years to build a unit considering many elite teams have true freshman and sophomores playing and contributing. As as an example, look at Bama. There are 19 freshmen and sophomores on the two deep, including three true freshman starters in the defense 1 Quote Link to comment
OH HSKR FAN Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Bo got a lot of breaks. A generational player in Suh, a Hail Mary, week schedules, opponents in transition, etc. His tenure looks a lot different and possibly shorter otherwise. 2 Quote Link to comment
OH HSKR FAN Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 1 minute ago, CapoValley said: I don’t disagree with you about getting our S/C program to a very high level and instilling that culture, but I don’t think we need multiple years to build a unit considering many elite teams have true freshman and sophomores playing and contributing. As as an example, look at Bama. There are 19 freshmen and sophomores on the two deep, including three true freshman starters in the defense Bama gets hammered every year by early entrants to the NFL. That may have something to do with it. 1 Quote Link to comment
Undone Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 1 minute ago, CapoValley said: As as an example, look at Bama. There are 19 freshmen and sophomores on the two deep, including three true freshman starters in the defense What do you mean, "look at Bama?" Ok, I'm looking at the most dominant program in the last 20 years who is lead by arguably the best coach of the last 20 years who's been there running the same system since 2007. What could possibly be the takeaway there as it pertains to our situation of a program that just cleaned house and is in year 2 after taking over from an absolute dumpster fire? 2 1 Quote Link to comment
CapoValley Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Just now, Undone said: What do you mean, "look at Bama?" Ok, I'm looking at the most dominant program in the last 20 years who is lead by arguably the best coach of the last 20 years who's been there running the same system since 2007. What could possibly be the takeaway there as it pertains to our situation of a program that just cleaned house and is in year 2 after taking over from an absolute dumpster fire? That you need elite recruiting AND S/C. And that if you find the right recruits, they can contribute right away. Like Martinez last year Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 4 minutes ago, Undone said: What could possibly be the takeaway there as it pertains to our situation of a program that just cleaned house and is in year 2 after taking over from an absolute dumpster fire? What did Bama do in Saban year 2 after taking over from an absolute dumpster fire? 3 Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 7 minutes ago, OH HSKR FAN said: Bo got a lot of breaks. A generational player in Suh, a Hail Mary, week schedules, opponents in transition, etc. His tenure looks a lot different and possibly shorter otherwise. Many people go a long ways out of there way to avoid giving Pelini any credit. As exhibited here. 4 1 Quote Link to comment
PoloWearingBeaver Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 7 minutes ago, Landlord said: What did Bama do in Saban year 2 after taking over from an absolute dumpster fire? Lost to g5 Utah! Needed another full year of weights to win the Natty. Take that nerd! [/sarcasm, don't ban meh] 1 Quote Link to comment
Apathy Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Liked Bo and still do, hell I still follow him on twitter. I said it then and still stand firm to it today, you don’t fire a coach who never had a losing record. That decision doesn’t fully fall on Eichorst but the Regents as well. Same thing can be said with Solich firing. Quote Link to comment
OH HSKR FAN Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 14 minutes ago, Mavric said: Many people go a long ways out of there way to avoid giving Pelini any credit. As exhibited here. Mav, the guy mailed it in here the last half of his tenure. He basically dared the university to fire him. After seven seasons he finally wore out his welcome. Hope he is enjoying his paragraph blurb on page 10 of the Sunday sports section at his new gig. Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 3 minutes ago, OH HSKR FAN said: Mav, the guy mailed it in here the last half of his tenure. And yet still won 9 games. Remind me how many seasons out of the last 18 are better than Bo's worst season here. 4 3 1 Quote Link to comment
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