A Warming Seat For Bo Pelini?

[AFhusker]

I'm pretty sure we all remember the ridiculousness that ensued after a firing for the exact same reason. Personally, I'd rather go the next 30 years winning 9 games every year, than to have another $#!tstorm like the Calliban.

as you mentioned, the firing wasn't the problem - it was the hiring that followed. not in any way supporting Pelini's firing - but I hate how people all assume that the next coach would just be another Callahan and we'd be guaranteeing ourselves 5 wins seasons. If that's the case then you'd wouldn't get rid of him if he was winning 7 or 8 games a year either.

The reason we ended up with Callahan is that Nobody else wanted to take a job where we just fired a guy that won 9 games even though the previous year he only won 7. Now some think we'd be able to hire a top tier coach if we fired a guy who just won 9 or more games for four straight years? That just isn't a reasonable assumption in the least.

That may have been part of it, but the real reasons were that the 2004 roster was terrible (no depth and only had 5 commits at the time of his firing) and the expectations were still there. IMO that was Peterson's biggest mistake was firing Frank a year too early. He should have let Frank complete his failure and stop the bowl streak himself and then there wouldn't' have been a split in the fan base and we could have gotten a better HC in 2005.

Unless you've got some crystal ball your statements are pure, 100% dream-bubble fantasy speculation. Nothing more. But for you dreaming up instant destruction for Frank and/or Bo if Pedeyshine could have somehow been locked up in a cage for another year is just crazy.

NU would have been 10,000 times better off (then "and" now) firing Pedeyshine than Frank and/or Bo.

Go look at the 2004 team it was terrible. Who's fault is that? One scholarship QB (Dailey) and three DL on the team. Maybe someday some of you will get over that Frank underachieved with TO's players for 4 years and didn't take recruiting seriously enough to replace the talent that he was given. And that isn't totaly Franks fault, he shold have never been given the job in the first place, and that is TO's fault for putting him in that position.

Even if I posted the information (again) you would just put your head in the sand (again) and cut him some slack because he played here and was a RB coach for a long time. IMO that makes it more disgusting that he let the program slip under his watch. I also bet you don't know (or refuse to accept) the fact that the 2003 offense was worse than the 2002 offense and that season was saved by Bo's defense which set an NCAA record for forcing turnovers. The program was going in the wrong direction and Frank deserved to be fired, but not until after 2004.

 

[Hunter94]

T.O. did make a poor pick, when he chose Frank........i guess he figured after all those years, Frank understood the importance of good recruiting.

and still today we HANG on with Cotton........the last of the dead wood.

 

[Foppa]

The real question is who is gonna come coach a team that fires its coach for only winning 9 games in a 12 game season? Not winning a conference championship in a BCS AQ conference?

Not saying it will happen. But if Bo does leave Nebraska. I wouldn't expect an outside hire, it would be in-house and not by choice, no matter how they try to spin it. If they somehow get an outside hire, it will be a person that has no where close to the coaching career Bo had coming in here. Plus Bo would get picked up by another school quicker than a Whopper dropped off at a Fat Camp.

The only way i see Bo getting fired, it won't be because of his temper, but a slipping win-loss record that tips from the 3 or 4 loss a season, to 6 - 8 losses a seasons, and with something like that, his temper will probably be worse than we have ever seen Bo.

Bo has a very bad reputation outside the state of Nebraska due to his temper and how inconsistent his teams are. He would get picked up as a DC at a major school, but if he was going to be a HC again, he would have to go to a lower level confernce like the MAC.

Kind of like what Frank Solich had to do.