Benning on Banker

[B.B. Hemingway]

Still trying to figure out who WW is.

 

[Saunders]

I think you are missing just how bad recruiting had been in the 4 years previous to MR coming to Nebraska. The cupboard was quite bare.

This is what fans said in 2004 and 2008 also.

 

[Landlord]

Recruiting is easy for Oregon. They should have a top 10 class every year. Yes, he's doing a good job of doing his job. Can't wait to smack the sh#t out of him on the field in 5 weeks though! GBR

Then why did their best coach ever who put them on the map have such a hard time with it? His classes were rated 34th, 30th, 12th, 12th, etc.

 

[Mierin]

Fact of the matter comes to this these days. Win or be gone. If we dont win a conference championship within next 2 years i think MR will be gone. Say thanks for the good recruiting but we need to find someone who can actually win with the talent, not just get it here.

Unlikely.
If Riley starts to perform as well as Pelini (in regard to wins and losses) he will not get fired within the next 5 years, or ever.

Pelini would have been here longer if he wasn't an absolute bad guy. We might have been approaching Pelini's year 10 if he was half the bad guy he is.

 

[ZRod]

I think you are missing just how bad recruiting had been in the 4 years previous to MR coming to Nebraska. The cupboard was quite bare.

This is what fans said in 2004 and 2008 also.

2008? Really? Wasn't it more of the old coaches can recruit good talent, they just don't know how to develop it, or coach...

 

[MichiganDad3]

So far i can't find fault with MR. He's done everything he could for this program. The first year if he had benched TA, it would have caused mutiny in the program, plus no one better to replace him. Even year 2 brought with it some guys not buying in! Now our hands should be washed from the cancer that had infected us. It took him awhile to figure out why WW left but he did and fixed that. He got 9wins last year from a 7win team! I'm still very much in his corner. I understand why the vegas dudes have us at 7.5 wins, were a total unknown. Maybe you can ask them why it took less then 48 hours to jump them from 6wins to 7.5?

I find plenty of fault with MR. NU should never have a losing season. Since 1962, excluding 2004-2007, and prior to MR, the Huskers have 3 seasons with less than 9 wins, and zero losing seasons. MR inherited a team with seven consecutive seasons of at least 9 wins, and 3 CCG appearances. We were told that MR was here to win championships immediately, not to rebuild. There is no excuse for bringing weak coaches from OSU, then firing them after one or two seasons. We were also told that NU had the money to hire top assistants. Lets hope our new DC can work wonders this year. Too bad we lost our top player on the secondary.

"If you remove all the years we didn't win 9 games, we've won 9 games every year!"

For all the 9 win seasons Bo had, I don't think there's any way he led NU to 9 wins in '15 either.

I was just removing the years we had Billy C. He might still be at NU if he had fired his DC after year 2.

 

[BigRedBuster]

How long are fans going to be angry about Riley hiring banker and having a losing season?

Both are in the past.

 

[marko polo]

One of things I've found interesting is that there's some talk of '18 being exciting already.

Which I agree with whole-heartedly. I think we will be a top ten team, even with/especially because of the tough schedule. It also makes me think this year won't live up to the early hype but that we will likely be an 8 win team. Which I've always believed was fine as long as the excuses are out the door next year.

they are never out the door around here.

 

[Mavric]

How long are fans going to be angry about Riley hiring banker and having a losing season?

Both are in the past.

Right after they get over being mad at Pelini.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Callahan.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Solich being fired.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Crouch not getting a facemask call at Kansas State.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Florida State's play being ruled a TD instead of a fumble.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Penn State's catch being ruled in bounds.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at .......

 

[Landlord]

For all the 9 win seasons Bo had, I don't think there's any way he led NU to 9 wins in '15 either.

He very, very easily could have. The consistency of Bo's 9 win seasons was a bit of anomaly, but what was also a bit of an anomaly was how good his teams were at winning close games. Part of what made 2015 so difficult to stomach was that we had, without knowing it, become very accustomed to almost always winning games that were decided by a score or less or decided within the last minute or two of a game. From '11-'14, we were 13-3 in games decided by one score.

Obviously the games would have played out different, but Riley was 5 plays away from 5 more wins (10 total in reg season). You replay that season with Riley 100 times, I'm sure we get 9 wins at least a quarter of the time. You replay that season with Pelini, I'm sure the same is true.

 

[marko polo]

Cav isn't on the clock yet... He had a patch work, hobbled line last year and this is the first year his recruits will see action.

He's got another 2 years before his seat starts to warm.

Heck, Riley doesn't even have another two years if things go really bad this year.

Probably wrong in that assumption as well. Riley has at least two years based on last year's recruiting and this years'.

SE we'll give him a couple of years to develop talent... Something he proved he could do at Oregon State but hasn't had the time to do at Nebraska.

That is absolutely false

It actually can't be proven false or true. So what you just said is false

It is my opinion however, that SE will give Riley at least a couple more years and that's more plausible than firing him after this year.

Well at some point you have to "produce" so2 yrs from now.............

 

[zoogs]

Or 7.

 

[macroboy]

How long are fans going to be angry about Riley hiring banker and having a losing season?

Both are in the past.

Right after they get over being mad at Pelini.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Callahan.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Solich being fired.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Crouch not getting a facemask call at Kansas State.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Florida State's play being ruled a TD instead of a fumble.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Penn State's catch being ruled in bounds.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at .......

I'm still mad about the Florida state fumble.

 

[macroboy]

How long are fans going to be angry about Riley hiring banker and having a losing season?

Both are in the past.

Right after they get over being mad at Pelini.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Callahan.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Solich being fired.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Crouch not getting a facemask call at Kansas State.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Florida State's play being ruled a TD instead of a fumble.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at Penn State's catch being ruled in bounds.

Which will be right after they get over being mad at .......

I'm still mad about the Florida state fumble.

 

[Saunders]

I think you are missing just how bad recruiting had been in the 4 years previous to MR coming to Nebraska. The cupboard was quite bare.

This is what fans said in 2004 and 2008 also.

2008? Really? Wasn't it more of the old coaches can recruit good talent, they just don't know how to develop it, or coach...

Nope. "The cupboards are bare" was prominent here, and other boards too. It's a common thing fans say in most coaching changes too.