kjstrouble said:
If Bo is the next coach, he will only be here for 4-6 years till he gets an NFL gig.
If it were to be Turner Gill, he would be here till he retired, mainly because he is a part of the tradition.
Agree completely that pelini's tenure would last until a good NFL opportunity arises.
But Gill or Pelini won't last 4-6 years UNLESS THEY WIN!! and win right away, no down years allowed.
NU has no patience for less.
Solich was six years, cally was four-- the next one may not even get four years. The trend is to give them less time-- not more.
The coaching revolving door is warming up.
BEAT CU!!
i don't agree. if you hire a decent guy and see the schemes, coaching and effort on the field, people will be patient enough to give him time to build up the program. as many have said, we have some decent talent here right now, a new coach could come in and turn this thing around pretty quickly.
with cally, it will simply be more of the same old sh#t......he only knows one way and that way doesn't work.
Opinions vary. It could turn around pretty quickly and go down the tubes as just as easily ...
Keep in mind-- there is absolutely no guarantee that the next staff will be any better than the current one.
They could be better....
The next staff could be successful and have several winning seasons, maybe even a few 9 or 10 win ones-- hell, maybe even get to a MNC game in a decade or so.
or worse....
They could flop, have a 2-10 year next year and never sniff a winning season, be gone in two or three years and start this crap all over again.
WHO KNOWS!!
Maybe Zac Taylor is right, this season was a fluke. Maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm sure the fans and media "experts" know more than he does.
BTW--- if TO throws the baby out with the bathwater- I hope he gets PJ for the next HC. I also hope the next HC gets a 10 year contract with a VERY expensive severance package. The revolving door needs to STOP!!!
BEAT CU!!
i don't know why everyone is suddenly so concerned about the "revolving door" aspect.
let's look at his thing objectively for a moment.
steve pederson was wrong for NU, he was an arrogant, devisive AD and he f'd up the whole atheletic department to one degree or another. TO has gotten some folks to come back, so the healing process has begun.
steve pederson, in his mind, just wanted to make a change, he wanted solich out, but honestly, he had no idea/plan to replace him, he just wanted him out. he tried to get nutt, but only succeeded in getting him a raise and then 10 days after cally gets fired from the raiders, he gets cally to come on board.
how much thought do you think pederson put into this hire? i will help you with that answer....zero, none!
he took what was available and went for the Hollywood charm of an NFL coach (remember, ped liked glamour) who had just torn his team apart and finished the season at 4-10 or something like that.....so what did we get? a proven guy who won a Super Bowl the year before, but had just watched his team collaspe in one season.
was there any proof this guy could coach or relate to college athletes? nope, but we now suddenly had an NFL coach, who would bring glory and fame to a Husker program on the slide.
when Solich got Bo Pelini, he was still about 2 or 3 more hires from getting a staff that could recruit and change the offensive strategy, but pederson wasn't patient enough to let that play out. he took a guy on the sly, extended his contract this year with no basis for saying "he has exceeded my expectations" (what a f'ing joke!) and basically put the bat up Husker Nations's a$$, there is no other way to put it.
there is no embarassment for admitting that we hired a bad AD and a bad coach and moving on. i would not expect this to happen every 4 years and neither would anyone else, but to not cut our losses would be hugely foolish in my opinion.
