Bo has not won one big game

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I like Bo Pelini, and I am not ready to fire him just yet by any means. Give him the rest of this year, but if he flops with an easy schedule next year it may be time to boot him. He just has not done much for the program besides restore it from a coach who had no business being in the state of Nebraska in the first place. What big games has Bo won. I look at schedules.

2008- Had a nice chance to win at Texas Tech, but couldn't get it done. We beat a Clemson team that was 7-6 at the time (not a big win).

2009- lost to Iowa State and Texas Tech. As well as a game where we completely outplayed Virginia Tech. Oh yeah and that Texas game. Won against Oklahoma who didn't have Sam Bradford and was playing for virtually nothing (not a big win).

2010-Lost to a horrible Texas team at home. Beat a sixth ranked Missouri team, but honestly since when has Missouri been considered a program changing or big win at all, we also played them at home. Then if you consider that game a good win, we almost went out and stubbed our toe at Iowa State the weekend after. Lost at A&M, against Oklahoma, and to Washington. 2 of those 3 could be considered very inexcusable.

2011- Michigan, Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Northwestern. Beat teams we were suppose to lost to a team we shouldn't have.

2012- UCLA, Ohio State, and Wisconsin is dreadful. If wee lose Wisconsin, how many people are calling for Bo's head this week?

This is the state of our program. We have not had one big win since Frank Solich was here. Plain and simple. We all know it.

 
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We beat a 6th ranked team and you want to consider that not a big win because of the name of the opponent and we played at home and other games that had nothing to do with it?

What about also ranked Oklahoma State? There are more I think that I'm not thinking of...We have had more big wins under Bo Pelini than for years under the previous regime.

 
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Well it sounds like a big win to you is in a championship game. That's all you really needed to say. I consider OU in 2009 a big win as well as Mizzou in 2010. But those don't count to you. So no, we do not have any championships under Bo.

edit: Now that I look at it. Solich only had 1 big win while he was here and that was in 1999. And actually Nebraska was #2 and UT was #12 so it really wasn't a big win at all. Wow, come to think of it, we have only had 5 big wins in the history of our program. Pathetic.

 
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Michigan State and Penn State were big games last year. If we were on the losing end of those games they'd be on your list of big games we didn't win.

 
You do really bring up a good point and I am not a guy calling for Pelinis head. Think back to last year also. They had to come storming back against Ohio St. And we did have a big win last year. MSU, Which turned out pretty good. Granted the game was boring and I fell asleep during part of it/lol.

 
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look, right now bo is not performing as well as we want, nor as well as i think he knows he can. he is still putting together good seasons. let him work on and figure out how to take that next step. all these threads and fans freaking out is ridiculous. being the best is not easy, otherwise everyone would be. yes, it is unacceptable that we are getting blown out. but it seems ridiculous to criticize a first time head coach who is producing 8-9 win seasons at this point in his career. everyone needs to calm down, keep some faith, and enjoy the ride.

 
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All I am saying is you see teams upsetting teams like NC State over FSU and Florida over LSU. We have not beaten a team ranked higher than us on the road. And have only beaten one team ranked higher than us at home in 5 years. Yes, we lack big wins. And I am not national championship or bust. But when you can't win a big 12 championship, and you lose to teams like Washington, UCLA, Northwestern, Iowa State, Texas Tech. (teams that we should not throttle, but handle) yes it is disappointing.

I am the first person to tell people that we are not and will not be national championship material for awhile, but cmon. And STL Husker fan, We beat Oklahoma in Lincoln if I recall on a certain double reverse pass back in 2001, and beat a damn good Kansas State team that year too. Solich got us to a National title in 4 years, so do not compare him to BO. You are ridiculous to think Bo is a better coach than Frank. Look what Frank did to Ohio (undefeated).

 
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A better way to characterize it might be a lot of disappointing losses, but a lot of big wins.

I mean, come on. You have so many wins over ranked, and highly ranked opponents.

 
We have some wins over top programs at the time. I think there is a total of one that we beat and they remained in the top ten at the end of the season, of course we fell to the mid 20's.

 
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