Bo looking into the Miami HC Job

knapplc said:
zoogies said:
HuskerFowler said:
relax people sportcenter is just quoteing the Miami Hearld the same article that started this. Bob stoops come up for every job...including the newly opened Florida position. Get used to it. When you have a good coach everyone going to come after him. Nothing to see here.
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+1. Story comes out last night, and now the first morning shows are reporting on it. I haven't seen the clips though so maybe it's new info or something.
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Why do people write "+1" if they didn't give him a +1? I've always been curious about that.
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+1 me too. But I did give yours.

 
I have a really hard time believing Bo would choose the U over Nebraska at this point simply because he has this team moving in the right direction and we're heading to the Big 10, the conference he grew up with in Ohio and played in at tOSU. That's gotta stand for something.

 
Really, far more concerning than whether Bo wants to go to Miami (doubtful) is just the fact that this media game is being played.

I asked this on page 1, but I actually found the OWH rebuttal article a little bothersome after the initial reassurance. Namely, it says "Pelini said he didn't seek permission from anyone." And it also says "Pelini declined to comment." If you ask me, the first quote there is a comment, and one that diffuses the situation at that. Since Bo was only quoted on the latter, I'm inclined to think the article author extrapolated a little. Or something is weird here.

Even the fact that he refused comment. How hard is it, honestly, to say "no", if there's nothing to it? It's like he WANTS this game to play out in the media.

And Osborne, too. He could have said "No, there's nothing to this." He could have said something that didn't involved "If Bo got permission, it wasn't from me." Now maybe that was some lighthearted tongue-in-cheek, but it doesn't sound good and anyone media savvy would avoid stuff like that. It really gives a pretty strong impression that these two are not on the same page. And it's not about the truth here, internally, because that sort of impression is all that is needed for a situation like this to be damaging.

I don't think Bo will leave, but this is just :facepalm: ugly. No reason this situation had to come up at all, and no reason that once it did, it couldn't be diffused by the University and by Bo. So far, it still hasn't, for whatever reason. That ESPN segment, did it ever come on? You'd think someone could clue them into one of our own articles, but at this point I really think nothing beyond Bo releasing a statement saying it's rubbish, will do any good. An article that quotes Bo as saying no comment, even if it correctly debunks a myth, isn't enough.

 
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zoogies, this happens with all successful coaches every time there's an opening in a prominent school. Bo's answers are par for the course of what he has said in the past. How many times has he just blown off questions in pressers after games? This WAS diffused by the University - Tom Osborne himself debunked it, and Bo said that he's going recruiting for Nebraska.

Some Miami paper put Bo's name on a list, and the University has to expend more energy than a simple denial to calm everyone? Come on.

There's nothing to get worked up over here. It's just the news trying to drive traffic to their paper/show/website.

 
Fair enough.

But it does not appear to be the kind of thing that Bo is incapable of squashing right away by just taking his name out of the running. This is pretty different from answering injury questions about a player, IMO, and just the damaging effects of having this over the airwaves should be apparent. Think about how any competing school will spin this to Tevin Mitchell or Charles Jackson. I'm not sure how I feel about the 'no comment' policy. That's usually something to say when there is something but you don't want to really elaborate about it. And when it is potentially damaging to let speculation continue or stories to keep going around, you squash it, like Bo squashed the Taylor rumors. He can easily say "No, I'm committed to Nebraska this year and I'm not going to be in the running for this job." But given the chance, he went the no comment route.

This may just be completely off base, but it seems that this reporting is continuing to happen because they are letting it happen. We'll see what happens in the next few days though. I could be wrong. Regardless of that, I am worried about the effects.

 
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zoogies said:
Fair enough.

But it does not appear to be the kind of thing that Bo is incapable of squashing right away by just taking his name out of the running. This is pretty different from answering injury questions about a player, IMO, and just the damaging effects of having this over the airwaves should be apparent. Think about how any competing school will spin this to Tevin Mitchell or Charles Jackson.

This may just be completely off base, but it seems that this reporting is continuing to happen because they are letting it happen. We'll see what happens in the next few days though. I could be wrong. Regardless of that, I am worried about the effects.
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The reporting is continuing to happen because the news needs viewers, plain and simple. If they were really, truly interested in reporting the whole story the headline wouldn't be that Bo was allowed to be interviewed for this job, from an unnamed source, the story would be that Tom Osborne confirmed that the story was bunk.

A little critical thinking is all that's required here to know this is nonsense.

 
it came on and they said the same thing: the Miami Herald is reporting..blah blah blah and Bo got permission..nothing new, it was all of 10 seconds.

 
I agree it's nonsense, knapp, but all Bo has to do is say "I'm staying at Nebraska. I'm not even interested and I'm not in the running." and there would be nothing to talk about but the other guys.

We can go back to the 'contract leverage' discussion and that might be a reason why he is allowing this to continue - which would be a bad one IMO, and one that will not endear him to fans here. But the point on whether this discussion can't be helped is what I am arguing.

 
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I agree it's nonsense, knapp, but all Bo has to do is say "I'm staying at Nebraska. I'm not even interested and I'm not in the running." and there would be nothing to talk about but the other guys.
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But we've seen dozens of pressers where Bo simply ignores stupid questions from reporters. This is entirely in keeping with his personality. He clearly has great disdain for most reporters and doesn't even give many of them the common courtesy of a simple answer. This is nothing new out of Bo, and doesn't in any way indicate he's taking this job.

It doesn't indicate he's NOT taking the job, but again, I'll believe Tom over the Miami Herald's unnamed sources any day.

 
knapplc said:
BigWillie said:
knapplc said:
There's nothing to get worked up over here. It's just the news trying to drive traffic to their paper/show/website.
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Eh, would not say that.

Definitely do not think Bo will go, but interest is there.
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Bo told you he's interested?
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And here we go .. :facepalm:

But just to respond in a correct way - I don't think Bo is the only person around who knows his level of interest, especially when he talks to others about the situation. As crazy as it is, people do talk, and people do tell others. Crazy, eh?

 
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BigWillie said:
knapplc said:
BigWillie said:
knapplc said:
There's nothing to get worked up over here. It's just the news trying to drive traffic to their paper/show/website.
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Eh, would not say that.

Definitely do not think Bo will go, but interest is there.
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Bo told you he's interested?
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And here we go .. :facepalm:

But just to respond in a correct way - I don't think Bo is the only person around who knows his level of interest, especially when he talks to others about the situation. As crazy as it is, people do talk, and people do tell others. Crazy, eh?
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Yep, here we go. Again.

And to expound on that - you're insinuating that Bo has expressed interest in this job to others, and that you, somehow know about it. That's a lot of belief to be expected out of people from an anonymous source. Crazy, eh?

 
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It's not so much that he is denying reporters the courtesy of an answer about some player or coach or performance, where they are looking for a soundbyte to jump on. He is actually giving reporters the exact soundbyte to jump on and it's what they are doing. When Bo ignores them, he denies them opportunity to criticize players or coaches or just plain talk about anything. He is now opening up opportunity for "Pelini to Miami" to be in the spotlight.

I edited the previous post too late, so I guess I'm repeating myself here, but I think he is denying the University, and the fans, and even the team the courtesy of a simple answer. Fans aren't owed injury information, but commitment from the HC is a bit different. He is denying Nebraska the opportunity to stay completely out of this spotlight. I don't think any coach does that in a situation like this, unless they can't, or don't want to. Then, you may well be right that Bo just deals with all reporters this way without caring what context it is. Would be remarkably consistent of him, which you can't say is a bad thing, I guess :)

 
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