Bo Pelini, from a player’s parents eyes.

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Just like it was said before, without winning anything of significance at a major program like Nebraska is for six years, a coach is not going to be allowed a very long leash with the media or fans. If he was winning at an elite level, his temper would be attributed to being a "fiery competitor," but since he is not winning at an elite level, his temper makes him look like a spoiled kid who didn't get his way.

Kind of unfair, no?

That is the life of a HC at a major program. It comes with the territory and part of the reason why he gets paid over 3M a year.

I kind of thought he was paid over 3M a year to handle both winning and losing with grace, irregardless of accomplishment.

 

[AFhusker]

Just like it was said before, without winning anything of significance at a major program like Nebraska is for six years, a coach is not going to be allowed a very long leash with the media or fans. If he was winning at an elite level, his temper would be attributed to being a "fiery competitor," but since he is not winning at an elite level, his temper makes him look like a spoiled kid who didn't get his way.

Kind of unfair, no?

That is the life of a HC at a major program. It comes with the territory and part of the reason why he gets paid over 3M a year.

I kind of thought he was paid over 3M a year to handle both winning and losing with grace, irregardless of accomplishment.

In your opinion do you think he is doing that?

 

[QMany]

I will gladly eat massive crow if Bo accomplishes something expected of a blue blood like Nebraska.

That is awfully ambiguous (by design, I'd guess).

 

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Just like it was said before, without winning anything of significance at a major program like Nebraska is for six years, a coach is not going to be allowed a very long leash with the media or fans. If he was winning at an elite level, his temper would be attributed to being a "fiery competitor," but since he is not winning at an elite level, his temper makes him look like a spoiled kid who didn't get his way.

Kind of unfair, no?

That is the life of a HC at a major program. It comes with the territory and part of the reason why he gets paid over 3M a year.

I kind of thought he was paid over 3M a year to handle both winning and losing with grace, irregardless of accomplishment.

In your opinion do you think he is doing that?

That's besides the point, but to answer your question, I don't think he is doing that.

 

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Maybe. But if Bo Pelini had been hired by a Missouri, Texas or Michigan, Nebraska fans would be mocking him mercilessly.

+1

Husker fans mocked Brian Kelly his first year at Notre Dame, Then a certain day in November came and the rest became history. Wear your emotions on your sleeve, that's your choice however, when it negatively impacts the group you're leading, look in the mirror and point the thumb.

Personally, I prefer the Bo "thumb pointing" Pelini returns instead of what he has become. And Nebraskan's can look no further then Tom Osborne and elected officials sitting on the Board of Regents for allowing what once was frowned upon by Husker Nation. Let's hope the recent change of perception continues, and he proves it when the heat is turned up during a Saturday this upcoming season.

I will gladly eat massive crow if Bo accomplishes something expected of a blue blood like Nebraska.

Can you provide anything more than anecdotal evidence of Bo Pelini's sideline behavior conclusively leading to a reduced quality of play?

 

[HTO]

Can you provide anything more than anecdotal evidence of Bo Pelini's sideline behavior conclusively leading to a reduced quality of play?

Pull up the 2013 Iowa game, fast forward to the 3Q around the 8 or 9 minute mark. If you don't think what happened had a negative impact on the team let me know now, there's no purpose discussing it any further.

 

[Mavric]

Can you provide anything more than anecdotal evidence of Bo Pelini's sideline behavior conclusively leading to a reduced quality of play?

Pull up the 2013 Iowa game, fast forward to the 3Q around the 8 or 9 minute mark. If you don't think what happened had a negative impact on the team let me know now, there's no purpose discussing it any further.

And you're also giving him the same amount of credit for keeping the team focused and working through "the process" in the come-from-behind wins against Northwestern, Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Michigan State the last couple years, right?

 

[HTO]

And you're also giving him the same amount of credit for keeping the team focused and working through "the process" in the come-from-behind wins against Northwestern, Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Michigan State the last couple years, right?

I'm not sure about "the process" but I gave Bo, his staff and players plenty of credit when it's deserved. And yes, that includes the games you mention above.

 

[knapplc]

Why aren't we talking about the Northwestern, Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Michigan State comebacks? Why are we talking about the outbursts?

Because a contingent of Husker fans are only happy when they have something to gripe about.

Reminds me of the old joke back in the 1980s when farming was pretty tough. Farmer wins a million dollars in the lottery. Local paper sends out a reporter who asks the farmer what he's going to do with all that money - travel, buy a Cadillac, fancy clothes for the missus, what? The farmer thinks about it for a minute, then in that typical Nebraska slow, deliberate way he says, "No... I think I'll just keep farming until it's all gone."

 

[HTO]

Because a contingent of Husker fans are only happy when they have something to gripe about.

That's a wild assumption that doesn't cover all Husker fans, wouldn't you say?

 

[knapplc]

It is a declaration based on observation. And the word "contingent" is pretty key there; never claimed all Husker fans... anything. And mostly I posted that because I remembered that farmer joke and it's pretty funny, and it describes a lot of Nebraska psychology rather well.

 

[Redux]

Because a contingent of Husker fans are only happy when they have something to gripe about.

That's a wild assumption that doesn't cover all Husker fans, wouldn't you say?

Id Say it covers roughly half the fanbase. I think the fans who fall in this category are picking at straws when it comes to his outbursts. Iowa was the only real outburst on the season, quite frankly it was blown out of proportion. He wasnt trying to hit the ref like some would lead you to believe.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

My biggest problem with Bo's audio rant after the Ohio State win wasn't that he dropped a string of f-bombs. I don't even mind him going off on the fans or the media in private if they have it coming.

It's that his team had just staged the biggest comeback in Nebraska history, Memorial Stadium was rocking, and after a horrible first half the team had dug deep and found redemption.

As a fan, I was both relieved and thrilled.

But given that moment, Bo Pelini was fixated on a tiny corner of the stands where a handful of fans had left. Not the 90,000 who were roaring their approval. The 2,000 who left, thinking maybe, just maybe, we weren't going to score the biggest comeback in Nebraska history.

No. He was "outta here". f#*k the fans. f#*k the media. In his most private moment Bo Pelini couldn't enjoy what just happened. He saw the comeback victory as some kind of weird vengence on the very people who wanted nothing more in the world than a comeback victory from a team that had been coming out flat in game after game, a problem that points to head coaching on every other team in football.

That was two years ago. I think he's gotten better, to a point. But I think some of Bo's bunker mentality still exists. It's his boys against the world, starting with their own fans, reporters, AD and Board of Regents.

 

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Can you provide anything more than anecdotal evidence of Bo Pelini's sideline behavior conclusively leading to a reduced quality of play?

Pull up the 2013 Iowa game, fast forward to the 3Q around the 8 or 9 minute mark. If you don't think what happened had a negative impact on the team let me know now, there's no purpose discussing it any further.

Oh...see, you missed either deliberately or accidentally the bolded words. Anecdotal evidence, I'll give more of a pass to, because it's going to be hard to quantify any sort of effect. But conclusive evidence that Bo's outbursts negatively effect the team is what you missed. Bo Pelini I'm sure of it, had outbursts in nearly every game where we fell behind...and we came back and won. Kind of pokes a whole in the story, doesn't it?

 

[Hujan]

My question with this Bo vs Fans ordeal is this...Which came first? Bo being short with fans on his own or him becoming short with fans because they deserve it for the way they lash out at players and coaches?

Kind of seems like it was with the media first, which in turn made the fans lash out towards Bo for not handling things more "appropriately" or doing a better job of representing the university. Don't get me wrong, Bo has dug his own grave with the fans with audiogate and some of the other things he's said, but this whole "Bo Pelini is a big angry meanie" mentality has been perpetuated by the media.

IMO, it was Bo because he had a huge leash and a ton of good will on his side becasuse 1: replacing Billy C 2: having Tom on his side, therefore the state was behind him all the way. Everything was good and he was beloved my almost all until the year after the team was screwed in the Big 12 title game vs Texass. For the first time they had the hype and expetations of a normal Nebraska team. The rebuild was seen as being over as they were just a bogus .01 away from playing in a BCS Bowl, crushed Arizona in the Holliday Bowl and were in the top 15 in the preseason polls, not to mention the favorite to win the final Big 12 title game. Then the team fell apart vs a bad Texass team at home that year, then the aTm debacle followed up by choking the CCG game when he had a 17 point lead. Mainly because he refused to take a gimpy TMart out of the game. IMO that is when he started to lose some of the fanbase, and was starting to be known more for his temper and choking in big games. The typical Nebraska fan isn't going to support that kind of national perception because everyone is held to TO standards of being stoic on the sideline fair or not. But as someone said before, if he were to break through and win a CCG and a BCS Bowl, pretty much all would be forgiven as long as the following season wasn't something like 5-7, which isn't likely.

Correct. The downward spiral began with Texas 2010 and has run up to Iowa 2013:

1. Texas 2010
   
2. A&M 2010*
   
3. Big XII Championship Game 2010
   
4. Holiday Bowl 2010
   
5. Wisconsin 2011
   
6. Northwestern 2011
   
7. Michigan 2011
   
8. Capital One Bowl 2011
   
9. UCLA 2012
   
10. Audio Gate
    
11. Ohio State 2012
    
12. Big Ten Championship Game 2012
    
13. Wyoming 2013
    
14. SDSU 2013
    
15. UCLA 2013
    
16. Minnesota 2013
    
17. Michigan State 2013
    
18. Iowa 2013
    

*Would not have been a big deal but for (1) the TMart chest-thumping and (2) Bo and Carl going all "SmashBros" on that Aggie student reporter.

And as much as Bo is 0:01 away from a conference championship and BCS bowl, he's also tacked on at least a handful of wins with miracle, last-second victories (e.g., MSU 2012, Northwestern 2013, PSU 2013). As heartbreaking as 0:01 was, I think Bo has actually been more plucky than not.