Bo's Hires vs. Riley's Hires By the Numbers

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Someone inquired about the coaching experience of Riley's guys vs Bo's guys. I had some time to kill tonight and was actually pretty curious of the numbers myself, so I did some looking. Here is what I came up with:

Prior to being hired by Nebraska​
Head Coach:

Mike Riley:

18 years FBS

4 years NFL

Bo Pelini:

5 years FBS

9 years NFL

Oline:

John Garrison:

0 years

Barney Cotton:

10 years FBS

Mike Cavanaugh

15 years FBS

2 years NFL

WR:

Rich Fisher:

5 years FBS (if Idaho was FBS at that time?)

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RB:

Ron Brown:

17 years FBS…..was offered to stay.

Reggie Davis:

6 years FBS

5 years NFL

OC:

Tim Beck:

6 years FBS

Danny Langsdorf:

4 years NFL

9 yeas FBS

Dline:

Rick Kaczenski:

5 years FBS

Hank Hughes:

18 years FBS

D-Cord

John Papuchis:

0 years

Mark Banker:

17 years FBS

3 years NFL

LB:

Ross Els:

9 years FBS

Trent Bray:

5 years FBS

S/T:

Bruce Read:

14 years FBS

7 years NFL

Bo’s hires totals: 66 years, bumped heavily by RonBrown’s 17 years who was offered to stay according to reports.

Riley’s hires totals: 127 years, not including a WR coach who has not been hired.

So Riley’s hires with one coach still to be named have nearly double the FBS/NFL coaching experience that Bo’s current guys did when they came to Nebraska.

 
Really an old argument. Excuses like that only last so long. But you can win big at Oregon State. When Mike Riley left for the Chargers Dennis Erickson(big name proven) came in and coached them to a BCS bowl and win over Notre Dame.

 
NWHuskerfan said:
Really an old argument. Excuses like that only last so long. But you can win big at Oregon State. When Mike Riley left for the Chargers Dennis Erickson(big name proven) came in and coached them to a BCS bowl and win over Notre Dame.
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Yes, Erickson was a heck of a college coach. Yet how did he go from 11-1 one season to 5-6 the next?

 
Thats just stunning how Papuchis had zero experience and jumped to a major P5 team in Nebraska. Thanks Bo.

 
Actually, not sure you can say Pap had zero yrs.

He has a ring from LSU while coaching w Bo that says otherwise.

I'm not being a fool, I know he wasn't a full time coach, but he was on a national champ team that was legit and was with the DC who ultimately hired him. Let's just be real, he ad coached D1 talent before.

 
And let me be clear, I was MYSTIFIED when Bo hired Pap.

It was obviously a downgrade on the field when Carl left. Pap wasn't up to the task mostly because of inexperience, which is what this thread is about, so I get it. But he coached.

 
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