Osborne was not a proven Head Coach. Solich was not a proven head coach. Bill Callahan was a proven head coach. What proven Head coach would accept any sort of offer after firing a coach with no less than 9 wins/year in 5 years?
accountability, I don't know the answer to that. I doubt it's as clear-cut as you make it out--that firing a 9-win coach makes us blacklisted among all potential coaches. Who would have though LSU would have lost Saban to Bama? Who would have thought Urban Meyer would have ducked out of the UF gig due to "medical problems", only to come back two years later to take over OSU? Money changes a lot of things--both are being paid royally and were signed to historically high pay with their contracts. We could get Petersen--not a guarantee, but it's not a ridiculous proposition. Depends on what Eichorst wants to do there.
This is not the 70/80/90's. This is the year 2012 where Nebraska hasn't been relevant for 15 years. Who have we beaten in the last 5 years that we shouldn't have beaten? How many times have we been embarrassed in the last 5 years. Hell we are a couple plays away from being 5-7 and not 10-2. Money talks and you can pay someone a crap ton of money to come resurrect a top 5 wins program in college football history. I don't want to watch miracle come backs to beat the likes of 5-7 MSU and Northwestern. It's time we stop pretending that we are relevant.
I would have been fine with a close loss, but this was just stupid and pathetic on our parts.
How many power sweeps did we run tonite?? and how many times did Taylor line up in the spread offense? and how many times did the Bugs Bunny Taylor run the ball? I bet he lined up in the spread offense a helluva lot more than he did in the I formation.. it depends on how often you line up in a power formation or a finesse formation, and actually run given plays...What planet were you watching from or what were you smoking to think Beck is into power football? I am sick of finesse, and I am sick of the other team's defense always staying fresh.. Beck never takes the defense's legs or will away.. To Beck?... Its just like basketball. whoever scores the most, wins.
Beck runs some power, but I agree his offense is mostly finesse--it's 70% Oregon offense, 30% Wisconsin, with neither of the effectiveness
Agree with you completely. I'm sick of the "nobody would want to come here now" argument. Look at Alabama before they got Saban--they were also a once-proud, once-dominant program that had gone through several mediocre coaches. Then they hired Saban and the rest is history. LSU was a middling mediocre program until they hired Saban, and away then went. NU still has the name recognition to be destination job for a top coach--but he WILL require A LOT of money to come here.
If that is your argument then shouldn't we expect more than getting beat by 40 points by a 7-5 team that was the third best in their division. You would think such a HOF coach such as Bo would prepare our Skers to play better than one of the most embarrassing losses in our program's history.
