The more I see the heightened level of volatility surrounded this program the more angry and frustrated I become at Eichorst.
Eichorst is so incompetent, he literally was so arrogant that he decided to make decisions without any advice from anyone but himself.
Eichorst should never be allowed to work at another University again. I always heard you can judge a man by his kids. Well, Eichorst's 18 year old son just sexual assaulted a 12 year old boy. The lack of leadership from Eichorst transcended every facet of his life. I don't think it is fair to ignore any of this, as it seems completely relevant at showing that Eichorst has zero leadership skills. And NU is paying for it.
Eichorst was a fool, no doubt. But i think we are forgetting we were in a similar mess 10 years ago, similar threads, incompetence being chief among them.
We get Eichorst after Tom steps down, who then made an eerily similar comment as former AD Peterson almost 10 years ago on the day he fired Bo after a 9 win season, only this time he was insulting Iowa instead of Texas and Oklahoma.
He then went off on his own, did not consult anyone on his search, he felt he knew exactly what was needed for the team. just like Peterson did.
His hire was out of left field unexpected, didn't make a ton of sense. Just like Peterson did.
He hired a coach who's system wasn't a good fit for our current players, forcing a complete reset, rebuild situation. Just like Peterson did.
And just like the result we got with Peterson, we got again here 10 years later. A collapse, implosion. whatever you want to call it.
How both events transpired, from beginning to end, is too eerily similar to ignore. The implosions/collapse of both teams came as both a surprise and a shock, to the fans, the coaching staff, the AD, and the administration. But when you get such an incredibly similar result you have to look and what connects them.
And Harvey Perlman is that connection.
A great steward of the universities academics. But after this he will go down as the worst thing to ever befall Nebraska Football.
Our teams haven't be failing because of a lack of talent, or because of some advantage we lost in the 90's. It's because one man enjoyed limitless power over the athletic department, no checks or balances placed upon him, ala bounds to check green here today.
Far as i can tell we are enjoying this 2007 repeat thanks to Harvey. He had a vision for our football team, i think he meant well. But he failed to learn after 2007 that his vision didn't work.
So he tried again. and here we are today.
The lone positive about the the coming coaching change that gives me real hope for the first time in years is this: Harvey Perlman, nor anyone he hired, will be in a position to influence the decision making process in our search for a new coach.
In 2018 we truly start with a clean slate. Finally.
