Hmmm. I guess we've been reading different Husker boards.
You don't see a bit of a double standard? I know that I do. Look in this very thread. Perceived slights against Pelini are met with outright hostility. Cries of "ludicrous!" "Crazy!" Etc.
I'm not saying we shouldn't schedule patsies, just that we consider what a 9 game season means these days. The Top Ten teams schedule a couple early feel good blowouts, but they also go on to win 12 or 13 games as opposed to 9 or 10. And when we talk about a slightly tougher non-con schedule and elevate Southern Miss to legimate threat, we talk about maybe winning only 8 games. So there we are: able to manhandle an Alcorn State, but playing .500 against the major conference pack, often looking lost against top tier competition, and sometimes making a Northwestern or South Dakota State look like giant-killers.
While we do play patsies (like everyone else), our overall schedule is much tougher than it was 20-30 years ago. We don't have an enormous S&C advantage, don't have as good of a walk on program as we used to, and there's much more parity today than back then.
Oh, there is somewhat of a double standard (not as bad as you're making it sound though). But at the same time, none of those guys are held under the same microscope as Pelini (you could say the same thing about Martinez).
Chewing gum!??? WOW....talk about being stupidly critical. Who cares!? Obviously that jabroni.
Yup. I've also heard (and seen) people complain about him wearing sweatshirts during games and whine that he looks like a bum. People b!^@h just for the hell of it.
Getting rid of a coach who has won 9.5 games average every season, or even "hypothetically" discussing it, is ludicrous. It continually amazes me at just how many Husker fans there are out there who think that since we're Nebraska winning is our birthright. Not just winning, but winning by 70+ points each week. It's not. Scholarship reductions, combined with the mass proliferation of strength and conditioning programs have leveled the college football playing field like no other time in history. Factor in Nebraska's move from the old Big 8 (where essentially Oklahoma at season's end was our only real tough opponent every season) to the Big 12 (where Texas and Texas A&M came onto the schedule) to the Big 10 and our competition, especially in our division, has become dramatically more difficult.
Bo may not have it all figured out yet, but you won't find a guy on this PLANET that will give a sh#t more than Bo. You talk about the ultimate competitor. This guy wants to win. Not only on the football field, but OFF the football field. He holds this entire program to a higher standard. Some of you see the sideline rants as him acting ridiculous and losing control......The GUY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THIS PROGRAM. When your really really care about something, sometimes your emotions run over. I respect that about Bo. Not only do I respect how much he cares about this team's on field performance, I respect the fact that this football team holds the HIGHEST GPA EVER HELD BY AN NU FOOTBALL TEAM AND IS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY. Enough said.
Thanks. It just absolutely dumbfounds me at how some of our fans are even contemplating getting rid of a coach who wins at least 9 games every season. It's as if they think that we can get rid of Bo and automatically hire someone else who is guaranteed to be better. It doesn't work that way, but there's a certain segment of our fans base whose connection to reality is tenous at best. I've asked the "fire Bo" crowd repeatedly who could we bring in that would be guaranteed to be better if we sh** can Bo. Not one of them has ever answered the question...which is a huge suprise.