ESPN: B1G needs big hires from Nebraska, Michigan

[zoogs]

Adam Rittenberg: B1G needs big hires from Nebraska, Michigan

It's time for the Big Ten to aim higher with the head coaches it courts and ultimately brings into the conference.(...)

If you want to be great, you have to commit to being great. Look at the Pac-12. Not only has every school made significant investments in facilities -- some Big Ten schools have done the same -- but the quality of coaching has skyrocketed in recent years.

Recent coaching additions include Jim Mora, Chris Petersen, Rich Rodriguez, Todd Graham and Mike Leach.(...)

Big Ten schools, meanwhile, too often take the bunny slope instead of the double black diamond when it comes to finding coaches.(...)

There are also some Big Ten programs seemingly satisfied with their place in the college football world.

BlueInTheFace's recent post wishing us luck on Tressel (contingent on us helping them get Harbaugh with our good old corn-fashioned vibes) got me thinking about this article.

Nebraska and Michigan, two blue blood programs. B1G Football is counting on them to raise the level of football coaching in this conference. Let's do it, you guys!!!

 

[Blackshirtsguru]

You lost me at "ESPN"

But I agree....We the Big 10 need to pick our game and bring this conference to the fore front. I am sooooo tired of hearing about the friggen SEC!

 

[kchusker_chris]

In the last couple of years we've taken Urban from Florida and one of their biggest up-and-coming coaches in Franklin from Vanderbilt. The B1G's issue isn't coaching, there's some solid coaches in this league. There's also a few duds.

 

[kchusker_chris]

I recently had lunch with a top coordinator from another conference and asked what he wants in his first head-coaching job. His answer: a place with unrealistic expectations.

must have been Frost he was having lunch with because Nebraska is the only place with unrealistic expectations.

 

[Blackshirtsguru]

I recently had lunch with a top coordinator from another conference and asked what he wants in his first head-coaching job. His answer: a place with unrealistic expectations.

must have been Frost he was having lunch with because Nebraska is the only place with unrealistic expectations.

By unrealistic do you mean beat ranked opponents?

 

[kchusker_chris]

By unrealistic do you mean beat ranked opponents?

there was a ton of sarcasm in my post

 

[Blackshirtsguru]

By unrealistic do you mean beat ranked opponents?

there was a ton of sarcasm in my post

 

[zoogs]

I recently had lunch with a top coordinator from another conference and asked what he wants in his first head-coaching job. His answer: a place with unrealistic expectations.

must have been Frost he was having lunch with because Nebraska is the only place with unrealistic expectations.

That was a great line from the article. A coach worth his salt will relish the challenge of coaching in a place where the expectations are high. And he won't protest and try to make them lower -- which, for all his strengths, was the inexcusable failing of our last coach.