Is Bo a Top-10 coach?

So I guess the consensus is that Bo is not a top-10 coach because he can't (or hasn't) won the big one? He hasn't won a conference title. Hasn't won a BCS bowl, or even gotten us into a BCS bowl. Fair enough. I guess these things are certainly true.

 
skersfan said:
I get your drift, I just did not want to see it turn into a I support or I don't(somewhat) support Coach Pelini. I honestly think we have had enough negativety after a 9-3 season.
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But that's what we do on football message boards. We talk about things. Or type about them. :)

 
Coaches I think that are top ten not listed.

Frank Beamer?

Jim Grobe, at Wake Forest. Man does more with less than anyone out there.

Gary Patterson, just wins at a program not really know for doing so.

Chris Peterson, can beat anyone on a given day. Imagine what he would do with the talent of Ohio State or SC.

Pat Hill, has lost a little briliance recently, but still has the ability to coach with the best, down on talent every year, but pulls some surprises.

 
If you have to win a CC, BCS game, or NC to make the top 10 list, within 4 years, then the OP's posted list just got even shorter and not by only Bo.

There is nobody on that list who I would rather have right now instead of Bo. A lot of that has to do with simply not wanting ANY big program changes made because of the detrimental effect of change but plenty of it has to do with thinking Bo will get us there. I don't care what number rank people want to put on Bo, he's our coach so he's number 1 in my book. People complain about his demeanor and treatment of the media but those same people and that same media behave in ways that fuel that same demeanor issue. Give the guy some friggin support. We're 9-3 our first year in a new conference and we'll be playing in one of the better non-BCS bowls against a very good opponent. I have some concerns but nothing approaching the seismic change some people seem to be clamoring for. It really is quite sad. It's as if many people are totally incapable of learning anything from the past. Learn from the amount of time Tom was given and what that allowed to develope. Learn what our program looked like when Frank was fired. And for Godsakes learn what happened with the acquisition of Clownahan. If you can't grasp that then, IMO, you're too stupid to be a Husker fan. :rant

 
IMO.... I ask myself this.... is Nebraska consistently a top 10 team in the last 3 years? The answer is no, Nebraska has creeped into the top 10 a couple times the last few years, but a mind blowing defeat has them dropping like a rock year after year. This doesnt make Bo a top 10 coach or any coach for that matter when it happens consistently.

Will Bo get there, sure but it will probably take some time. Just like getting the program back into the top 10 consistently.

 
I look back on Bo's losses in 09' and 10' and all but two are really quite comical. 8 turnovers or whatever against ISU loss and we still almost won, Texas getting the extra second for a career long FG, all the dropped passes against Texas in 10', the sheer ugliness of the A&M game and still almost winning, and almost winning against OU despite Taylor being sacked on a majority of pass attempts. The two exceptions here being Leech's squad rolling into Lincoln in 09' and shredding us, and whatever the hell happened in the Holiday Bowl last year. If getting there is analogous to climbing a mountain, the mountain is laughing at Bo.

Just too early to judge the B10 experience.

 
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tschu said:
Every single coach in the top 10 has been to a BCS Bowl game. Except Bo.

He has a top-10 record which is fantastic. Now just keep after it until it pays off.
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With the exception of Chip Kelly, every coach has more years on the job than Bo. The only exception to the rule, Chip Kelly didn't inherit a program that was in shambles. So it wasn't very hard for Chip Kelly to keep the Oregon football program on the right track. Bo has had to turn a top tier program nearly 180 degrees in the right direction with no head coaching experience. Yet he has taken the Huskers to 4 bowls game now, 2 conference title games, produced a Heisman finalist, has a 39 - 15 record, a bunch of All-Americans, all within 4 years.

yet people complain about the loses, how bad the recruiting is, question whether he has the "IT" factor and that crap.

I can't think of a better coach who could've and would've taken the Husker program where it was in 2008 and turn it into what it is right now and picked up the attention of possibly returning to a top tier program in such a short time.

 
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ehh...probably not, but hard to say. He doesn't even have a signature win let alone a conf or NC. As someone else stated..he really only beats the teams he's suppose to and not even all of those.

Good news is he's still relatively new as HC and could move up fast.

 
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BIGREDIOWAN said:
Why do these threads continue............... :facepalm:
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WTH? You mean threads pointing out that there are only a handful of active coaches with better winning stats than Pelini? Fine. Instead of talking about anything remotely football related let’s all just sit around during the offseason singing kumbaya and discussing whether we should embroider the player names on their jerseys in a curly-cue font. Sheesh.

 
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