Poll: When to fire Riley (In Your Opinion)

When should Moos fire Riley?

  • Yesterday. Or, As Soon As Possible.

    Votes: 96 49.0%

  • Let him finish the season. Fire him right after Black Friday, as is Husker tradition. Or for anoth

    Votes: 92 46.9%

  • I'm not 100% sold on firing Riley.

    Votes: 8 4.1%
  • Total voters
    196
  • Poll closed .
I wanted him fired mid-season; as I predicted the team would quit on him and player development would come to a halt...

At this point, the damage is done. Firing him RN comes with very few positives. Maybe the players get invigorated because its the "beginning of a new chapter," but realistically, you're going against one bad Penn St. team, and an Iowa team that looks far more powerful than Minn, who just roll'd you. I don't see the team getting up for those games; MR, or not.

Personally, I wouldn't mind if MR was canned tomorrow; but I also wouldn't mind allowing our new AD be a man of his word, and let this dumpster fire flame out.

 
Red_Payne said:
I wanted him fired mid-season; as I predicted the team would quit on him and player development would come to a halt...

At this point, the damage is done. Firing him RN comes with very few positives. Maybe the players get invigorated because its the "beginning of a new chapter," but realistically, you're going against one bad Penn St. team, and an Iowa team that looks far more powerful than Minn, who just roll'd you. I don't see the team getting up for those games; MR, or not.

Personally, I wouldn't mind if MR was canned tomorrow; but I also wouldn't mind allowing our new AD be a man of his word, and let this dumpster fire flame out.
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It realistically probably doesn't matter either way, but if any coach ever deserved to be fired for a totally underwhelmingly coached game, where their opponent was considered equal caliber yet totally dominated, this is the coach and this is the game.  This is worse than NIU.

 
Mike Riley just needs to collect his check and get the hell out of Lincoln. Well I guess I don't care if he stays in Lincoln, just get the hell away from the football program. 

 
NOW !!!  Tomorrow or Monday at the latest  ........ come on Moos, not the end of the season.  Time to end this failed experiment.   And Diaco and Cav too.

 
NebraskaHarry said:
Mike Riley just needs to collect his check and get the hell out of Lincoln. Well I guess I don't care if he stays in Lincoln, just get the hell away from the football program. 
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MR earned $200K per ONE game  :o

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I'm hearing he'll be fired by Monday

BTW there are currently 4 people who, if serious about their votes need to be committed to a mental institution or are Iowa fans, sorry for being redundant 

 
Don't really care, today, tomorrow or moments after the the Iowa game. My gut tells me it makes more sense to do it now. Before todays game I would've said let him finish the season but it is obvious now he has lost the team completely and the players are getting no benefit from this staff. Based on what I've seen anything they could be teaching them is probably completely wrong. If it's now, that is 2 or 3 weeks less deprogramming that has to be accomplished by they next guy.  Not winning anymore games or going bowling either way so it doesn't make much diff.

 
MacNCheeze said:
On a side note for your sig...we have confirmation that the bits of broken chair was at the game but sadly it didnt go home with us.
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That might be due to the lack of "official" status, if I had to guess.  No doubt it will be displayed in its designated Minnesota location for at least the next year.

time and persistence will win out.  The nonprofit organizations that are associated with it won't let it "disappear" again.

 
Danimal said:
I would get together with Mike for an announcement this coming week that he is stepping-down at the end of the season. 
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And announce that Diaco is leaving on Monday for an undisclosed family reason.

 
Football Guy Bob said:
After the Iowa game.  You don’t gain or lose anything by doing it now.
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I think you do gain something.  You gain removing a head coach who looks defeated and remove that  general culture of hopelessness.   I realize that an interim coach isn't going to perform miracles, but let's face it, the season is over functionally.   Let's start reversing the toxic atmosphere of losing and start sanitizing the environment for the new coach coming on board.

 
Whistlepig said:
I'm hearing he'll be fired by Monday

BTW there are currently 4 people who, if serious about their votes need to be committed to a mental institution or are Iowa fans, sorry for being redundant 
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Please say you're not hearing this fired by Monday from the rumor board.

 
Is there an option where we fire Riley as head coach but retain him as the equipment cleaning boy? I mean we are paying him so much and he does not deserve to retire in Oregon with our hard earned money when he has put out such a miserable output on the field. He has to earn his money somehow. How about Gatorade boy! Something other than head coach. This must be done immediately before his incompetence shows up again next week. 

Riley after next week’s game: “we were surprised by Sequon Barkley running the ball so much. We did not prepare for that. We thought he was going to play receiver!”. His explanations are more idiotic than the team’s performance. Between him and Diaco, I feel like we live in bizzaro world.

 
MKMScat20 said:
Gotta say, my dad and I both wanted him gone after his complete mismanagement of the clock in his first game against BYU.  

Nice guy, but was never meant to coach at DONU.  
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That we wouldn't rotate O-linemen even though it was over 100degrees on the field told me what a stubborn SOB Cavanaugh is right out of the gate.  Riley's post-game told me we hired a coach that has gotten used to losing. 

 
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