Rivals is taking a page from the ESPN playbook...
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strigori
All-American
Some of the experts put way too much importance on head coaching experience. Which is where all the knocks are coming from. Sometimes it translates, sometimes it doesnt. What it IS about is 'fit'. The guy needs to fit the job.
I wish I could remember where I read it, but one of the 'experts' wrote something to the effect that the more he has seen of Pelini, the more he thought he was a Bob Stoops clone, and that (his words not mine)"Might turn out to be a homerun, or possibly a grand slam".
Something I think that gets overlooked by the 'experts' is that Pelini has never been a part of a losing team, and from the time spent with OU and LSU, he knows what a program needs to look and run like to compete at the highest level. That exposure is something some of the 'proven' head coaches dont have.
Most of the 'tude the guys seem to cop with the hire is that it wasnt Grobe. But maybe Grobe wouldnt have been a good fit. If he wasnt going to be someone who was going to openly embrace the history and tradition here, he would fail, regardless of anything else. Where Grobe has made a name for himself was with programs with no tradition and no expectations beyond a bowl game every other year. And quite often when coaches move from that level of expectations to 9 wins and conference and national championships those guys fall flat.
I dont think the Div II and Div III schools make one iota of difference to our walk-on program. Most of the walk-ons are asked to walk-on, and by and large, most players who grew up in this state will take that offer over a UNO or Chadron offer.
I wish I could remember where I read it, but one of the 'experts' wrote something to the effect that the more he has seen of Pelini, the more he thought he was a Bob Stoops clone, and that (his words not mine)"Might turn out to be a homerun, or possibly a grand slam".
Something I think that gets overlooked by the 'experts' is that Pelini has never been a part of a losing team, and from the time spent with OU and LSU, he knows what a program needs to look and run like to compete at the highest level. That exposure is something some of the 'proven' head coaches dont have.
Most of the 'tude the guys seem to cop with the hire is that it wasnt Grobe. But maybe Grobe wouldnt have been a good fit. If he wasnt going to be someone who was going to openly embrace the history and tradition here, he would fail, regardless of anything else. Where Grobe has made a name for himself was with programs with no tradition and no expectations beyond a bowl game every other year. And quite often when coaches move from that level of expectations to 9 wins and conference and national championships those guys fall flat.
I dont think the Div II and Div III schools make one iota of difference to our walk-on program. Most of the walk-ons are asked to walk-on, and by and large, most players who grew up in this state will take that offer over a UNO or Chadron offer.
Huskerballz
Starter
This writer probably wouldn't have said the things he did if we had black uniforms...
...just saying. :sarcasm
...just saying. :sarcasm
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as for no. 2&3........they may also be construed as opinions, but i think most all of us, when under the gun and things are f'd up, would tend to hire someone we know rather than entrust a program/company with an unknown quantity. grobe, supposedly wanted to dictate the whole thing. that too can be just as dangerous as the retention of some former coaches as well. we will all have to wait for the hire to play out. check back in 2-3 years for measurable progress.
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REDSTEEL
All-Conference
The Nebraska teams that won the Big 12 would still beat the North teams of today, so how true is it that is tougher now? The problems is that Nebraska went by Mediocrity and and landed in dismal the last four years.
HuskerTrucker
All-Conference
Huh? How do you know that unless they played head to head? Missouri was a pretty good team this past year, as was Kansas. I don't think we will ever know how they would have competed against us back in the days we were winning NC's.
For one thing, our offense was totally a different offense, rushing more than passing. And I also remember that our pass defense could really suck...Osborne liked to play a prevent/nickel defense most of the game, I remember going to games and beating my head against the railing because our defensive backs were playing 10-15 yards off the opposing teams receivers until the last few minutes of the game.
Back then we relied on our defensive line being able to run over a much smaller and weaker offensive line to get to their QB, now everyone is as big and strong as we are...if you don't have people that can cover, you will lose - especially since everyone seems to be passing more now days.
So, you see, there is no real way to know how our championship teams would have competed this past season against KU or Missouri. :rollin
restored_order
Banned
It is purely subjective, but IMO there is no way that either Mizzou or KU would have beaten our teams from 97 or 99.
First, Dr. Tom was the head coach and O-coordinator, he didn't call the D's. Second, you must have missed the enitre 90's because we changed from a read and react defense in the early 90's, to a team that had NFL quality CB's who played mostly man/bump and run coverage, and rarely dropped into zone. Third, our D-lines from those days featured one 300 lb NT, a 290 lb DT, and a couple of ends who weighed in at no more than 260 lbs. I wouldn't say that they ran into many O-lines that had less than a 270 lb average.
DaveH
Team HuskerBoard
I don't normally post on any of these things, but to a point I am tired of everybody, NU and especially MU fans, saying that MU & KU are the class of the north. Where were they before this past year. They were both mediocre teams going nowhere, and all of the sudden after one great year, they are somehow so unbeatable. Both of those teams proved that in college football anything can happen and does. Just b/c NE had a bad few years doesn't mean that all of the sudden the team can't get their act together and become a great program next year!