Solich Bonus

[NUinID]

The argument of Bo leaving is absurd.

Throw out the W/L, the statistics, sideline behavior, "curb stomping" losses. Throw em out.

Like a previous poster stated: it takes an entire (with a capital C) Culture to be successful at Nebraska.

The facilities and rallies, and stadiums will be half full if we bring in for-hire coaches.

We need Pelini here because he did put the pictures back up, he did reach out to former players, he kicked out the rats and riff raff, he did reconnect the state.

He knows it'll take a guy like burkhead to have a lasting effect on the Culture of a team, to rid a guy like Katchko, etc, to not sow bad seeds. To graduate players first and keep them out of police blotters, to gain confidence of mothers and fathers to send their kid from CA or FL alllll the way to Lincoln.

Then, he'll gain the trust of admissions, of the AD, of the police, of the city, of the state, and finally all of husker nation.

I hate giving up 70 points and 4 losses, but this ain't ur grandmas CFB world anymore. To win at Nebraska, especially after the Callahan DUMPSTER FIRE, is no easy task but Bo is doing it-- and doing it the right way.

Bo is doing so well, it's not even funny.

If solich had stayed, after 7-7 to 10-3...he may have turned it around and left Bo in the same place Tom left him. What we know for sure is if a guy doesn't build the right Culture here (cally) he will fail. And Bo is building the Culture first.

Good post, the football culture at NU is way different than at many places. NU, OU, tOSU, Meechiken all have somewhat similar cultures, but with one difference. They are all a lot closer to the top recruits than Nebraska is. If TO was AD in 2003 FS would never have been fired. Solich and SP didn't like each other and never liked each other when they were underlings. Solich would have had to at minimum make the CC to keep his job. SP thought he was going to save NU football. He did it at Pitt so he thought he could do it at NU. It didn't need to have culture change it just needed a tune up.

 

[husker_99]

So do you stand by your claim that Callahan had one bad year or not?

Yes. I don't count the first year cause he was running an offense he had no players for.

 

[husker_99]

Solich still has to coach those teams he just wasn't handed his achievements. Just like Bo had to coach. both were first time head coaches. The year before Callahan's last we made the conference championship game so you can't blame 1 bad year on the program in a horrible state and no doubt would've happened if Callahan had stayed.

ONE bad year? You do know that Callahan's best year was worse than Bo's worst, right?

So? In the end Bo still hasn't won anything and neither did Callahan.

Bo has actually won 49 games sooo...

So?

 

[NUance]

Solich still has to coach those teams he just wasn't handed his achievements. Just like Bo had to coach. both were first time head coaches. The year before Callahan's last we made the conference championship game so you can't blame 1 bad year on the program in a horrible state and no doubt would've happened if Callahan had stayed.

ONE bad year? You do know that Callahan's best year was worse than Bo's worst, right?

So? In the end Bo still hasn't won anything and neither did Callahan.

Bo has actually won 49 games sooo...

So?

What??

 

[husker_99]

What??

What? What?

 

[Landlord]

So?

Here's what you said:

So? In the end Bo still hasn't won anything and neither did Callahan.

Here's what I said:

Bo has actually won 49 games soooo...

One of these is true and one is false.

 

[BigRedBuster]

I can't believe that 10 years after the fact, we still have multiple page threads about Solich's firing. That reinforces in my mind how absolutely pathetically horrible it was handled.

 

[knapplc]

I can't believe that 10 years after the fact, we still have multiple page threads about Solich's firing. That reinforces in my mind how absolutely pathetically horrible it was handled.

I think this comes up pretty much every offseason. People get bored.

 

[kchusker_chris]

I can't believe that 10 years after the fact, we still have multiple page threads about Solich's firing. That reinforces in my mind how absolutely pathetically horrible it was handled.

I think this comes up pretty much every offseason. People get bored.

The Solich firing comes up because it's the primary defense to any talk of a Pelini firing. It'll always be the case. I don't see Pelini going anywhere after this season with any more than 8 wins. But 8 or 9 wins this season and he'll be on every one of those "seat is getting warm" columns the national writers put together this time of the year, and again towards the end of the year. 8 or 9 in 2014, and he'll start making the "hot" list I think. (assuming there are still blowouts included in those losses). And justifiably so.

Could be worse. Ferentz is batting less than .500 in conference play the last 7 years...and he's still got a fanbase that will defend him (and his salary) to the end. I'd hate to be an Iowa fan knowing that's who will be coaching for the next 4 or 5 years. At least I know Nebraska will eventually hold Pelini accountable if the program stagnates or starts to regress.

 

[Mavric]

I can't believe that 10 years after the fact, we still have multiple page threads about Solich's firing. That reinforces in my mind how absolutely pathetically horrible it was handled.

I think this comes up pretty much every offseason. People get bored.

The Solich firing comes up because it's the primary defense to any talk of a Pelini firing. It'll always be the case. I don't see Pelini going anywhere after this season with any more than 8 wins. But 8 or 9 wins this season and he'll be on every one of those "seat is getting warm" columns the national writers put together this time of the year, and again towards the end of the year. 8 or 9 in 2014, and he'll start making the "hot" list I think. (assuming there are still blowouts included in those losses). And justifiably so.

Could be worse. Ferentz is batting less than .500 in conference play the last 7 years...and he's still got a fanbase that will defend him (and his salary) to the end. I'd hate to be an Iowa fan knowing that's who will be coaching for the next 4 or 5 years. At least I know Nebraska will eventually hold Pelini accountable if the program stagnates or starts to regress gravitates toward mediocrity.

FIFY

 

[kchusker_chris]

FIFY

haha - that quote will go down in Husker history

 

[ShawnWatson]

Its best to respond to husker_99 with limited one syllable words.

 

[knapplc]

I can't believe that 10 years after the fact, we still have multiple page threads about Solich's firing. That reinforces in my mind how absolutely pathetically horrible it was handled.

I think this comes up pretty much every offseason. People get bored.

The Solich firing comes up because it's the primary defense to any talk of a Pelini firing. It'll always be the case. I don't see Pelini going anywhere after this season with any more than 8 wins. But 8 or 9 wins this season and he'll be on every one of those "seat is getting warm" columns the national writers put together this time of the year, and again towards the end of the year. 8 or 9 in 2014, and he'll start making the "hot" list I think. (assuming there are still blowouts included in those losses). And justifiably so.

Could be worse. Ferentz is batting less than .500 in conference play the last 7 years...and he's still got a fanbase that will defend him (and his salary) to the end. I'd hate to be an Iowa fan knowing that's who will be coaching for the next 4 or 5 years. At least I know Nebraska will eventually hold Pelini accountable if the program stagnates or starts to regress.

We get those "hot seat/warm seat" conversations about Pelini, too. Granted, the most recent one here was posted by a foreign agitator, but they exist elsewhere, too. Here's ours from last year: LINK

Near as I can reckon it took until the 98th post of that thread for some nimrod to bring up Solich. But you're right, it happens in every "fire Bo" thread.

Other sources of "hot seat/warm seat" (not including Bleacher Report which has a million):

RantSports

Eleven Warriors

Both from this year. Here's one from CornNation about this time last year:

CornNation

 

[kchusker_chris]

We get those "hot seat/warm seat" conversations about Pelini, too. Granted, the most recent one here was posted by a foreign agitator, but they exist elsewhere, too. Here's ours from last year: LINK

September. Wonder what that poll would have worked out to in December/January when having a warm/hot seat actually matters?

 

[knapplc]

We get those "hot seat/warm seat" conversations about Pelini, too. Granted, the most recent one here was posted by a foreign agitator, but they exist elsewhere, too. Here's ours from last year: LINK

September. Wonder what that poll would have worked out to in December/January when having a warm/hot seat actually matters?