Collins, Valentine, Davis Brothers, Gregory, Mcmullen, Moss
They would beg to differ, terrible arguement.
Ok, have it your way then. He had great players, he was just a terrible coach.
Collins, Valentine, Davis Brothers, Gregory, Mcmullen, Moss
They would beg to differ, terrible arguement.
Yet we lost at home to who last year? Embarrassed? They won the game, get over that we should win 78 - 0 it isn't happening anymore
Lack of progress is an interesting concept.
......oh to have been a fly on Tom Osborne's wall circa 1979.
Tom Osborne was objectively a better coach based on the standards of that era. This was a clumsy argument 10 years ago and it still is today.Lack of progress is an interesting concept.
......oh to have been a fly on Tom Osborne's wall circa 1979.
I didn't think firing Bo was idiotic. I hated watching teams run all over us. Hiring MR was definitely idiotic.That's fascinating because most of the people I know, most of the online polls I saw at the time, and most of the conversations I had with university officials (off the record and on the record) and the public when I covered his firing as a reporter suggested the opposite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Regardless, no, his firing wasn't "idiotic." There was, as there is now, plenty of evidence to support his firing. Of course, that doesn't mean BP was a total failure or that he can't be given credit for anything as you have tried to suggest in the not-so-distant past in your ongoing quest to defend BP from criticism.
I thought Bo got a raw deal from Perlman. It must have been tough coaching when you know the head rat wants you fired. I still though Bo had to go because it is not acceptable to let teams run the ball down your throat repeatedly and not adjust.Forget about Bo's temper. Like pretend that it didn't exist and had nothing to do with his job or firing. Enter a thought experiment where Bo is just a nice pleasant no nonsense kind of coach who puts himself together wrong.
Still needed to go. We were further away from competing for championships in year 7 than we were in year 1. SEVEN YEARS of program building with absolutely no progress to show for it. Still losing by 30+ points at least once a year. Still giving up all-time NCAA record performances. Still falling flat on the biggest stage. Still being embarrassed by teams like McNeese State. Still recruiting at a mediocre level.
Yes, he was a good coach. But he wasn't anything more than that. Good isn't good enough. You've gotta try to be great. When someone's had that long to show you what they are, if it's not great or at least showing glimpses of a potential to be great, enough time has been spent.
I thought Bo got a raw deal from Perlman. It must have been tough coaching when you know the head rat wants you fired. I still though Bo had to go because it is not acceptable to let teams run the ball down your throat repeatedly and not adjust.
I thought Bo got a raw deal from Perlman. It must have been tough coaching when you know the head rat wants you fired. I still though Bo had to go because it is not acceptable to let teams run the ball down your throat repeatedly and not adjust.
The Perlman/Pelini thing is not a case of the chicken or the egg.So you think that Bo had to go, but Perlman was a rat for agreeing with you?
Perlman being a rat has nothing to do with agreeing with me on this single point, and had TO remained athletic director, Bo's behavior and performance may have been different.So you think that Bo had to go, but Perlman was a rat for agreeing with you?
No he wasn't wrong.I think Bo had a lot of fan support, or at least fans who weren't ready to fire him in 2014. Those fans were nicer than Bo deserved. Bo was wrong about the crowd at the Ohio State game. Nebraska fans are actually pretty smart about what makes good football.
And the firing was by no means idiotic. Bo did not want to be at Nebraska and had his agent fishing for every college vacancy since 2011. It wasn't that he was mean, or used bad words, or that people were too sensitive. It's that he valued loyalty above all and mistrusted anyone who might challenge him. He circled the wagons and turned his team against their own fans. He was an a$$h@!e in 2003, too.
And if firing the coach with the 9 win magic was idiotic, Bo Pelini would have been swept up by another Power 5 school, rather than pulling his same tired schtick at Youngstown State on the way to a 27 - 22 record.
Perlman being a rat has nothing to do with agreeing with me on this single point, and had TO remained athletic director, Bo's behavior and performance may have been different.
Perlman being a rat has nothing to do with agreeing with me on this single point, and had TO remained athletic director, Bo's behavior and performance may have been different.