I think Coach Pellini is just fine. I think it is the expectations thing, which can be cruel. Nebraska fans expect to be B10 title contenders and contenders for a high national ranking, with the goal of national championship in sight. My guess is Pellini is feeling all these pressures and it got the better of him.

(12-01-2013 09:05 PM)HHOOTter Wrote:  Some supposedly Cornsucker insiders say,
Pelini was reconsidered 4 another year for two reasons:
Contract buyout &
Former Ohio St coach Jim Tressel
has one more yr. of NCAA coaching probation
B4 he can coach again.

Tressel has 3 more years of show cause penalty, not 1.

I think Pelini sticks around for at least another year. If Nebraska was going to fire him they would have by now. The problem is who is out there as a replacement? There are so many big name programs that need coaching upgrades, not sure they have much choice but to stick this one out.

If they wait long enough, I do see Tressel at Nebraska...perfect fit.

I wonder if Mike Leach would work at nebraska, he does have the texas connection. I mean if they want a crazy guy as football coach, i would go with leach over Pelini

(12-04-2013 12:28 PM)bluesox Wrote:  I wonder if Mike Leach would work at nebraska, he does have the texas connection. I mean if they want a crazy guy as football coach, i would go with leach over Pelini

I like Leach, but what he does offensively is the polar opposite of Nebraska football.

(12-04-2013 12:28 PM)bluesox Wrote:  I wonder if Mike Leach would work at nebraska, he does have the texas connection. I mean if they want a crazy guy as football coach, i would go with leach over Pelini

If you have ever been in Pullman, Washington, you will understand fully what I am posting.

Leach can go 6-6, 7-5, or 8-4 in Pullman and Wazzu grads and fans will consider him a god.

Leach can go 6-6, 7-5, or 8-4 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and end up being thrown in a pot of stew by Nebraska fans just like Pellini and the coach that followed Osborne, Frank Solich.

(11-29-2013 08:00 PM)Gopper Wrote:  

(11-29-2013 05:51 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote:  When will coaches who give sh*tty interviews (like Bill Bellicheck, Greg Popavich, now Bo) realize that, without TV, they would not be making anywhere close to what they are currently making.

lol @ u comparing BB & Pop to Bo

Are all 3 not coaches that give ****** interviews?

(12-04-2013 10:03 AM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(12-03-2013 08:06 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 09:15 AM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 01:48 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  They can find decent recruits elsewhere and create the proper system for those recruits.

The magical "elsewhere." Much easier said than done. And for Nebraska, remember that Lincoln is about as far away from Chicago as it was Boulder, and was already dipping into that part of the midwest/Big Ten region (as was Missouri). Drafting off of Oklahoma's grip in Texas, and Colorado's dalliances on the west coast made Nebraska a great anchor in the great plains with an incredible reach. Now, as the western arm of a Rust Belt conference, and not exactly leaving gracefully and doing whatever was necessary to keep games like Oklahoma, Colorado, a Texas school, or even just Kansas or Missouri on the schedule immediately upon departure...it's not just a good coach who can make up for those losses, and legitimate "double threats" (good coaches and recruiters) don't come often or cheap. I don't know if Nebraska could keep one even if they had one. They need a great coach, incredible staff, and a world class athletic director. Big-time money to keep and maintain that.

But, suppose they do build a new pipeline, and follow Penn State's old trail: PA, NY, eastern OH, MD, NorVA, NJ, and western CT. How do you recruit against PSU academically? How do you recruit against them based on distance from home? How do you recruit against them based on location (both are in the middle of nowhere, but it's not like that can't be remedied with 3-4 hours in a car or bus at PSU)? It's not like you can tell kids they'll be getting games throughout the Midwest, Great Plains, and the Rockies. Based on how the conference will be divided, they won't even get much of a chance to regularly visit Ohio, Michigan, the Beltway, or the NYC area. And when they do, they still have to compete against schools like Rutgers, Maryland, UM, OSU, ACC schools, and maybe even some SEC ones. I'm not quite sure it's any easier a task than what they lost.

Iowa does fine. Our starting quarterback is from Florida and we went 8-4 this year. I think it is more ridiculous that you are trying to sell the line that Nebraska absolutely needs Texas recruiting when there are other locations that Big Ten schools all recruit from just fine. Of course you will respond with the usual simple response of Big Ten football being boring slow and blah blah blah due to whatever you wish to concoct as your reason for such. It doesn't matter. The Big Ten will continue to get as much consideration as any other conference if not more. The Big Ten will continue to have just as good of Bowl Contracts as any other conference.

Nebraska is better off in the Big Ten than in the Big 12 where they were already trailing off and were already not recruiting Texas well. Take a look at their roster sometime if you actually wish to do some research rather than just making kneejerk responses.

Nebraska will be fine. The popular mindset of condemning the Big Ten is just downright amusing. You talk about how bad Nebraska has it in the Big Ten and their poor recruiting ability. I bet they go to a better bowl this year than most of the Big 12 does.

Enjoy that Fiesta Bowl! The Big 12 is landing the same opponent for their champion that some of our "mediocre" schools with "poor recruiting" schedule early in the year for regional, geographically based game.

Haters will always find excuses for their hate. Keep hating, I approve!

Another swing and a miss.

The concern over Texas, it's not just a football recruiting thing. I think the school has gone through so much over the last few decades with their enrollment profile, the deterioration of morale in the school among its faculty (and its bad faculty retention, which was said to be a big red flag in their AAU assessment), and the disgrace of losing the AAU distinction that during the whole thing (and this has been going on for well over a decade there prior to the expulsion), the school itself just didn't do a good job with its alumni pockets in other states. I suspect that with a happy, well nurtured alumni pocket/satellite office, coaches and their recruiting habits would be insignificant. If Nebraska isn't doing well in places like Texas, it's not just because of a coach. It's because the school in general doesn't have the support in that state where it once did. Either the alumni turned their backs on the school, or the school turned their back on them.

You say I swung and missed? THIS is your reason why high school kids whom are being recruited to play football don't want to go to Nebraska?

Sure thing buddy. Keep thinking that was a smart post.

Eh, could be worse