So we have yet another high profile job opening up...with our coach and team having one of its best years in a long while.
I'll be glad when next football season starts already.

Edit At Memphis with a 9-3 record year in and year out....the guy would have a building or a road named after him somewhere.

That job is a pressure cooker. Pellini won 9 games each year and it still didn't satisfy them. What coach is his right mind would want that job? It reminds me of LSU years ago after they won their first national championship under Paul Dietzel. They thought they should win it every year. They ran off some pretty successful coaches and then began to flounder before they finally righted the ship again. Everything and everybody in that state is concentrated on Nebraska football.

My wife and I lived in Omaha for a couple of years. Nebraska football is like the only thing sports wise for the state to rally around, outside of the CWS. They absolutely love their football. They were extremely successful from the early 70s through the end of Osborne's tenure in the late 90s. After 3 decades of competing for national championships, they aren't going to settle for anything less.

I never thought Pelini was a good fit there, even personality wise. He seemed to be a polar opposite of Tom Osborne. Fuente seems a lot more like Osborne but here is hoping that the brass in Lincoln isn't comfortable with Fuente only being a head coach for 3 years. I could honestly see Fuente being a great fit there.

Recruiting wasteland.

A "recruiting wasteland" hasn't seemed to hurt them too much over the years. They have 5 national titles to show for it.

(12-01-2014 09:19 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  A "recruiting wasteland" hasn't seemed to hurt them too much over the years. They have 5 national titles to show for it.

Times have changed a lot since their last NC in 1997. Very hard to get players to Lincoln from out of state and HS football in Nebraska is less than stellar.

(12-01-2014 10:30 AM)memphis88 Wrote:  

(12-01-2014 09:19 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  A "recruiting wasteland" hasn't seemed to hurt them too much over the years. They have 5 national titles to show for it.

Times have changed a lot since their last NC in 1997. Very hard to get players to Lincoln from out of state and HS football in Nebraska is less than stellar.

Why is it any more difficult to get to players to Lincoln from out of state than getting players to Norman Oklahoma? If Nebraska hires the right coach, they will be right back where they were. They have tradition, a winning culture, top notch facilities and a rabid fan base. The right coach will get players to Lincoln. BTW, Nebraska high school football has produced numerous corn fed linemen who went on to play at Lincoln and become All-Americans. Milford North also produced Eric Crouch who went on to win a Heisman at Nebraska as a quarterback.

I don't think Nebraska will go after Fuente at this point because he doesn't have the track record yet. I was just saying I see a lot of Osborne in Fuente. Osborne had a great sideline demeanor. You never saw Osborne coming unglued in games like Pelini. Osborne always had his teams prepared and it showed on game day, much like Fuente.

I hope we keep Fuente for a long time because he is going to be incredibly successful wherever he is.

(12-01-2014 10:49 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  

(12-01-2014 10:30 AM)memphis88 Wrote:  

(12-01-2014 09:19 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  A "recruiting wasteland" hasn't seemed to hurt them too much over the years. They have 5 national titles to show for it.

Times have changed a lot since their last NC in 1997. Very hard to get players to Lincoln from out of state and HS football in Nebraska is less than stellar.

Why is it any more difficult to get to players to Lincoln from out of state than getting players to Norman Oklahoma? If Nebraska hires the right coach, they will be right back where they were. They have tradition, a winning culture, top notch facilities and a rabid fan base. The right coach will get players to Lincoln. BTW, Nebraska high school football has produced numerous corn fed linemen who went on to play at Lincoln and become All-Americans. Milford North also produced Eric Crouch who went on to win a Heisman at Nebraska as a quarterback.

I don't think Nebraska will go after Fuente at this point because he doesn't have the track record yet. I was just saying I see a lot of Osborne in Fuente. Osborne had a great sideline demeanor. You never saw Osborne coming unglued in games like Pelini. Osborne always had his teams prepared and it showed on game day, much like Fuente.

I hope we keep Fuente for a long time because he is going to be incredibly successful wherever he is.

Everything in my post was from CFB writers and/or current and former Nebraska players and recruits. Something else they all said was that Nebraska can't expect another Osborne to come walking through the door.

(12-01-2014 11:00 AM)memphis88 Wrote:  

(12-01-2014 10:49 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  

(12-01-2014 10:30 AM)memphis88 Wrote:  

(12-01-2014 09:19 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  A "recruiting wasteland" hasn't seemed to hurt them too much over the years. They have 5 national titles to show for it.

Times have changed a lot since their last NC in 1997. Very hard to get players to Lincoln from out of state and HS football in Nebraska is less than stellar.

Why is it any more difficult to get to players to Lincoln from out of state than getting players to Norman Oklahoma? If Nebraska hires the right coach, they will be right back where they were. They have tradition, a winning culture, top notch facilities and a rabid fan base. The right coach will get players to Lincoln. BTW, Nebraska high school football has produced numerous corn fed linemen who went on to play at Lincoln and become All-Americans. Milford North also produced Eric Crouch who went on to win a Heisman at Nebraska as a quarterback.

I don't think Nebraska will go after Fuente at this point because he doesn't have the track record yet. I was just saying I see a lot of Osborne in Fuente. Osborne had a great sideline demeanor. You never saw Osborne coming unglued in games like Pelini. Osborne always had his teams prepared and it showed on game day, much like Fuente.

I hope we keep Fuente for a long time because he is going to be incredibly successful wherever he is.

Everything in my post was from CFB writers and/or current and former Nebraska players and recruits. Something else they all said was that Nebraska can't expect another Osborne to come walking through the door.

Fair enough. My comments were based purely on my experience while living there. I still think the right coach will win big there and I don't think their fan base will settle for anything less. Time will tell. It will be interesting to see who they hire.

Nebraska announced Mike Riley from Oregon State as their new head coach.

(12-04-2014 03:06 PM)tigerg Wrote:  Nebraska announced Mike Riley from Oregon State as their new head coach.

Now we have to worry about the Oregon State job and whoever takes the Michigan job.