Maybe an embarrassing bowl loss would help move things along. It was a very pitch forks and torches mood in the commuter lot Friday after they blew yhat lead. Kirk has absolutely lost the fan base.
Imo, people read too much into the NIU thing. The MAC has come a long way, but Northwestern(ans Illinois) should not worry about NIU. It's much easier academically to get athletes into NIU. Much harder with NW and Illinois. I would say it's a fair amount easier to win at NIU than Illinois/NW. The only thing holding you back is your market/size of your school. If you want a kid, you can most likely land him, and not have Zook classes happen where all your recruited 4/5 star athletes wash out into Junior colleges.
They could be NIU if they went to the Mac.Most FBS wins since 2010: NIU 55, Oregon 55, Alabama 53, Florida State 53, Stanford 51
Maybe NIU doesn't have the requirements the BIG schools have, but NIU is on their 2nd coach during this run and keeps playing for championships. Yet Illinois is celebrating a great 6 win season which includes wins over Youngstown State, Western Kentucky and Texas State.
If you want to take out NIU fine, why can't Illinois be Wisconsin? I mean 1 conference title in the last 25 years?
Looks like McElwain is the leading candidate at Florida. Good for them if they can swing it financially.
Also looks like UW-Whitewater's HC is the new HC at Buffalo. 101-6 at UWW, which is quite frankly an insane number no matter what level. Leipold coached at Nebraska a few years, thought he could be a very under the radar option at Nebraska since our AD was the AD there as well.
I guess Rivals is throwing Jim Tressel's name into the Nebraska HC rumor mill. Tressel turns 63 in like a week BTW.
Look beyond the past decade...If you look at history, then Ohio State, Nebraska and Michigan are a practically a wash as far as tradition and prestige goes. The only thing you're right about is there are major disadvantages to recruiting in Nebraska. I certainly don't see it as a "huge difference", especially with where Ohio State was pre-Tressel. Bill Callahan (for all his shittiness) proved that you can recruit talent to Nebraska. I don't think Florida has it as easy as you think it does, either. It's fertile recruiting ground for sure, but they have a lot of competition. Nebraska has deep pockets and fan support that can match any of the major programs out there.
There is no reason to think Nebraska should not be competing for the B1G championship almost every year. They should not be struggling to beat Minnesota and Iowa and they should not be getting obliterated by Wisconsin every fucking year. I'm not really worried about what Michigan fans think...most of the national media saw this coming a mile away after the Wisconsin loss.
I mean, coaches like Earle Bruce, John Cooper, Gary Moeller, Lloyd Carr all won (multiple) titles at Michigan/Ohio State. None of those are on the level of Osbourne, Woody, Bo, etc., but they still won conference titles. Outside of Devaney and Osbourne, how many conference titles does Nebraska have? They need a coach like Devaney and Osbourne to win - that's what separates them from the truly elite programs. Hell, even Osbourne was Oklahoma's bitch until the 90s.
The question in my mind is - is someone like Osbourne or Devaney out there? That's what Nebraska needs.
Yes, that coach is out there.
there was a story posted on the main board about pelini finding out the irl information of a fan who was being a dick on the nebraska rivals site, and then offering to meet the guy in person at the teams hotel for the texas game in 2010, only to be there with his brother and his trooper to threaten and curse the guy out
We'll see.
Most neutrals would say you were more competitive with Pelini than you've been in 20 years, and now he's not good enough for the fans' comically over-inflated expectations.
What the fuck are you smoking? Nebraska won 3 national championships within the last 20 years. Things didn't start turning south until 2001, so it's more like 13 years ago. The only coaches we've had since then were the final two years of Solich, 4 years of Callahan and Pelini. Solich was better than Pelini overall and Callahan was a turd sandwich. Pelini was a good coach, but he's not even the best coach we had since Osborne retired. If you think this is the most competitive Nebraska has been in 20 years, then you must have started watching college football in 2002 or so.
A lot of Nebraska fans are begging for Tressel. I would riot and burn this entire state to the ground if he even came near campus.
Is he really that bad? I mean, tattoo-gate is nothing as far as the NCAA scandals that have come along since then. I think the "show cause" penalties make this hire very unlikely, but I don't think the guy is satan.
Tressel would be good, but he has a show cause until the end of 2016 (?). He basically can't be hired as a coach until 2017.
Nebraska athletics director Shawn Eichorst fired head coach Bo Pelini on Sunday morning, and naturally wanted to get the word out to his players before they found out through another avenue. With the team scattered across the country over an off weekend and a matter of minutes before the news went national, Eichorst sent the Huskers players an email.
I’ll be honest here, I’m not sure what the right answer is here (maybe a team-wide voice mail?). It’s a tough situation all around. Perhaps But beginning an email with “Dear Football Student-Athlete” isn’t the best bedside manner, especially for a guy who has been criticized as being unapproachable
"Dear Football Student-Athlete" is fairly cringe-worthy.
No reason for dickrod to leave Zona unless he is going to Florida.DickRod to Nebraska
Kiffin to Florida
Harbaugh to Michigan
DONE DEAL
if offered he'd be there faster than you could say dickrodWhy are there all these rumors that DickRod would go to Florida? I would think he learned his lesson in going from a great situation to a great program.
Newest rumor is that Hugh Freeze has a $4.2M offer from Florida, and an offer matching it from Ole Miss to stay. I don't know if he is THAT good of a coach.
He is four years removed from being the OC on a losing Arkansas State team and five years removed from being the head coach at an NAIA school nobody has heard of. I don't know if he is that great of a coach either, but his career trajectory certainly is impressive.
Edit: Now that I look at it, I probably should have said five and six years, but that doesn't change the point any.
It would be a good move to. He screwed up with Michigan because his offense wasn't a good fit and he still would have been successful had they given him half a chance.
Obviously he can come in and take talent and do a decent job with it. Question remains as to whether he can recruit and retain the same level for the long-term. There's a lot of guys who come in, win with the previous coach's players (probably because that coach had finished the rebuilding process and was ready to take a step forward when he was prematurely fired), and then don't do crap once their own players are in the system.
There are 5 obvious losses on Michigan's schedule next year with Hoke as the coach, no chance they would win 9-10 games.