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Hiring Mike Riley, as if he was going to raise the program from 8-9 wins to NC contenders was weapons grade stupidity.
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Some programs can sustain better than others with bad coaching, but ultimately they will all struggle. ND has seen it. USC, Texas, Bama, Miami, Penn State, Michigan, etc.
No one is immune to it.
Nebraska will find a great coach at some point (perhaps they have) and they will be great again.
how was Clemson before Sweeney? USC before Carroll? OU before Stoops? TX before Brown? Georgia... Washington....etc...etc..
It's all about getting the right coach, period.
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Saban in his first year won 7 games, then 12 wins in year two, 14 in year three, then 10, 12, 13, 11, 12, 14, 14, and 13.
The dead cat laying in the street around the corner would be reeling in recruits with those kinda wins year to year.
That means no more Texas in recruiting, or California for that matter.
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Bethune Cookman later this year, to answer this question. Frost has been throwing the players under the bus all year long. Bad scene
in Lincoln. Even the homer sports writers don't buy it
While coaching choices are part of the problem, Nebraska's woes go beyond coaching. The move to the Big 10 is a major part of the demise of the program. While they were in the Big 12, they were located midst the teams in the conference. One good coach, Bob Devaney, got them started to elite status and they stayed there a long time, thru the Osborne era. They had recruiting success in Texas and other areas rich in talent. God knows they needed it because Nebraska has very little. As they stayed high in the rankings, they could draw individual talent from all over the country.
Then they join a conference where most of the power and interest is located much farther away from home base. Kids in that part of the country stopped thinking of UN. Suddenly, Oklahoma State, TCU, Baylor, and the rest of the league drew all the attention of recruits. Kids in Big 10 country look to UM, OSU, PSU, IA, WI (and us) for good programs. Nebraska is now on par with Kansas teams. They have no talent pool to draw on. Think they are done. I think the same thing happened to PSU. They have been lucky that Michigan has struggle or else they become another Nebraska.
When people urge ND to join a conference, I cringe because of the above. We have recruit nationwide. That would end. We localize recruiting area to where ever are our conference would be in, whether Big 10 or ACC. A couple of bad years and we fall in recruiting level to the lower rungs of the conference, like Wake or Duke or BC in ACC or Minn, Ind, PU, Rutgers in the BIg10. Once that happens, we would be done. We can never be in a conference, even if it makes it more difficult to get into the NC playoffs. Better to push for expansion of teams.
Time to dust off this ass-clown's infamous quote upon the firing of Frank Solich, who went 58-19 at Nebraska.
"This is the best job in the country, and anyone who doesn't want to win the national championship shouldn't bother applying for this job,'' Pederson said at a news conference in Lincoln, Neb. ''I understand we aren't going to win the championship every year, but I believe we should be playing for or gaining on the championship on a consistent basis. I don't feel that currently we are playing for or gaining on the championship.
''I refuse to let the program gravitate into mediocrity,'' Pederson said. ''We won't surrender the Big 12 to Oklahoma and Texas.''
Pederson was fired four years later. Nebraska is 113-72 since Solich was fired.
Let this serve as a reminder that things can ALWAYS get worse.
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"We weren't good enough in the games that mattered," athletic director Shawn Eichorst said in his meeting with the media that lasted nearly 35 minutes. "I didn't see that changing at the end of the day."
"Asked for comment, Pelini wrote in a text to The Associated Press, "I'm good. Thanks for asking!''
Pelini is coaching Youngstown State now. 'Nuff said.
it will be a hard fall. Frost was supposedly a great coach last year.
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Didn't they rely heavily on top recruits from Big 12 country (e.g., Texas and Oklahoma) back in the 80s and 90s?
to convince many in state kids to walk on. The kids flipped
them off, went to Iowa and kicked their ass
we went to watch the Mich-Neb game. they are horrible in every aspect of the game. it will take Frost some time to right the ship
for their fans.