I agree everyone was talking about Nebraska, I'm saying this isn't an isolated incident for Travis. You don't have to be an apologist to be a homer/fan.
Can we talk about Nebraska?...
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Maybe this was posted in the thread yesterday, didn't see it.
The Monday After: ... Nebraska seat getting hot.
Scroll to "Hot Seat of the Week."
The Monday After: ... Nebraska seat getting hot.
Scroll to "Hot Seat of the Week."
Firing Frank was worse. Frank was a good guy and an adequate coach. Still coaching! Firing Bo was a necessity due to his personality and Riley was hired as "Opposite Bo." Maybe not a good reason to hire a coach but they really had to get away from Bo's vulgar, media-hating, fan-hating haughty attitude.
Reading the OWH, it seems the most frequent Husker whipping boy is a guy we are familiar with--Matt Farniok. One article ripped him for getting beat all day by NIU's lightly recruited 200 lb. DE Sutton Smith. It's early in his career, but you've got to wonder what if he made the right decision there.
Firing Solich. IMO, he was on pace to be as good as TO, having won more games in his first six seasons than his predecessor. However, then AD, Steve Pedersen, thought the 7, 8 and 9 win seasons Solich was producing were unacceptable and was the start of Nebraska slipping into mediocrity. Pedersen's thinking was if you bring in NFL caliber coaching, you'll have a college football team playing like an NFL team. Enter Callahan and the rest is history.
Pedersen's remaining career as Nebraska AD was largely filled with distrust and controversy following Solich's firing. He is widely regarded around Lincoln and the state as "the man who killed Nebraska football".
Worst decision: Steve Pederson firing Solich then declaring that "Nebraska was not going to surrender the B12 to Texas and Oklahoma."
No good established coach was going to go into a situation with unreasonable expectations. So they got a leftover like Callahan. They would have been better off finding a young up and coming coach to rebuild in the post 85 scholarship era.
I guess they prefer to surrender the big ten west to Iowa and Wisconsin.
After Peterson was fired from Nebraska he was hired back at Pitt. When got fired at Pitt someone updated his Wikipedia page with his list of accomplishments. Such as destroying Nebraska football. I wish we had screen printed it before it got fixed
IMO that's easy firing Solich, if your f*cking dumb enough to fire a coach for 9-3 you deserve any misfortune that comes your way. Nebraska is rapidly sliding to mediocracy or less and I'm perfectly fine with that.
Solich for sure although the final Riley product is yet to be seen.
I remember Callahan getting a standing ovation because they came out in a spread offense to start his tenure. Little did they know the system is as good as its players.
Those mid-90's teams though. Unbelievable.
For some reason I just saw this but this might be some of my greatest work yet!