B1G CCG: Nebraska -2.5 vs Wiscy at Indy (ov/un 48.5) Sat 8:15 Fox

[WolverineMike]

On the facts, yes.
On the humor, no.

at least I got funny going for me........ The day I get mad over a message board is the day I quit life.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

at least I got funny going for me........ The day I get mad over a message board is the day I quit life.

Is that a promise? I just want to know how hard we should be trying to get you mad.

 

[knapplc]

at least I got funny going for me........ The day I get mad over a message board is the day I quit life.

You have funny because your team didn't just shit the bed in front of God and everyone. Again.

It's fun to dredge up old times and all, and we do have scoreboard on you guys, but other than that... kinda sucks amongst the corn fields these days.

 

[Bucky32]

You have funny because your team didn't just [Mark May] the bed in front of God and everyone. Again.

It's fun to dredge up old times and all, and we do have scoreboard on you guys, but other than that... kinda sucks amongst the corn fields these days.

Knapp...see any coaching changes forthcoming for NU next year? (I'm seriously asking, as I haven't a clue).

 

[WolverineMike]

D Cooridnator would be my first guess at a change.

 

[BB73]

D Cooridnator would be my first guess at a change.

After they just gave up 70? Your insights are a real asset to this board.

 

[WolverineMike]

After they just gave up 70? Your insights are a real asset to this board.

thanks, I do all I can

 

[alexhortdog95]

Knapp...see any coaching changes forthcoming for NU next year? (I'm seriously asking, as I haven't a clue).

Only time will tell. After [Mark May]ing the bed last Saturday, he might have coached himself out of a job in the SEC:

Old News Linky Here

Arkansas may target Pelini as next coach

By Sam McKewon World-Herald News Service | 1 comment

LINCOLN - A college football coaching website said Tuesday that Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long - who's looking for a permanent coach after firing Bobby Petrino last spring - could target Nebraska coach Bo Pelini.

FootballScoop.com - which tracks college job changes and trends from Division I down to NAIA - reported that Long is 'very interested' in speaking with Pelini about a likely vacancy once one-year interim coach John L. Smith is let go.

Keep in mind, it's a couple weeks old, and it's by McKewon, FWIW. Then, there's this article by Shatel in the OWH the other day too:

Shatel: Osborne says loss could help NU

Wild two days. The suggestion box runneth over with passion and opinion. Calls for a new coach. Staff changes. Some fans say they're stuck with this guy, and this time they aren't talking about the columnist.

Just the normal drama after a 70-31 loss in the Big Ten championship game.

Only one person made the comment that the loss to Wisconsin could end up helping Nebraska next year. Only one 'fan' made the connection to the 1996 Fiesta Bowl.

Guess who?

"You know, I thought one play really started the whole thing the other night," Tom Osborne said. "They got us on a reverse. They got us on a couple misdirection plays. And our guys started to overcompensate to the outside, and then they got us in the middle. They got us a little out of kilter.

"We did the same thing to Florida in 1995. The next year, Steve Spurrier won the national championship. Sometimes a game like that can be instructional. It can end up helping you. But right now, it seems like the sky is falling."

Of course, that loss to Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl inspired Spurrier to replace his defensive coordinator with a guy named Bob Stoops. That turned out to be a missing piece.

Late Monday afternoon, Osborne said he was 'trying to recover.' But he's not recommending any changes to the coaching staff.

When the outgoing AD - who is beloved in the state, and one of the greatest CFB coaches of all time - says he's trying to RECOVER - that ain't good for your job outlook.

EDIT: Here's a follow up piece by McKewon from the other day. And it's pretty telling on where change needs to happen:

Skewer Time

INDIANAPOLIS - Such a lovely city for an autopsy. Maybe Nebraska can return one day and give a proper accounting of its football program.

When - if - it does, the Huskers may have different coaches.

I'm not even hinting Bo Pelini needs to go anywhere. I'm trying to give him a little advance credit. After his team imploded for the sixth time in two seasons, using the words 'we failed' after the 70-31 loss to Wisconsin, Bo must know.

Bo must know that he's primarily paid almost $3 million to find, sign and develop players - not run a graduate school of coaching. Pelini gives young guys chances. He got his own chance as a young guy in the NFL, so he's paying it forward. Respectable. But not to this extent.

Aside from Ron Brown, there isn't any coach on the Huskers' staff who can tell Bo much about BCS-level football that he wouldn't already know, and he's been coaching in college since only 2003.

 

[knapplc]

Knapp...see any coaching changes forthcoming for NU next year? (I'm seriously asking, as I haven't a clue).

It's complicated. We have systemic issues in the coaching staff, so we either make large-scale changes or we get a lot smarter, real quick.

We've had three lackluster recruiting classes and we're seeing the results of that in big games this year. Our defense lacks speed at key positions and the overall talent level needs upgrading. We have, allegedly, some bright young guys in the wings waiting for their chance, but if they aren't as advertised, no amount of coaching changes are going to fix what ails us.

Bo is also loyal to "his guys" to a fault. That's why you see slower, less athletic Seniors playing when we have (again, allegedly) underclassmen who could play and make an impact, but who are mired down in the depth chart.

The same loyalty issues affect the coaching staff. Our O Line has lacked fundamental skills since Bo arrived, but our O Line coach, Barney Cotton, is sacrosanct. We have two separate assistants helping Cotton coach the O Line - but Barney still has a job. Doesn't make a lot of sense.

We're a weird team. We're coached by a "defensive genius" yet our defense hemorrhages points and yards like crazy. We have a hot/cold QB who at times gives the opponent free touchdowns, but who will easily walk out of Nebraska holding every possible quarterback record. You can't bench him, because he'll rip off a run like we saw in the CCG.

It's a frustrating time to be a Husker. We're on the knife's edge every game.

 

[alexhortdog95]

Bo is also loyal to "his guys" to a fault. That's why you see slower, less athletic Seniors playing when we have (again, allegedly) underclassmen who could play and make an impact, but who are mired down in the depth chart.

The same loyalty issues affect the coaching staff. Our O Line has lacked fundamental skills since Bo arrived, but our O Line coach, Barney Cotton, is sacrosanct. We have two separate assistants helping Cotton coach the O Line - but Barney still has a job. Doesn't make a lot of sense.

You have to appreciate the irony of the situation. The last guy who was here was loyal to his friend too. The Defensive Coordinator. You remember, this guy:

If I remember correctly, he had some defensive 'problems' too....

Bo is suffering from Cozgrovitus.