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Coaching changes: coaches hired and fired, comings and goings

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So they'd rather hire a guy who's greatest post-season achievement to date is winning two Grey Cups (in 1988 and 1990) while having to eat $150K a week for 51 weeks to pay off a guy who was 67-27 in his career at your school.

Riley has four 9-win seasons in 14 years of coaching at Oregon State. Pelini won nine games all 7 years he was at Nebraska. Maybe Pelini needed to go, but Riley isn't the answer.

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NFBuck said:
Initial shock aside, and trying to look at this objectively...I still have nothing. I don't think it'll be a disastrous hire. I mean, most everybody says he's a pretty good coach that gets the most out of limited talent, but is he an upgrade? I see him as the kind of coach that will probably consistently win 8-10 games if he can upgrade the talent he has to work with. But conference titles? National title? Not bloody likely. Looks like it'll be the same 9-4 corn. But it'll be a nicer 9-4, I guess.
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After being at a place for over 10 years, isn't the talent issue partially his own doing? Will he be able to pull talent into Nebraska when he wasn't able to do it with California on his doorstep and guaranteed several conference games down there every year?
Nebraska has a unique situation as it is... I think you put a brand name or young hotshot out there and they'll pull recruits with the tradition, all the more if the AD lines up some home-and-aways with the 5 Texas schools. But put a blue hair that's never recruited well and a sub-500 record... way to reinforce that has-been image.
Nebraska just confirmed that they're Iowa 2.0
 
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kujirakira said:
After being at a place for over 10 years, isn't the talent issue partially his own doing? Will he be able to pull talent into Nebraska when he wasn't able to do it with California on his doorstep and guaranteed several conference games down there every year?
Nebraska has a unique situation as it is... I think you put a brand name or young hotshot out there and they'll pull recruits with the tradition, all the more if the AD lines up some home-and-aways with the 5 Texas schools. But put a blue hair that's never recruited well and a sub-500 record... way to reinforce that has-been image.
Nebraska just confirmed that they're Iowa 2.0
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And that's the rub. Now, recruiting kids to Corvallis, OR has to be one of the hardest jobs in the PAC-12...maybe only WSU and Utah would be harder. Plus, he's having to pick off the scraps from USC, UCLA, Nike, Stanford, and UW. But, recruiting to Lincoln, NE isn't going to be any easier. Yeah, Nebraska is a historical blue blood. But kids that are being recruited were barely alive the last time corn was relevant nationally. Their perception of corn is Callahan and Pelini. So, I don't think it's going to be much easier for him.

Other than being a nicer interview, and probably not getting blown out in big games as regularly, I just don't see how this is an upgrade.
 
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I admit it is near impossible to recruit kids to Corvalis...so he definitely gets credit for the wins against Oregon, USC, etc. with inferior talent. But I agree with @cincibuck in that while a decent hire, was this really worth the Pelini buyout? Is this the guy that takes you to the next level...as in conference championships and getting your team into the playoff mix? I don't see it...
 
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