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HorseshoeFetish
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A guy like Hugh Freeze could probably flourish in the environment. Wonder what he's up to.
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
Please God let this happen. It's a good step up but not too far up and we get to watch him more often.
Aside from anyone in the S&G, and of course Gus, he's my favorite CFB personality.
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Nebraska needs to embrace a system where 3* athletes can flourish. Leach checks off all the boxes. Could do a lot worse.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Nebraska football mailbag: Crunching the numbers on Huskers’ buyouts
I’m glad you asked. I actually addressed this earlier this season, and I’ve noticed the piece that I wrote has picked up steam again. This gives me another opportunity to address the numbers surrounding another Nebraska buyout.
The answer to your first question is one, and that’s Bo Pelini. Nebraska owes him $128,009 per month, which was dropped from $150,000 per month after he was hired at Youngstown State. His buyout contract is on the books until February 2019.
If Nebraska parts ways with Riley, they’ll owe two coaches at the same time for a little over a year. Riley’s buyout contract would then extend through February 2021.
The math works out like this: If Riley is fired after the Iowa game (so, end of November), Nebraska would pay two coaches for 14 months totaling $4,172,126. On top of that, Riley would then be owed another $4.8 million if he didn’t land another job.
Can Nebraska afford to let Riley go? The short answer is yes, because Nebraska isn’t exactly hurting for money. However, you don’t want to keep going down this path and owing more and more buyouts. That’s something athletic director Bill Moos will keep in mind as he evaluates, because you’d like to find a stable replacement if Riley is let go. Even if you can afford it, nearly $9 million in buyouts still owed is a big deal (especially when that money could be used elsewhere).
Entire article: https://www.landof10.com/nebraska/nebraska-football-mailbag-huskers-buyouts
I didn't know Pelini will be getting Nebraska money until Feb 2019.
I’m glad you asked. I actually addressed this earlier this season, and I’ve noticed the piece that I wrote has picked up steam again. This gives me another opportunity to address the numbers surrounding another Nebraska buyout.
The answer to your first question is one, and that’s Bo Pelini. Nebraska owes him $128,009 per month, which was dropped from $150,000 per month after he was hired at Youngstown State. His buyout contract is on the books until February 2019.
If Nebraska parts ways with Riley, they’ll owe two coaches at the same time for a little over a year. Riley’s buyout contract would then extend through February 2021.
The math works out like this: If Riley is fired after the Iowa game (so, end of November), Nebraska would pay two coaches for 14 months totaling $4,172,126. On top of that, Riley would then be owed another $4.8 million if he didn’t land another job.
Can Nebraska afford to let Riley go? The short answer is yes, because Nebraska isn’t exactly hurting for money. However, you don’t want to keep going down this path and owing more and more buyouts. That’s something athletic director Bill Moos will keep in mind as he evaluates, because you’d like to find a stable replacement if Riley is let go. Even if you can afford it, nearly $9 million in buyouts still owed is a big deal (especially when that money could be used elsewhere).
Entire article: https://www.landof10.com/nebraska/nebraska-football-mailbag-huskers-buyouts
I didn't know Pelini will be getting Nebraska money until Feb 2019.
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This is the key point, and not just from a money standpoint. Nebraska is a CFB blue-blood. They have an incredibly rich history. The further we move away from the nineties, however, the more they drift into irrelevance. People still argue about whether firing Solich was the right move. In a way, I'd say it was. He lost 10 games over his last two years, and was annihilated in the 2001 NC game. Nebraska was on a downward trajectory. Their AD's statement that he "wasn't going to allow Nebraska to drift into mediocrity" or whatever it was, was the right sentiment. Choosing Bill Callahan as his agent of change was an enormous misstep. The guy won with Jon Gruden's players and system, then fell flat on his face. It was a ridiculous hire.
Bo Pelini seemed like a good call to replace him. He was a defensive minded guy that was supposed to get them back to their blue-collar, smashmouth, great defensive identity. Bo had/has a lot of faults, and made several grave errors. One, aside from the a great defense in 2009 with Suh, and a pretty good one the following year, he never got the defense back to the "blackshirts" status the fans wanted. Two, instead of implementing a smashmouth, run-based offense, he went with Tim Beck (UGH) and a spread-based offense that they just could never recruit the athletes to execute at the level needed to be more than a 4-loss team every year. Add on his grating personality, and he was never going to get that program back to where they think they should be.
Riley was an odd fit from the start. Yes, he managed to find some success at Oregon State, a traditional doormat. But that was a program with zero expectations, where you could win 8-9 games every couple of years, pull off the occasional upset, and you're 100% safe. Nebraska is not happy being an "okay" program. And Riley hasn't even got them there. It literally seems like he was hired because he was a pleasant guy...or the exact opposite of Bo.
Now, they're probably at a true crossroads. They're 16 years removed from being relevant on the national stage, and need to find somebody to get them out of a pretty deep ditch. I'm not sure, in today's climate, NU can ever be a national title contender again. They just lack the local talent, and can't get by recruiting marginal kids from California, Texas and Florida nowadays like they did in the 80s and 90s. Prop 48 is dead. They need to hope that Scott Frost is the real deal and is willing to come home to Nebraska to resurrect his alma mater. If that happens, they need to be willing to accept Wisconsin-level success. Frost is a Chip Kelly disciple, so he's not gonna deploy a smashmouth RB-based offense like Wiscy has built their success on. But, maybe he can implement a system that makes them a B1G West power that can occasionally challenge for a conference title and make a New Years Six bowl.
They whiff on this hire, they're over.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Pelini purchased this 6,000 sqft home in 2015 for $980,000.
Check out all the pictures: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3976-Montereale-Dr_Canfield_OH_44406_M48571-91415
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You literally can't find but about a dozen houses that big on Oahu. My house, which is not even 20 years old yet and a fifth the size (1,150 sq ft) of that place will get me about $750,000-$800,000 when I sell it after I pay it off in 18 months. By the way, my "yard" is just a little bit bigger than the small patch of grass between house entrance, the sidewalk, and the driveway (0.09 acre).Pelini purchased this 6,000 sqft home in 2015 for $980,000.
Check out all the pictures: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3976-Montereale-Dr_Canfield_OH_44406_M48571-91415
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Thank you fine people of Nebraska.Pelini purchased this 6,000 sqft home in 2015 for $980,000.
Check out all the pictures: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3976-Montereale-Dr_Canfield_OH_44406_M48571-91415
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I think they could have Wiscy-level success if they wanted it.
That said, they were at a crossroads a long time before now. Riley was a lame duck from the moment he was announced. Nice guy though he is.
On the topic of Wisconsin, the Badgers have taken it to them hard every year, and frequently it's an ass-kicking too. It's like Madison has that game circled for whatever reason - have the Cornhuskers even won since joining the Conference?
I think a guy like Leach could give the Badgers a lot more trouble than Frost. I just don't see them getting the quality of athlete Oregon gets. And while the B1G West is down, it's still a smashmouth power conference... 3star Florida kids in Lincoln would be a mini repeat of RichRod imo.
Finally, the Coach that embarassed the shit out of them just got released from Oregon State. I said it then, and I'll say it again now... Nebraska got the raw end of that deal. Anderson in Lincoln with a grudge against Wisconsin could be interesting. He knows what kind of players they need. And we all know Nebraska's admissions aren't going to get in the way like Wisconsin after being ranked 109 in AAU.
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ExpatAkronite
Cascadia Subduction Zone
Anderson didn't get released. He walked out. And left 12 mil. on the table. After that and Wiscy I'd be surprised to see him in a power 5 job again. And from what rumors here suggest he probably doesn't want to.
edit: Also, I don't see the Pirate as a cultural fit at Nebraska. Pelini rubbed fans one way and Leach would rub them another. On the Palouse it doesn't matter--the alumni is in Seattle and Portland and scattered throughout the west. Plus, they're already still paying Pelini, would have to buyout Riley and Leach's buyout is another 5 mil. It all adds up pretty quickly. Corn is kind of fucked.
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