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Nebraska Cornhuskers (corn)

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buckeyebri said:
I think Miles would be a perfect fit at Nebraska.
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I'm thinking that this guy will be the head football coach at Corn next season:

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NFBuck said:
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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I just got back from a trip to Lincoln this evening. I heard the very thing about Solich no less than 3 times.

In a lot of ways, it's a shame what has happened. The fans are congenial, enjoyable and absolutely diehard. If there comes a time in the near future when their sell-out streak ends and attendance just continues to tank; then there will be far-reaching ramifications for not just the university, but also the city of Lincoln. The stadium is the third largest city in the state on Saturdays in the fall.

And just to note, the beginning of winter, the winter at full bore and the end of winter absolutely suck in NE. It's not so much the temperature as the unrelenting wind. Good God, I hate going there any time other than May-September.
 
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