The TRAGIC DOWNFALL of Bo Pelini
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Bo Pelini was supposed to be bring Nebraska football to glory, but he could never take the next step and has maybe left a curse on the program. He went to LSU, but it just didn't work out. So what happened to Bo Pelini and why did he not live up to the hype? Enjoy!
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Should have never fired Frank Solich
agreed
Yes, NU's record would be better if Frank Solich had been the coach all these years.
As a Spartan fan. That's exactly why the Huskers were the never the same again!
True. Solich was better than the coaches who followed. His firing broke the continuation from the Devany years and destroyed the tradition. Frost was hired to regain that tradition but catching lightening in a bottle twice is hard.
Frank Solich wasn’t fired for his coaching. He was fired for drinking more than the kids and banging the AD’s wife
If we had stayed in the big 12 I believe Bo would have been a successful.
The Big 12 was crumbling and Texas was demanding pledges of fealty. It was time to get out, cause looking at it now the Texas 12 conference has become 2nd tier and a bit of a dumpster fire.
Not an option.
As a Nebraska native. Bo also got fired for audio tapes getting leaked of him bad mouthing the fan base. Lot of the wins he got where against bad teams. And the losses were always blowouts.
That at least better than being the bad teams. Which Nebraska is now
Agree. He was a mediocre coach. Lost badly to good teams, and always good for a loss or two against a scrub team.
Not surprised there are fans of his. Mediocrity enjoys company.
@Adam Pounds One of the hallmarks of the Bo era is that whatever shortcomings the team had were ultimately due to bad and undeserving fans. LOL, is this you Bo?
SMFH bad wins okay coach how many time did you win a game in your life time and have a coach tell you that was a bad when lol
I wouldn't call us all horrible about 1/2. I honestly think it's because half of us were around when we didn't lose and the other half hasn't been around when we were winning
At the rate it's going you will have to do a scott frost video in a couple years.
I got a Scott Frost UCF one soon actually
@@ScottFisherCFB Can you do the downfall of Texas Tech football?
To be quite honest, as a Nebraska fan, I believe they will extend him after his current extension is up. Though it may not look like it, Nebraska is really only a few good recruits away from a legitimate bowl game.
@@cooperlee630 yeah but you could say that with ANY college team. it’s the coach that’s supposed to bring in those recruits. I think we need a star qb. martinez or mccaffery is not it
@@cooperlee630 I agree with you
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As a Tennessee fan I would take 9 wins a year
Oh no, we don't need Tennessee fans thinking their actually back.
As a Nole, I’d more than take 9 wins lol. Our fan base needed to be humbled but I think we’ve learned our lesson. Enough is enough lol.
What? You had an 8-0 run from last year to early this year? TN fans are never happy.
Not in a weak power 5 division with little hope for improvement. Tennessee fans ran off Schanio, right?
BOY HOWDY YOU SHUR WOULD!
Pelini was Paranoid. He thought everyone was out to get him. He had the team believing that too. Which was crazy because he had the best fans in America. Then the New AD came in and at the end of the first season with him, he literally asked to be fired. He didn't get fired until a year later. The Riley hire was a disaster.... and Nebraska has not recovered from the lack of talent left in his wake. He recruited kids that wanted the easy way to stardom. Many of those left the team. That's not the Nebraska way. Hard work, and power football has always been the key to success. Frost is doing a lot of weeding in his first 4 years. Made his share of young coaching mistakes. Took Tom O 25 years to win one, hope Frost does it sooner. Or I may not be around to see it.
Riley's classes 30, 26, 23
Scott's classes 23, 17, 20, 24
If you drill down on ranking you can see there is very little difference in teams outside of the top 15. There are 52 teams closer to Scott's #24 than Scott is the #10 FL.
Super Negative Guy. That doesn't work well in Nebraska. People thrive on class, manners, and positivity. For example: Tom Osborne is a total gentleman.
He didn't ask to be fired. That's very misleading. Eichorst was the cause of the whole mess. Eichorst was a prick!
@@billmonroe8826 I agree Eichorst was a problem as well. Barry A's parting gift from wisc
Best fans in America? Not even close.
Nebraska under Pelini:
9-4
10-4
10-4
9-4
10-4
9-4
9-3
Since Pelini:
6-7
9-4
4-8
4-8
5-7
3-5
Pelini got 3 or 4 wins every year off of pre conference hand picked foes and then he got another 4 or 5 wins every year by beating the conference bottom feeders. He rarely beat a top tier conference foe. But at least he won at least 9 games every year. I would love to see 9 wins again.
Scott, thanks for the video. As a born and raised Nebraskan, you live, eat, sleep Cornhusker football. It is hard to believe that it has been 19 seasons since the National Championship Game. This is a program that will win again, but it will take time, and fans of The Big Red are patient, but they also demand results. It is a challenge to recruit and will always be. As far as new videos, the coaches that have already been let go in the NFL, Tom Herman at UT, Lovie Smith at Illinois, Gus Malzahn at Auburn.
HUGE mistake getting rid of Bo. Mike Riley was the biggest joke in Husker history and unfortunately Frost is on track to take that label from Riley
Not sounding like a frost hold on, he needs a little more time. He could and should hire bo as his dc
Bill Callahan?
Bill Callahan
WE USED TO MATTER NOW WE'RE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL AS DEVANEY ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE! THIS PROGRAM IS D. O. A
Frost is 12/20 in 3 years. Most coaches would be fired by now. How much longer before alumni look for someone else.
His downfall really started happening when he confronted taylor martinez on the side line, and got caught on a open Mike trash talking our fans
There are still men in this world! Everything isn't sunshine and rainbows even when it seems so. Sometimes it looks like the sky is falling and it actually a rainbow forming in the sky. Let's all be men it's a damn finger poke. And how many fair weather fans were walking out of the stadium in the Ohio State game. Worried about a kid getting a finger poke in the chest because he was a team captain team leader and he broke the rules. As far as sharp goes in the releasing of the audio you're either with us or you're against us he must not of played football because what happens on the football field and what happens in the locker room as long as it isn't completely disgusting and inappropriate stays in the locker room.
right. you don't humiliate someone on live TV.
@@jamiewelker2785 man I agree to a certain point. I know about the locker room credo. But yeah unfortunately the whole world seen it, and people started calling for his head. I personally liked bo. He had a fire about him. But there's a time and place to dress down your star qb.
The downfall really started when Carl was doing blow during road trips and had an affair with a boosters' daughter-in-law. They moved to fire Carl and Bo flipped out. Osborn stepped in and got Carl a head coaching job at Florida Atlantic just to get him out of Nebraska and appease Bo. Every year after that Bo was good for embarrassing NU at least once per season on a national stage
His downfall started when he failed to upset Texas in the Big 12 championship in 2009
Nebraska didn’t loose that game, the refs lost it for them!
@@shawn180 be accountable and stop blaming forces you can't control. That Nebraska offense was trash and they never tried to reinvent their offensive scheme. They failed due to their own shortcomings and failure to adapt
@@shawn180 Bullshit, they got beat, you should be used to it after going 1-10 against Texas in league play.
@@shawn180 The call to put one second back on the clock was the correct one. The rule states that the time clock stops when the ball hits something. The ball hit the ground with one second left on the clock. I didn't like the outcome but it was the correct call.
@@JESUS-SAVES_1975. the call may be correct but few had seen anything like it before then. And the image of Mack Brown running out on the field, crying, with 1 finger held up is forever burned in everyone’s mind.
Pelini was terrible at Youngstown State. Settling for mediocrity every year. I went from a season ticket holder to not even going to one game in 2018 and 2019. He is like Romeo Crennel, people keep giving him chances as a coach but he's really just an assistant.
32+ yrs combined for Solich and Pelini and only 1 conference championship. 1. Both clearly deserved to be fired.
Same problem every place he's coached. Good at developing guys with potential nfl talent and good game planner. But he is bad at coaching up average players, can't recruit depth and is bad at making in-game adjustments. Also doesn't have the temperament to be a top D1 head coach
It was not just the nine and three record at Nebraska for Bo Pelini. It was his attitude all around. Represented the state horrible as well as the football program.
You failed to mention he was constantly an embarrassment to the University. 9 wins would have been good enough if he was a class act. That off campus meeting with the players showed his true character and disdain for Nebraska. He had to go.
I mean he got them to the conference title game and went 11-1 which as far as Nebraska will ever get for a while
He did not go 11-1 at Nebraska. He always won at least 9 and lost at least 4.
@@willlewis6622 2012
@@Zachhwilliamssssss they went 10-2 in 2012, lost to Ohio state and UCLA, then lost to wisco in the B1G championship, preceded to lose to Georgia
@@Zachhwilliamssssss - wrong. 10 - 4 in 2012.
So do Iowa and Michigan and Penn State and Michigan state every year but thay still dont go anywhere close to the big 10 championship, so 🤷♂️
I have been waiting for this video since we lost to Mississippi State
2:03- Correction: Pelini was LSU DC and helped Toligers to win the 2007 season National title game (Superdome Jan. 2008) NOT 2006 👍
They joked about Pelini going 9-4 every year but Scott Frost has only managed ONE 4-9 season … and that’s his “best” season
The Husker teams under the Pelini program would lose one winnable game each season.. Texas in 2010, Northwestern in 2011, Wisconsin in 2012, and Minnesota in 2013 and 2014. That always set him and the team back. The blackshirt defense seem to regress every year after that stellar 2009 campaign. He never recruited great either. There were a few bright spots (Abdullah, Martinez, Burkhead, Jamal Turner, Lavonte David, Randy Gregory) but he and his coaching staff couldn’t consistently develop the bulk of his players recruited. Sadly this is the same problem Frost is having right now too..
Not to mention the fact that he couldn’t win the big games. 0-3 in conference championships, many big marquee matchups vs Wisconsin and Ohio State would be blowouts.
I called those winnable losses Bo Farts. You're correct, we had one every yr. Plus a blowout loss.
I’m a husker fan, and all I want at this point is a bowl game
what? You may be, but the candya** team doesn't. Remember the "no" vote a week ago?
@Austin Scheuler U are clueless. Look it up and then comeback and delete your post.
@Austin Scheuler you could come back, and
1) correct your post, or
2) delete your post, or
3) comeback without taking ownership that you were clueless.
Are you ok?
@Austin Scheuler No, they aren't. Bring benchmarks proving what you are spurting.
There is nothing that indicates that what Scott is doing is headed right.
Well then you’re a mediocre fan then
Scott Pederson and Shawn Eichorst decided that 9 wasn't enough and hired a buddy in Riley
That was the the bottomless pit.
Had we never hired Riley we wouldn't need Scott frost we wouldn't even be here I never got to fully witness the meaning of a good Nebraska team 😥😥
Pfft, I wish we had him back... 9 wins per season?!?
Frost would die for a 9 win season. Huskers fan for life and i know Scott isn’t that guy
Another great vid bro. Like always I’m throwing Antwaan Randle El and the duo of Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown out there
I always see your comment! Someday my man!!!
Hell yes to both of those, but especially Randle El!
@@ScottFisherCFB I preciate it bubba but you keep up the great work the vids are 🔥🔥 and I’ll just throw the names out from time to time. Should do one on Marion “The Barbarian” Barber RB Minnesota former Cowboys RB who ran everything and everyone over.
@@chancebaraks741 Okay this man is on fire with his recommendations.
Randal El!! I grew up on the north side of Indianapolis and he was the only reason to watch IU football back then. My parents are both alums so we went to a lot of games growing up, always exciting to watch him in college.
When you hit a ref in the face with your hat, you can start packing your bags.
Refs deserve it
Bo's negative emotional outbursts were embarrassing to Nebraska fans and the university. Emotion is a key but it has to be delivered with positive passion not destructive threatening anger. Bo seems to find it difficult to manage his anger.
That and trashing the best fans in the country was DUMB. I was for firing him. Don't let a RB run for 400 yards and then trash ME. lol
How did it work the first time at LSU but not the second? he inherited a broken system and needs more than a year to fix it. Bo Pellini is a DOG and a winner.
If we would have had a supportive administration at Nebraska, he would have never got fired. Harvey and Shawn had it out for him. Good fiery coach. Players lived him. Blue collar coach.
I liked Coach Bo, & the players did too. He had a temper, so did the great, " VINCE LOMBARDI" . The Coaching styles of both were very simular... they both won most of their games. I was proud of the product that Pelini put on the field . The Huskers played hard, and wasn't easily taken down by opponents. Except for a couple games in the Pelini Era were close games. Mostly Single digit or one score losses. After the firing of Coach Bo, season after season, has been all tragedy . It's painful to watch the Nebtaska Football team suffer loss after loss . Blowouts were becoming more and more comman. Up until the 2021 season I was almost embarrassed for the players. Very lackadaisical, and didn't walk with any swagger at all. The 2021 season wins were scarce, Mostly by our own mistakes and self-undoing in tight games, practically inventing ways to lose a game. Late in games or at a crucial times during the game the Husker would shoot themselves in the foot and eventually lose the game. The thing that I noticed was they had their Swagger back. They were still losing but played with pride and expected to win the games when they played one . I was no longer hanging my head down or feeling a deep bruising in my heart , bordering embarrassment when I listened to Husker games on the radio or watched on TV. That's what I missed, the feeling of confidence week after week . I was proud of the boys and knew that they would play with pride the following week. I would no longer have to be embarrassed by their performance or lack of it... Every loss was single score. We could finally play with any opponent again . That's what Frank Solich , and Coach Bo provided, both being let go for not enough wins. To hell with the wins they will come and go. That is Football, that is why they play the games. To play without confidence, Swagger, or pride, to just lay down or give up is totally unacceptable. All I want is to watch the Huskers Proudly, knowing they left it all on the field, did their best, even falling short in the end. It no longer hurts to bleed red in Husker Nation . To Coach Bo and to Coach Frost I'd like to say Thank You. I'm Loving the aura of the Blackshirts , and watch the offense make big plays and first downs . I'm happy to have the opportunity to witness a solid product on the field again ,
" win or lose"
I for one was not happy when Bo got fired for the exact reasons mentioned here. I was happy with 9 wins (think Osborne for 20 years) told the Anti-Bo Husker fans at the time to "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it". What coach to do next? Wait, there's other teams besides Nebraska?? 😉
Can tell you don't know shit about NE football and what happened. It's very simple, Bo didn't like NE, that's it. When you piss off the big donors, and basically spit in their face, you don't deserve to be there coach.
Osborne is the reason that Pelini and Solich got fired. Neb did not want another 22 years of Osborne's 9+ win seasons only to flop most of the time.
@@johnvetick6234 "It's very simple, Bo didn't like NE, that's it. " And you can support this with what? Pelini appeared to be an royal a**, period. He was trying to get over the hump and was feeling the heat and responded true to form as it started getting very hot.
@@johnvetick6234 False. Bo called a spade a spade and some people didn't like that including the over entitled fan base. They are getting their just deserts.
It was Pelini's personality that caused him to be fired from Nebraska.
I BEG TO DIFFER IT WAS THOSE SNOWFLAKE BOOSTERS AND PATSY AD!
@@glenchristenson6308 You can beg to differ all you want. Pelini never handled the pressure of big games well and lost his composure. Osborne had a similar record during his first 7 seasons and was not fired. But Osborne only had 17 blow out losses in 25 years. Look at Pelini in big games in the B1G
@@internationalmatt1 He has like 5 against Wisconsin alone
@@internationalmatt1 Osborne was the reason that Solich and Pelini got fired. Osborne in an interview said he was told by one of the higher ups (after the Miami win, I believe) that he was gonna be fired had he not won that game.
Neb was sick of the 9+ wins a season but flops when it mattered. Solich and Pelini both were on track to mirror that.
"But Osborne only had 17 blow out losses in 25 years." Only? That is a lot.
@@internationalmatt1 "Pelini never handled the pressure of big games well and lost his composure." And that is the reason that Switzer owned Osborne. Osborne wasn't able to get in a coaches or players face at critical moments to get them to the next level.
Can you do a video on HB Samje Perine?
This one's a college basketball one but I think it might be interesting to do a video on Frank Haith, he's left 2 jobs because of recruiting violations and left a pretty good Missouri team to take arguably a step down to become Tulsa's head coach
Nebraska ain’t been shit since he left!
They were ranked 6 at one point since he left but mostly you're correct. You can't fix a broken program over night
@@jakobwedel3168 yea it’s guna take some time, that fan base has to be patient though
@@Mulaa5 I get why the fanbase is antsy. So many fans saw what he did at UCF, bringing a winless team and turning then into an Undefeated team in 2 years and expected him to do that here. Problem is UCF doesn't have a history of excellence like Nebraska does and wasn't nearly as broken as Nebraska was. I think we'll be back to national relevance within the next 3 to 4 years
@@jakobwedel3168 Nebraska has been irrelevant for 20 years. What they did in the 60s,70, and 80s doesn't matter to recruits today.
@@lilcourtny08 Can you please point out where I said Nebraska is relevant right now? Maybe learn to read and you'll see that I said that they're a broken program right now that is going to take some time to fix and brought back to relevance
I think ok state fans need to watch this video when they keep saying fire Gundy
Honestly I grew up with Pelini as coach and never understood why Nebraska would fire him. This team went from contending to be in the championship game every year and being almost like how Iowa is now to being a bottom feeder in the Big 10. It was a huge mistake and Mike Riley just blew it all up and Scott Frost is left to try and salvage anything leftover.
As an Illinois fan, we would take 6 or 7 Consistently. 9 per year would be far above hopes
I feel that man, I-L-L
People hate the man but he was always going 9-3 every year lol. Scott frost has not done anything yet!
I think he lost 4 games most years.
Nebraska just finished his payout last year of 6.5 million. Bo did an outstanding job 9 wins each season and bowl games every year... He wasn't perfect, but the Huskers were in better shape as a program than they have been since 2017
Will you do a legend of series on coaches. I think Urban Meyer, Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney easily deserves their own video if the legend of series happens.
I'd watch that, but I feel like there are some historic coaches who come before them. Pick your favorite OSU or Michigan coach. Or maybe Tom Osborn vs. Barry Switzer. I'd want to see Bear Bryant before Nick Saban. But I do like that idea!
@@matthewbay1978 Historic Michigan coach? LOL, you made my day.
LSU didn’t win the 06 championship Florida did, think LSU won 07
Nebraska has not done that well since they fired Bo (9/10 wins every year).
Piss poor athletic director and Chancellor.
Make a video about Tajh Boyd the old Clemson Quarterback.
The one that got destroyed by my eers in the orange bowl lol
Bo was a great coach and I think we would have a conference championship if he stayed. Didn’t help the AD had it out for him. Frost is in a decent spot right now, plenty of transfer talent and I feel he took a big step in keeping games tight with the powerhouses. The team just simply looked better than it has in years past. We will be fine
I heard Pelinis wife doesn't even unpack her bags when they move to town anymore
For real though I can tell you why you see nebraska's struggle. No good recruits want to live in Nebraska. Its as simple as that. And yes i am a diehard NE fan.... GBR
Honestly, and I can say this because my family is from Nebraska, what are the selling points?
Thanks for the upload. You forgot to mention that Pelini didn't exactly endear himself to Nebraska fans, alumni or administration. That can work if you win but if you're going 9-3 and and up in the annual No Name bowl it wears thin. Have you ever been to Nebraska in the winter? It is a frozen hell, a desolate landscape and there is nothing to do in Lincoln except drink or get in trouble or both. Nebraska is a place no top player really wants to go to so they can't recruit top players anymore-no matter who the coach is.
See, that's what I've been saying, that Nebraska isn't the place people exactly flock to. If you don't know anyone there, it isn't the type of place to vacation. Kids were willing to go to Nebraska back in the day because of their national brand, their traditional rivalry with another national brand, and, most importantly, for the chance to be on television.
They're making more money now in the B1G and are getting more respect, but they don't have any real rivalries (sorry, but the traditional Black Friday game against Iowa just had no zing to it). And, now that everyone gets on TV nowadays, what are the other selling points? Not a whole lot, is there?
Firing him was the end of Nebraska football.
No firing Solich was the end
IT'S THE END OF NEB FOOTBALL PERIOD. D. O. A
U forgot to mention that 1 point lost to Texas was in the Big 12 title game
Husker fan here. One thing that was not mentioned in the video and one of the main reasons the fans turned on Bo was leaked audio of him bashing on the fanbase. Not really something any coach can keep there job through without winning a championship.
Honestly, the biggest mistake Nebraska made was going to the Big 10. In joining the Big 10, they put themselves in a hopeless recruiting situation and the results speak for themselves. Their irrelevancy has only gotten worse.
Pelini should have never been let go. we Husker fans got spoiled, but weren't patient enough to see the big picture. now most of us would kill for 9-3. Bo didn't like the media or doing interviews and they wanted him gone, so that's what happened at Nebraska. the other places I can't speak on. Look how long it took Osborne to have a consistent winning program. Bo, wasn't afforded that luxury because fans were spoiled. now we aren't even getting the 5 star recruits anymore. at least he was able to do that. Riley was a joke that never should have happened.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but has Nebraska football been any good since Pelini was fired? Perhaps it wasn't championship quality, but it seems to me he had the program miles ahead of where it is now.
Big 10 a tougher conference for NU and talent is spread around with scholarship limits and the new TV money has been invested in new facilities for all of their competitors. NU has no local recruiting base and has to depend on dudes from out of state willing to live in a small town with cold winters. Tough sell.
Not a Husker fan myself but grew up with my grandma and dad who were die hard NU fans. Nebraska wants the glory of the Tom Osbourne years back but don’t realize that it took over 20 years for Tom to win his first National championship. They want someone who can work miracles in far less time. The program I feel hasn’t been the same since Pelini was fired.
make a video about Trevor Knight?
I liked watching Nebraska football with Pelini around, but his attitude was a downfall and I think it stopped him from bringing in top recruits. Scott Frost is a recruiter and a leader. You can see the writing on the wall that Nebraska has gotten better every year with him as head coach. It's simply amazing how that hasn't translated to more wins.
As a Nebraska fan, I’m tired of losing to an average of 9 one score wins ever year… winning 9-10 games a year seems so long ago to everyone at this point. We need to rebuild from the group up and it all starts with the line.
I'm an Iowa fan we have big rivalry now with Nebraska. Bo was a solid coach but Nebraska expectations are too high. Mike Reilly we use to pound his Nebraska teams. Scott Frost some of my Nebraska friends don't like him 0 winning season and getting beat by Iowa but the games have been close. F Nebraska.
They didn't appreciate what they had
They never will. Trust me you’ll find a husker replying saying 9-3 is never good enough and laugh at Iowa’s records. Well, I’m fine with how my team is doing. They don’t have a perfection attitude to fire people left and right. Only way I’d feel that way is basketball.
Never had a losing season he was 9-4 and 10-2 for 7 straight years. Bo Pelini never had a down fall, all of the real husker fans know that he was really fired because he wasn't a kiss ass and Eichorst wanted someone that was going to kiss his ass and that why he hired Riley. Oh when i say real husker fans i'm talking about the ones that speak the truth about husker football. I'm not talking about the Husker blind fans, those are the ones that think the Huskers can do no wrong and see progress when there isn't any. Then you have your fair weather fans, those are the ones that only jump on board when the team is doing good and talks shit when their not. Now if you were one of those fans that was offended when Pelini said that, then you're a fair weather fan. I can guarantee that the real Husker fans were not bothered by that fair weather fan comment one bit. GBR
70-31, 59-17
Both Nebraska and UCF wish Bo Polini was still Nebraska's head coach
No. Most Nebraska fans do NOT wish Pelini was still coaching at NU! That dude has absolutely no class whatsoever. He was an embarrassment, and it had nothing to do with his W-L record.
I still attribute his lack of success this year to covid and drastic change from stands to a fiery dc. Still think he is a great dc. And wish him success
Bo was a great coach!! Nebraska should have never left the Big12 nor should they have fired this man. I am a HUGE husker fan. Have been my entire life and will be till the day I die!! Let’s get back to husker football. We need more local recruiting. These kids in the state would die to play in Lincoln. Get back to the Big12 where we belong, playing Oklahoma, Texas etc. The mistake wasn’t Bo, it was leaving the Big12.
Should be the Solich curse... Bo could have stayed but I feel like he was also growing tired of Nebraska his lack of effort in recruiting and not highering assistants outside of the program I think hurt him in the end and began the downfall of Nebraska football. Bo had great teams with callahans recruits but once he was on his own recruits you could see the play start to trend down. Then 3 years no development with Riley put the program in the tail spin. I hope frost can get it together but he may need to make some staff adjustments if things don’t get going by next year. In my opinion
It wasn't just that he couldn't get over the hump. Every season it seemed like the team would lose a game it shouldn't and get blown out by a team that's perceived as equal or slightly better. His real issue was the way he acted on the sidelines, the way he treated fans and media and the way he trashed NE behind the scenes. When the shit hit the fan, he had already spit-screamed into the faces of anyone that could be his ally.
All I can say is this....I understand where everyone comes from about Bo. But in my opinion is that ever since Nebraska fired Bo Pelini.... Nebraska has been in a downward spiral and needs to find their identity before no coach wants to coach them.
I'm a Lubbock/TTU alumini but Taylor Martinez is my favorite football player ever and I just don't see how Polinis coaching style would bring out the best in players. But maybe I'm way off and the players loved him. Just my opinion .
I don’t want to jinx it but Matt Rhule is my favorite coach in recent memory so far at least the quarterback room is stacked the defense is playing with real grit again for the first time in a decade I feel good about this team
They weren't really LED by Armstrong in 2013, Taylor Martinez got hurt 3 games in and they juggled Tommy and Ron Kellogg III. Shame because Taylor was haven't his best season as a passer.
"Don't know what you got- till it's gone"
As a Nebraskan, the Huskers aren’t going anywhere. I think there isn’t enough discipline on the team and not enough of a “losing is unacceptable” culture there. It feels like the players don’t give a damn and half-ass it. Scheme wise we NEED to abandon the 3-4 defense and the offense needs to use a GOD DAMN GOALLINE FORMATION OFFENSE when close to the end zone, use a F-ING fullback! But none of that will happen the way things are going Nebraskans are probably going start rooting out-of-state just like we do in basketball (UNC-Duke was always tense at my school)
Yet the Frost Dickriders say Give It Time. Give it Time. Give it Time.
It's been 3 seasons Husker Fans. Give up. Scott Frost is NO Osborne and never will be.
Coming from a husker fan, wanted jim Tressel after bo got fired
Ironic he went to ysu with jim tressel lol
Pelini did not get fired because of his coaching, he got fired because he was an absolute maniac on and off the field.
Small correction my friend. When Bo Pelini was at LSU they won the national title in the 2007 season not 2006.
What do I think of Scott frost at this point to early to tell give him till people otherwise we just fall deeper and deeper into the hole
I've been a Husker fan since 1963. They have made some terrible mistakes over the years and it is not the coaches or players fault. The "administration" opened the door to let the Texas schools into the Big 8 and that is where the Texas schools and their billionaire backers took control. We "used" to have the Big 8 basketball tournament in Kansas City but that ended immediately along with a lot of other changes that benefited the other schools. Texas took control of the Big 8 and all of a sudden we couldn't get recruits out of Texas anymore. Why go North to Nebraska? Now we move to the Big 10 and we can't get recruits out of the Big 10 states. The way it is going maybe Nebraska should move to the Mountain West or maybe a move to a Division II school. We could hire a coach for a lot less money and go 11 and 2.
I mean 9 wins is good considering it's like they expected them to go undefeated you're over 500 Better than most schools in the big ten that's actually really good I always never understood this firing Scott frost isnt really doing better so I'm sure they'll miss being over 500
Bo not being able to take the next step is minor compared to the volatile and toxic environment he nutured.
Your comment says it best! I have lived in Lincoln all my life, to watch what happened starting in 98 is just a real shame and disgusting way to piss away a good thing.
I really wanted to see Bo do well and would have been happy with continued 9 wins and slowly progressing/improving. BUT, his hot head, side line antics, cussing out the fan base, and "me against the world" was the end of it. That was enough. Riley is an entirely different incredibly horrible choice. You could go back and look at the beginning of the end for us to be a perennial power with decline after TO retired (too early) to today. Decline has been sad.
You are only looking at records... The program was in a decline starting in 2011... his lack of success in recruiting wouldn’t show up until 2015 and 2016... Mike Riley(not a good hire) was left with a pretty bare cabinet... Bo nearly lost to McNeese State... gave up the all-time single game rushing record to Melvin Gordon in 3 quarters... and generally was struggling to win the games he should... had they given him another year or two, he would not have continued to win 9 games... at the time the B1G was ascending and Nebraska was declining.
Actually he is a good coach and had better success at Nebraska than today’s coach, Frost. Nebraska is rapidly becoming an afterthought in the same vein as Mississippi or Kansas State
Do bill snyder pleaseee
He didn't too bad at Nebraska and now people see this. Nebraska is a 9-3 and 10-2 type program.
Do Bob stoops.
From Iowa, k state to ou.
good idea
How about Dan DEVINE?
With what Scott Frost has done at Nebraska.........getting rid of Bo was a MASSIVE Mistake
Kinda wierd as a Penn State fan to here all the big 12 teams but no big ten that Nebraska played
Bigger than the record. Blowouts and HC must be a CEO. Btw, what’s BoBeep’s P5 resume after Lincoln looking like?
But hey, he and TM gave me one last glorious night in Manhattan against the kitties.
Bo is still my favorite
To this day, I remember where I was when Pelini was hired. I was 5 or 6 years old sitting in my grandparents room when my dad came into the bedroom and was excited that he got hired
The University of Nebraska just doesn’t have the patience like before. How many years did it take former coach Dr. Tom Osborne to win a National Title? He wasn’t fired after a title loss in the 80’s against the Miami Hurricanes. This school and fans today seem picky. What made them fire Frank Thomas Solich a former player? Did they want the title right away? Thankfully they had former coach Bob Devany as athletic director to give Osborne time and patience. I remember hearing that year of him getting hired, he was debating on staying or coaching for Colorado. Luckily with Devany’s retirement, Nebraska had Osborne. Now if there’s no patience with Scott Frost I don’t see Nebraska rising like they were back then.
Pelini players would have ran threw a wall for him, he was a players coach! Just couldn't replace certain assistance when it needed to be done to make that next step. Pelini wasn't the problem it was Shawn Eichorst, and Harvey Perlman
he wasn't fired for just 1 reason, 1 couldn't win the big games,2, suffered massive defeats, 3 and worst of all, poor man could NOT control himself, it's 1 thing to be on fire and be driven, totally different thing to lose it even on camera, msm would show his rants over and over, he brought UNWANTED attention to the university
recruits parents don't want a mad man controlling their children, WOULD YOU??
Should've replaced Solitch instead of Callahan
And we we’d kill to have 9 wins. I totally understand wanting to get to the next level but we should have never fired Bo Pelini. Hopefully Frost can eventually turn things around but I’m less than optimistic… hell I’d just like be relevant in the B1G.
Nebraska fans would kill for Pelini now.
I think Nebraska got tired of Bo Pelini's mental breakdowns so they picked Mr. Rogers aka Mike Riley to replace him. That turned into a disaster. BUT Scott Frost's efforts have been extremely unproductive. Nebraska can't fire him though. They will owe him $20 million. Leaving the Big 12 was not a good move.
Considering the conference they are in and their location, Nebraska should be happy if they win 9 games. Good players in the Big 10 want to go to Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and Penn State, not Nebraska. They are cut off from the good players in Texas now, they have so many places to go that are not extremely cold in the winter and provide opportunities that Nebraska is not even thought of. The 1990s are long over and will not come back.
Nebraska would be in better shape today had they kept Bo for three more years instead of bringing in Mike Riley.
Fact!