Sparker
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It's pressure. There is nothing on the line after dropping every game that mattered. Pelini's team crap the bed whenever there is something worth playing for, and show guts and grit when there is nothing left to lose.
Bo is Only the Fifth Coach w/ 9+ Wins Yadda Yadda...
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caveman99
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Not sure what team you have been watching. Did you miss 2009, 2010, or 2012? Heck 2012 is about as clutch as it can get.
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NUpolo8
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NUpolo8
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Its not all about wins. As TO put it, it is about playing like champions. You do that, the wins take care of themselves. Bo needs let go because he is not well composed on the sideline, his behavior has to be a turn off to a recruit's parents and coaches. He HAS to be a bear to work for. Can you imagine? No wonder assistants are afraid to do what they want. TO did it better. Way better. We need another one like him.
Landlord
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They aren't all it takes; obviously Bo Pelini is at least in part responsible and successful for his own accomplishments. For example, an orangutan could not coach this team to 9 wins.
To answer your question as to why only 5 have done it, because it is a needlessly restrictive parameter that works in his favor. Think about it:
First, you rule out any coaches that had to start their careers at lower schools, such as Les Miles, Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Jim Tressel, Mack Brown, Bob Devaney, etc.
Then, you don't give them any room at all for a growing pain season. Bob Stoops and Pete Carrol both had one of those right before winning championships, for example.
After that, you weed out any coaches that haven't coached at least 7 years, such as Chip Kelly and David Shaw, and also coaches that coached long enough to finally hit a bump in the road, like Mark Richt.
You also leave no room for coaches who have took perennial doormats and made them contenders, like Mark Dantonio, Bill Snyder and Gary Patterson.
You also get to use 9 as an arbitrary win number, even though not all 9 win seasons are equal, and some coaches can go 9-4 and be unranked like 2013 Nebraska, and others can finish 9-4 and be #13.
Don't forget if a coach wins 9+ wins in 7 out of 8 seasons, but the one time he didn't was in the middle, then he doesn't count towards that statistic either.
I can't comprehend a scenario in which a coaching change IS EVEN CONSIDERED after this win and before we see what happens in the Bowl Game.
Additionally, I can't envision Bo being fired if he wins the Bowl game, bringing home a trophy and a tenth win.
So, like a bratty kid in the toy aisle at Wal-Mart, one can scream all one wants, but it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
This isn't to say that any debates on the failings of this coaching staff doesn't have merit, but that's reality.
Additionally, I can't envision Bo being fired if he wins the Bowl game, bringing home a trophy and a tenth win.
So, like a bratty kid in the toy aisle at Wal-Mart, one can scream all one wants, but it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
This isn't to say that any debates on the failings of this coaching staff doesn't have merit, but that's reality.
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StPaulHusker
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I still hate Barry Switzer. Other than that, I have nothing else to add except f#*k Texas.
BigWillie
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I can't comprehend a scenario where this ever has a chance of happening.
1.) You take multiple coaches off the board. Coaching moves happen in the month of December. Top targets will move, and potential coaches for us will no longer be there.
2.) Coaching searches take a couple weeks, usually. You would be talking about the middle of January for a coach to be hired, and then form a staff which can take days/weeks as well.
3.) To go along with above, it ruins any chance of having a decent recruiting class. Your commits will look elsewhere because of unfamiliarity with new coaches. The new coaching staff would have to repair these relationships with commits, hope they would stay, plus recruit other players in less than a months time.
Either way, the one thing I can absolutely promise you will not happen is that we wait until after the bowl game. That would just be horrendously bad management and would likely get SE's job security called into question.
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HuskerNBigD
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Not every coach is fortunate enough to play in the Big XII north or B1G West their first seven years. We I guess technically we were in that legends or leader crap too, but you get my point.
caveman99
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I think that Bo not breaking the ceiling is a clear indictment, but to not allow a single season to drop back as a "growing pain" season is rather phenomenal IMHO. Bo took over a team with 2 losing years in the past four seasons and hasn't allowed the team to slip below 9 wins regardless of the controversy during the season. There has been plenty of controversy during his tenure, which makes this stat all the more impressive.
What I have a hard time wrapping my head around is how is 9-10 wins all he can achieve despite his success? Every year I think he can turn the corner, yet we still win 9-10 games. A lot of programs would kill to be in our shoes, but it is still mind boggling how we haven't gone down or up from the plateau.
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NUpolo8
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The people you are referring to as bratty kids will be the 10000+ that stop the sellout streak next year if there's no head coaching change.