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StPaulHusker said:
Husker from Kansas said:
Hedley Lamarr said:
Harvey is the chancellor of the university...a university that is making massive strides during his watch.
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Exactly! Harvey has a lot bigger fish to fry then the football teams head coach. Like making sure the university is providing quality education for the students! I understand that football is a big deal to the university but it nowhere near as important as providing a quality education for students. The football team has to be down the priority list a little ways, keep it in perspective!
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I agree here but the football team is what puts the university in the national spotlight. One example is those commercials that the university runs during games to tout their academic side. If we had a nationally irrelevant team year in and year out, those commercials fall on deaf ears or don't exist at all.
So while Harvey should be focused on the university as a whole, Husker football is like 1a in his list of priorities. There is no denying that.
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They're going to make $1 million dollars off a spring practice here in a few weeks. Everyone knows what the bread and butter of this program is.

Still, this is an academic institution devoted to educating young minds for the betterment of our state and country......money is not the most important thing.

^haha.....of course it is.

 
If Perlman didn't care about football he wouldn't have made Eichorst a million dollar AD. Pelini was toast after he blew up following the A&M screw job in 2010. But he knew Osborne would never fire Pelini so he had to wait until he had his own guy in the AD office.

 
junior4949 said:
Hedley Lamarr said:
SEs #1 priority is NU Football. If he isn't able to select the right coach he is gone. Just like those before him
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How sure are we that Bo Pelini was TO's #1 priority and #1 choice?
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Because Osborne could have easily fired Pelini when he became aware of the first audio clip. Instead he gave Pelini a positive review and a raise, which is why Perlman and Eichorst's hands were tied when the audio was leaked to Deadspin.

 
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It was only a 9 day search before Bo was hired. I don't know for sure if he was top choice or not, but that seems fairly quick. I know Riley's hiring only took maybe four days? And it was made clear that he was the top choice.

 
TheSker said:
Since Riley was hired, I've heard he "plays to the strengths" of who he has, and is a master developer of quarterbacks. Let's see it.......
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I remember an AD who publicly stated that the reason for a coaching change was a failure to win "games that matter"
That should be the standard to which this new staff should be held. The talent is there, let's see them develop a system that makes the best use of it -- not the other way around!

They are certainly being paid more than the last staff -- let's see them earn it.

 
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True2tRA said:
It was only a 9 day search before Bo was hired. I don't know for sure if he was top choice or not, but that seems fairly quick. I know Riley's hiring only took maybe four days? And it was made clear that he was the top choice.
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Does anyone think Eichorst started his coaching search after the Iowa game? I figured he was given that assignment when Harvey interviewed him.

 
Stumpy1 said:
StPaulHusker said:
junior4949 said:
I'm quite certain Bo Pelini was someone's #1, but I'm just not convinced he was TO's #1.
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Wasn't the #1 the former HC of Wake Forest?
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I thought it went Grobe(WF coach), Houston Nutt and then Bo.
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Houston Nutt was a Pederson guy before we went with Callahan....? I think.
Turner Gill, and Pelini were the top targets for Osborne from what I remember, but I always thought it seemed fairly obvious who we were going with.

 
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