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Guy Chamberlin said:
No one was excited because few had heard of him, and we felt entitled to a big name or at least a more exciting search.

When we looked into it, we saw that in the year we hired him, Mike Riley had been voted the second most underrated coach in a poll of fellow college coaches. Found out Alabama, USC and UCLA had supposedly tried to hire him away earlier in his career. The same college football community gave Riley a lot of credit for the 8, 9 and 10 win seasons he managed with low budget Pac 12 bottom feeder Oregon State, including regularly out-coaching guys like Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll — a situation not unlike Matt Campbell's 6-3 record at Iowa State, currently giving some fans serious boners.

Guys like Kurt Warner, Keyshawn Johnson, The Spielman family and Les Miles sent their own kids to play for Mike Riley at Nebraska, and I'm assuming it wasn't just because he's a nice guy. Several of the national pundits currently pushing for Scott Frost thought Riley was a smart if slightly outside the box hire. 

So it wasn't quite the bizarre/pathetic/toxic choice some would make it. The idea that Mike Riley would use the late-in-life challenge and Nebraska's superior resources to right the ship for about 7 years made as much sense as Brett Bielma or Jim McElwain. 

It didn't work out. That's pretty clear. Definitely time to move on.

But retroactively s#!tting on Mike Riley and all he's ever done isn't a good look for Husker fans.

And you know who'd agree with me? Every coach we'd ever want to hire.
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Well said.  He's been a good football coach and leader of young men for years.  He's deserves respect.  He's just mailed it in the past six years.  It's time for he and Dee to move back to Corvallis and retire.

 
Barrett Sallee on Finebaum this week claimed Florida down to Frost, Mullen, and Matt Campbell

[SIZE=13.3333px]Good luck with Mullen, Florida. Fits what FootballScoop wrote in the article this morning too. [/SIZE]

 
Let's leave the ladies out of this as attractive as they are and get back onto topic everyone.

Also, just because you don't care for someone doesn't mean personal attacks are going to be allowed. Leave that for the woodshed please. 

 
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Finebaum says he thinks from a source that Frost holds out for Nebraska job. They are about to have a child and his parents are in Nebraska.

 
I love how everybody thinks that only Scott's parents want to be near their grandchild and only his thoughts matter. Where do his wife's parents live, anyway???

 
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I have written 100's of letters of rec for people and they all say the person is the best person ever.  We all do it that way.
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Well you wouldn't hold back if your name was anonymous, send your own son to the guy you didn't respect, or offer a willfully wrong opinion if you were a professional pundit going on public record. 

It's okay to admit Mike Riley was tremendously respected in the coaching community.  It doesn't totally spoil your beef about hiring him for Nebraska.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Well you wouldn't hold back if your name was anonymous, send your own son to the guy you didn't respect, or offer a willfully wrong opinion if you were a professional pundit going on public record. 

It's okay to admit Mike Riley was tremendously respected in the coaching community.  It doesn't totally spoil your beef about hiring him for Nebraska.
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I don't think he "was" I think he still is tremendously respected in the coaching community.  I think he always will be.

 
Folks, you've been asked by one mod, now you're being asked by a second who is tired and cranky. 

This is about Scott Frost. Keep it about Scott Frost. 

 
Scott's grandma lives in Nebraska too (not sure if his grandpa is still living).  She has a lake home here and my parents have a place on the same lake.  Actually saw Scott swimming on the 4th of July when I was cruising around on the pontoon and found it somewhat amusing that he was back here swimming when he lives in Florida.  Regardless, I would say there's some draw to being closer to family.

 
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