Bill Moos Out As AD at Nebraska

knapplc said:
He's made a TON of hires in the short time he's been here, something near half the coaches on staff, but I get the impression we'll barely remember the Bill Moos era in a few years. 
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I don't agree with that.  If Fred, Bolt and Williams continue on their path (with Fred getting the wins most see coming) and Frost catches up and starts having good seasons, Moos will be remembered as one of the best ADs for coaching hires in Nebraska history.

 
J-MAGIC said:
Some reasonable inference would say Moos was ready to retire and had been considering it for a while, but NU was slightly unhappy with some stuff and preferred to do it sooner than Moos envisioned. If that's the truth I'm not super upset or concerned.  
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I think that's probably a pretty good guess at what has happened.

I'm not concerned at all about how his retirement came about.  My concern comes only about what is to come next.

 
roadrat said:
Sometimes changes take place earlier then planned for several reasons. Namely the successor may be available now. With fall sports around the corner they probably feel it's a good time to get someone in the position now or maybe Moos reconsidered his decision about staying through his contract. It's not like he has to go find a job on Thursday.  
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True. Moos may have let certain people in leadership know he was considering retirement. Leadership may have told him we may start putting feelers out there and if we can land a guy we want then you retire. If not you stay on through your contract. 

 
Huskers93-97 said:
True. Moos may have let certain people in leadership know he was considering retirement. Leadership may have told him we may start putting feelers out there and if we can land a guy we want then you retire. If not you stay on through your contract. 
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You mean I got the job?  I was just up that way and at a Runza filled out a questionnaire about being the AD at UN. I thought it was a joke so I *ahem* exaggerated about my qualifications. 

*waits by the phone for THAT call* 

 
Can someone explain why some folks are concerned for the football program with this news? How does this change anything at all? Frost is either going to win and keep his job long term/the program will be just fine or he's not. I don't think that matters who the AD is.

 
runningblind said:
Can someone explain why some folks are concerned for the football program with this news? How does this change anything at all? Frost is either going to win and keep his job long term/the program will be just fine or he's not. I don't think that matters who the AD is.
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AD's like to hire their own coaches.  Frost may be on a shorter leash now.

As for Moos, he's 70 years old and has been spending a lot of time at home.  Maybe he felt like staying home with the famiy and retiring was a better choice.

 
runningblind said:
Can someone explain why some folks are concerned for the football program with this news? How does this change anything at all? Frost is either going to win and keep his job long term/the program will be just fine or he's not. I don't think that matters who the AD is.
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Personally I'm concerned because we could be a vastly improved, top-25 or top-30 football team next year and still go 7-5 with our schedule, and a trigger-happy new AD could use it as ammunition to bring in his guy instead of letting things play out and setting us back five-ten years. Same in men's basketball. 

On a certain level, yes, there's no problem if Frost or Hoiberg just win. But I'm also a KU alumnus who was there during the Gill, Weis and Beaty years. The reason KU is as bad as it is now is because a coach wouldn't immediately win, so the new AD wanted to get "his guy" and canned the coach mid-rebuild, which obliterated the roster. Doing that once is very harmful (let alone three times like happened to KU) and if we don't get a person who values patience or continuity we're putting ourselves at risk of entering that cycle, and that scares me. 

 
J-MAGIC said:
Personally I'm concerned because we could be a vastly improved, top-25 or top-30 football team next year and still go 7-5 with our schedule, and a trigger-happy new AD could use it as ammunition to bring in his guy instead of letting things play out and setting us back five-ten years. Same in men's basketball. 

On a certain level, yes, there's no problem if Frost or Hoiberg just win. But I'm also a KU alumnus who was there during the Gill, Weis and Beaty years. The reason KU is as bad as it is now is because a coach wouldn't immediately win, so the new AD wanted to get "his guy" and canned the coach mid-rebuild, which obliterated the roster. Doing that once is very harmful (let alone three times like happened to KU) and if we don't get a person who values patience or continuity we're putting ourselves at risk of entering that cycle, and that scares me. 
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I hear you but would be shocked if that actually happens, especially at 7-5.  I probably would just give up at that point.  I'd still watch but all emotional investment would fly out the window.  No way we ever return if we start a rebuild over yet again with some other random coach. That would be the nail in the coffin.

That said, if we go 5-7 yet again that might be a different story.  4 straight losing seasons and Frost might see this thing go off the tracks quickly.  As I mentioned before, he's simply got to win from now on.  This would be the same if Moos was still AD however.

 
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