i think fitzgerald is the best coach in the B1G, but with all of these names thrown out, why do we believe any of them would come here? are we going to fire bo just because there are better coaches out there? and who says given time bo would not be the best fit for neb.?
Seriously?100% agree, this thread should have started the day the last Callahan recruit was gone and we saw how bad Pelini really was. A year ago at the latest.
Callahan showed his ineptness in that super bowl. Jon Lynch walked up to Gruden on the side lines, and you could hear him say to Gruden, "he's doing everything you said he would". Callahan was the wrong choice for this program. He managed to destroy tradition in a little less than 3 years.
I Support Bo but am tired of hearing give him time. We are in year 5 and we make the same mistakes as we did in year 1. It would be different if I saw improvement but we still play bad every other week, still lose at least 1 game a year that we shouldn't and when we play an elite team we haven't competed. I don't worry so much about recruiting as much as developing talent and scheme. He is married to a system, much like an nfl coordinator. We keep saying he needs more help, he hand picked his guys. I am sorry but what on JPs resume led him to think he was a great d coordinator, I mean I hope he is but I think he is in over his head. We play a read a react defense but in football sometimes you have to attack, lining up 2yds off the ball and never moving the safeties up in run support sounds awfully silly to me when our d line and lbs our as weak as they are. Think of it this way, Pelini is a defensive guy or so we say, the last couple years the d has been spotty people keep saying give him time but it is similar to Osborne an offensive guy struggling to score over 10pts a game, we would be killing him. Why is this so much different? I keep saying there are 2 kinds of coaches, ones like Osborne who are intellectually intellegent and have a system and can adapt to do what they have to in order to win, no matter the talent or what the other team does or the coach that is like a gym teacher and all he knows is one system and if he has all the talent and his guys they look good and they win on talent but if he doesn't or you know how to stop his one system you win because he doesn't know how to adapt, which one is Pelini. I hope the first one, I think time will tell. Again I support him and want him to learn but I am just not sure. As for pat Fitzgerald not only do I consider him the best coach in the big 10 but I think he is one of the best coaches in a nation. I have liked this guy since day one, has no talent and yet his team always pulls off a couple upsets, rarely gets destroyed and his teams play hard. I would love to see him running out of the tunnel someday, hell put some pads on him and he might be able to start for us somewhere. Good coach but don't know if he would leave northwestern.
