The reason why I don't need to comment is that you're proving my point.
Not at all, unless your point is that winning 70% of your games = failure.
Is hyperbole more fun than actually disputing what I said about USC and Texas with facts?
Other than all of the numerous reports of coaches that turned down both of those jobs? Saban and Gruden were two names being thrown around at that time. You can go back and take a look at some of the reports that were leaked at it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that the guys that were hired were not their # 1 candidates.
I listen to at least 8 hours per day of sport talk, so the reports coming out at that time were numerous. You can do all the research on it you want, but I'm sure that little things like that won't much matter. The only hyperbole is that there were better coaches that would come to Nebraska to coach. There is nothing factual (other than the guy that put OSU on probation) for better coaches having interest in Nebraska. If there was I'd love to see that info and I'll retract my statement. I'm sure that since Jimmy Johnson was not coaching, he was probably looking at coming here too? Probably Bill Cowher, also.
It's also possible that a "non-name" coach could perform better than Bo too.
Certainly. Is it possible that they would perform worse?
Who would a realistic "non-name" coach be that would come here and outperform Bo? Honest question.
But go right ahead, fall back to the Solich/Pedersen/Callahan talking point. It's totally relevant now ten years after the fact.
It would be irrelevant if that debacle plus the current state of affairs didn't make the Nebraska job
LESS of destination job than it was even back then. Just because you and the other #9 win'ers don't want to take the word of some guys with some knowledge of the situation, doesn't mean that it's not true.
All I know is that if I'm going to base an opinion on something and the information provided to me was from 1) A previous botched coaching search, a sports writer who has more access to the program than any other writer in the nation (most likely), and a former National Championship player who has access to the program who is a current coach and who talks to other coaches around the country or 2) a few entitled internet posters who
THINK they know the a whole lot about college football, I'll pick choice #1 any time. I would like to think that any reasonably intelligent person would chose the same.
I realize that the #9win'ers don't want to listen to what Damon and Sip said because it doesn't fit their convoluted, uniformed opinions and it blows their weaksauce narrative out of the water, but it is what it is.
