Those No Longer With Us

MyBloodIsRed16 said:
maybe he took his money and ran.  How much was his buyout?  Who says he even wants to coach P5.  
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The  “but Ohio State didn’t want him” argument is not an intelligent one-imo. I dont understand how it’s anyone’s justification for his firing. Did Shawn Eickhorst know this when he fired him? 
 

it doesn’t matter what anyone’s opinion is of the firing- he was fired for that leaked tape of his ranting about the fans and his subsequent behavior, not what his potential was for other programs.   

 
knapplc said:
Bo's buyout was a little north of $6 million. People talking about a $15 million buyout are thinking of Scott Frost.

Frost is seven years younger than Pelini and still coaching with that $15mm in his pocket. Pelini could be coaching if people were trying to hire him. 
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Or if he wants to be hired. I think he said he wanted to go to YSU because it was his hometown and he could actually coach there.  I wouldn't judge his coaching ability on the covid year. His ability to actually coach should never be questioned.  He was very successful here- but it turns out that our program is about more than winning. I cannot imagine him massaging donors in the current football landscape.  The CFB world has really changed since 2015.  It was just time for him to go. If he stayed in Lincoln I think it would have seized out and died.  
 

 
Toe said:
People were talking about his net worth, not his buyout. He made more money in his career than just the buyout, you know.
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Good catch. It was just too coincidental that Frost's buyout was $15 million. 

Point stands, though. It's not too much money to prevent him from coaching if he was able to get hired. There's zero evidence he's being courted by anyone, and turning down offers.

 
krc1995 said:
His ability to actually coach should never be questioned.  
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Oh, no. It should.

On-the-field results matter. He had plateaued at Nebraska, that was pretty obvious. Four losses every year, including several blowouts per year.  He was middling in Youngstown, especially after he lost the Nebraska-caliber guys who came with him. And he was atrocious at LSU, and got fired. Hasn't coached since.

 
krc1995 said:
Or if he wants to be hired. I think he said he wanted to go to YSU because it was his hometown and he could actually coach there.  I wouldn't judge his coaching ability on the covid year. His ability to actually coach should never be questioned.  He was very successful here- but it turns out that our program is about more than winning. I cannot imagine him massaging donors in the current football landscape.  The CFB world has really changed since 2015.  It was just time for him to go. If he stayed in Lincoln I think it would have seized out and died.  
 
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You seem to forget that after Nebraska, Bo landed at the friendliest college program possible, with the most protective and supportive Athletic Director imaginable. Youngstown State questioned his coaching ability and gave Bo three fewer years than he got at Nebraska. Bo went back to his specialty (defense) and the site of his greatest success (LSU) and they also questioned his coaching ability, chasing him out of Baton Rouge after one season and one of the worst defensive performances in school history.

People also seem to remember TapeGate One wrong. Nebraska fans were surprisingly forgiving, and after the leak Bo had two full seasons to get the Huskers over the hump. But the tape was originally made in 2011, and Bo's "they can kiss my a$$ out the f#&%ing door" rant wasn't a bluff: he reportedly had his agent fishing around every P5 opening for the next three years, but never got the call. 

 
knapplc said:
Oh, no. It should.

On-the-field results matter. He had plateaued at Nebraska, that was pretty obvious. Four losses every year, including several blowouts per year.  He was middling in Youngstown, especially after he lost the Nebraska-caliber guys who came with him. And he was atrocious at LSU, and got fired. Hasn't coached since.
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He won 9 games each year. Sure, it’s a plateau- a winning plateau.  His success has not been replicated since.  He was not fired for “plateauing” at 9 games/year.  Every modicum of program success halted after his firing. 

 
knapplc said:
Oh, no. It should.

On-the-field results matter. He had plateaued at Nebraska, that was pretty obvious. Four losses every year, including several blowouts per year.  He was middling in Youngstown, especially after he lost the Nebraska-caliber guys who came with him. And he was atrocious at LSU, and got fired. Hasn't coached since.
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If plateau means playing in a conference title game 3 out of 7 years across two conferences... well sign me up. Yes, I understand the embarrassing losses were frustrating and no one enjoyed that losing. But I think it's safe to say that we would gladly take a once or twice a year beatdown against good teams and largely beat the mediocre or bad teams; than play close and still lose to the big names while having to battle and often lose to the likes of Northwestern, Maryland, Indiana, etc. 

After the last decade without him, anyone thinking it was a good thing to let him go and we were better off without him is crazy IMO.  

RedDenver said:
Every modicum of Bo's success also halted after his firing.
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Sure... except for the Youngstown State appearance in the FCS national championship game in his second year. Could argue that the every modicum line could apply to our program in the years that followed.

 
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