Stone Cold
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I will refer any coach not named urban meyer as mike riley 2.0
Who should our next HC be?
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huskerfan74
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To be completely honest, I would really love it if Mickey Joseph ends up turning things around and ripping 6 wins this season and showing he deserves a chance. Wishful thinking, may be, but miracles do happen and may be from all this mess something good comes out. I truly believe that the game on Saturday will shows us if that is even possible. This option is better than all the speculations and imaginary hypothetical coaches. At the end of the day, if we can’t get a proven coach, there is not much point of making another Riley hire. I am tired of the failed coaching carousel we have endured over the past two decades.
My gut says Fox is working behind the scenes to generate buzz for his return to their pregame show.
Everyone is tuning into either Fox or College Gameday for the first time this weekend and they're trying to win viewership.
Vizsla1
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MJ still gets his audition. But why not Meyer? Can we not have nice things here? We were once excited about getting Fred Hoiberg and thought we could not pull that one off. Yeah, I get we might have buyers remorse on that one. But for Pete's sake, we cling too tightly to our dignity and illusions.
There’s a “master list” on here somewhere with a considerable number of potential head coaches. Lol You’ll have to look it up!
Word is he’s tired of playing second fiddle to Chip and Joanna Gaines in Waco. Why did Lincoln Riley leave a perennial top 5 school to go to USC?
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Not saying Alberts hasn’t started working on a short list in case things go off the rails. Hell he probably already did that last year for both major men’s sports. But very doubtful we’re in “talks” with anyone after the first game.
Huskerfollower4life
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For the most part Husker Nation would be more then ecstatic to have him. The only thing thing I've heard negative about him is sample size.
Lorewarn
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Lance Leipold, who is in his 16th season as a head coach and has shown essentially across three different divisions that he has what it takes to be successful and build a program from ashes, has a body of work that's "too small", but Dave Aranda, four games into year three as a head coach taking over a winning program, is a satisfiable candidate.
uh.. ok
uh.. ok
Hilltop
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Game one was enough for so many I'm not so sure. As someone in a previous thread mentioned, even if Frost turns the team around and saves his job, gaining back support will be a very long road. Knowing this, I wouldn't be surprised at all if NU moved forward with behind the scenes talks this week.
TherealTomOsborne
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Sounds like a jealous fanboy.
TGHusker
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Question/Comment: Would Urb be a net positive or net negative as NU's coach? My comment is, that I think all opposing coaches would need to do is to flash Urb's pic wt that young lady rubbing next to him to a recruit's parents and the game is over at that point with that 5 star recruit. Did Urb burn too many reputation points with his NFL meltdown experience and does he therefore bring far less value to the school than what we end up paying him for??
Pre-NFL Urb - agree - bring him here despite his 'sickness' :B) issues (BTW did they ever figure out what caused his sideline headaches which was shown on TV many time during his last year at OSU?). I'm very hesitant with the post NFL Urb however.
To me, I will be interested in see how Aranda does at Baylor this year. He seems like he would be a good fit. However, he has a contract extension wt Baylor through 2029 so it probably won't happen.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34426714/why-baylor-dave-aranda-unlike-college-football-coach-know
BigRedBuster
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Not sure why everyone is down on Campbell. He took Toledo to being a 9 win program. He took ISU to be a 9 win program. Both programs that haven't done anything ever.
Huskerfollower4life
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Yeah and what does throw the kitchen sink at them mean??? I know it involves money but does it include anything else??
Bad2theBONES
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And I want a toilet seat made out of solid gold.I want MJ to succeed. (because I like his style but also because he's one of us)
I want the program to get 5 more wins..
I want to reach a bowl for the first time in years
and I want all the above to bring CALM to the program so the athletes can focus on improving.
Those are my wants
schriznoeder
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Private planes from Waco and South Bend have landed in Lincoln within the last couple hours. Have there been any confirmed Dave Aranda or Knute Rockne sightings at Runza yet?
I originally posted the flight tracker stuff half-jokingly, but maybe there really is a little more smoke around Dave Aranda than I realized.
84HuskerLaw
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So you want to perpetuate this? If we want better, then we have to hire better. Imo we can’t afford to just hire a proven average coach and hope he becomes great. It will be difficult enough for a better than average coach much less one with less success. A first year coach might become a great one but there is no way to tell. A strong recruiter or a great CEO type (preferably both). Then pair him up with the best staff we can find. Nebraska has brand appeal for fans but the recruit attraction has deteriorated over the last five years dramatically. It’s a rebuild but that doesn’t equal bottom P5 or worse as a program, yet.
We first promoted from within a coach with long historical Neb ties that was given the controls of the very best program in the country, loaded with good talent very well developed (Solich). Frank lacked the recruiting gravitas and energy, and the program nearly collapsed.
We then hired a nationally known, experienced NFL coach without the college level understanding (Callahan). He failed to turn things around quick enough and didn’t see the need for a defensive upgrade (he was singularly focused on his offense).
We tried hiring an inexperienced NFL coach without recruiting strength/gravitas (Bo Pelini) with great fan support despite having but one season of DC on his resume. He struggled to be a Head Coach in areas beyond the X & Os and couldn’t deal with media pressures. He tried hard but was only an average recruiter.
We tried a very experienced coach without recruiting gravitas (Riley). He was a proven mediocre coach that people viewed mostly as ‘a nice guy’.
Finally, by popular demand, we tried a very unproven and inexperienced ‘Nebraska guy’ coach that had become the latest cfb ‘wonder boy’ with apparent national renown as a ‘splash’ hire. The presumption was he was a football genius that could recruit anyone anywhere. His resume included lots of good experience working under very respected successful coaches, presuming he learned from the best. He checked most of the boxes, except he didn’t really. He lacked any actual proven recruiting record and lacking any sustained HC record as a program and team builder and staff manager. He wasn’t prepared and failed wildly. Obviously he focused on receivers, RBs and one QB. The rest of the team and staff were basically ignored. This reflects his coaching and playing history as a QB with NFL dreams and a pass play designer type OC. He brought an inexperienced staff without proven team building record.
Now, we must focus on recruiting gravitas at the maximum level to overcome our recent deterioration as a program, and proven team and staff building and management success. This hire is too critical. Get the guy OR get the trio (HC, DC, OC). We have pieces, maybe. But recruiting the defense and O line and developing those is absolutely priority 1.
Again, if we fail to hire Urban Meyer or one of the games well established elites, then focus on defense and line of scrimmage builders.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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And you could be entirely correct. I'm just saying that it's too early to tell. If they go 6-6 is that going to be enough to hire him?
And yet when we hired whipple with a longer and less successful resume we had fans drooling over him.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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I've already explained that my support for Aranda stems from the time he spent at LSU (I live on the outskirts of Baton Rouge). You must've missed it. I was very impressed with him during his time with the Tigers -- many LSU fans were hoping they'd hire him when they got rid of Ed O.
HuskerInLostWages
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I was just passing on the message so all could see but I also think the Midwest might be good for Urban. As for the girl, wouldn't that potentially show players he knows what it's like when playing football and make him relatable even if it was a bad look? Don't know, could go either way. I don't really know what I would think if he came here personally but we need something to change the trajectory of this football team.
Huskerfollower4life
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Well at least we have one Husker fan that would show support to the hire of Bill O'Brien.
I like the idea of an experienced NFL guy that can attract NFL caliber talent and develop them in to NFL caliber players.
AdamKuisian
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Nebraska top 5 is in place.
I have been told Urban Meyer, Deion Sanders, Mike O'Shea are on the list. Still waiting for the other 2.
I have been told Urban Meyer, Deion Sanders, Mike O'Shea are on the list. Still waiting for the other 2.
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