Who should our next HC be?

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And that is why it makes it so beautiful, is that you can have an opinion and I can have one too. Without derp responses and reactions.  Neither of us is right nor wrong, because the bottom line is that we want to see the Huskers have success.   :)

I cannot change your mind, nor will I even try.  I am okay if we disagree and that you and some others, believe that Mickey cannot get it done here for *insert reasons and opinions*

I never look at Mickey as a former player and to be honest, forget he even played here.  But I always remembered his name.  What excited me was that he was on an LSU championship team as a coach and turned out some amazing NFL talent at his position.  If his guys don't run the routes, catch the throws, make the plays, then Joe Burrow doesn't have the same success he enjoyed his final year at Baton Rouge.  But also, Mickey did have some success recruiting talent away from Bama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, etc, etc...

To answer your question about "Would I hire him out of LSU to coach here?"  My answer would be no, obviously.

But that's not where we are at today.  He is the head coach here and now, gaining experience on the fly, trying to motivate his guys, working with a staff that he never chose, allowing his DC and OC to do their job on game day without interfering (CEO coach), because he put trust into his current staff and his current players on the field - to do what they practiced and prepared for all week.  Sure I would like to see more wins, but as a head coach, what else can he do in his situation?

In the Illinois game, when Rahmir dropped the easy catch, the next play CT got hurt, and everything went down hill.  The Huskers had more yards then Illinois was used to allowing at that time, and threatening.  Losing the game was not on the head coach, so I hope you don't use that as a reason or escape goat.  Purdy and Smothers have had reps all spring, summer, fall and up to this point to step up...... like KSU's QB did..... like Kansas' QB did when their best QB went down.  The 2nd half showed how valuable CT is to the offense, and not a reason Mickey Joseph is not a good coach.

I want him to be here next year and beyond.  Even though I have never thought he would get the job going forward, unless everyone else says "no thank you, but thanks for asking, click".  
Fair response. I guess I am disappointed in his decision to not jump in and stop Whipple from chucking the ball around the yard when we didn’t need to panic. I feel that lack of purpose cost us chances to stay in the game.  I am looking for a calming voice during chaos and I didn’t see it. Like you said, just my opinion, but I think he could have kept us in that game by controlling the “Whip”  :violin  

 
Fair response. I guess I am disappointed in his decision to not jump in and stop Whipple from chucking the ball around the yard when we didn’t need to panic. I feel that lack of purpose cost us chances to stay in the game.  I am looking for a calming voice during chaos and I didn’t see it. Like you said, just my opinion, but I think he could have kept us in that game by controlling the “Whip”  :violin  
I get that, and it was ugly.  But jump in on a paid experienced OC to take over the offense?  I don't think so.

When things go bad, we can't always 2nd guess the OC.  We can't always take away their job duties.  Maybe his thought was to push the offense into making plays, because the ground game was awful against the Illini defense?

OC / Play callers seem to get punched in the face by the fan base when plays don't work.  Whipple, Lubick, Frost, Walters, Frost, Langsdorf, Riley, Beck, Shawn Watson, Callahan........  (I might be missing someone).

This has nothing to do with being the head coach who allows YOU as a coordinator to do YOUR job with the guys on the field.  2nd hand guessing is always right tho  :hmmph

 
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I love how many fans are flavor of the week when it comes to coaching. It's truly astonishing to see. 

Right when Frost was fired....Aranda, Campbell, Leipold - these would be great hires! Now those coaches suck! 

After the Rutgers game. Mickey Joseph is our guy! Now no way we can offer him the HC job!

We now need Klieman cause they just dismantled Okie St! etc. etc. 
Aranda doesn't suck.

 
the source is sean callahan. lol. i don't believe az st has any interest.

this is mickey's agent feeding him BS.
It kinda looks like they have their own Mickey Joseph situation. Shaun Aguano was named interim, doesn't have a loaded HC resume, but some of the fan base really like him.

 
So if you can't get your two no-brainers, you'd take the guy with by far the thinnest resume of remaining candidates?

And only if Mickey meets your demands? 


Yes and yes. This doesn't mean that I would hate a few other options that are realistic, but if no home run hire then I don't see the issue with sticking with Mickey. He would take less money to leave room for higher paid assistants. We need OL and DL coaches like we never have before. I also want a proven DC - move Busch to db/safeties coach. Gimme an OC that has a run first mentality and a new S&C coach. I'm fine with keeping Applewhite, Busch and Beckton. Fisher and Ruud I wouldn't hate if kept as well. All others need the boot. 

 
Yes and yes. This doesn't mean that I would hate a few other options that are realistic, but if no home run hire then I don't see the issue with sticking with Mickey. He would take less money to leave room for higher paid assistants. We need OL and DL coaches like we never have before. I also want a proven DC - move Busch to db/safeties coach. Gimme an OC that has a run first mentality and a new S&C coach. I'm fine with keeping Applewhite, Busch and Beckton. Fisher and Ruud I wouldn't hate if kept as well. All others need the boot. 


A) With the new TV deal next year, money won't be an issue.  We can have a highly paid HC and highly paid assistants.

B) Ruud, really?  I would be extremely disappointed if we keep that many assistants.  All of the Frost UCF guys need to be gone IMO.

 
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