Bo Pelini

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Booker512 said:
Guy is making less than $1,000,000 a year. Has won everywhere he’s ever coached. His Players absolutely worship the man everywhere he goes. He’s bold and brash like Kiffin but without the loyalty issues.

He had some secret footage video of him complaining about fans in private that ruined his career. I think he got fired for something that, in all honesty, a public apology would have easily fixed. That’s my opinion. Give him a 3 year, $3 million a year contract with huge incentive bonuses for SEC wins.

Nebraska regrets firing him to this day. That Turned their program into a dumpster fire.
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#27
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Booker512 said:
I was not specifically calling you a moron....

I just meant people in general...I’ve seen comments where random people here and there seem to think college football coaches are some type of exceptional, moral human beings. LOL.

But I honestly wasn’t directing that at anyone specifically. Sorry. I could have worded that a little better.
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gotcha....thanks for clarifying....no worries.:hi:
 
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A guy that got fired for pretty much the same reasons Butch was fired for.

Might as well just call Butch back and give him a raise. At least he already knows the players names.
 
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erwinjrvol88 said:
A guy that got fired for pretty much the same reasons Butch was fired for.

Might as well just call Butch back and give him a raise. At least he already knows the players names.
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Butch was fired for not winning enough.

Pelini was fired because he was venting frustrations about fans being ungrateful in private.

Not the same thing at all.

Nebraska should have made him give a public and televised apology then moved on. Instead they fired him and ruined their program right as he was finally building depth and had a stable recruiting base he had tapped into. It was dumb.

I hate to say it, but winning games does make people overlook certain things in regards to coaches. It’s the truth. If Nick Saban was a 7-5 coach, his personality would be deemed cancerous and untouchable. If Dabo was a 7-5 coach, he would be deemed a buffoon and a moron. If Urban Meyer was a 7-5 coach, he would probably be one of the most un-likable coaches in the country-even more than he is right now.

If Bo Pelini came to Knoxville and had us 10+ wins a season and winning the east every 2-3 years. There isn’t a single fan that would be screaming to fire him. Nebraska fans still have expectations of 1990s success—but their program has huge foundation issues that Tennessee doesn’t. They have completely moved to a different conference and have none of their traditional rivalry’s or advantages as a program still in place. Tv contracts don’t bring in recruits anymore. Tennessee is still foundationally the same as it was in the 80s and 90s. All of our traditional rival games are still in place. Nothing has changed but a coach. Fans of Nebraska are just as die hard as we are. But they genuinely needed to shift expectations some. Booing and wanting a year-in-year out 10 win coach fired after completely digging the school up and planting it in entirely new soil was dumb. Pure and simple. Firing Pelini for voicing frustrations over that was completely moronic.

A power 5 school will hire Pelini and he will win there and his players will crawl across broken glass for him to do it.

He’s a dick. No doubt. But he could be OUR dick...
 
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He was fired for not being able to get a blue blood former powerhouse back to championship status. Same thing Butch was fired for. I think some of you just come here to argue.
 
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erwinjrvol88 said:
He was fired for not being able to get a blue blood former powerhouse back to championship status. Same thing Butch was fired for. I think some of you just come here to argue.
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The guy was .713 at Nebraska and won their division 4 times in 7 years and the BIG12 in 2009 and never missed a bowl.

That’s championship status.
 
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erwinjrvol88 said:
He was fired for not being able to get a blue blood former powerhouse back to championship status. Same thing Butch was fired for. I think some of you just come here to argue.
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He won 10 games per year. He was fired for more than that
 
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Nebraska Cornhuskers fire Bo Pelini

Quotes from the article:

"We weren't good enough in the games that mattered," athletic director Shawn Eichorst said in his meeting with the media that lasted nearly 35 minutes. "I didn't see that changing at the end of the day."

Eichorst said he will not use a search firm to assist him in finding the next coach.

Eichorst said he would not comment during the search on the people involved or the process.

"I've seen people spend a lot of money and not do a lot of winning," he said. "We're going to get it right."
Money will not be an issue, he said.

"I think we gave coach, ample resources and ample support," Eichorst said. "We didn't meet expectations, both on and off the field."

Nebraska has lost 10 games by 20 points or more since 2008, Pelini's first season, and allowed 45 points or more in six games since the Huskers joined the Big Ten in 2011.

Nebraska now faces an uncertain future, searching for its fourth coach since the 1997 retirement of Osborne.



Notice any similarities now?
 
#38
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An article written about Bo Pelini the season before he was fired. He was on the hot seat. Yes. That’s what caused him to say the things he did about the fans. They WERE acting spoiled. They WERE doing what we get accused of. Great read.

“Of the 2,053 men who have ever coached major college football, 107 – about 5 percent – had winning percentages of .706 or better through five seasons.

Of those 107 coaches, 43 are in the College Football Hall of Fame. Sixty-two worked before World War II. And eight – much less than 1 percent – won nine games in each of their first five seasons as a head coach.

Of those eight, only one inherited a team with a losing record.

His name is Bo Pelini.

And Bo Pelini is on the hot seat.

A vocal minority of Nebraska fans harangue Pelini for an inability to live up to the standard. But the real standard in Nebraska isn’t winning conference championships. It isn’t winning national championships.

The standard coached the Huskers for 25 years.

The standard’s name is Tom Osborne.

Four seasons into his tenure at Nebraska, Osborne was on the hot seat, unable to live up to the standard set by his predecessor: Bob Devaney, who led the school to its first two national championships. After the 1976 Huskers (who finished 9-3-1) rallied to beat Texas Tech in the Bluebonnet Bowl, some university regents told Osborne that had he lost the game, he might have been fired.
But Osborne stayed, for 21 more seasons, and he went 60-3 in his final five seasons, winning three national titles along the way and creating the standard every following Nebraska coach would be compared with.

But it’s completely unfair to compare Bo Pelini to Tom Osborne. Pelini can’t be Osborne, because nobody can be Osborne.

Osborne is the only coach in history with more than 250 victories and fewer than 100 combined losses and ties; his career ended with only 49 losses and three ties. Osborne ranks fourth all time in winning percentage among coaches who worked more than 10 seasons. Of the top 18 coaches on that list, Osborne is the only one with more than 173 wins – with 255 wins.

And the eight coaches with nine wins in each of their first five years? He’s one of them. So is Oklahoma’s Barry Switzer, who won nine games in is first eight seasons – the second-longest streak ever. But Osborne? He won nine games in his first (and only) 25 seasons.

That brings us to Pelini.

In his six seasons at Nebraska, his first six as a head coach, the highs have not met the standard, and the lows have caused knee-jerk comparisons to Callahan. But through it all, in the big picture, Pelini’s teams have been consistent; pessimistic critics point out that Pelini has lost four games each season. But Pelini has also won at least nine games each season.

Detractors argue that because college football teams play more games than they used to, it’s easier to win nine games in a season in the modern era. Yet only two coaches since 1990 – Pelini and Boise State’s Chris Petersen – have opened their careers with five straight nine-win seasons.

The Nebraska fans who want Pelini fired for on-field performance are living in the ’90s. Winning takes time, patience, more than six years. Osborne didn’t win an outright conference championship until his ninth season. He shared a conference title in his third season – but so did Pelini. In 2010, Nebraska finished the season tied for the Big 12’s best record, a feat that would have earned a league title in pre-conference championship game days.

Osborne inherited a team that had won back-to-back national championships a year before his tenure started, and he didn’t coach a national title contender until 1982, his 10th season.

Pelini inherited a 5-7 football team – yet he was held to the lofty standard of Osborne’s accomplishments after only a few seasons at the helm.

Other people want Pelini out because of his behavior; whenever Pelini is discussed on TV, a montage of footage with Pelini’s yelling and ranting and raving is shown. And that creates an image Nebraska fans don’t want.

But image is all about context. As Florida coach Will Muschamp (who is on a hot seat himself) said on “College Gameday” recently, victory justifies anger. When you’re winning, people call you passionate, he said. When you’re losing, they say you’re out of control.

At the end of the day, Pelini has a winning percentage of .704 in nearly six seasons. In his first five years, he had a winning percentage of .706. Better than Nick Saban. Better than Bear Bryant. Better than Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden, Bo Schembechler, Jimmy Johnson, Frank Beamer, Steve Spurrier, Les Miles, Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and, oh, by the way, Bob Devaney.

With a victory in the coming bowl game, Pelini would become the fifth coach ever to win nine games in each of his first six seasons, joining Osborne, Switzer, Petersen and George Woodruff, who coached Penn in the 1890s.

Fifth. Coach. Ever.

Pelini has worked under the shadow of three national titles by one of the best coaches in history, and while he hasn’t spoiled Husker Nation, it would be unfair to say he has underwhelmed. Have there been bad losses? Yes. Have there been embarrassing moments? Yes. But if Pelini is fired for winning at least nine games a season, you’d be hard-pressed to find another person who wants to coach under that cloud.

Nobody wants to coach a program with unrealistic expectations. Nobody wants to face a rabid, impatient fan base. Nobody wants to work at a place where nine- and 10-win seasons get you fired.

For now, there is only one man right for the head coaching job at Nebraska.

His name is Bo Pelini.“
 
#39
#39
So taking Nebraska's Butch, who was better than UT's Butch, is now a good option?

The guy already had a shot at rebuilding a powerhouse and failed.

I thought we wanted to get away from the new coach every 3-5 year rinse and repeat cycle.
 
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If you want a good laugh check out the @fauxpelini Twitter account. The one thing that always amazed me about Bo was how bad his defenses were at Neb. Also didn't realize he's coaching at Youngstown State nowadays.. 6-5 this year after 12-4 last year.
 
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erwinjrvol88 said:
So taking Nebraska's Butch, who was better than UT's Butch, is now a good option?

The guy already had a shot at rebuilding a powerhouse and failed.

I thought we wanted to get away from the new coach every 3-5 year rinse and repeat cycle.
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Why is he Nebraska’s Butch? Won way more there than Butch won here.
 
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