CK86
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I posted this on TDD but will repost here.
Bill Callahan showed you can get good players with NFL talent to Nebraska, he just sucked at developing those players and winning games. Pelini has never been good at recruiting and once Callahan's players left, it's been a slow and steady decline. Callahan had more pros in 4 years at Nebraska than Pelini did in 7.
If Nebraska was still in the Big 12, Pelini would've been canned 3 years ago. The Big 10 is just so awful aside from Ohio State and Michigan State that he's been able to win 9 games against a cream-puff schedule. The schedule this year was set up for 11-1 with even an average team. Instead, they didn't show up until 5 minutes left in the game against Michigan State. Then Melvin Gordon set an NCAA single game rushing record in 3 quarters. Nebraska followed that up with a poor effort against Minnesota. The cherry on the top of it all was struggling against a god awful Iowa team.
The next coach will have as many financial resources available as any school in the country. The fan support (340 straight sell outs and counting) is amazing. The stadium renovations just finished up again. The practice facility is still new. Oh yeah and the Big 10 West division is awful. If you beat Wisconsin, you'll go to the Big 10 title game nearly every year.
It's been 15 years since a conference title. When you're being paid $3+ million a year, a conference title once in 7 years should happen. If not, someone else will get it done.
Bill Callahan showed you can get good players with NFL talent to Nebraska, he just sucked at developing those players and winning games. Pelini has never been good at recruiting and once Callahan's players left, it's been a slow and steady decline. Callahan had more pros in 4 years at Nebraska than Pelini did in 7.
If Nebraska was still in the Big 12, Pelini would've been canned 3 years ago. The Big 10 is just so awful aside from Ohio State and Michigan State that he's been able to win 9 games against a cream-puff schedule. The schedule this year was set up for 11-1 with even an average team. Instead, they didn't show up until 5 minutes left in the game against Michigan State. Then Melvin Gordon set an NCAA single game rushing record in 3 quarters. Nebraska followed that up with a poor effort against Minnesota. The cherry on the top of it all was struggling against a god awful Iowa team.
The next coach will have as many financial resources available as any school in the country. The fan support (340 straight sell outs and counting) is amazing. The stadium renovations just finished up again. The practice facility is still new. Oh yeah and the Big 10 West division is awful. If you beat Wisconsin, you'll go to the Big 10 title game nearly every year.
It's been 15 years since a conference title. When you're being paid $3+ million a year, a conference title once in 7 years should happen. If not, someone else will get it done.
