How did Bo manage to get so much right during his tenure here?

[HerbRedman]

I thought it was pretty obvious I was being half tongue-in-cheek/half real in the post haha.

I thought you were serious! So I answered seriously.

Other thing about Bo is he needed luck to get to his 9 wins. I'll give you an example: people love the Ron Kellogg Hail Mary win vs Northwestern in 2013.

Want to guess NW's B1G conference record in 2013? Yeah.....it was 1-7. One of Bo's most memorable wins came on a Hail Mary vs a 1-7 B1G team.


I actually think if Bo kept going he'd have the team at 3-9 vs this current B1G. His program would have gotten crushed by the rising tide of the league. There's zero doubt in my mind.

 

[huskerj12]

I actually think if Bo kept going he'd have the team at 3-9 vs this current B1G. His program would have gotten crushed by the rising tide of the league. There's zero doubt in my mind.

Yeah I think he would've had his faceplant moment at some point for sure, and forget about him ever even entertaining coaching in the NIL era haha it would be a disaster.

My main point is it's just a bummer that we were in the conversation for conference championships during his tenure, those seasons were so (relatively) fun and interesting compared to every season being the same ever since, and we probably never will be even at that "good but not good enough" level again.

 

[HughJanus]

Bo was his own man and didn't give a fuck about the fans or his bosses or anything. Goddamn BALL coach.

 

[HerbRedman]

My main point is it's just a bummer that we were in the conversation for conference championships during his tenure, those seasons were so (relatively) fun and interesting compared to every season being the same ever since, and we probably never will be even at that "good but not good enough" level again.

Problem is, we won't have the advantages we had with Bo ever again. Nebraska had a huge resource $$ advantage over 60% of the B1G bc those programs just flat out didn't care about football. Bo didn't get to 9-3 by merit. He got there bc 1/2 the teams on his schedule every year just didn't give a fuck about football and if they did they had no means to generate $$ for it. And even with that, Bo needed all kind of 4th Q escapes, Hail Mary's, Ameer late KR TDs, etc to get to his 9 wins.


CFB now will be like rooting for the Bears or Vikings or Chiefs. Your team is gonna lose 35-60% of its games. In good seasons it will only be 20%. NFL fans still have fun. They still love watching their teams. It's OK! Things are gonna be alright.

But there is no use pining for the 2013 B1G where 6 of the 14 team university admins literally did not know their school even had a football team. It's over man!

 

[SlumpBuster]

I actually think if Bo kept going he'd have the team at 3-9 vs this current B1G. His program would have gotten crushed by the rising tide of the league. There's zero doubt in my mind.

I completely believe this

 

[HerbRedman]

I completely believe this

By the end we were needing Hail Marys to beat 1-7 B1G teams (2013 NW).....we were needing late miracle KR TDs from Ameer to beat McNeese St...and on and on.

Bo would have gotten smoked by the Bielemas/Brohms/Flecks of the lower B1G. And those were the programs he feasted on in his NU B1G yrs. He also got Michigan in the Brady Hoke yrs. Cockeye is way better as a program now vs 2011-2014. Bo also got 2 yrs of Rutgers
/Maryland where they were on par with bad FCS programs.

Anyone that thinks Pelini would win 9 games in this B1G is a literal moron.

 

[king_kong_]

@huskerj12 I like your posts but this one is a bit naive. It shows a lack of understanding of where the B1G is top to bottom now vs where it was 2011-2014.

Two main things that helped Bo were: (1) they played 4 noncon games every yr (chance for an extra win). (2) the mid to bottom tier B1G programs were in the STONE AGES compared to where they are now. BTN $$$ have lifted up even the bottom feeders.

Purdue hasn’t beaten a P4 team since 2023.

The bottom of the B1G still sucks mega ass.

 

[Quint]

There was a sense of continuity to what they were doing on offense and defense. Now we swap out coordinators and/or don’t have coherent schemes.

It’s why Cockeye has had more success than NU. They know how to recruit players to their system, the players develop within it, and you are not starting from scratch every year.

This is absolutely true and so perplexing at the same time.

Outside of defensive players, why would a legit D1 player look at Cockeye and say ‘I’m in’.

You’re going to work your ass off, play the ugliest football ever and win 7-9 games every year.

 

[Quint]

By the end we were needing Hail Marys to beat 1-7 B1G teams (2013 NW).....we were needing late miracle KR TDs from Ameer to beat McNeese St...and on and on.

Bo would have gotten smoked by the Bielemas/Brohms/Flecks of the lower B1G. And those were the programs he feasted on in his NU B1G yrs. He also got Michigan in the Brady Hoke yrs. Cockeye is way better as a program now vs 2011-2014. Bo also got 2 yrs of Rutgers
/Maryland where they were on par with bad FCS programs.

Anyone that thinks Pelini would win 9 games in this B1G is a literal moron.

While I believe much of this is accurate to some extent, I don’t know if he has any trouble beating any of the Nebraska teams that have succeeded his.

 

[TampaBaySkers]

He coached in The Big 12 north and then joined the big 10 while Michigan, Penn St and Ohio St were down.

Such a lazy, sad argument. MSU & Whisky were awesome. Pedo state was ranked 12 when we played them after joining conf. Ohio state was undefeated second year after joining

Ranked teams played by year:
2008: #4 # 7 #4
2009: #13 #20 #24 #3 #22
2010: #17 #7 #18 #10
2011: #7 #9 #12 #20 #10
2012: #12 #20 #6
2013: #16 #16 #23
2014: #10 #20 #25 #24

 

[TampaBaySkers]

Bo would get run through today. There's a reason he sucked everywhere else he went.

With so much money in the Big 10 these days, even the crap programs have decent rosters and coaches

He could at least beat ranked teams. Let me know when Rhule gets his first. Looks like getting blown out by unranked teams is now on the menu for Rhule

 

[TampaBaySkers]

By the end we were needing Hail Marys to beat 1-7 B1G teams (2013 NW).....we were needing late miracle KR TDs from Ameer to beat McNeese St...and on and on.

Bo would have gotten smoked by the Bielemas/Brohms/Flecks of the lower B1G. And those were the programs he feasted on in his NU B1G yrs. He also got Michigan in the Brady Hoke yrs. Cockeye is way better as a program now vs 2011-2014. Bo also got 2 yrs of Rutgers
/Maryland where they were on par with bad FCS programs.

Anyone that thinks Pelini would win 9 games in this B1G is a literal moron.

Did you see our schedule this year? Weakest in over a decade and Rhule got blown out by three unranked teams . Bo would have finished with more wins

 

[TampaBaySkers]

Purdue hasn’t beaten a P4 team since 2023.

The bottom of the B1G still sucks mega ass.

The retards itt are dancing around the obvious - Rhule is a terrible coach

 

[Chi7397]

Such a lazy, sad argument. MSU & Whisky were awesome. Pedo state was ranked 12 when we played them after joining conf. Ohio state was undefeated second year after joining

Ranked teams played by year:
2008: #4 # 7 #4
2009: #13 #20 #24 #3 #22
2010: #17 #7 #18 #10
2011: #7 #9 #12 #20 #10
2012: #12 #20 #6
2013: #16 #16 #23
2014: #10 #20 #25 #24

That’s great he played ranked teams and all, but he also pretty much lost to them post-2011.

Bo peaked with Callahan’s players in 2009-2011 and it’s ridiculous people can’t move on because he won 9 in a straight up different era. We don’t have to speculate on trajectory, look and see how he did as DC at LSU after he was fired.

 

[HuskerHusaria]

We can talk about it in the basement of The Cornhusker?

Don't mind the LPD officer.

 

[TampaBaySkers]

That’s great he played ranked teams and all, but he also pretty much lost to them post-2011.

Bo peaked with Callahan’s players in 2009-2011 and it’s ridiculous people can’t move on because he won 9 in a straight up different era. We don’t have to speculate on trajectory, look and see how he did as DC at LSU after he was fired.

Wow.. cally players were still playing until 2011. Tmart was a hell of a Callahan player. Wonder why cally only won 5 games his last season with all that talent

 

[Quint]

That’s great he played ranked teams and all, but he also pretty much lost to them post-2011.

Bo peaked with Callahan’s players in 2009-2011 and it’s ridiculous people can’t move on because he won 9 in a straight up different era. We don’t have to speculate on trajectory, look and see how he did as DC at LSU after he was fired.

I don’t know why we can’t say he did a good job for a large portion of his time in Lincoln, while also saying he was trending down and likely headed out the door regardless of Eichorst’s meddling. Though I didn’t support his firing at the time, he wasn’t keeping up with changes to the college football landscape and didn’t care to. I can also separate his Nebraska tenure with his YSU tenure and his DC performance in Baton Rouge.

By the time Riley’s first team took their first kickoff (and subsequent loss) Bo was gonzo and not ever coming back. I give him credit for being our last winning coach, regardless of whatever bell curve or sliding scale folks want to apply to his 67-27 record in Lincoln. He was and is flawed, but his replacements are now a less than inspiring 35-68, and no I don’t think he’d have had the same record of futility had we let him stay that long.

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

This is turning into an all time board melt down.

Yep, the dude who flamed out at YSU is the one that got away.

 

[TampaBaySkers]

This is turning into an all time board melt down.

Yep, the dude who flamed out at YSU is the one that got away.

Oh look - the frost apologist now turned Rhule apologist is back. Listen, when we have a question about birds and the laws surrounding them we’ll reach out to you - the expert.

 

[Quint]

This is turning into an all time board melt down.

Yep, the dude who flamed out at YSU is the one that got away.

I think the OP was at least a bit tongue in cheek, and I don’t think the consensus is ‘He got away’. After that ass kicking yesterday, I’m surprised we haven’t seen more ‘Frank Solich’ threads.

I do think it’s dumb to dismiss the fact that Pelini was the last winning coach we had, warts and all. That said, I don’t want him back and don’t think anyone really does. More complaining about what we’ve endured since shit canning him.