Donovan Raiola Coaching Progression

[Kinish]

Here's a question posed to me yesterday:

Would you trade a new OL coach that has you in the top 1/3 of B1G OL's within 3 years for the likely result of losing Dylan after firing Donnie? In his scenario, he highlighted that we likely have Dylan for 17 games plus any postseason that results from those 17 games.

I said this might be the easiest hypothetical ever and to give me the top 1/3 OL all day. Although I don't believe they would both have to occur. I'm firmly in the camp that Dom knows the business of football, and the thing he's MOST concerned about right now is likely his son's health and draft stock over his brother's job. I can see a world where we move on from Donnie and Dylan stays.

When's the last time you think Nebraska has had an OL in the top 1/3 of their conference for multiple seasons

Reminder. We've been in the Big 10 with Wisconsin, Cockeye and Ohio State for almost 15 years now.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Here's a question posed to me yesterday:

Would you trade a new OL coach that has you in the top 1/3 of B1G OL's within 3 years for the likely result of losing Dylan after firing Donnie? In his scenario, he highlighted that we likely have Dylan for 17 games plus any postseason that results from those 17 games.

I said this might be the easiest hypothetical ever and to give me the top 1/3 OL all day. Although I don't believe they would both have to occur. I'm firmly in the camp that Dom knows the business of football, and the thing he's MOST concerned about right now is likely his son's health and draft stock over his brother's job. I can see a world where we move on from Donnie and Dylan stays.

Yes, yes I would. I also agree with Dom getting uncomfortable with what happened so far this season and being concerned for Dylan's health.

I'm also purely speculating on the following statement/opinion, but it sure makes sense in my mind. Being able to run the ball in the B1G is a mentality and becomes part of your program culture. Our coaches say the right things, but is it truly part of the culture and Nebraska's DNA? I don't think that it is. EVEN if we were to suddenly run for 200 yards Saturday against Northwestern that doesn't change things. We show it at times and then forget about it and regress. That to me is a lack of an engrained mentality to take pressure off the QB.

That doesn't event start the dialog on protecting the QB. That's a whole other conversation.

 

[Tell_Sackett]

Losing Raiola because we fired a coach who is related that has been unable to protect Raiola would be a very Nebraska thing to do. It's like our own personal "As the World Turns".... or maybe the "Young and the Raiolas."

I do not dislike Dylan Raiola.... he is talented, and our problems do not start with him..... But he doesn't solve them either. If it takes $3 million to keep him and given the current state of our program, you have to at least broach the question as to whether we would be better off investing that cash into keeping Lateef, and bolstering our RB and OL rooms? As of now, I think we would.

 

[Irv]

Losing Raiola because we fired a coach who is related that has been unable to protect Raiola would be a very Nebraska thing to do. It's like our own personal "As the World Turns".... or maybe the "Young and the Raiolas."

I do not dislike Dylan Raiola.... he is talented, and our problems do not start with him..... But he doesn't solve them either. If it takes $3 million to keep him and given the current state of our program, you have to at least broach the question as to whether we would be better off investing that cash into keeping Lateef, and bolstering our RB and OL rooms? As of now, I think we would.

Kudos on The Young and the Raiolas.

 

[Ripping Lips]

Kudos on The Young and the Raiolas.

New name for the Platiinum Board or the Huber Parking Lot forums.

 

[herbsinator]

Losing Raiola because we fired a coach who is related that has been unable to protect Raiola would be a very Nebraska thing to do. It's like our own personal "As the World Turns".... or maybe the "Young and the Raiolas."

I do not dislike Dylan Raiola.... he is talented, and our problems do not start with him..... But he doesn't solve them either. If it takes $3 million to keep him and given the current state of our program, you have to at least broach the question as to whether we would be better off investing that cash into keeping Lateef, and bolstering our RB and OL rooms? As of now, I think we would.

Getting to a long term solution for the OL has to be priority #1. If that means we lose Dylan in the process then so be it, but we will be permanently stuck where we’re at if we don’t fix the OL.