SMH
15-29 overall record
10-25 conf record
What would you call it? Promise? UNL kept a HC with that record.
Maybe you guys are too close and are blinded by it.
Nebraska fired Frank Solich for going 58-19 overall and 33-15 in conference.
Keeping the .341 win% twenty years after firing the .753 win%.
That's accepting mediocrity, friend. It just blatantly is. And I think that phrasing is even being kind, yet you still push back on it. FLABBERGASTED.
Changing the entire identity on the heels of solich was the eff up in my opinion. Nebraska was known for triple option. For players of that flavor, which there were many, going to Nebraska was the fabled brass ring.
Why they brought in a west coast offense and seriously made an attempt to implement it over a team built totally different is beyond the understanding of any student of the game. Its just.... dumb.
While they fiddled with such, the game moved on... those players aiming for triple option found other paths, which became roads and then highways- all leading away from Nebraska. This is my opinion only. Nebraska was shocked into a total lack of identity.
At such time, a coach like Steve Logan should have been tapped... because he would win? No... because he would use what was at hand to compete the best he could and without allegiance to a system. That's how Logan made his mark. There are more like him and some far better, he's just the one who came to mind just now... he would run a shotgun wide system one season just to go back to triple option the next, and then playaction the next... its what he had access too... and the intent was to quietly build for the system he wanted all the while- the type of transition takes likely five years..... and yes, after coach C was done gutting Nebraska of the corn fed behemoths, this- in my opinion- was their best option...
Id like to see then wake up thr triple option again. I'd like to see those players across the nation, especially in small school systems who still run it, point an azimuth toward Lincoln and blaze a trail... that becomes a road... amd turns into a highway... and along with it big red becoming a power to be concerned about... CFB is better with Nebraska being good... Nebraska being good is about being different than the trending systems. Some fool up there needs to remind them of that by my reckoning.
