Tom Osborn feasted on an era of no scholarship limits and non-qualifiers in addition to building his program in the Big 8 where Oklahoma was the only competition. Nebraska's pull back was inevitable.

@CampusFlow

Your real answer here is not having enough restaraunts, malls, etc to attract top talent. And no players-only dining hall hurts too.

To get better recruits we have to beat P5s at home as well (in front of visiting recruits) That helped us in the past get better talent.

I really think we should look at transfer portal for DEs, CBs and safeties to improve in the short-term.

JMHO. [/QUOTE]
Also, remember the fact that SE Ohio is not the area of the state that produces the most Division 1 talent, which means that most recruits have to be recruited from a distance away. Contrast that, for example, with NIU, which is not only close to Chicago, but which has no G5 competition in Illinois, nor G5 competition in nearby states of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

In my opinion, the only way to compare coaches is to compare winning percentages at a given school. By that measure, Peden was clearly the coaching legend at Ohio, with a far higher win percentage than anyone else. Warwick Ford, Art Jones, and Frank Remsburg also have better winning percentages than Solich, but none coached 10 games. Not one of the other coaches in Ohio history, however, have a better career win percentage than Solich. Solich, in addition to having a better winning percentage than most Ohio coaches, also did quite a bit to improve the facilities, and he should get some credit for that, too.

I think it's very possible that Albin will be the next Brian Burke, a decent coach who followed Hess, but who couldn't win at as high a rate as Hess. He was shown the door, so that Ohio could forge a new path. I don't expect Albin to win at as high a rate as Solich, so I think his time will be short, and Ohio will once again take a new path. Ironically, at Nebraska, Solich played the role of Burke. He was not able to win as often as Osborne, so Nebraska went a different direction.

The one recommendation I would make goes back to one thing I think Ohio did right in the coaching search that led them to Solich. They included some players on the search team. Players often have a different perspective than administrators, and I think it may be helpful for them to be heard.

[QUOTE=Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame] Okay. He wasn't the best Nebraska coach in the post-Osborne era. That a pull-back was inevitable doesn't suddenly make a 75% win percentage at Nebraska some excellent result. After taking over for Callahan and a 1-10 first season, Pellini never won fewer than 9 games and won 10 games three times. He went 403 in bowl games. His output at Nebraska -- where a pull back was inevitable -- was better than Solich's output at OU.

Anybody naming a field after Pellini? Is Nebraska pining for the Pellini era?

Also, remember the fact that SE Ohio is not the area of the state that produces the most Division 1 talent, which means that most recruits have to be recruited from a distance away. Contrast that, for example, with NIU, which is not only close to Chicago, but which has no G5 competition in Illinois, nor G5 competition in nearby states of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

In my opinion, the only way to compare coaches is to compare winning percentages at a given school. By that measure, Peden was clearly the coaching legend at Ohio, with a far higher win percentage than anyone else. Warwick Ford, Art Jones, and Frank Remsburg also have better winning percentages than Solich, but none coached 10 games. Not one of the other coaches in Ohio history, however, have a better career win percentage than Solich. Solich, in addition to having a better winning percentage than most Ohio coaches, also did quite a bit to improve the facilities, and he should get some credit for that, too.

I think it's very possible that Albin will be the next Brian Burke, a decent coach who followed Hess, but who couldn't win at as high a rate as Hess. He was shown the door, so that Ohio could forge a new path. I don't expect Albin to win at as high a rate as Solich, so I think his time will be short, and Ohio will once again take a new path. Ironically, at Nebraska, Solich played the role of Burke. He was not able to win as often as Osborne, so Nebraska went a different direction.

The one recommendation I would make goes back to one thing I think Ohio did right in the coaching search that led them to Solich. They included some players on the search team. Players often have a different perspective than administrators, and I think it may be helpful for them to be heard.


I don't think anyone would argue that Pelini wasn't a good coach. However, Pelini also came with a lot of baggage.

@CampusFlow

Your real answer here is not having enough restaraunts, malls, etc to attract top talent. And no players-only dining hall hurts too.

To get better recruits we have to beat P5s at home as well (in front of visiting recruits) That helped us in the past get better talent.

I really think we should look at transfer portal for DEs, CBs and safeties to improve in the short-term.

JMHO.

Okay. He wasn't the best Nebraska coach in the post-Osborne era. That a pull-back was inevitable doesn't suddenly make a 75% win percentage at Nebraska some excellent result. After taking over for Callahan and a 1-10 first season, Pellini never won fewer than 9 games and won 10 games three times. He went 403 in bowl games. His output at Nebraska -- where a pull back was inevitable -- was better than Solich's output at OU.

Anybody naming a field after Pellini? Is Nebraska pining for the Pellini era?

My understanding is that a healthy part of that surplus came from Covid relief aid and the Cares Act.

Given that we laid off faculty members recently, and tried to burn our CFO at the stake because she got a 33k bonus, we should probably be pretty thoughtful about how we spend money. And buying out a coach who is free to fire in a year seems like a silly investment, especially given that he oversees a program that loses money and hasn't won anything of note in 30 years. A one year head start seems like a bad use of money. Of alums want it, they should've paid for it.

Yep, makes sense. Just pointing out that there's a lot of folks insisting that Solich was as good as Nebraska could have done, but Pellini did better.

TB is already ahead of last years W-L record.
Now there are 8 games left.
I believe he will keep his job if he can reach a 6-6 year.
However, I have doubts that we will win 4 more games due to our awful defense.
I keep reminding myself that we had little choice but to promote TB based on when Frank retired. If his contract is only guaranteed for 2 years then the AD made a wise decision.





GO BOBCATS

Albin was a horrible hire but under the circumstances they were over a barrel.