[Husker] Re: Pelini blames NU AD for loss of Pitt job

[Bob Beach]

At 02:05 PM 1/15/2005, Mike Nolan wrote:

>I suspect that only about half of the head coaches get hired because they
>were already a head coach.  (A few get hired DESPITE having been a head coach
>previously!)



      I am talking about coaches hired from the outside.  I can't find 
documentation to show this but I believe a great percentage of the Division 
IA coaches hired form the outside for 2005 had previous Head Coaching 
experience.  Obviously that doesn't happen in 100% of the cases but over 
the years it would seem to be the case.  Charlie Weis, if I have all the 
info, was only a HC on the High School level but has been an assistant in 
the NFL for 15 years and the last five as the Offensive Coordinator of the 
Patriots.  To have Head Coaching experience on a resume is not a negative, 
IMHO.




>IMHO Pelini's biggest weakness as a head coach candidate isn't his age,
>it's that he hasn't learned to kiss a** yet, and he doesn't have the rep
>to get a head coaching job without doing that.  If he's publicly moaning
>about how SP cost him a shot at Pitt, he's not making a lot of friends
>in that rather closed club of AD's.




      I would agree.  It is that way in all walks of life.  If I intend to 
go anywhere in the company I work for I can't continuously say what I think 
and do what I feel like doing no matter how it rubs anyone.


Bob Beach