[Husker] Pelini is GONE FOREVER

[Nick Chevance]

On 10/16/07, Tim Silvey <tjsilvey at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> After everything that has happened in the last few
> years, my perspective has changed.  When the search
> for a new coach began, I thought Pellini was
> under-qualified.  He had never been higher in the
> ranks than his position of DC at NU, and I thought it
> was too early for him.
> At the time, the Huskers struggled on offense.  I,
> like many others, thought we needed an offensive guru
> to be the HC, and the D would be fine.  I was wrong.
> BC is not a motivator, IMHO, Pellini is.  Remember how
> our kids were fired up for the Alamo Bowl vs MSU?  I
> do.
>
> You know, I find myself sort of surprised I'm writing this because I too
have never been on the Hire Pellini Bandwagon.  I too felt he was
underqualified, a bit too unstable emotionally, and not really Head Coach
quality yet.  I thought at the time that it was a mistake to lose him as a
DC, but making him the HC would have been the wrong move.  I think I still
feel that way, but I think his last four years at Oklahoma and LSU have
perhaps made him the guy we might want to consider here.

The link below is to a rather nice puff piece about the current version of
Pellini, still the family guy, the intense coach.  While there isn't
anything telling about the article in terms of where he'd like to go, given
the schools they name as potential landing spots (and its my lowly opinion
that most of these don't make any sense at all - I mean, Baylor???) and the
fact that Pederson is not in the picture, maybe Pellini's desire and fire is
just what this team needs.  Still, I think all in all his strength is
defense; can we have a head coach that doesn't call the offensive signals?
Or maybe not even be able to spell "offense?"  But can dream in cover-2
defense?  Maybe its time to think about that.

http://tinyurl.com/2y266x

Just filling time until everything changes again.

Nick
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