[Husker] Post-game thoughts

[Scott Stewart]

Very well said Steve.

There is one flaw in the assessment.

"Fortunately, those who really are answerable
on such matters generally have come to their positions by making more
rational assessments that "the grass is greener" and use a more
well-founded approach than the "quick fix"."

Hopefully that is the case at NU, but that is not universal (See Auburn).
Alabama was also in that camp post Gene Stallings until they found Saban.
However, should Saban lose 4 or 5 years in a row to Auburn, he will be
toast (national championship smamshianship, Bama cannot lose to farmville)

At least at Auburn the reason is there are a few very/one "short sited"
and influential booster(s) that have more power than the AD or president.
It is very reminiscent of the old SWC.


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com>wrote:

> I dismiss the folks who talk about Bo's time being short and say that
> as long as he's here Nebraska will be mediocre.  These are the same
> types of people (or maybe even the same people) who wanted to fire
> Devaney in the late 1960s or Osborne in the late 1970s or Osborne in
> the early 1990s.  For the most part, they are too quick tempered and
> unreasoning to see a bigger picture.  Such people subscribe not just in
> football but more broadly to the "grass is greener" perspective and/or
> the "quick fix" approach.  Fortunately, those who really are answerable
> on such matters generally have come to their positions by making more
> rational assessments that "the grass is greener" and use a more
> well-founded approach than the "quick fix".  Even with respect to the
> foolish mistake of firing Solich, I agree with Mike that it had more to
> do with the ADs personal issues than what such noisy fans with fringe
> perspectives have to say.  I trust that our new AD has better sense
> than these knee-jerk fans and I hope that he and Pelini ignore them as
> they deserve.
>
> This year has been a good year for the football team.  Nebraska has ten
> wins.  Only ten teams have more wins this year (and two of those play
> in the MAC).  NU was the B1G 10 Legends Division Champion and likely
> will play in a New Year's bowl game.  Yes, there were disappointments,
> but every year, most top programs and top teams find some
> disappointment.  This year, the list includes Miami 7-5 and facing
> probation, Oklahoma (same regular season record as NU), Texas 8-4,
> Michigan 8-4 (loser to Nebraska head-to-head and in the division race),
> Penn State 8-4, USC 7-5, Washington 7-5, and LSU 10-2 (same regular
> season record as NU).  The list goes on: Arkansas, Auburn, UCLA, Texas
> A&M, Colorado, Clemson also had no better or worse records and didn't
> win their conference.  Success without any blemish is rare, which is
> why it is so wonderful when it occurs, as it occasionally, but not
> regularly, has for Nebraska.  You hope to win the championship every
> year, but most years it won't happen and to believe otherwise or act as
> if it should is not rational.  Bo's teams have put together a string
> of good seasons.  I hope that after struggling with what happened
> yesterday, the players and team recognize that they've had some great
> victories this year and set about getting another one on January 1.
>
> All of that said, there are problems that Bo, his staff, and the
> players need to address for the longer term.  In that, I certainly hope
> that those who think that what you see is what you get (e.g., wrt Bo)
> are wrong.  The path to success usually is learned in the aftermath of
> failure.  At the top of my list (created by a someone not very expert
> about football) is more talent in the defensive front seven.  Will any
> of NU's front seven play in the NFL?  If the answer to that question is
> unclear, then it will be difficult to win championships.  Both Devaney
> and Osborne had to work through different periods of relative failure
> before they led teams to national championships.  It isn't surprising
> that Bo is having some lessons in failure during the first years of his
> head coaching career.  What we need to see is that there are lessons
> learned and applied in the future.
>
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