[Husker] Post-game thoughts

[David Elfering]

Very nicely put Steve. In a world where coaches are now being fired after a
single season I think it has to stop somewhere. The money and business
pressures will never go away but pitching people like ballast from a hot
air balloon is unsustainable.


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:58 AM, 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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