Don't know why he'd want to go to Nebraska. As others have said, recruiting is tough. Ya gotta travel to find 'em. The program ain't what it once was and probably won't be again. Nebraska will have an uphill battle for some time just to win the Big 12 North. The Devaney/Osborne shadow is large, maybe not BearB large, but large. Nebraska jerked Pelini around before. I'd tell 'em to go piss up a rope. He can do better. A&M is in the dumper. 4th or 5th best in the Big 12 South. He'd have to recruit Houston against LSU and the rest of the state against Texas, Texas Tech, and the Oklahomas (U and State) and play all 4 every year. Facing Stoops, Leach (maybe the worst as the sand aggys from Lubbock routinely thump the collie station aggys) and Brown while trying to rebuild ain't a good deal. Besides, he'd have to live in Collie Station. Frannie has got that whole aggy deal so screwed, it's gonna take a whole lot more than humpin' and whoop and hullabulloo caneck caneck and all that jibberish to fix it. He can do better than aggy.
If he takes a HC job, I hope it is somewhere small, where expectations are low and patient. He can build the team at his pace and up to his requirements. Is it just me or have we witnessed alot of high potential OC/DC's take a prestigious HC job and flame out due to competition and unrealistic expectations (maybe even here ). I don't want that for him. LSU's current trend has been to hire mid-to-upper-tier program coaches who have proven they can turn a program around build with the existing talent against big rivals. For this reason, I doubt LSU would break from the current success model. Later, Fur
Nebraska fan here. The scuttlebutt is that Dr. Osborne and Bo have already talked at length about his return to Lincoln and the Head Coaching position he deserved in '03. Bo even went so far as to mention bringing Marvin Sanders (a fan favorite) back into the mix on defense. There's already wheels turning, and some of the coaches may be gone even before next week's game at Texas. And Nebraska is a far more storied program than aTm ever wishes they could be. Hell, Nebraska has more NCs than all Div. 1-A programs IN TEXAS (aTm has only one, Texas only has three; Nebraska has five.) Add to that we've got perhaps one of the best boosters in the known world (Warren Buffett is rumored to be the person that went to our chancellor and dropped a $40 Million check right there to clean up the mess), and it's easy to see that Nebraska certainly has life left in it. Recruiting will be fine--anyone that knows what actually goes on up there knows that Nebraska has and will (barring another Callahan, I suppose) pick up kids from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, the Dakotas, and Colorado (no shock on this one--Colorado has multiple dedicated Nebraska spirit shops in Denver, Estes Park, etc.) Add to that the bridges that were rebuilt in Oklahoma and Texas (after Solich's staff razed them in their ignorance), and we'll be fine. We may not be Top 10, but then again, we've had consistent Top-10/15 recruiting classes, and look where that got us. Osborne really didn't have any top-ranked classes, and the class with Tommie Fraiser was around 20-something. :wink: All in all, things are going swimmingly, and it appears Nebraska has already won the "Contract Buyout bowl", even before the teams take the field this Saturday. BTW, on a side note, I sincerely hope your team does well this year and puts the hammer down on the rest of the SEC--would love to see you fine folks get another NC. Hell, we can't have directional schools getting 'uppity' on us blue-bloods, now can we?
Pelini's time to be a head coach has come. He needs to delete from his résumé the Kentucky game, though. Rich Brooks, Andre Woodson, and (gasp!) Randy Sanders made his D look pretty lame last Saturday. Still, he'll be successful wherever he goes. Hope he closes out strong in Baton Rouge. I'm guessing he's headed to Lincoln in January. :tigerhead
