College Football Week 2 Thread: Big Moo Saturday

If they’d waited until the first week of October, I believe they’d have saved something like $7.5 million.

 

Nebraska has paid out over $50 million in severance to football coaches since 2005.

 

Reminder that Frank Solich went 58-19 and Bo Pelini went 67-27 at Nebraska. Both were fired. One because he decided to field a football team that wasn't a total threat to the entire female population of the school and the other because he was a raging lunatic that dared tell their shitty fans how shitty they were being and that the job was getting a hell of a lot harder than it was in the 1980s.

 

Works out to $357,142.86 per day.
Or, to put it another way, the additional severance they're paying because they won't wait 21 more days would cover the full cost of attendance of 277 in-state undergrads this year.
Or, yet another way: 12.5 full COA in-state scholarships in perpetuity assuming 4.5% spending rate on endowed financial aid funds. (I can't find their spending rate.)

 

Almost as bad as not waiting until Oct. 1 is that they have a bye week after the Oklahoma game. So it was two more games, max, they'd have had to muddle through. Dumb.

 

I wonder if Frost forced it on them by asking Alberts what he was thinking. If Alberts said, "I'm still evaluating" but had already asked questions or otherwise told people who might later be deposed, would any attempt to obfuscate or delay come back to haunt them if they officially held out to Oct. 2 and then swung the axe? I'm not an attorney. But I am curious.

 

when you see me do a "word on the street" thing very good chance I am working blue

don't tell the others

 

I'd be surprised if Urban Meyer was the play given all his baggage, the ever-present health issues, and the closure of Shaker's in Waverly. Granted that Trev Alberts and the donors' opinions carry more weight, but the number of people in Nebraska calling for Meyer in the past few weeks seem to be outnumbered by those convinced he's a bad fit and a choice that trades short-term success for longer-term damage.

The names most bandied about were the likes of Matt Campbell, Luke Fickell, and Kyle Whittingham, as well as Kalani Sitake. There's some wishcasting there, of course, but the consensus seemed to be that Nebraska should look at coaches who are at or near the peak of what they can do where they are and might be uneasy about the prospects of moving to a new conference.

 

see above

 

The Athletic had two pieces about possible successors: one by Bruce Feldman that focused on potential candidates and one by Chris Vannini that had context about the quality of the job. Together, they speculated on no less than 14 coaches.
They had seven names of alleged candidates in common: Leipold; Klieman; Campbell; Jamey Chadwell; Joseph (the interim); Matt Rhule; and Jim Leonhard.
Feldman's unique names in the Giant Bin of Speculation included Jake Dickert of Washington State; Bronco Mendenhall; and Gary Patterson.
Vannini's unique and alleged possibilities are Dave Doeren, whose reputation astounds me; Troy Calhoun, who somehow has half the reputation of Doeren and twice the resume; Bill O'Brien; and Mark Stoops.
If Patterson, 62, were interested, that might be quite a coup.

 

Jamey Chadwell has to be on the move after this season. Coastal barely beat Gardner-Webb this weekend and the great class of kids that won all those games for him have mostly moved on.

i don't see Stoops, Klieman, Leipold, Doeren or Bill O'Brien considering it. For the head coaches it's a lateral move with maybe a little more money, but ridiculous experctations that are unattainable. Mendenhall would be interesting. Jake Dickert winning at Wisconsin this week officially made him the hot name.

I think Luke Fickell would do really well at Nebraska, but he's smart enough not to consider it. I really think Kilani Sitake is a good style fit, but recruiting similar kids to the ones he has at BYU would be harder without the religion aspect tie in.

End of the day it's job with a ceiling of 9-10 wins most seasons and even that is going to bring a lot of criticism. Pelini did nothing but win 9 or 10 games every year for seven seasons and keep that program in the Top 25 and they couldn't handle just being consistently good. Nebraska fans have conveniently ignored all the dirty shit that Tom Osborne did to win big. The star running back just can't drag an ex-girlfriend down a flight of stairs on Thursday and rush for two bills against Michigan State on Saturday anymore.