HawkeyeWalker
Well-Known Member
I revel in Nebby’s misery as much as anyone. I listen to their call in shows after losses. It’s great.
A lot here are not going to like this, but Nebraska fans actually have numbers to back this up. Mike Riley was a disasterious hire and, this important, their AD paid the price. Outside of that, Bo had 66 wins during his tenure. Iowa has 54 during that same span. Callahan had 24 wins. Iowa had 29 during that period. Solich killed it, don’t need to into that.
Point being, striving for higher success and firing coaches for not performing isn’t as bad as some people make it out. Sure you could land a Mike Riley(which even a competent AD could have avoided honestly), but you might also win 9 or 10 games consistently like Bo and Solich did.
Yeah, they've been pretty good in the past, and likely will get better, really no reason they shouldn't. That said, an awful lot of those 9-10 win seasons where in a time of really bad B12 conferences.
Riley was a bad hire, so was Callahan. The other 2...fired for 9 win seasons...that's the delusion.