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They fired a 9-3 coach to get one that just went 5-7

Pelini must have really pissed off everybody at Nebraska. They said they wanted someone to "take them to the next level" but what in the world indicates that Riley could do that? He might do it with the resources Nebraska has. But this isn't close to a sure thing.

Very surprised at this hiring. Good guy, and a former Tide player but very average coach. I bet the 'husker fans are the real shocked ones.


BG

Like BG, I'm very surprised. He's done a decent job at Oregon State. He's far behind Oregon in resources.

Just saw on the ESPN crawl that Pellini never lost more than 4 games at NU, Riley lost more than 4 games every season he was at OSU.  :wtf:

I have seen opinions in the past that Riley is an up and comer, so I am not that surprised.  He didn't have the greatest record at OSU, but it was a winning record, and...it was OSU.  Not that long ago OSU was a vandy-like team.  I think he will do well at Nebraska.  Not sure he will do well enough to satisfy that fanbase though...but likely he won't be a giant ass like Pelini was either.

He's no up and comer. Bad hire for Nebraska

61 years old and 14 years at present job averaging one win per year over .500.  That would not be my definition of an up and comer.  I was mildly surprised at the UF hire, totally shocked at the Nebraska hire. 

Well I think some people on here were speculating when we hired Butch.   :biggrin:

If you look up his record, he had a really nice run from 2005-2009, where he averaged 9 wins a season at Oregon State.

He had a couple off years in 2010-11, but was back at 9-4 in 2012, when we hired Butch.  At that point, he was looking good. Kind of like in absolute terms Franklin's record at Vandy was above average, but for Vandy it was fantastic.  Oregon State historically is not quite as bad as Vandy, but they have historically been at the bottom of the Pac 8/10/12.  A better comparison might be Kentucky.

The last two years have been very mediocre at Oregon State...a combined 12-13.  So if one factors that in, it does make less sense.  I think prior to the last two years it might have seemed less strange. His name WAS coming up routinely for openings...including ours...two years ago. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Riley

Yeah prior to Riley arriving at Oregon State in 1997, they had  not won more than 4 games in a season since 1971.   :wow:

So that is Vandy-like.  Interestingly he was there and then left and got replaced by Dennis Erickson for a few years.  I do think his record from 2003-2009 is pretty impressive, considering that it's Oregon State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Beavers_football

I think he can do just as well at Nebraska as Pellini, while not being an ahole.  But we will see. I'm not sure he can do better though.

I was advocating pretty hard for UT to take a look at Riley two years ago.  I think he's done a hell of a job at OSU, given what he had to work with up there.  As impressive as it was when he resurrected that program 15 years ago, the fact that he keeps them even semi-competitive today is an even greater achievement.  It's much tougher to win there now than it was then, given that Phil Knight's dirty billions are now flowing into the coffers of their in-state archrival.

yup.