no one is going to win every game, but all 3 of those candidates have short track records or marginal success.
Not sure you are going to too many coaches wanting to go from where they are now to a complete rebuild if they are having so much success.
Cross Nick Satan off the list. Tennessee winning. He should resign and apologize to all fans for sucking so bad.
I agree. I think that they are all "good" coaches. But they are not anything special. I would rather keep Mickey than hire Leipold, Campbell or Aranda.
Exactly, which is why we are taking a huge risk hiring dudes who have had "some" success and who are looking for a change, simply because we cannot get someone who is actually really successful right now. Which is why hiring Mickey makes more and more sense.
Mickey going to have plenty of chances himself to prove his worth..
Yes. The problem is, this team, despite good coaching now, just does not have the talent to beat Purdue in my opinion. I hope I am wrong. I would love, love, love to see Mickey succeed tonight and pull of the upset. The joy meter would be through the roof.
If we do keep Mickey, our focus should be bringing in some top notch assistants, starting with offensive line.
I’m not that confident of winning tonight either..
Wait, so a guy with sustained success at Iowa St is a bigger risk than an unproven WR coach?
Unproven?! He's proven he's better than Frost, so stuff that one in your pipe and smoke it!
You want someone who doesn't exist or someone who's never going to leave their current program for us.
I think fans are putting too much emphasis on the long experience part. Neither Dabo Swinney or Bob Stoops had HC experience when they took over programs that were down in the dumps.
If you want to keep losing then yes hire the "safe" interim coach who had a big win against Rutgers. If you want Nebraska to actually win again, then you go and spend the money and hire a great coach.
Iowa State looked just as talented as Texas did. That game could have gone either way. Iowa state had first and goal in the second quarter and should have gone up 14 nil. Instead they gave the ball to Texas who then tied it at 7.
Money is not always the answer you think it is. The “open the wallet and go buy Urban” crowd are living in fantasy land.
No doubt, but spending up on a sought after guy has better odds than dollar tree shopping for a coach.
No doubt. But hiring Mickey would have very little to do with saving money. Trev isn’t a fool. He knows this hire is critical. He won’t hire Mickey as some kind of cheap shortcut. He will only hire him if he thinks he is the best option. Is he? I have no idea. All I am saying is I would not pass him over just because he is unproven as a head coach. So was Osborne and Bob Stoops and a host of others. And Trev sees something in Mickey. You can tell. I am sure he had a hand in bringing him here in the first place. Maybe even thinking he might have to fire Frost and so get Mickey here. Maybe. What the **** do I know?
There are definite exceptions. All great coaches were assistants at some point. Win today, and it starts to get interesting.
