MJ for head coach!!
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Whoever the new coaches are, they better be able to recruit and sell what they believe. In other words, be damn good at what they do and be able to sell corn to a soybean farmer! Seriously.
Look, Timnsun, I love Micky and he should stay on regardless of any coach. I’m looking at this from the perspective that given the high risk and utmost emphasis on getting this hire right, people need to stop suddenly crowning MJ the next head coach for several years to come because we won a game or two
HELL NO!!!! I am ready to win. If Alberts is stupid enough to promote Joseph, we will be making a coaching change in 3 years along with another AD change. No, spend the money and get a big time coach and turn this thing around. F*ck this experimental ********! This is almost as annoying as the people who kept saying Frost deserved more time after the losing seasons piled up.
I highly doubt Alberts is stupid enough to do an experimental coach after what will be a 6th straight losing season. If he is, I'll be in the camp that he isn't the right guy.
I highly doubt Alberts is stupid enough to do an experimental coach after what will be a 6th straight losing season. If he is, I'll be in the camp that he isn't the right guy.
Yeah if you want Mickey Joseph you are fine with being mediocre. He should only get the job if literally every proven coach turns down the job.
The people pining for Joseph are only doing it based off emotion. The guy has done nothing to prove he deserves a job at a place that expects to compete for national titles. You get the most proven coach you can find, not an experimental coach just because you had a good 4th quarter against Indiana.
Who should Alberts go after, in your opinion. Not starting a hassle here, just curious of your top choices. Thanks.
I don’t disagree with you here, all I’m saying is let the season play out before cancelling him as head coach. He could surprise some people and he could be a good one. I know it doesn’t happen often, but I bet Clemson would be kicking themselves had they went in a different direction than Dabo.
You just never know. I hear what you’re saying about the risk. Maybe the risk IS too high. But I think someone will pick him up. He won’t be a WR coach forever.
I have the same opinion and I made a list of at least 12 guys with recent head coaching experience who would be realistic options. There's probably some other head coaches, coordinators, etc. out there I would take over Mickey as well, and what I've seen so far from him hasn't impressed me at all. Hiring MJ would be settling big time.
I like the dude as an assistant. But head coach? Uneducated Neb homers. He will not be the head coach. You are correct.
Your avatar is who they should go after. Mickey is the "no one want's to come here" choice. Not that that is bad or anything, but it is "settling". They can do better, although I highly doubt they will.
I don’t agree with a lot of Busch hate on this game. I think the players were in the right spots most of the night but I saw a lot of sloppy play. We could have had Purdue stopped in the backfield or for no gain a lot but there were a ton of missed tackles.
We all knew Purdue Offense was going to get yards and points. Their QB was on the money all night. He was putting on a clinic.
We all knew Purdue Offense was going to get yards and points. Their QB was on the money all night. He was putting on a clinic.
I'm waiting on trev to email me the coaching search progress reports, so I can see the names on the list and compare them with mj...
meanwhile mj would fair well focusing on illinoise, and recruiting/nil...
trev has been slack thus far with the reports, thus I can't make the proper judgement..
meanwhile mj would fair well focusing on illinoise, and recruiting/nil...
trev has been slack thus far with the reports, thus I can't make the proper judgement..
Yea, so do I but I want Mickey to be part of the new staff as assistant head coach and receivers coach who ever is hired..
Do you think that the guy from Illinois could have been brought in after the OU game and produced much better results in a couple weeks?
With the improvement on special teams this year after being a laughing stock last year, I think he'll get interest across the country as a special teams coordinator/recruiter. I hope we can keep him.
If we hire anyone that is ‘worth a shot’, then just fire this program into the fvcking sun and save us all the pain of watching every year.
Great questions. With the last four hires, none of the new HC's hired a "great staff". Riley and Frost brought in their own staffs. Bo and Callahan hired a hodge podge of retreads, newbies, drinking buddies and relatives. As far as a staff is concerned, Mickey would retain any coaches who have proven to him that they can get it done so that's a start at least.
I'm not saying Mickey has to be the guy. But with him, I'm seeing a guy who the kids will believe in. And he will have three things in combination that no one else has-- he's got experience as the head coach at NU, he's coached in the Big 10 and strong recruiting ties to a prime recruiting spot in Louisiana.
Me personally i will wait and see how the season plays out. I dont care who the new coach is he will have a long uphill battle. We need major upgrades on both offense and defense lines and not 4 star kids that need a couple of years to develop, i mean immediate help. The whole back half of the defense needs some help as well. My question is to what happened to that 4 star safety from bama and 5 star db from Ohio state? No matter how much money we can offer, urban Meyer he is not heading to this dumpster fire. My top realistic choice would matt ruhle and then chris kleinman after that it is crap shot on who to hire
Mickey has proven that he will get rid of under performers on his staff. The evidence of that is, his first major decision as head coach was to fire Chinander.
Put Busch back on special teams and safeties and hire the best DC you can find. And then recruit recruit recruit. Our problems last night weren’t just schemes or calls. We’ve got to get better players in spots.
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Both are certainly worth retaining, I don't see MJ being named HFC but he and Busch are must keeps in my humble opinion.
Right now watching the “top candidates” stub their toes week after week, I’m ready to gamble on Mickey. Love the guy
Nebraska certainly could do a lot worse than MJ, as the previous two coaches showed. I won't be crying if he is named HC, but he has to make wholesale changes on the staff and not waste time in doing so.
Urban, Rhule, O'Brien, Leipold, Klineman for starters. Their resumes check all the boxes. MJ's resume checks only a few
Dawson probably should go if for nothing other than recruiting purposes. Raiola I’m not qualified to judge. He didn’t recruit the guys he’s having to try to coach.
our DB coach will likely leave and probably so will Beckton. They’ll be hot commodities back in Florida I’m afraid.
You left off Herman. He’s every bit as qualified as The guys on your list not named Urban.
Whoever gets the HC job better be able to recruit OL and DL that can freaking MOVE! So sick of this program struggling in the trenches. Until Nebraska gets this issue fixed we won't be a threat in this conference.
Could you provide a list of realistic list of coaches that aren't a risk.
Urban is not realistic so don't start with him
I don't think MJ wants the job, but maybe it's growing on him. Maybe he is growing into it. Or Maybe he already has his spot secured on the next staff and is trying his best to create a better foundation.
More than anything else Mickey wants NU to win whether he’s the head coach or the water boy. We HAVE to keep him and Busch on our staff.
I don't think we have to keep them. It would seem a pretty smart move to do so by whoever the new coach is gonna be.
I love him also. I totally see why the players love him. Personally I would love to see what he could do with a big time staff and better talent on O-line and D-line. We just don’t have difference makers in the trenches yet we’ve had chances in games we’ve lost (outside of OU).
I’ve seen many posts say he doesn’t want the HC position. I wonder why people are saying this when I think he is grinding it each week more than SF ever did.