Where? While a good coach I don't think a truly top team would hire him so he has two choices,
Frost was a total bust and I’m glad he’s gone, but I do get why Moos made the hire. Frost was going to get a Power 5 job that year even if it wasn’t at NU. Riley was just a total head-scratcher.
I do think Riley is a great X’s and O’s Coach but probably not the kind of recruiter he needed to be. He would have had back to back bowl games if not for that clown AD forcing him to can Banker. Not a great fit at NU but the program was so toxic at that point that they might have had trouble getting a better guy. Harvey, Eichorst, TO, Hawks, Solichistas, Bolievers, Boleavers. What a mess. I think we’re mostly on the same page now which should help if we can win a few more games next year.
The elimination of divisions makes our schedule tougher. But for MSU, their schedule gets easier. If he can do well there, he can make another jump. If he doesn’t, he will have life changing money for him and his grandkids.
The PAC 12 was a tough conference. Finishing above 0.500 in the PAC 12 is actually pretty impressive.
His win against Oregon last year was pretty nice.
He went 3-0 vs G5 schools...then lost to everyone "good" on the schedule...Iowa of the Pac NW???
Yep! I agree! Like I said, good, not great. He should take the money and run...just like Steve Miller said.
Nope...
He’s a genius on offense. 12 personnel, great run game and easy play action passing. He’d do well at a B1G pace
Yeah, he has done a good job there. I would have been happy if NU went after him.
Riley was an example of a good coach who was an odd fit at Nebraska. Add in our cultural issues and a conniving AD who was almost as incompetent as Stevey Peterson and that one was a recipe for disaster.
The PAC 12 is the funnest conference in the nation to watch. USC is 5-4 in that league. It's stupid to tear up that league but greed is the only thing that matters to college football administrators now.
You don't impress easy, do you? They beat an SEC team in their bowl game by 4 TDs last year. Two years in a row in the top 20. Lost to #4 Washington by 2 last week. And he did all of that at Oregon State.
I was gonna tell you he did have back to back bowl games but I can't count the 5 win bowl if I don't acknowledge FSU's bowl streak that beat ours with 6 wins.
I like the guy, I think he would be a huge upgrade for MSU. I just don't think he is the best coach in the history of coaching. I wanted him here at NU.
It wasn't greed on UCLA's part. It was survival. USC and CU could probably be classified as greed.
I agree. My comment was just talking about TV networks calling the shots now. "More money" is a reason that trumps everything else in college football.
Arguably the toughest conference in college football this season will be gutted down to only two members.
MSU gonna have to overpay to get a good coach because the coaches know you can't win there. This is a new era of college football and teams like MSU have even less of a chance at winning now. So these schools have to lie to their boosters and say with the right guy we can win. Harder to raise money when you are pitching your program as fighting to get to 6-6 each year.
