Nebraska is 1 coach away from winning a National Title

konaki

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If Indiana can
Indiana had nothing to lose and they took a chance on a coach from James Madison while other schools kept using the same old formula, retreads with the same old names year in and year out. The big time donors will never let Nebraska go after coaches like Cignetti from a school like James Madison and one other thing about Cignetti, he did come with conditions from what I've heard and Indiana met them while Nebraska never would.

Nebraska could have signed Cignetti very easily if they wanted to but he was never on their radar, he wasn't shiny enough, not elite enough name.
 
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Indiana had nothing to lose and they took a chance on a coach from James Madison while other schools kept using the same old formula, retreads with the same old names year in and year out. The big time donors will never let Nebraska go after coaches like Cignetti from a school like James Madison and one other thing about Cignetti, he did come with conditions from what I've heard and Indiana met them while Nebraska never would.

Nebraska could have signed Cignetti very easily if they wanted to but he was never on their radar, he wasn't shiny enough, not elite enough name.
Cignetti would be a terrible used car salesman and a terrible preacher
 
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Indiana had nothing to lose and they took a chance on a coach from James Madison while other schools kept using the same old formula, retreads with the same old names year in and year out. The big time donors will never let Nebraska go after coaches like Cignetti from a school like James Madison and one other thing about Cignetti, he did come with conditions from what I've heard and Indiana met them while Nebraska never would.

Nebraska could have signed Cignetti very easily if they wanted to but he was never on their radar, he wasn't shiny enough, not elite enough name.
 

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Indiana had nothing to lose and they took a chance on a coach from James Madison while other schools kept using the same old formula, retreads with the same old names year in and year out. The big time donors will never let Nebraska go after coaches like Cignetti from a school like James Madison and one other thing about Cignetti, he did come with conditions from what I've heard and Indiana met them while Nebraska never would.

Nebraska could have signed Cignetti very easily if they wanted to but he was never on their radar, he wasn't shiny enough, not elite enough name.
Did you call on them to hire Cignetti? I don’t remember that. Who is the next Cignetti? Name him.
 

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Did you call on them to hire Cignetti? I don’t remember that. Who is the next Cignetti? Name him.
It's a hypothetical like most posts on this site. Do you think that the head of our athletic department makes all the calls on who to hire and when to fire? I have news for you it really is the big donors who have the ear of Troy Dannen and when they speak he listens. Until those big time donors come to the realization that those big shiny things are not always gold it will never change in Lincoln, that is my point.
 
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I don't see that, i think Fred's the guy that could do it if any. This is another basketball thread right. I'll see my way out now.
 

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It's a hypothetical like most posts on this site. Do you think that the head of our athletic department makes all the calls on who to hire and when to fire? I have news for you it really is the big donors who have the ear of Troy Dannen and when they speak he listens. Until those big time donors come to the realization that those big shiny things are not always gold it will never change in Lincoln, that is my point.
What if Rhule tried wearing his hat to the side?
 
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Indiana had nothing to lose and they took a chance on a coach from James Madison while other schools kept using the same old formula, retreads with the same old names year in and year out. The big time donors will never let Nebraska go after coaches like Cignetti from a school like James Madison and one other thing about Cignetti, he did come with conditions from what I've heard and Indiana met them while Nebraska never would.

Nebraska could have signed Cignetti very easily if they wanted to but he was never on their radar, he wasn't shiny enough, not elite enough name.
The Traditon Coaliton, Nebraska Way, Boosters, and the fanbase would never had allowed it. Period.
 

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Great. Another thread devoted to “Why can’t we be Indiana? It looks so easy!” Cignetti is a unicorn. Chasing after that is going to torpedo a lot of schools.

You're right. Schools should all aspire to go for the "backward hat wearing, never beats a ranked opponent, zip line riding when he's preparing for a ranked opponent in a New Years Day bowl game, playing whack a mole with his assistant coach hires" guy. That's got success written all over it.
 

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You're right. Schools should all aspire to go for the "backward hat wearing, never beats a ranked opponent, zip line riding when he's preparing for a ranked opponent in a New Years Day bowl game, playing whack a mole with his assistant coach hires" guy. That's got success written all over it.
Nick Saban never flew to Vegas midweek to watch a fight. Dannen should be fired for extending him after that
 
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You're right. Schools should all aspire to go for the "backward hat wearing, never beats a ranked opponent, zip line riding when he's preparing for a ranked opponent in a New Years Day bowl game, playing whack a mole with his assistant coach hires" guy. That's got success written all over it.
I quit reading your critique when I saw your first complaint was him having the audacity to wear a cap backwards.
 

Neb79

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Sorry you're satisfied with a clown coach.
You want a well dressed coach? I hear Mike Singletary is available. I’m just thinking of how awful Belichek’s teams were for 20 years all because he wore those slouchy hoodies. It kept him from winning and I hear he can barely find a girlfriend.
 

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You want a well dressed coach? I hear Mike Singletary is available. I’m just thinking of how awful Belichek’s teams were for 20 years all because he wore those slouchy hoodies. It kept him from winning and I hear he can barely find a girlfriend.
Tom Brady won not bill
 
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You want a well dressed coach? I hear Mike Singletary is available. I’m just thinking of how awful Belichek’s teams were for 20 years all because he wore those slouchy hoodies. It kept him from winning and I hear he can barely find a girlfriend.

Has nothing to do with how well they dress. I'd take Pete Golding in a heartbeat and he dresses like a complete slob.

It has everything to do with Rhule making a public mockery of the head coaching position of a once proud program by playing dress up cosplay whatever embarrassing sh*t that was on the sideline in a game against a ranked program.

Duuuurrrrr...I'm Coach Rhule. Duuuuuuurrrrr let me turn my hat around. Duuuurrrr...hands on approach. Duhr...now I'm Coach Matt.

As he proceeds to get curb stomped on national television on New Years.

Of course, the fact that you don't know that doesn't surprise me.

Embarrassing.
 

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Has nothing to do with how well they dress. I'd take Pete Golding in a heartbeat and he dresses like a complete slob.

It has everything to do with Rhule making a public mockery of the head coaching position of a once proud program by playing dress up cosplay whatever embarrassing sh*t that was on the sideline in a game against a ranked program.

Duuuurrrrr...I'm Coach Rhule. Duuuuuuurrrrr let me turn my hat around. Duuuurrrr...hands on approach. Duhr...now I'm Coach Matt.

As he proceeds to get curb stomped on national television on New Years.

Of course, the fact that you don't know that doesn't surprise me.

Embarrassing.
Please continue complaining about it. You can drop “Man” from your name, as you sound like a woman or child the way you are constantly whining and repeating yourself over and over again.