Remember the early 80's and people thinking that Nebraska couldn't win the big games.
Lance Leipold
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You’re my boy, I’m too old waiting for the next apocalypse, I’m satisfied being in the top 4/5 of the B1G conference and having winning seasons.
Chadwell likely is going to have his 3rd straight 11 win season this year. Has it all been with one QB? He seems to have built something that is lasting more than just having one great year
No Power5 experience would take longer than you think for success in the B1g.
Maybe Lance heard about all the fun Frost had in Lincoln and decided to live the wife in Lawrence.
I don’t see the parallels myself between him and Riley. I think Leipold could give us Pelini type of results 8-4 to 9-3 consistently. Don’t believe we would ever get over the hump thoughSounds an awful lot like the justification we used for hiring Riley
If true it must mean that Liepold is getting interest from some other place(s). Or at least his agent is telling the Kansas AD that story.
I’m sure KU wants to keep him, but I have doubts anyone else is actually trying to hire him.
That’s about what we’d get with him as HC next year too.
People forget college football is a business. LL would bring zero buzz to 50% of Nebraska footballs cliental. You’d lose a lot of revenue due to that.
And it makes my head scratch when people point to the job he’s doing at KU. Kansas is in 8th place out 10 in conference. 2 of his 3 conference wins are against 9 & 10. They didn’t have some sort of miracle year 8-4 or 9-3 kind of year. They beat bad schools. If that’s the dream we have promised, I guess it’s an improvement but it’s depressing. And he can’t recruit.
He’d really need to be wiling to work with new people at Nebraska on the coaching staff. Keeping Mickey would be a must. Same probably with Busch. I think LL is a great scheme guy but he’s a poor man’s coach in talent and that shows when your playing good teams. He needs to learn how to bring in talent. It’s not DIII.
And if we want to really burn it all down. LL is the hire cause he will suck for a while. We will see irrelevance at a new height
Trench guy is Rhule. …I’ll preface by saying I would absolutely support Leipold if he was our coach. I wish I knew who Alberts and CSA have narrowed the job down to, but I don’t know because he, Doug Ewald and CSA have everybody completely spinning. They are putting on a clinic in hyper-media era.
What I do know is that anything short of a CEO I don’t think Alberts would tolerate or hire. He has also eliminated a lot of names just with his discourse in press conferences. Trev wants trench development on both sides of the ball, not just OL. I do think LL is a rising CEO, but he is aging, and I just don’t see him being the CEO Alberts will offer/hire. I also think Alberts is also trying to do all that he can for Mickey to stay on staff.
Please do hold me to it – I’ll explain when we don’t hire him
If he would prefer the Wisconsin job over Nebraska then he's a complete dumb *** that we want no part of.
always trust a women in which she speaks.I wouldn't be disappointed at all, and in fact, I think he fits the culture of Nebraska better than any of the other candidates mentioned.
Weird hearing this from someone that bitched about one thing or another with something to do with Husker football for quit sometime..
Their current class is ranked in the 90’s and they are about to lose 6 of their last 7. So it’s not exactly out of left field.
Did LL have the same QB for his six titles at Whitewater? Bottom line, LL is a winner.
Don't even think it's comparable. Riley was a pushover coming in. Leipold is no pushover.
Nope, and we could do a lot worse. Monken, Shaw, and a washed up Patterson were names popping up as possible candidates. I'd gladly take Leipold over any of those.
Rhule definitely has history with the trenches. DL early in career, OL later in career. You can’t turn around two D1 programs without being more physical than your opponents up front. If we don’t figure the trenches out soon and develop an identity, we’ll keep having losing seasons and booster money will slowly pull away. This is why Rhule is one of my top choices. So are Fickell and Klieman because of similar reasons.
And I was right about that, and I'm right about this. Leipold fits this program, and I'd much rather have him over a guy like Rhule.
The qb's he's developed at Kansas, the running backs he brought in and developed at Buffalo, there's more than enough evidence to suggest he knows what the hell he's doing on offense regardless of recruiting rankings. Open up the checkbook for a defensive coordinator and I'd be excited and supportive 100%.
true, but I wouldn't brag too much on his D3 Championships. the best case for Leipold is he turns around places that historically are very bad, which is arguably a greater task than what he would need to accomplish here and thus speaks to possibly being able to win quickly.
before Leipold, Buffalo only had 3 winning seasons this century. I don't think I have to explain Kansas, they have been a total doormat sans the brief Mangino period.
contrast that with Rhule. He's credited with "turning around Temple" when Temple had 9 win, bowl game attending seasons under the two coaches that preceded him. what he did at Baylor has been a contentious topic, but the fact of the matter is his Baylor stint is book-ended by coaches that did better than he did, which speaks to the fact that being able to comprise your roster of 80% Texas talent in your back yard makes it more likely you'll string together some nice wins.
What a stupid comment, but then I would not expect anything intelligent from you.
Sorry it hurts your feelings that if Leipold was coaching in Corvallis instead of Lawrence and never coached at UNO everyone would rightly be calling for Trev's head.
Well, if you had bothered to read the complete thread, I was responding to WHCSC who suggested the success that LL has experienced at Kansas is similar to Chadwell’s success at Coastal Carolina due to his outstanding quarterback. I don’t think this a fair criticism, since LL won championships with more than one quarterback.
Also, a case can be made for LL winning six D3 championships because despite Whitewater being a very good football program and making it to the championship game, it was LL that got them over the hump, SIX times.
Bottom line, LL is a winner.