The cause for Nebraska's collapse is...

[Baxter48]

I believe this has been on 50 or more previous posts ive said my opinion once im done it’s the past we cant bring it back and correct the mistakes

 

[salsa red]

The Jews

 

[ct husker]

This is heads on. TO wasn’t expecting the drop off in effort of the assistants. They lost their mojo in both coaching and recruiting. By the time Frank was allowed to restaff the powers to be had already hired their butcher in the form of Pederson

Not quite. The staff did not agree with how Frank ran things and eventually grew to not wanting to work for him, Tenopir and McBride especially(they wanted to be Head Coach). There are plenty of players who felt the same way and did not have much faith in Frank and it just kept steam rolling. His play calling and rhythm was never right, he panicked and was way in over his head not only play calling but as a head coach and he could not manage it all. Then add Peterson to the mix and it just kept getting worse.

 

[UltimateGarageHusker]

TOs 9-10 win seasons were not the same as Bo's. TO was getting 9-10 wins out of a 12 game schedule, while Bo was doing it over 13-14 games

This is a little misleading stat. Yes, in General Bo played more games. But TO didn't always just have 12 games. He had (6) 13 game seasons too. Bo also had more 13 game schedules than 14.

It should also be noted that the general population believes switching conferences to the B1G during the Bo tenure was an added difficulty that Bo faced with no other coach having to endure. Even saying so.......his last three years in the B1G he had a better record than his first 3 years in the Big 12. Even under the presumption that the B1G hated us and loaded up our schedule.

 

[UltimateGarageHusker]

Two HOF coaches in a row (now three with Frank) is like being struck by lightning. The run of wins, big games, conference and national titles ran 40 years, as good as any run in college football history. In my mind, three things happened during the Solich years. He didn't follow up anyone who could compare to Alexander and Correll, so Crouch needed to generate more yardage and became the focus. When Charlie left, Bohl (who turned out to be a very good HC) didn't have the chops at DC. Frank didn't have the juice on the recruiting trail. Parents sending their kids to play for TO hit way different than sending them to play for Frank. So player quality fell from the types of kids you need to compete for a natty. Callahan brought in good players but would fire his DC. Pelini brought play back up to Frank standards, but admin types hated him and he hated them. Riley had a good season with the older Pelini players. Then the bottom dropped out.

nice......and accurate summary

 

[BobVH5150]

"but these are completely stupid people and they acted based on what they knew at the time."

Agree.

And you are also correct in mentioning that catching lightning in a bottle as with Devaney and Osborne was unrealistic. But the program never needed to retreat to the depths below Saddam Hussein's gallows. Anyways, That was world-class bungling that only comes down from the top of the ladder.

 

[Pennsyhuskers]

The cause?
Solich.
Set happy feelings nostalgia aside. The dude was in over his head. He was given seven years. He turned a Cadillac into a Yugo.
Osborne erred in turning it over to him.

 

[RedMyMind2.0]

The cause?
Solich.
Set happy feelings nostalgia aside. The dude was in over his head. He was given seven years. He turned a Cadillac into a Yugo.
Osborne erred in turning it over to him.

He was Miami's Larry Coker without the Title

 

[NikkiSixx]

I see Nebraska Football's last 20 years as a systemic failure at the highest level. Chancellor, Board of Regents, President. Any of these people could've overruled TO handing his job to Solich. None did, because it would've been viewed as dirty. But it's also dirty that Bill Byrne, our best AD of the last 25 years, did not get to do his job in 1998. If he had, Osborne may have been insulted, but he'd have publicly walked away quietly. Then they hired narcissist Steve Pederson as AD. He fires Frank and Osborne quietly walks away, focusing on politics. The inept, incompetent leadership triumvirate begs Tom to rescue them after their second bad decision. Then, Osborne is back as AD and he hires Bo, and at least part of that is about "setting things right.". But it's not right, because for all of Pelini's personnel genius inside his defensive schemes, and for all of his excellence as a relationship builder with players, he had obvious shortcomings which need no rehash. Tom quits and the people in the tower take on Shawn Eichorst. He's disconnected and inept. I work with many people on the autism spectrum who are incredible in their work. Eichorst, in my view, was also on the spectrum, and had difficulties developing skills around his tics to be able to excel in his work. Eichorst hires Riley AND Bob Diaco, another adult on the autism spectrum who had trouble finding workarounds to excel in all facets of his job. Then, they bring back Trev just to dick him around with the leadership vacuum that the board of regents created and maintained. This ALL starts and ends with the upper administration. It's clear as day.

There indeed have been a lot of leadership failures over the past 25 years. But we have seen some successes too. Other programs at Nebraska have done well during these times too, so it's hard to lay blame solely on the administration.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

I think it was Texas and their bullying of everyone in the Big12 by wanting to control payouts to each school. NU said f#%@ that and left. The results were Nebraska's recruiting grounds in Texas and other big 12 states dried up and it wasn't established in the Big10 states.

 

[NU65]

It TO would have just let Byrne do his job who knows what would have happened.

This^^^^^^

 

[NU65]

This clown didn't help

 

[gvillehorn]

I think it was Texas and their bullying of everyone in the Big12 by wanting to control payouts to each school. NU said f#%@ that and left. The results were Nebraska's recruiting grounds in Texas and other big 12 states dried up and it wasn't established in the Big10 states.

Deloss Dodds was an arrogant POS that destroyed a great conference. He was so focused on what we "Could" do under the rules agreed upon and not what that would do to the conference or what was best for the health of the conference.
Once it was clear that the Longhorn Network as a deal breaker for the other schools we should have told ESPN no for the good of the conference. Truth is, the big 12 was led by several programs who really only cared about their own self-interests and we were the worst offender.

**** Dodds. Hated that guy for the **** he pulled in the big 12. Was glad to see him go and even happier we have an AD now who keeps his mouth shut and just focuses on winning games.