Bo Pellini rumored extension through 2018
So is his job safe, or is this just a show for recruiting? There were points during last season where he was looking like a dead man walking.
I figured he was pretty close to being fired. This ought to cause a few aneurysms in the Nebraska fanbase
I don't think he gels with anyone.
Good for Nebraska, I guess.
Also, he reminds me of one of the Nihilists from The Big Lebowski.
He's a Buckeye. Him not gelling with human beings is to be expected.
That means more years of @fauxpelini on twitter!
Oh, ..what?
You want me here for a few more years.
Hmmm, I guess so.
kthxbye
In the words of Darryl Rogers, "What' does a coach have to do around here to get fired?"
I'm shocked it's through 2018... he only dared them to sign him through 2016.
Nebraska is going to keep him around until he can turn Tim Miles into a douche. It will be a tough job, but if anyone can do it, Bo can.
I guess I'm only mildly surprised. Only mildly because Neb could easily buy out the contract if they want to get rid of him, and this puts the front of stability for public perception and recruiting.
But I just don't see Pelini at this point being the guy Nebraska wants long term. They're a blue blood of college football. They expect conference, even national, championships, college playoff berths, etc. He's been there 7 years and they're treading water as a perenial 4 loss team. Not bad, by any means, but not what Nebraska expects. And Pelini hasn't shown the ability to develop talent to make them into a consistent contender a la Dantonio for example. Kind of a tough situation for them actually; it can totally get worse if they don't find the right guy, but the current guy isn't going to take them where they want to be.
It could very well be that, for various reasons, Pelini does not last until 2018, although they have said all the right things to put most of the speculation to bed in Lincoln so far. Even going back to November, Eichorst was out there saying that Pelini was the coach that would lead Nebraska "into the future", however you want to define that. He lived on one-year extensions for a couple years, I believe, but this makes official the school's confidence, at least publicly.
Actually, from the limited fan comments so far, the Nebraska fan reaction seems to be mixed. The funniest one was someone who said they would like to be thrown in front of the Bo Pelini train.
Pelini's 2 wins happened as a result of the 2 most inept offensive performances since the 2008 season. The first was when Denard got injured and Bellamy spent the 2nd half running around like a chicken with its head cut off. The second was in the midseason catastrophe on the offensive line, an injured QB and a complete lack of a coherent game plan from Borges.
If you want to offer evidence the Pelini is bad for Michigan, those 2 wins aren't it. He's a bad coach who has cratered the Nebraska program.
Nebraska has a 50 / 50 chance every year to play for the B1G title. The division will be won by either them or Wisconsin 90% of the time. The likes of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern and Purdue will crack the top 25 polls maybe once every 5 years.
Just another shining example how the B1G schedulers are pathetic ....
Go Blue!
Note Bo in the lower left corner.
Direct:
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The imperius curse! Lord Pelini-mort must be using mind control on the AD.
What do we have, the 3rd best record in conference play since joining? And playing the hardest schedule, plus transitioning to a new conference.
Played for a B1G title once, contended for the division all three years, have scoreboard or split against eveyone except Wisconsin. And played for and barely lost 2 conference titles before joining the B1G.
Would we prefer 11, 12, 13 win seasons, BCS bowls and national championships? Sure. But only a handfull of other programs in all of CFB have strung together at least 9 wins as long as Bo has. When 9 win seasons are your program's "down" period, that's how you end up as one of the all-time winningest programs.
All after our own disasterous RichRod period with Bill Callahan. It's not easy finding another Tom Osborne or Bo Schembechler. Therein lies the problem - one UM fans have struggled with as well since the Bo S era.
I know there is a split in both the Husker and Wolverine fanbase over whether this is "good enough" and "up to XXXX's standards", but I'm cool with it.
Have done their job. IIRC they have a first year Athletic Director. Seems like a wise play to keep the status quo going for now. Buyouts (etc) are probably the more important part of said contract language.
I'm a little surprised that nobody in D1 football has gone to an incentive system for their head coaches.
1 win = $10 annual salary. 2 wins = $200, 3 wins = $5000, 4 wins = $10,000, 5 wins = 50,000. 6 wins = 100,000. 7 wins = 200,000. 8 wins = 300,000. 9 wins = 500k, 10 wins = $1M, 11 wins = $4M, 12 wins = $6M, bring back the crystal football for a total payout of $10M. That ought to induce some hunger in head coaches LOL....
That might (but probably not) work for a team that's rolling. But those teams usually aren't hiring new coaches. But most coaches aren't going to leave a job making 500k+ in most cases for a job where they need to win 9 games just to match their salary.
The idea might work if you severely changed the numbers. What if you're rebuilding? No one wants the possibility of making shit money for a job that takes a ton of work.
If we're going to do that, Eastern Michigan might have to drop to NAIA football.
I don't think any reasonable program or coach would sign up for my system. Its intended more toward the "8 wins minimum in 2014 or the whole AthDept gets cleaned out" mentality.
I don't get Nebraska. I get that 9-4 every year is okay and much better than losing records under Callahan, but how much better really is it? When you go 9-4 and keep failing to win a conference title for 15 years I would move on. That's why I don't get people who say they want Lloyd Carr back. You were okay with 9-3 and playing second fiddle to OSU nearly every year? With the resources Nebraska and Michigan have they should be trying to be the BEST. If the coach they have can't do that, time to see if the next guy can do it. Pelini hasn't shown anything that he can compete with the best in the country and he's been there 6 years.
You don't remember most of the Lloyd Carr era, do you? I know you're young, so I'm sure that's why, but don't compare Bo Pelini to Lloyd Carr. Carr went to 5 BCS bowls and won a national championship. We won or shared something like 5 Big Ten championships in his 13 years. That is not what Pelini is going.
I remember playing second fiddle to OSU nearly every year from 2002 on and that's when I started watching every game. 2003 was a great year. 2004 we won the B1G but OSU blew our doors off. And considering we weren't even the best team in the conference most of the years we shared the B1G title except 97 and 2003, I would say we could have won much more than we did.
I realize Pelini is not Lloyd. But there is also a reason fans of other teams used to say ''You can't spell Lloyd without two l's''.
How great really was 9-4, 8-4, 12-0, 10-3, 10-2, 9-3, 8-4? I would have loved to have been old enough to really appreciate that national title, but I feel that the national title bought Lloyd a lot of slack. We didn't make the rose bowl after 97 for another six years. We were going to the citrus bowl every year (and once the orange). That might be the standard at Wisconsin but it shouldn't be the standard here. Then once we got back to the rose bowl we got our doors blown off by USC. Are you noticing a common theme here? We rarely beat elite teams after 97.
2011 should be considered a down year for Michigan football. It would be for OSU football.
And 2011 was a great season - we beat Ohio and ND and won the Sugar Bowl after 3 seasons of epic fail.
I was a bit worried and really missing me some Mo! But '97 turned it around. Though we had some stellar recruiting classes in '98 and '99, I think we could have done better but not complaining. '03 through the end was kind of meh but '06 was very good. LC was like an Oreo cookie, not so good on the ends but great double stuff in the middle!
not a big commitment
For some bizarre reason I cannot explain or justify in any rational way,
I like Bo Pelini.
...I'm assuming that is photoshop but if it's a real picture then I think I need to start a Pellini-to-Michigan movement.