OT: Bo Pelini a poor sport over '13 WR decommitment

Anybody who wears a hat like that you know he's an a**hole.

He should only be known on here as pelini. He is a disgrace to the name Bo. 

I mean, doesn't he have the right to be angry. You gave him your word kid. He was kind of counting on you.

Pelini's a good coach, but he seems to be unable to control his temper. The irony is that the kid had originally committed elsewhere and Pelini flipped him to Nebraska.

It has to be frustrating to reel these guys in, and have them change late in the game, but they're kids. Kids do that, and moreover, they need to be free to do that because it's all about their lives.

I respect the young man for calling the coaches. He got a really unfortunate response. The Nebraska AD really needs to have a sit-down with Pelini and set him straight.

wait a second,are you trying to tell me a Ohio alum is a asshole and did something stupid?. gtfo

Decommits seem a normal part of the landscape these days, but that doesn't mean a coaching staff has to be all sweetness and light about them.

Glad we don't have to worry about Hoke or anyone on our staff doing this

No "gentleman's agreement" at Auburn.



Contractual agreement, perhaps.

There's a logical explenation for Pelini acting like this, he's a former buckeye.  Nuff said

The "youre going to need it" is a little weird to say.  But Pelini runs a good clean program, all things considered.  How many times have you seen a Nebraska player make a tackle, and offer to help the opposition get up?  I think nebraska is class act program (thus far.)

I've heard similar stories about Pat Fitzgerald.  A guy I work with son was being recruited by NW and when he notified Fitzgerald he was committing elsewhere Fitzgerald was really rude to him.

I don't have any disrespect for Pelini. He was named after Bo. He's a very passionate guy. I think he's great for Nebraska (yes, even though he's a Buckeye and we all hate that).

I have no problem that he is sour about losing a guy who might help him win. I want that type of coach in my beloved conference.

He's in a tough spot. Osborne left too big of shoes to fill. They need to pick it up the pace in recruiting. He's not pulling enough premier talent out of Texas or the Midwest right now. Moving UM into the same division as OSU would be huge for Nebraska.

we have observed him and other coaches (ie b.kelly) act in an unbecoming fashion.  stakes are high in the college football biz.  my sense is he is improving with age , success, improved job security, etc.

college football fans have high/unrealistic expectations- goes with the territory when coaches get paid millions of dollars.

that being said,     go blue--pelini sucks!

how can you be surprised when he has already done the same thing to someone else.

However, as a head coach, he needs to be more polished and professional. He's been around long enough to know how the recruiting game works. The latter part of his comment was not going to change Mr Walker's mind, so why say it and risk being featured negatively in an article?

"It's also worth remembering Walker wasn't required to contact the Nebraska coaches at all -- he said he felt he needed to do the right thing after switching his commitment from Vanderbilt to Nebraska in less transparent fashion -- and that his story may force future recruits to reconsider bothering to tell Pelini at all."- from the article

Incidents like this will definitely hurt, at least a little bit, in the long term for Pelini. Granted, recruiting is competitive and can get emotional for recruits and staffs alike, but this kid tried to do the proper thing, I believe, and let him know through some means even though he was not obligated to do so. If Pelini did in fact say those things, then it provides a major disincentive for recruits to be completely open with Pelini about their feelings for Nebraska, as well as negative advertising for Pelini himself. You would think that a coach  would ultimately want to create an open dialogue so - either way - he knows where a recruit stands. It is something that Michigan's staff - I think - is very, very good at doing through their own policies. Pelini is creating a situation where he could potentially get a lot of unpleasant surprises through the years. 

Pelini should have just counter-offered more $ than Auburn. 

I'd be pissed too if my recruiting class sucked as badly as Nebraska's, but never would I take my anger out on a recruit.

but he couldve been a bit more professional it seemed. Its got to be frustrating for coaches to have their recruiting board that says "Need 25 recruits...2 WRs" and you get a commitment and think one of those spots is locked down and taken care of, then the guy backs out on you weeks before signing and day and you have little to no chance of replacing him with someone comparable in that short of a time frame. It could screw up your depth for years and be partially responsible for your job security.

So again, can't blame him for being peeved, but now he gave other coaches ammunition for why they shouldn't go to Nebraska in the first place

I'd be one thing if someone with ironclad job security did this, since the repercussions are unlikely to be significant. But Pelini is walking on thin ice in Lincoln. He's taken his teams to three conference championship games but lost all of them and all of his Nebraska teams have lost 4 games. Nebraska fans are starting to look at Pelini like we looked at Amaker: a decent coach who took a smoking hole in the ground and built it into a respectable program, but not the guy who was going to take the program to the next level.

There have been rumblings for a few years about whether Pelini's continued outbursts, combined with mediocre results, are worth it; the new AD in Lincoln may not think so, barring a big 2013.

Their fans are nice too.  I went to the 2011 game against Nebraska and their fans were respectful. 

Did anyone expect anything else from a former Buckeye?

They think it will be NE vs OSU in the B1G championship almost every season! Ha, Michigan should beat NE this season at home. I think we have a better chance of winning the legends division this year and for years to come.

I actually think all is fair in recruiting and I can understand any coach getting peeved. These coaches work hard to develop these relationships. He has a right to be pissed and Pelini has good reason to wish him good luck. Besides, none of us know how it was said and in what context and anything else that was said. Many of you are basing this off of one tweet.

And why should Bo's reaction be any different than the many negative reactions that many fans show when a kid decommits. Recrtuiting is emotional, man!

This is a funny exchange from the article.

tomasbb 5pts

Pelini has done an OK job at Nebraska, but he should probably be a DC.  In today's oversensitive world, a head coach with a temper has to be more of a politician than a football coach.  

At DC, a guy like Pat Narduzzi can call his defense "60 minutes of unnecessary roughness" and be praised for it in the media.  As a head coach, a statement like that could turn into an excuse for firing him after a bad year.

Pelini got to two BCS "Championship" games as a DC in four years, and won one of them. I would be tempted to say that the "Peter Principle" applies here, and that he has been promoted to his level of incompetence, but head coach is more his level of mediocrity.  Pelini should bank as much as he can and then be a career DC.