December 4th, 2014 at 1:03 PM ^
Come on guys. This all relative. Of course it doesn't rain in Corvalis every minute of everyday all year long. But compared to Nebraska, or Colorado, or SoCal, or NorCal, or Wyoming, or Michigan, Corvalis like much of Oregon's I-5 corridor can be fairly and accurately described as rainy from late fall through first half of spring. Wasn't saying it's a bad place. It's a great town. Even if the winds from Albany aren't always that pleasant.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:05 PM ^
DOUBLE POST. Thanks CC traffic.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:19 PM ^
Ann Arbor (except for tthat weather stuff) !
Go Blue!
December 4th, 2014 at 4:26 PM ^
The Willamette Valley/I-5 corridor isn't all that rainy and is beautiful for most of the year.
West of the Coast Range IS all that rainy (and then some...) and is beautiful for most of the year.
East of the Cascade's isn't rainy at all and ranges between beautiful and ugly dusty brown high desert, except in winter when it's all under snow.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
this feels like the day Beyonce dropped a full album out of nowhere
December 4th, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
Came here to post this.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
Wow. That was fast.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
Now that our two primary competitors are out of the market, there are no excuses for Michigan if it doesn't bring in a huge hire.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
December 4th, 2014 at 1:41 PM ^
December 4th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
Wait, seriously? I we sure the Nebraska twitter wasn't hacked? It had to have been hacked...
December 4th, 2014 at 12:45 PM ^
Maybe the Nebraksa AD was hacked?
December 4th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
What a thoroughly uninspiring hire. They would be better off with Pelini than a 60+ year old .500 coach.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^
December 4th, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
It seems like a move just to say they made a move. This has WAY more downside than upside.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
FauxPelini's gonna be PISSED
December 4th, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
What a thoroughly uninspiring hire. They would be better off with Pelini than a 60+ year old .500 coach.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
everyone on Twitter thinks the @Huskers twitter account got hacked. Hell, maybe it did.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
File under: "people are in charge of things, just because they are in charge of things, I guess."
December 4th, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
Adios Nebraska option football:
http://www.ketv.com/sports/huskers-extended-coverage/nebraska-announces-head-coach-pick/30057630
December 4th, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
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December 4th, 2014 at 1:22 PM ^
Sounds like someone we have all known for the last 4 years
December 4th, 2014 at 2:40 PM ^
I don't know whether Mike Riley is a great guy or not, but this article makes me lean towards no. No, he may not be that great of a guy. http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2014/11/canzano_her_name_is_brenda_tra.html
December 4th, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^
Thanks for posting the story. He admits to using a poor choice of words in describing their actions. Ultimately, though, I'm not sure what more Riley should have done to punish the players when there was no prosecution moving forward.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:32 PM ^
From a 9-3 coach to a 5-7 coach? No. This cannot be real life.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^
One season does not constitute the sum total of a coach's resume.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:39 PM ^
and besides which, there's this:
I wouldn't judge Riley strictly on W/L at a longtime doormat. But the trajectory at OSU isn't promising. Beavers have regressed since '09.
— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) December 4, 2014
December 4th, 2014 at 1:19 PM ^
Wins and losses are just meaningless statistics though so...whatever
December 4th, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
You're right, Mike Riley is not a 5-7 coach. However, his best season ever (record-wise) he went 9-3 before losing the Alamo Bowl (and thus finishing 9-4). His best post-season ranking is 18th, and in 14 seasons he has finished the year ranked 4 times (18, 20, 21, 25).
So it's probably better to say he's a 7-5 coach. If you take out his first 2 years at Oregon State, he's 85-66. That's a .563 win clip over 12 seasons when you take out two rebuilding years. That's just a little worse than 7-5.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:49 PM ^
He's 61 with a sub .500 record the past five seasons. Definitely seems on the downswing.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:16 PM ^
Well they did say they wanted to go in a different direction...
December 4th, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
Dude is 61 years old and this is his head coaching resume:
| Year | School | G | W | L | T | Pct | SRS | SOS | AP Pre | AP High | AP Post | Bowl | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Oregon State | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | .273 | -3.58 | 5.15 | |||||
| 1998 | Oregon State | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | .455 | 1.51 | 4.05 | |||||
| 2003 | Oregon State | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | .615 | 7.98 | 1.82 | 22 | Las Vegas Bowl-W | |||
| 2004 | Oregon State | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | .583 | 11.80 | 8.89 | Insight Bowl-W | ||||
| 2005 | Oregon State | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | .455 | -0.87 | 3.31 | |||||
| 2006 | Oregon State | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | .714 | 9.67 | 4.88 | 21 | 21 | Sun Bowl-W | ||
| 2007 | Oregon State | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .692 | 9.93 | 6.54 | 25 | 25 | Emerald Bowl-W | ||
| 2008 | Oregon State | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .692 | 10.26 | 4.80 | 17 | 18 | Sun Bowl-W | ||
| 2009 | Oregon State | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | .615 | 8.47 | 3.17 | 13 | Las Vegas Bowl-L | |||
| 2010 | Oregon State | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | 7.60 | 9.68 | 24 | 24 | |||
| 2011 | Oregon State | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | .250 | -4.33 | 3.84 | |||||
| 2012 | Oregon State | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .692 | 12.14 | 6.06 | 7 | 20 | Alamo Bowl-L | ||
| 2013 | Oregon State | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | .538 | 8.11 | 4.72 | 25 | 25 | Hawaii Bowl-W | ||
| 2014 | Oregon State | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | -1.10 | 4.32 | |||||
| Oregon State | 173 | 93 | 80 | 0 | .538 | 5.54 | 5.09 |
December 4th, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
December 4th, 2014 at 12:48 PM ^
He didn't even put together one big year in a time where the Pac-10 wasn't exactly murderers row. If you can go to Rose Bowls at Washington State, you can do it at Oregon State. If you can go 10-2 at Miss St. in the SEC West, you can do it at Oregon State. He didn't.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
That is utter bullshit. Great coaches - the kind that a program like Nebraska should target - actually elevate mediocre or bad programs to great or good status. I can think of a ton of coaches that turned doormat/mediocre teams into good/great teams: Tiller, Meyer (Utah), Dantonio, Kelley(Cinncinatti), Mullen, Petrino ... If Nebraska couldn't get a big-time coach, they should have stuck with Pelini.
Rittenburg wrote a great article about this. If the Big 10 can't get better coaching, our reputation is going to continue to suffer. This is not going to help.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
Riley is an decent coach, perhaps "pretty good" applies... but no way you can say very good or great. In fact, Greg Shiano, who most of mgoblog seems to believe is a poor coach, has WAY more claim to the title of very good coach (college) than Riley.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:48 PM ^
Everybody laughing at this hire realizes he's been coaching at Oregon State, right? In the seven seasons prior to him taking over in '97 they won 14 games. 2 wins per year. He's taken them to 8 of their 17 Bowl Games, and got the program moving in the right direction before Erickson took over for four years. They have a stadium with a capacity of 45,674, they are on the west coast so no one on the east coast sees them play, and they are not Oregon. i.e., they don't have Phil Knight's money to build a program. He does more with less. Contrast that to Pelini who does less with more and I think Nebraska fans will be pleasantly surprised by this hire, if they are being honest with themselves.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
"they are on the west coast so no one on the east coast sees them play"
They were the late game in Detroit at least 5 times this season. I've seen them play. I was impressed.
A 61 year old journeyman coach with a career ~.600 record doesn't seem great but my first reaction to this was watch out for Nebraska.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:04 PM ^
December 4th, 2014 at 2:59 PM ^
No one is dooming him to failure, but I think we have the right to give our opinion of the hire in the meantime. We can look at the track record of the coach they fired vs the coach replacing him and say that all evidence points to Nebraska taking a step back rather than a step forward.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:07 PM ^
December 4th, 2014 at 12:32 PM ^
Thats a very odd hire. All the insiders sure saw that one coming.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
December 4th, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
He's not an angry grouch on the sidelines.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:57 PM ^
Watching the video on ESPN talking about this hire makes me laugh. They talk about Riley being the opposite of Pelini then show Riley being pissed for the entire segment.
December 4th, 2014 at 4:38 PM ^
This guy is better than Bo Pellini how?
Same level of coaching skill, 1000% less douche.
December 4th, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
That guy coached the Chargers for a season or two and was dreadful. What on earth are they thinking...that can't possibly be the best guy they could hire for the job. Florida and Nebraska both underwhelmed with their hires.
If I were a Huskers fan, I'd be so disappointed with this hire. I can't imagine a top-flight institution making a more lackluster choice (other than ichigan-May a few years ago) in recent memory.