Fire Matt, Fire Dana, get rid of Colandrea, 5-7, no bowl
- Thread starter Hunchback Johnny
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For the most part I agree, which makes the failure of so many coaches (sans Bo) even more stupefying. One could argue Scott Frost has done more with his $19million roster at UCF than Matt Frost has done here in Year 4 with his $32million roster. It's not even debatable.
Frost has wins over TCU, Kansas, and BYU. It's not Murderer's Row, but it is more impressive than Ohio, Maryland, and Michigan State.
Many schools - NU among them - seem to choose to recycle the existing D1 coaches pool instead of taking the leap of faith and giving some up-and-comer from a lower division or a well-regarded coordinator a shot. The ones who've done it seem to be pretty successful; I'm thinking of Indiana with Cignetti , K-State with Klieman, Oklahoma with Stoops - I'm sure there are many others. Of course there are also the Deion Sanders-type stories; it's a crap shoot for sure. With the exception of Frost (which didn't work) and Bo, Nebraska's list of coaches since Coach Solich is a few has-beens and never-weres. I was underwhelmed with the Rhule hire, and while I like some of the things he's done, I would have liked to see Nebraska go for a young dynamic coach with something to prove. JMO.
Cignetti has the perfect mix to pull a guy up from another division. He was an assistant at Alabama under Saban - lots of good examples of coaches that pan out from working with Saban. Other D1 experience as well. Stepped down to James Madison to get a head coaching gig - dominated at JM - gets the Indiana job. To me - a FCS coach is fine IF they have FBS experience - preferably at a blue blood or for an elite head coach. Pretty easy to do the research and find guys that have the criteria to succeed.
