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Nebraska Fires AD Shawn Eichost
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It was a kiss of death when he fully supported Riley after losing to NIU this past weekend..
I imagine folks are being interviewed or at least having feelers gauging HC's interest in replacing Riley at the very least
I imagine folks are being interviewed or at least having feelers gauging HC's interest in replacing Riley at the very least
I'll still never understand why Mike Riley left Oregon State. He was a fit -- and they loved him. Read an article that he rode to work many days on a bicycle.
Nebraska is a mess and Riley should be very concerned about his long term employment. One of my friend's son is Tanner Lee their starting QB and he had a bad game last week. Hopefully they can get it back on track.
Dear Coach Saban,
I am writing you in hopes of entering The Head Coach Rehabilitation Program there in Tuscaloosa. I believe you refer to it as an "offensive analyst" position.
I feel certain my services will be available no later than the first part of December, maybe even sooner.
Your Friend,
Mike Riley
Soon to Be Ex-Head Coach
University of Nebraska
Hard to regard it as anything but Karma. His wife regarded herself as too good for T-Town. Meanwhile, he's finding it hard to attract enough quality players to NE, whereas Saban doesn't seem to have that same problem with T-Town. I predicted NE's decline years ago when the NCAA sealed the scholarship loophole...
IIRC it had something to do with taking advantage of an unlimited amount of walkons, which Nebraska used until that loophole was closed as Earle alluded to. Nebraska has historically relied on Texas, Florida and California to recruit predominantly black, skill position players. That to has slowed and consequently has led to Nebraska's decline since the early 2000's. Nebraska is not heavily populated and has very few blacks. That plus Nebraska's climate makes it a hard sell for recruits.
I was curious as to why he turned down Bama. Sounds like his wife and Rita would get alone fine.
When the Big Eight merged with the four teams from the old Southwest Conference (Texas, TAMU, TCU Texas Tech) to form the Big 12, the coaches voted to no longer accept any non-qualifiers or partial qualifiers under Prop 48. Nebraska and Osborne had made a living bringing those players in from place like Florida, Texas, and California. Players that would have had to go to prep school or junior college otherwise in order to meet academic requirements.
Many point to that being the reason Osborne decide to retire when he did because it became more and more difficult to recruit once that loophole was closed.
It's interesting that she is from Birmingham. She regarded the college football environment here as too much of a fishbowl. Wonder what she thinks of Lincoln ? Mike himself seems like a genuinely great guy.
Maybe this will show all those folks in Nebraska that when you have a coach averaging 9-10 wins a season you should be happy because it could always be worse.
Pellini had to go, he was a walking, talking time bomb, but hiring Mike Riley is still a head scratcher. Riley was a decent coach for Oregon State whose expectations are about like vanderbilt's, but Eichorst obviously made a bad decision and is now paying the price.
IMO, Nebraska is one of those programs that would probably be better off with a former player or coach as the HC due to the uniqueness of the state and school and selling the program to out of state recruits. If Riley is let go then the new AD better make a good hire or his tenure will be brief also.
IMO, Nebraska is one of those programs that would probably be better off with a former player or coach as the HC due to the uniqueness of the state and school and selling the program to out of state recruits. If Riley is let go then the new AD better make a good hire or his tenure will be brief also.
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