I lived in Nebraska for 6 years and they are one of the most delusional and obnoxious fanbases ive ever seen in my life.I should let this go, but I won't.
Part of my Nebraska grudge (and for those who don't know, I actually ATTENDED UNMC through the military program at Fort Sam Houston and have 95 credit hours from the University of Nebraska) goes back to an Internet post from 2006 by a Nebraska schmo.
I'm thinking it was on HuskerMax and trust me - I've looked for it.
But in 2006.....right as they thought they were about to become a big deal again......one of their vocal bozos made a comment about how he didn't want Nebraska to become irrelevant or a "has been" like Alabama, who did nothing but live on glory days that ended long ago.
It was very shortly after this post we fired the head coach and hired the right one.......but the utter audacity of the comment has stuck with me for years.
I mean, was Nebraska "really" relevant after Tom Osborne left? Yeah, they had a few good teams, but they were worse for REAL than our REPUTATION is.
They fired a homegrown product who had given his blood and everything for that program because a 9-3 season was unacceptable.
I realize 9-3 would be a bad year for us, but we've never fired a coach after a 9-win season that I'm aware of.
Bill Curry left after a ten-win season on his own accord. So did Dennis Franchione. While I'll grant there may have been some back door politics
to dispose of Ray Perkins, he left for the NFL, where he had been both a player and a coach.
In fact, the only head coaches we've actually FIRED in my lifetime are Shula and Price, the former because he had no plan for improvement and the latter
because he.....had no plan for personal improvement.
Yes, Dubious would have been fired but.....3-9........and two losing seasons in four years when you inherited a 10-win division champion......
Nebraska fired Solich after a 9-3 season because it wasn't good enough, and I don't think they've had a season that good since then.
So....WHO is irrelevant again?
(I'm sorry, but it was in what seemed a rather thoughtful - not snide - post, so it didn't set well with me at all).
The biggest problem aside from recruiting is the ridiculous amount of access the average fan has to the program. 80% of the state is within a 45 minute radius of each other so knowing someone with connections is not rare at all. Imagine Friday Night Lights kinda instances when fans can bust into coaches offices unannounced because their cousin knows a guy in the athletic department. That actually happens, and that is a huge reason Pelini got so hostile with the fan base.
Scott Frost is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he is in control.