Nebraska gives Scott Frost much deserved extension to only fire him.

[DSMCy]

Sports radio out of Omaha is saying Pollard should be on their short list to head to Lincoln. These Husker Homers never cease to amaze me with their delusional views thinking everybody wants to be part of the UNL train wreck we have all witnessed the last 20+ years

Pollard was on their list when they hired Moos too.

I don't really have any concerns with Pollard leaving, especially for Nebraska. I think he's really happy in Ames. Wintersteen seems to have given him full autonomy over the AD, for better or worse haha. He's not getting any of that in Lincoln. Regents, boosters, fans, etc are all over every move you make.

 

[cydsho]

We might likely accept or would have accepted...but wouldn't have been hypocrites about the process.

Nebraska voted repeatedly to make sure the LHN could exist..then they said they had to leave because of things like the LHN...which was only possible because Nebraska fought to make it happen.

It wasn't just the LHN. Nebr REPEATEDLY sided with Tex/OK against any equalized revenue sharing. They failed to view themselves for what they are which is a small market university. They are are not in the same league as Tex and OK. They just happened to have a tremendous run in football but when the things that allowed them to succeed, prop 48, no scholarship limit, and loss of Big 8, they could not adjust. Had they realized they were not the big dog anymore and decided to side with their old friends in the Big 8, they might have kept a spot. Instead they stayed arrogant and p1$$ed all over their former conference members and left with their nose in the air to become the small dog to Michigan and Ohio State.

 

[Clark]

Well it certainly is about to get Frosty in Lincoln now that the AD who hired him is out.

 

[Clark]

It wasn't just the LHN. Nebr REPEATEDLY sided with Tex/OK against any equalized revenue sharing. They failed to view themselves for what they are which is a small market university. They are are not in the same league as Tex and OK. They just happened to have a tremendous run in football but when the things that allowed them to succeed, prop 48, no scholarship limit, and loss of Big 8, they could not adjust. Had they realized they were not the big dog anymore and decided to side with their old friends in the Big 8, they might have kept a spot. Instead they stayed arrogant and p1$$ed all over their former conference members and left with their nose in the air to become the small dog to Michigan and Ohio State.

They had (have?) poor leadership who frankly did a poor job of understanding what the future of college football was going to be and did a worse job of managing it when it arrived.

 

[HFCS]

Well it certainly is about to get Frosty in Lincoln now that the AD who hired him is out.

Hoiball too maybe. Year three is when improvement has to be expected by any program, even the worst one in NCAA basketball history.

 

[cydsho]

They had (have?) poor leadership who frankly did a poor job of understanding what the future of college football was going to be and did a worse job of managing it when it arrived.

And there are way too many cooks in the kitchen. I hear one person with the university might be working behind the scenes for the job and who knows how much they tried to sabotage things for Moos.

 

[Sigmapolis]

I wonder if Pollard would rather be the boss of...

Matt Campbell, the greatest football coach in the world that makes you look like a genius every week for having hired him and somehow magically retained him in Ames.

And TJO, his close friend that he just hired back to Ames.

Or...

Scott Frost, who couldn't beat a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

And Fred Hoiberg, the guy who bailed on him and with which he had some professional disagreements.

 

[ISpyCy]

Well it certainly is about to get Frosty in Lincoln now that the AD who hired him is out.

...and, to this day, Harvey Perlman continues to be the patron saint of husker haters.

 

[Clark]

Hoiball too maybe. Year three is when improvement has to be expected by any program, even the worst one in NCAA basketball history.

I've been both surprised and not surprised by the lack of success of Hoiberg at Nebraska. Hoiberg is a good coach, but winning basketball games at Nebraska is really, really tough.

It's hard to think of a football equivalent because it's hard to find schools where football is clearly second class citizens to another sport. Duke maybe?

Anyway, it's hard to blame Moos for the Frost hire but when it goes that disastrously and the fans love him more than you, you get to fall on the sword first

 

[HoibergIsMyHero]

I wonder if Pollard would rather be the boss of...

Matt Campbell, the greatest football coach in the world that makes you look like a genius every week for having hired him and somehow magically retained him in Ames.

And TJO, his close friend that he just hired back to Ames.

Or...

Scott Frost, who couldn't beat a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

And Fred Hoiberg, the guy who bailed on him and with which he had some professional disagreements.

What were these “professional disagreements”?

 

[Cyched]

I've been both surprised and not surprised by the lack of success of Hoiberg at Nebraska. Hoiberg is a good coach, but winning basketball games at Nebraska is really, really tough.

It's hard to think of a football equivalent because it's hard to find schools where football is clearly second class citizens to another sport. Duke maybe?

Anyway, it's hard to blame Moos for the Frost hire but when it goes that disastrously and the fans love him more than you, you get to fall on the sword first

Kansas is probably the best equivalent in the Big 12. Basketball will always be king.

 

[NWICY]

What were these “professional disagreements”?

1st one that comes to mind is the hotel rooms at a tourney.

 

[Cyched]

1st one that comes to mind is the hotel rooms at a tourney.

I think they might’ve gotten a little sideways when Fred flirted with the Gophers in 2013

 

[NWICY]

Well they kept firing coaches, so now it's time to fire AD's. They have money and titles from yrs ago but it's not exactly a destination program right now. Good fan base, good facilities I would assume. but not a job any better than ISU, Okie State, Kstate. In their own conference they are sort of a Minnesota, Purdue, Indiana school. They aren't a TX, OU, Mi, OSU that they think they are.

 

[Clark]

Kansas is probably the best equivalent in the Big 12. Basketball will always be king.

Ah yes, I can't believe I missed the obvious one

 

[HFCS]

I've been both surprised and not surprised by the lack of success of Hoiberg at Nebraska. Hoiberg is a good coach, but winning basketball games at Nebraska is really, really tough.

It's hard to think of a football equivalent because it's hard to find schools where football is clearly second class citizens to another sport. Duke maybe?

Anyway, it's hard to blame Moos for the Frost hire but when it goes that disastrously and the fans love him more than you, you get to fall on the sword first

Kansas football is the one I think of.

Your last sentence sums it up. Irrational but expected.

I lived in Nebraska for 6 years in the 90s during the football heyday. A thing that stuck with me was everyone would just call it "the season". Not football season. "The Season"

The other thing I loved was on every radio station people would call in and request "The Husker Song". What the radio stations would play was the Alan Parsons Project song the Bulls were introduced to. This was when Jordan was the most famous athlete in the history of the world winning championships and was introduced to that music every home game...but in this one alternate reality of the world it was "The Husker Song".

 

[Lexclone]

I hope the firing of the AD doesn’t derail the well-deserved and beautiful-to-watch erosion of Nebraska athletics. The schadenfreude is too good.

 

[Triggermv]

Why would they part ways with the guy right when that athletic department is clicking on all cylinders???????

 

[madguy30]

Hoiball too maybe. Year three is when improvement has to be expected by any program, even the worst one in NCAA basketball history.

That will be interesting. From what I saw there were no signs of improvement at all from years 1 to 2.

 

[20eyes]

It's hard to think of a football equivalent because it's hard to find schools where football is clearly second class citizens to another sport. Duke maybe?

There is no equivalent to the irrationality of UNL football fans. KU and Duke bball fans are arrogant and dooshy but also typically grounded in reality. Also, KU (Mangino) and Duke (Cutcliff) Football have had much more success in the last fifteen years than UNL bball...ever.

Ultimately, it's a good thing for us Husker Haters. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. UNL is too stupid to do anything differently.