O/T Memo to Nebraska's Atheltic Director

If you fire a football coach with a winning record and hire a coach with a losing record, you're going to get--a losing record.

You don't have to be Einstein to figure that out.

Are you talking about the Huskers? Two years ago the Huskers coach received a salary of 3.1 million. It may be higher now, do you think this is money well spent? You probably don't care what I think, but I think someone has their head where the sun don't shine.

Memo to huskers fans-
The sun will still rise tomorrow.
But you may want to hit the valium before you don't get to see it.

Pelini would probably still be there had he not run his mouth. They didn't just up and fire him, it had been in the works for a while.

Sorry Goose! I left the game early and missed the win. Earl In Illinois.

Well Goose,

I don't expect we'll be going to a bowl game this year. We're going to be getting into the Big 10 elite shortly and it ain't going to be pretty. Seems like we always earned a bowl game bid every year I can remember, except one or two when we had Callahan as coach.

I don't get excited about Husker football like I used to.

Lol. I have been a husker fan all my life, but it's just a game people.

Actually, I don't either.

What used to infuriate me when I was a student at NU was there were students who worked just as hard as any athlete preparing themselves for academic or performing competitions but when you opened a newspaper all you got was a dozen pages of sports and nary a word about these other students.

Games are for children.

That money and a whole lot more wouldn't be there unless they had a football team.

Hardly.Activities like football,baseball,basketball,car racing,hiking,hunting,fall leaf watching etc etc etc are a huge part of the US economy and generate millions of jobs for regular working Americans.Almost everyone has something recreational they like to do or watch.No difference in going to or watching a football game than going to a tractor show.

I can see the offense having problem trying to adapt Ryan's game to Bo's players. What stymies me is how the pass defense is so terrible. Time to hand out the pink shirts in practice. They sure don't deserve the black ones.

A pickup football game on a playground is 'just a game',college football is a huge Multi-Billion business where several million people make a living these days.Not just those directly employed but other support businesses like airlines,hotels,football equipment makers,food vendors, the list goes on and on.Whether one likes what its turned into these days is one thing but the reality is what is fact.Great thing about the USA is we are free to
choose whether we want to be part of it or not.

I guess if you put it that way, football games are FAR more important than tractor shows.
How many tractor shows charge $100 for admission, $20 for parking and $10 for a hot dog?

Decades ago, I used to be the worlds biggest ND fan. Now I'm the biggest fan of any team that plays and defeats them and have been for a long time. If I wanted to put some effort into it, I could name a whole long list of coaches that they've had, generally with five year contracts that have had say, a good or OK first season, to which the college immediately signs them to a five year big dollar extension so that they just went from a remaining four years to a now nine year contract, and then end up stinking up the place for the next two years, get pulled off of the field, sidelined (technically) and the remainder of not only their remaining contract, but five year extension beyond that gets paid off...at the same time they then fill in doing commentary on ESPN. The list of coaches that ND had that they did that for, I can't count on one hand.

The reason that I can't stand ND? The way that they let Lou Holtz go. True, in his final season Lou was stumbling, had personal problems with an ill wife and stuff, wasn't in control of the team as he needed to be, time for him to step aside. But ND let him go. He was within a handful of games eclipsing Knute Rockne's record, and another season would have made that happen. ND couldn't allow that to happen, and released him, replacing him with one of his assistant coaches, Bob Davies whom openly bad mouthed him during his tenure, didn't have a winning season, was one of those several coaches that got a contract extension after winning his first game as a head coach, got yanked for being a losing coach, paid for the duration of his contract and extension, then sat at ESPN as a college game commentator the whole time. Then there was Willingham, whom the Rev. Jesse Jackson said that ND needed to hire, not for his coaching abilities when he was at Stanford, and he too got a contract extension early into his first season as a head coach, released before it or his extension ended. Then there was Charlie Weis, another contract extension into his first season, didn't finish his initial contract or extension. Knute Rockne would have never gone for any of it, may he R.I.P, and may God bless his soul. I'm certain that he would have understood if Lou Holtz or someone else eclipses his record, and been fine with and expected it. Now, I'm the biggest fan of whatever team plays ND, especially if they are victorious over ND.

I didn't hear the outcome of yesterday's game...someone make my day and tell me that Clemson won, for Knute Rockne and the Gipper.

Mark

That's like NASCAR I like to watch the races but no way I am going to pay $100 for a ticket
to see a race but a whole lot of folks want to go and pay good for them.Then again when I'm watching it the Network TV has paid millions$ for the rights to broadcast the race.Gets beck to the good old American system of supply and demand,best system in the world.People that complain that "too much money is involved" in something don't seem to have that complaint when it comes to their job and them getting paid(LOL)

Clemson 24 ND 22 glad to make your day.

I always find it interesting to see the lengths and convoluted logic otherwise intelligent men will use to justify their addiction to their silly games.
There's just something about sitting on your duff and getting emotionally riled up about a meaningless game that fills a void in their uncreative, empty life.

Same could be said of almost any activity,a lot of people say pretty much what you did about my gardening.Then again some people around my area get a real enjoyment going on garden tours.Anyway what I find real silly is anyone getting upset about about what some one else does for entertainment.Talk about a sad empty boring life (and person) that's it.Live and let live I say.

It seems the state college here can't find players that are not criminals. Or a coach that doesn't fix grades of athlete morons.

(quoted from post at 06:09:33 10/04/15) Hardly.Activities like football,baseball,basketball,car racing,hiking,hunting,fall leaf watching etc etc etc are a huge part of the US economy and generate millions of jobs for regular working Americans.Almost everyone has something recreational they like to do or watch.No difference in going to or watching a football game than going to a tractor show.

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I wish this forum provided a "LIKE" button - I would push it for this post. Athletics bring a whole lot of money to the university for other things. The whole university is richer for the existence of good athletics.

More like a giant hole sucking tax dollars from those who care less about college sports.

If you have ever been involved in the world of children's sports. You will find out in a hurry that a lot of the best players drop out along the way because they and/or their parents get very sick of the politics. The first person you need to watch out for is the parent/coach. They are there for one reason only...I'll let you figure it out if you don't already know. If you can find a coach that is not also a parent of a team member, said coach is likely under constant attack by parents who think their kids should be the stars. It is a no win situation. If you have a top player and you decide to coach, parents will attack you for not playing kids who have no ability. In the end, in many cases (but not all of course), the worst end up rising to the top.

It's a sad situation when a college football coach makes $3.1 million per yr when teachers don't make $100,000 per yr

For that, I'm going to go buy a Clemson jersey and where over to my various family members houses. Thanks much.

Mark

The day I brought my wife home from the doctors office. After finding out she had terminal cancer.There was some sports player on TV crying because he wasn't getting 3.5 million to play. Plus he had no health insurance.Was the day I told them all to kiss my butt. Couldn't care less about a bunch of drug addicted cry babies playing a game.

Spoken like a true sports fan.
You imply that it's me who has the empty life yet I'm not the one glued to the tv.
And like a sports fans it's like; your team and your ideas are better than mine so every thing about me, my team and my ideas suck.
You my friend, have spent too much time in front of the tv and have lost the ability to make a rational argument. Folks like you can only react emotionally when confronted with something that does not fit with your own preconceived notions.
I did not attack you for your replies to this thread. I simply stated my opinion about games being for children. You obviously felt threatened by that and felt the need to attack.
So sorry for you and your ilk.

You ain't cutting as a psyche expert,keep the day job.

It is not my intention to start an argument but I would like for you to tell me where all the extra money made by athletics goes? Does it help keep computer and science labs up to date? Does it help build nursing and allied health programs? Does it give faculty raises?
I worked in higher education for 39 years, 20 years in administration retiring as provost. I never saw an athletic dime go for student education.

(quoted from post at 03:46:58 10/05/15) It is not my intention to start an argument but I would like for you to tell me where all the extra money made by athletics goes? Does it help keep computer and science labs up to date? Does it help build nursing and allied health programs? Does it give faculty raises?
I worked in higher education for 39 years, 20 years in administration retiring as provost. I never saw an athletic dime go for student education.

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At least at Ohio State, football and to a lesser extent, basketball, pay their own expenses and pay for most all of the other mens and womens sports on campus. So yes, at least at OSU in an indirect way it makes it so there is other money for those things.

There must be at least several hundred sports forums on this great world wide web. Why must we bring this to a tractor forum?????????