The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Wow.... Wow..... WOW!
What has become of our program? At what point did we lose what we used to be? At what point did we become a team that was toilet paper for equally talented opponents? Today left me feeling something I've never felt before, I can't even put it into words, but disgust, embarrassed, fed up, bewildered are probably the closest to pegging the feeling. I think it's obvious that this ship needs a new captain. Bo has proven he's in over his head here, he's not getting it done. It's great he's winning 9-10 games a year, and honestly for someone else, that's encouraging. Get a guy with a real plan, with a real idea, with a tangible process that's proven to be successful, and bring him in and say "look, you can win here, you can be successful, you can take this program anywhere you desire, and that includes the top." Why? Because we have a coach who is winging it, and winning quite a few games. And for those that say "you can't fire a coach winning 9 games a year." Firstly, I used to say that, but secondly we wouldn't be firing a coach winning 9 games, we'd be firing a coach who is getting his doors blown off. Everyone look at his last 5 games stats. I don't care who the opponents are, those are staggering numbers. Those are video game-15 minute quarter-rookie setting stats.
This whole week people argued the impact of this game. Some didn't think it was that big, some did, some didn't care, but know this, this game took the collective winds out of husker nation. Not everyone feels this way, some will say we'll be ok, and we will be, but it won't be under this staff how its comprised today. JP has to go, period. I don't care if Bo is calling the plays, firing JP tells us he is dong what needs to be done to right the ship. When your company isn't running well, you fire your managers, then you fire their managers, and finally you fire the president/CEO. We are at that point, manager(s) need to be fired. If BO wants to fix something, start with bringing in a coordinator who has prior experience. Stoops, Zook to name a couple. Bring in someone with a different scheme, grab a case of beer, spend an all nighter and compare notes, collaborate, come up with something, implement it and see what happens. But as it stands our defense is stinking up the place.
About the game, I'm speechless, I don't get how your back breaks, up by 18 mind you, on one big play. How the hell do you lose all the momentum, at home, in a packed house, on national TV, in your shiny new unis, on one mf'n scramble. It's not even about leadership it's about pride. I now believe Bo's team suffers what the teams prior to him suffered. They suffered from PTAWD, post traumatic ass whoopin disorder. This is reminiscent to 2007 where the SLIGHTEST bit of adversity and the table folded. But this is different, this is worse, this is happening while we are WINNING. It's worse everyone, it worse because its not just in a negative setting, it's happening anytime. These kids and coaches have gotten beat so badly they now flinch at the slightest gesture.
I'm done defending this staff, I'm done talking myself into believing Bo can get the job done with the current makeup of our staff. He needs to bring in some new blood, bring in some passion, a guy like Ekeler, a guy that knows what emotion is. If he doesn't make changes, he needs to go, period. It should not be acceptable for him to status quo his staff on D.
The million dollar questions, who do we bring in? There's talented coaches out there right now, there are up and comers. Whats the risk/reward? What's our ROI right now on Bo? What's the risk of letting Bo go at seasons end? What will it take at this point for him to regain the confidence of the fan base? What are these national drubbings doing to our program? Like it or not, college football is a business. I don't like it either, but it is what it is, and as it stands Bo's business sucks. It's a crappy restaurant, it's a retail store that doesn't have what your looking for, it's a manufacture who's products keep breaking. It's a business who's bottom line looks decent at year end, but it's hemorrhaging money.
As I'm typing this, I'm watching the Wisc. - ASU game, and the announcers just said that "This is a Wisconsin team that put 70 up on Nebraska last year in the big 10 championship game, and ASU has them at 14 at the half." We are being compared to ASU, in fact ASU is being made to look good on our behalf. I guess we're absolutely relevant, relevant in getting our asses kicked and making inferior teams look better when playing a team that blew us up.
I'm done with my support of Bo, I have stood behind him since his hiring, but after today I am no more. I am supporting this team, and hope it wins out, but please tell me after today how many for sure wins are on there. Purdue took ND to the wire, Illinois played with Washington, Northwestern is playing great football, Michigan may not be the man of steel it was before today, but it's offense is our kryptonite. MSU's D makes UCLA's D look like a pop Warner team IMO. I won't go on, you get the drift. But I'm no longer seeing the cup cake schedule that we all thought we had pre season. I could literally keep typing all night, but I'll end here. If you read this all the way through, thanks for reading my rant.
