HC Matt Campbell….

[HFCS]

Like that Baylor fans are in here panicking. Aranda wins the Big 12 this year and he’s going somewhere. No one wants to be in Waco.

ISU/Baylor fans should be prepared for Campbell/Amanda to make a moves, but a coach isn’t smart enough to do what they’ve done and simultaneously stupid enough to pick…Nebraska.

Always a chance one of them ends up like Snyder or KF staying put for decades but those are more rare than the journeyman career path. Yesterday watching NW, have to throw Fitzgerald in there too now. He’s 5th longest tenured coach and was the “hot” name at times with lots of options, they might have plateaued and had a bad year last year (as bad ad Nebraska even) but he’ll have them above .500 most years which is something at NW.

In year 7 Campbell is probably in the top half himself of longest tenured coaches. Probably really hard for Huskers to think that way after they had like 6 coaches in a row not last that long.

 

[BCClone]

ISU/Baylor fans should be prepared for Campbell/Amanda to make a moves, but a coach isn’t smart enough to do what they’ve done and simultaneously stupid enough to pick…Nebraska.

Always a chance one of them ends up like Snyder or KF staying put for decades but those are more rare than the journeyman career path. Yesterday watching NW, have to throw Fitzgerald in there too now. He’s 5th longest tenured coach and was the “hot” name at times with lots of options, they might have plateaued and had a bad year last year (as bad ad Nebraska even) but he’ll have them above .500 most years which is something at NW.

In year 7 Campbell is probably in the top half himself of longest tenured coaches. Probably really hard for Huskers to think that way after they had like 6 coaches in a row not last that long.

I couldn’t trust woman named Amanda.

 

[HFCS]

It's a very hard job, very hard to recruit, a really dated stadium, middle of nowhere, with impossible expectations. Plus Trev Alberts is your boss. Nebraska is a dead end job.

Full disclosure that I grew up an Iowa fan, but we moved to Nebraska so I went to some games of both growing up in the 90s before enrolling at ISU late 90s.

Even in Nebraska’s absolutely dominating era I always thought their stadium was pretty lame. Impressive overall size but nothing attractive about it at all other than a team that dominated back then. I haven’t been there since late 90s but it was nothing special. Since it started out so ugly I’m sure JTS has passed it with all the great additions. Kinnick has always been and will always be a more fun/aesthetically pleasing stadium even with some of its shortcomings.

 

[HFCS]

I couldn’t trust woman named Amanda.

Be happy those mistakes mean we might have a decade before the machines take over.

 

[CycloneSpinning]

Who in the bluefuck wants to go to a school with donors and AD like Nebbie is shown over and over again to have? Some definitely would be interested...Campbell isn't one of them.

Who in the bluefuck wants to go to a school with donors and AD like Nebbie is shown over and over again to have? Some definitely would be interested...Campbell isn't one of them.

It's a very hard job, very hard to recruit, a really dated stadium, middle of nowhere, with impossible expectations. Plus Trev Alberts is your boss. Nebraska is a dead end job.

At this point you have to have a big enough ego that you want to resurrect a has been program…basically because you want a statue, name on a stadium, etc. And then you have to be able to back it up. I can’t think of many good candidates for that type of situation. Maybe Brian Kelly would have been a good fit?

 

[BCClone]

At this point you have to have a big enough ego that you want to resurrect a has been program…basically because you want a statue, name on a stadium, etc. And then you have to be able to back it up. I can’t think of many good candidates for that type of situation. Maybe Brian Kelly would have been a good fit?

A guy named Gene.

 

[theshadow]

In year 7 Campbell is probably in the top half himself of longest tenured coaches. Probably really hard for Huskers to think that way after they had like 6 coaches in a row not last that long.

Campbell is #24 among active FBS coaches, based on years at current school.

Almost half of current FBS coaches are in year 3 or fewer at their current stop.

 

[HFCS]

Campbell is #24 among active FBS coaches, based on years at current school.

Almost half of current FBS coaches are in year 3 or fewer at their current stop.

KF is #1 right?

 

[theshadow]

KF is #1 right?

Top 10:
Ferentz
Whittingham
Gundy
Stockstill (Middle Tennessee)
FItzgerald
Calhoun (Air Force)
Saban
Niumatalolo
Swinney
Schiano (including his first stint)

 

[HFCS]

Top 10:
Ferentz
Whittingham
Gundy
Stockstill (Middle Tennessee)
FItzgerald
Calhoun (Air Force)
Saban
Niumatalolo
Swinney
Schiano (including his first stint)

Have we had "I'm a man, I'm 60" 20 year anniversary yet? Seems like it has to be close if it hasn't happened.

 

[CySmurf]

Not saying it can’t change but Matt hasn’t showed at all that money matters to him like that. Now for his assistants and staff, he appreciates getting them more, so that could be a thing down the road.

Agreed. He may have trouble keeping his coaches if B1G or SESPNC schools start throwing insane money at them.

 

[RezClone]

Doing the math, doesn’t this put Ames 2 hours outside Siberia?…

Tom Herman says yes.

 

[bigsag]

In my opinion, the problem at Nebraska is that they want to “buy” a good football program. Heaven knows that they have spent an absolute ton of money trying to regain past glory.

I know what Iowa State’s culture is. Nebraska’s culture - something entirely different.

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

The only thing Nebraska has at this point is their history....frankly even if you grew up a diehard Nebraska fan and you are a D1 prospect, I don't even know if it's worth your time to play there....it's got such a loser mentality feel right now.

 

[cycloneML]

I couldn’t trust woman named Amanda.

I think she looks more like a Pat or Chris

 

[bgprest]

In my opinion Nebraska will never be anything more than a middling program. Their glory days are way behind them. They were good back in the 70’s because they pioneered a state of the art (for the times) workout facility. They got big recruits and built them up to be really strong. Then everybody else improved their workout facilities. Now Nebraska is just a school with overall poor athletics - and education - located somewhere that nobody would really want to be. Sure, they’ll still be the only big school in a state with no pro sports so they’ll have the monopoly on in-state recruits but that’s about it. I don’t think they have any rich donors to give them an edge with NIL.
It’s definitely a case of the late great Nebraska Cornhuskers. I, for one, am not sad about that.

 

[CycloneSpinning]

In my opinion Nebraska will never be anything more than a middling program. Their glory days are way behind them. They were good back in the 70’s because they pioneered a state of the art (for the times) workout facility. They got big recruits and built them up to be really strong. Then everybody else improved their workout facilities. Now Nebraska is just a school with overall poor athletics - and education - located somewhere that nobody would really want to be. Sure, they’ll still be the only big school in a state with no pro sports so they’ll have the monopoly on in-state recruits but that’s about it. I don’t think they have any rich donors to give them an edge with NIL.
It’s definitely a case of the late great Nebraska Cornhuskers. I, for one, am not sad about that.

Warren Buffett definitely checks the “rich” box (as an alum), but I have no idea if he’s a donor. Honestly I’m of the opinion that Nebraska will probably be at least moderately relevant again someday. They care too much not to be, and we (and others) have proven a terrible geographic location doesn’t doom you…but we can enjoy their current situation!

 

[JUKEBOX]

Warren Buffett definitely checks the “rich” box (as an alum), but I have no idea if he’s a donor. Honestly I’m of the opinion that Nebraska will probably be at least moderately relevant again someday. They care too much not to be, and we (and others) have proven a terrible geographic location doesn’t doom you…but we can enjoy their current situation!

I think they'll probably get it together at some point and hire another Pelini-like coach who is a little less controversial and gets decent results. If they don't figure it out, it's probably good for us lol (and provides some entertainment).

Hopefully Iowa similarly whiffs on their next hire after Ferentz retires. That's another program that could easily dig itself into a hole.

 

[CycloneSpinning]

I think they'll probably get it together at some point and hire another Pelini-like coach who is a little less controversial and gets decent results. If they don't figure it out, it's probably good for us lol (and provides some entertainment).

Hopefully Iowa similarly whiffs on their next hire after Ferentz retires. That's another program that could easily dig itself into a hole.

It’s insane to me that they’ve had two coaches (and realistically pretty good ones) since 1979. Akin to the Packers luck with QBs.

 

[JUKEBOX]

It’s insane to me that they’ve had two coaches (and realistically pretty good ones) since 1979. Akin to the Packers luck with QBs.

Unless Bob Stoops would go back there and coach, there's not a whole lot of coaches from Hayden Fry's coaching tree around that I think would take the job.

So they might be entering uncharted territory after he retires for the first time since the 70s.