Bo was a really good coach at Nebraska. He clearly had to deal with a crappy situation with the university leadership at the time. He won a lot of games despite that and he graduated his players. He clearly cared about the kids too.
He also did himself no favors with his behavior and he lost some games in horribly embarrassing fashion. He came up with the perfect defense to stop Big 12 offenses just in time for us to move to the B1G. Unfortunately, that defense was a joke against certain teams like Wisconsin.
Giving up 400 rushing yards to one player in only three quarters has to be the most embarrassing stat I’ve ever seen in a football game. There’s no way he did that on purpose. If he did, that would make me really hate the guy.
As it is, I appreciate Bo for what he did at Nebraska and I don’t hate him. For a long time (probably until 2013), I even loved him. With more support in the athletic department, he definitely would’ve at least won a conference championship or two (got robbed in 2009). But he didn’t have the support he needed and he decided to exit in the least professional way possible, dropping an atomic bomb in the locker room on his way out to make sure whoever took the job next was going to have a hard time uniting the team. I don’t think it was in the best interest of the players at all to get everyone together for a meeting where he just bashes the athletic director. Even if the AD is horrible, which we know he was, what kind of position does that put the players in? I understand he hated his boss, but the players have to continue to interact with the AD and that just creates a horrible environment. Even if Bo was “right” about Eichorst, that is no way to conduct yourself. That is childish at best.
But hey, we won a lot of football games too, and as we now know, that is NOT easy at Nebraska. I wish he had better support when he was coach and he might’ve been able to do some amazing things. At least 9 wins every year was pretty great in hindsight, even if it always came with 4 losses.
So yeah, a lot of mixed feelings about Bo. It’s easy to see why everyone ends up fighting about him all the time.
He also did himself no favors with his behavior and he lost some games in horribly embarrassing fashion. He came up with the perfect defense to stop Big 12 offenses just in time for us to move to the B1G. Unfortunately, that defense was a joke against certain teams like Wisconsin.
Giving up 400 rushing yards to one player in only three quarters has to be the most embarrassing stat I’ve ever seen in a football game. There’s no way he did that on purpose. If he did, that would make me really hate the guy.
As it is, I appreciate Bo for what he did at Nebraska and I don’t hate him. For a long time (probably until 2013), I even loved him. With more support in the athletic department, he definitely would’ve at least won a conference championship or two (got robbed in 2009). But he didn’t have the support he needed and he decided to exit in the least professional way possible, dropping an atomic bomb in the locker room on his way out to make sure whoever took the job next was going to have a hard time uniting the team. I don’t think it was in the best interest of the players at all to get everyone together for a meeting where he just bashes the athletic director. Even if the AD is horrible, which we know he was, what kind of position does that put the players in? I understand he hated his boss, but the players have to continue to interact with the AD and that just creates a horrible environment. Even if Bo was “right” about Eichorst, that is no way to conduct yourself. That is childish at best.
But hey, we won a lot of football games too, and as we now know, that is NOT easy at Nebraska. I wish he had better support when he was coach and he might’ve been able to do some amazing things. At least 9 wins every year was pretty great in hindsight, even if it always came with 4 losses.
So yeah, a lot of mixed feelings about Bo. It’s easy to see why everyone ends up fighting about him all the time.