Why he is just a WR coach...after 30 years in the game.
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Maybe it is best for Mickey to move on? (pre-arrest thread)
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Why he is just a WR coach...after 30 years in the game.
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I realize it's sentimental having MJ stay around. We want there to be some thread to the past. But I think it's best for Matt not to be talked into taking any current assistants. There is no one affiliated with this program within the last 25 years that should be considered because they "know the Nebraska way."
My guess is he is waiting to hear about other jobs. Rhule can't wait for him.
If Mickey has HC aspirations, he needs to be selling himself for those right now. His opportunity cost might be losing a position at NU. Take the risk and try to make the leap. I wish him the best no matter what he decides, but don't think his chances to be a head coach get better by immediately accepting a job as a position coach at NU.
Not necessarily, stick around for a year or two, use Matt Rhule, his connections and his (hopefully) future success to leverage that into an OC position and/or lower level HC position. The Jackson State's of the world will always be there but IMO MJ needs to become an OC somewhere in P5 and then use that to get a P5 job.
Ok I’m not ragging on him. I’m adding some perspective as if he is not an ex Nebraska player.
Mickey is almost 55 and been in coaching for 30 years. He hasn’t been sniffing positions above wide receivers. Is it possible that all the coaches and administrators who have had an opportunity to promote him from within or hire him from the outside to a higher level position have observed enough to know his talents and skills are best utilized in the trenches?
There are times to recognize it’s important to let someone excel in their skill set rather than promote them into incompetence. Is this Mickey? I don’t know.
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Yesterday Johnny Rodgers told the Big Ten network he was 99% certain MJ was staying as assistant head coach.
Mickey is 55. If he wants to be a HC soon, he needs to strike while the iron is hot and he has positive publicity around him.
Stepping back and toiling away as a WR coach, hoping someone will pick him as an OC someday, then hoping that will lead to a future HC gig, is not his best and fastest path to the HC ranks.
I am happy to have this play out. Of course Mickey would have liked to be Nebraska HC, but has he said being a HC anywhere else is his top priority? A job at his alma mater as WR and Assistant/Associate Head Coach at a bump in pay may sound really good to him, and to Rhule, and not just for a year or two. I think that would help the transition for Rhule and the players.
He’s 56 years old if he’s going to be a head coach it has to happen soon. He more than likely has to start at a smaller school( Tulsa) and it’s going to take time 3-4 years he’ll be in his 60’s then. Not many schools hire ( Nebraska with Riley) a 60 year old to rebuild a program.
Mickey has earned a big payday from a Power 5 school he can both coach and recruit. Hopefully he’ll stay at Nebraska and get the BIG assistant salary and be set for life. Just my opinion.
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