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Nine Biggest Reasons

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The Nine Biggest Reasons Nebraska Football Has Been Mired in Mediocrity the Last 10 Years

From 1962 to 2003, Nebraska football never once had a losing season. Even after the dynasty fell to pieces, the program didn’t. They posted three losing seasons
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1. Upgrading of the B1G
2. Dysfunction at the top
3. Stepping backwards in S&C (Riley)
4. Lack of special teams
5. Failing to develop
6. Recruiting and retention
7. Psychological fragility
8. Neglecting the run game
9. Poor assistant hiring
 
To me #2 ... Dysfunction at the top .... is by and far THE biggest reason for NU's decline.

His thoughts on the "Upgrading of the B1G" is an interesting item. I remember arguing in '97 the difference between NU and Michigan and knowing that the media perspective of Michigan was over-inflated Big Ten blather. But I do have to think that the B1G advanced itself during NU's presence in the conference and NU correspondingly declined.
 
Ignoring the expansion that added 4 PAC12 teams as well as Rutgers and Maryland … the emergence of the B1G also has to do with the middle class … Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana improving themselves maybe not necessarily to consistent NC contenders but certainly conference championship level from time to time.
 
Probably pretty accurate overall with some things being more noticeable. The thing is…..all teams have strengths and weaknesses. But having an accumulation of all 9 of these is telling. Personnel I believe the number one blunder by Rhule is his assistants beginning at offensive line who engineered the worst offensive line we had the year before.
 
Two biggest and they go together:

1. NO longer can you get by on a low budget system. Money is everything. This impacts time to develop, player retention, everything.

2. As Cigneti showed, you don't really hire a HC, you hire a system. That is a HC who can bring in his coaches who teach a system that has been proven to win and that all the coaches have bought into and radiate belief in.
This also much enhances the ability to recruit and pick from TP those players that will fit said system and win (note the stay/leave issues in the article).
Bob Devaney had a stable staff and gave it to Dr. Tom and it remained stable: They believed in what they taught and they knew what athletes they were looking for.
 
wcbsas said:
Posted on the main page ...

www.si.com

The Nine Biggest Reasons Nebraska Football Has Been Mired in Mediocrity the Last 10 Years

From 1962 to 2003, Nebraska football never once had a losing season. Even after the dynasty fell to pieces, the program didn’t. They posted three losing seasons
www.si.com www.si.com

1. Upgrading of the B1G
2. Dysfunction at the top
3. Stepping backwards in S&C (Riley)
4. Lack of special teams
5. Failing to develop
6. Recruiting and retention
7. Psychological fragility
8. Neglecting the run game
9. Poor assistant hiring
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what run game......
 
wcbsas said:
To me #2 ... Dysfunction at the top .... is by and far THE biggest reason for NU's decline.

His thoughts on the "Upgrading of the B1G" is an interesting item. I remember arguing in '97 the difference between NU and Michigan and knowing that the media perspective of Michigan was over-inflated Big Ten blather. But I do have to think that the B1G advanced itself during NU's presence in the conference and NU correspondingly declined.
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Nebraska had their chance to have a great start in the B1G when they came into the it and it didn't happen.

I do agree that the administrative dysfunction, starting with the hiring of Pederson, is the biggest factor. He because he wanted to be the savior of Nebraska football and Harvey Pearlman because he hated the football program.
 
Thanks for the discussion on my piece! Glad it's prompted some good discourse.

Agree with those who say dysfunction at the top is the biggest reason. I could have written an entire article on that but it's a sensitive topic and one that relies on a lot of hearsay. There's actually no ranking. The numbers are somewhat arbitrary.
 
NUinID said:
Nebraska had their chance to have a great start in the B1G when they came into the it and it didn't happen.

I do agree that the administrative dysfunction, starting with the hiring of Pederson, is the biggest factor. He because he wanted to be the savior of Nebraska football and Harvey Pearlman because he hated the football program.
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I’m sure there could be a whole series written on Steve Pederson’s tenure. He kind of came to Nebraska like Scott Frost … a native Nebraskan, success at Pitt and on paper the ideal candidate.

I think one thing we can agree on is that two of the worst AD hires (Pederson and Eichorst) were performed by Harvey Perlman. Either he, or the people he listened to, had no clue what it took to be a good AD.

I think part of the problem was both Pederson and Eichorst had no governor or their actions or decisions.
 
wcbsas said:
I’m sure there could be a whole series written on Steve Pederson’s tenure. He kind of came to Nebraska like Scott Frost … a native Nebraskan, success at Pitt and on paper the ideal candidate.

I think one thing we can agree on is that two of the worst AD hires (Pederson and Eichorst) were performed by Harvey Perlman. Either he, or the people he listened to, had no clue what it took to be a good AD.

I think part of the problem was both Pederson and Eichorst had no governor or their actions or decisions.
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Eichorst was hired on the recommendation from Barry Alvarez. He was at one time a Associate AD under him. There are a lot of people that thought it was some sort of way BA was trying to undermine Nebraska football. I don't think that was true. I think Alvarez truly thought he would be good. What he didn't see was that Eichorst was a bean counter behind the scene guy that wanted to stay in the shadows. I am sure when he worked for Barry he did all the shiit things that he didn't like to do, while BA was the face of Wisconsin football and sports. The AD at a school has to be a schmoozer, he has to be a fund raiser. He has to be comfortable in front of the pubic. That wasn't Eichorst he was a quality control guy. It's one of the best examples of the Peter Principle I have ever scene.
 
NUinID said:
Eichorst was hired on the recommendation from Barry Alvarez. He was at one time an Associate AD under him. There are a lot of people that thought it was some sort of way BA was trying to undermine Nebraska football. I don't think that was true. I think Alvarez truly thought he would be good. What he didn't see was that Eichorst was a bean counter behind the scene guy that wanted to stay in the shadows. I am sure when he worked for Barry he did all the shiit things that he didn't like to do, while BA was the face of Wisconsin football and sports. The AD at a school has to be a schmoozer, he has to be a fund raiser. He has to be comfortable in front of the pubic. That wasn't Eichorst he was a quality control guy. It's one of the best examples of the Peter Principle I have ever scene.
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It’s interesting that he hasn’t been an AD elsewhere since the NU job. He’s been at Univ of Texas as Deputy AD and COO of football. So I suspect everything you stated about him is accurate but I disagree a bit with you … yes, the AD has to be the schmoozer - externally and internally but there are lots of institutions who have a development office that can and does do a lot of the “schmoozing aka ass-kissing”.

Eichorst’s biggest issue is he couldn’t properly evaluate an athletic coach if his life depended on it. Mike Riley? Bob Diaco?

As for Barry Alvarez … my rule is never hire someone based on the recommendation of someone else if that person (the someone else) isn’t willing to hire him/her themself. Eichorst left Wisconsin because he wasn’t going to become BAs successor. If BA wasn’t going to have him at Wisconsin then I don’t want him at Nebraska.
 
wcbsas said:
It’s interesting that he hasn’t been an AD elsewhere since the NU job. He’s been at Univ of Texas as Deputy AD and COO of football. So I suspect everything you stated about him is accurate but I disagree a bit with you … yes, the AD has to be the schmoozer - externally and internally but there are lots of institutions who have a development office that can and does do a lot of the “schmoozing aka ass-kissing”.

Eichorst’s biggest issue is he couldn’t properly evaluate an athletic coach if his life depended on it. Mike Riley? Bob Diaco?

As for Barry Alvarez … my rule is never hire someone based on the recommendation of someone else if that person (the someone else) isn’t willing to hire him/her themself. Eichorst left Wisconsin because he wasn’t going to become BAs successor. If BA wasn’t going to have him at Wisconsin then I don’t want him at Nebraska.
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I think he was instructed to hire the anti Pelini and that is what he did. He was just a yes man.
 
wcbsas said:
I’m sure there could be a whole series written on Steve Pederson’s tenure. He kind of came to Nebraska like Scott Frost … a native Nebraskan, success at Pitt and on paper the ideal candidate.

I think one thing we can agree on is that two of the worst AD hires (Pederson and Eichorst) were performed by Harvey Perlman. Either he, or the people he listened to, had no clue what it took to be a good AD.

I think part of the problem was both Pederson and Eichorst had no governor or their actions or decisions.
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Lots of whiskey
 
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