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I was reading an article on coaches on the hot seat and they were discussing Bo Pelini at Nebraska. In this article, the following paragraphs were found:
"But should Pelini's status be in question? Mack Brown could get pushed out at Texas if he posts a third consecutive season similar to the ones Pelini has posted. But that's Texas. Brown can't swing a Franklin Barbecue brisket without hitting at least 10 blue-chip recruits. The degree of difficulty at Nebraska, as those of us who study the geography of recruiting have said for years, is far higher. Huskers fans may vividly remember winning three national titles in four years in the 1990s, but none of the prospects Nebraska is currently pursuing remembers them. Many of those players do know that Nebraska is far from home and a whole lot colder than the place they live now.
Back in the glory days, Tom Osborne could tell recruits from other parts of the country that, unlike at their nearby university, they could play on television regularly at Nebraska. Now, every power-conference team plays every game on television. Being college football royalty only goes so far. As Nebraska, Michigan and Tennessee have learned, the name means nothing without the talent.
That's a hard fact to swallow for fan bases accustomed to decades of winning, and it explains why nine and 10 wins a year aren't considered good enough in Lincoln. Pelini (record at Nebraska: 56-22) is fighting for his job when, in fact, he may be doing the best job anyone can do given the circumstances. That's the risk in making a change. Maybe someone else can do better, but that's exactly what the Nebraska administration reasoned before it fired Frank Solich (record at Nebraska: 58-19) in 2003 and hired Bill Callahan (record at Nebraska: 27-22)."
This totally made me think of Notre Dame's seemingly endless situation because as I've maintained for years location matters more than ever, TV really doesn't, and history is just that...history.
"But should Pelini's status be in question? Mack Brown could get pushed out at Texas if he posts a third consecutive season similar to the ones Pelini has posted. But that's Texas. Brown can't swing a Franklin Barbecue brisket without hitting at least 10 blue-chip recruits. The degree of difficulty at Nebraska, as those of us who study the geography of recruiting have said for years, is far higher. Huskers fans may vividly remember winning three national titles in four years in the 1990s, but none of the prospects Nebraska is currently pursuing remembers them. Many of those players do know that Nebraska is far from home and a whole lot colder than the place they live now.
Back in the glory days, Tom Osborne could tell recruits from other parts of the country that, unlike at their nearby university, they could play on television regularly at Nebraska. Now, every power-conference team plays every game on television. Being college football royalty only goes so far. As Nebraska, Michigan and Tennessee have learned, the name means nothing without the talent.
That's a hard fact to swallow for fan bases accustomed to decades of winning, and it explains why nine and 10 wins a year aren't considered good enough in Lincoln. Pelini (record at Nebraska: 56-22) is fighting for his job when, in fact, he may be doing the best job anyone can do given the circumstances. That's the risk in making a change. Maybe someone else can do better, but that's exactly what the Nebraska administration reasoned before it fired Frank Solich (record at Nebraska: 58-19) in 2003 and hired Bill Callahan (record at Nebraska: 27-22)."
This totally made me think of Notre Dame's seemingly endless situation because as I've maintained for years location matters more than ever, TV really doesn't, and history is just that...history.
