Illinois 31, Nebraska 24 OT Postgame

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OrangeBlue98
ChiefGritty said:
Pete Carroll was hired after USC had fired 4 coaches in the prior 14 years. Kirby Smart was hired after Georgia had fired 3 coaches in the prior 20 years. Nick Saban was hired after Bama had fired 2 coaches, had two more abandon them for other jobs, and had one other resign under an NCAA cloud in the prior 18 years.

I do not believe in and do not participate in shaming fanbases for firing coaches. Ambitious and demanding fans are a benefit to a program, not a liability.

That said, Nebraska did screw up by panic-firing Solich, which the fans know now and a lot of them thought so even at the time.
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I was trying to think of a relevant Illinois example analogy to Nebraska firing Solich. The only thing that really came to mind for me was had Illinois fired Underwood after the 2022 season. That was after losing to Loyola and then getting beat by Houston in the 2022 4-5 game. Would have been an incredibly rash decision even without knowing what happened last season.

The Pelini firing would have been similar had he not been an enormous d-bag which made that decision a lot easier.
 
#577      
ptgrd23
Imagine Illinois firing a football coach after going 9-4. If Bo had this record at Illinois he would have been the best Illini football coach since Bob Zuppke/Ray Elliott/Pete Elliott

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MustangWally
ptgrd23 said:
Imagine Illinois firing a football coach after going 9-4. If Bo had this record at Illinois he would have been the best Illini football coach since Bob Zuppke/Ray Elliott/Pete Elliott

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They fired Solich after going 10-3. The new athetic director said only national championships were good enough for Nebraska, if I remember correctly. I sent him an an email every year until he was fired asking how the new coach was doing. He never replied.
 
#579      
BZuppke
Who does the Nebraska think they are? If Friday night football is a thing the Big committed to to make our media masters happy then we all have to deal with it. Are there students more important than ours?
 
#581      
Battle89
MustangWally said:
They fired Solich after going 10-3. The new athetic director said only national championships were good enough for Nebraska, if I remember correctly. I sent him an an email every year until he was fired asking how the new coach was doing. He never replied.
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