re: Ogeron not interviewing Pellini

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Now that we know the truth though, we can only hope he’s learned from it.

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There are certain things that should be deeply understood by his age / college football tenure. Like getting to know the guy on your staff who is responsible for minimizing your opponents' score. Free learning pass is long in past.

Here is another. Quit trying to find people to "run Joe Brady's offense". Coaches should own their team (your offense, your philosophy, your process), not rent from others...at this level of football.

I love the guy and he has my full support. However, my confidence in him is as high as Pellini's YPG was low.

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Also not surprised to see the pathetic pitting of our coaches against one another.

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Would have been a real shame if someone had done that with, let’s say, Dave Aranda. A real shame.

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Everyone thought it was a home run hire.

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Absolutely not.

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Still can’t get over O not personally interviewing Pellini.

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the only thing worse then not doing your job is freely admitting you didnt do your job and acting like its no big deal you royally screwed up

Well, I'm glad he clarified it and also admitted that had he formally interviewed Pelini that he would have hired him anyway based on his history and reputation.

Nonetheless, given Pelini's history and reputation I can see why Ed O blindly trusted Pelini. I mean everywhere Pelini had been previously, he had been a very outstanding coach.

Hence, it was easy for Ed O to place his trust in Pelini's hands. Not to mention that Pelini's former LSU players were also very happy about the Pelini hire and they couldn't lay on their affection and praise for Pelini thick enough.

A lot what of Pelini's failure had to do with the Covid Pandemic because there was no spring practice and summer workouts and self-practice and only an abbreviated fall camp.

In fact, I remember hearing several former Pelini LSU players that were appearing on OTB during fall camp expressing very serious concerns about the lack of practice time for the current players to learn Pelini's defensive system. As they said it had previously took hundreds of reps for them to become proficient in Pelini's defensive system. However, because of the Covid Pandemic, there wasn't sufficient time to permit those all too important reps.

So when I saw how piss poor Pelini's defense performed against Moo State, what was said in those OTB interviews about the reps being critical to learn Pelini's defense immediately came back to haunt me.

Anyway, Ed O and a lot of other people learned a very difficult and also a very valuable lesson, which is never assume someone's history and reputation precedes them. Always practice due diligence when making hires, regardless of past history and reputation. But then again, there is no better predictor of the future than a person's past history and reputation.

Given what happened, it could have happened to anyone. Hence, I'm not going to condemn Ed O on this one for being human.

As overall Ed O still has the highest record of success for a four year head coach in the country. No other head coach comes close. Not to mention that I myself, like a lot of other people and Ed O himself, also foolishly believed in Bo Pelini. Hence, it's very hard for me to condemn Ed O because I made the same stupid mistake and also assumed the defense was going to be better than it was at anytime in 2019. Hey, shite happens.

If you want too maintain Pelini has left a wake of goodwill and high regard at his prior coaching destinations, google "Nebraska Pelini" and see what comes up.

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If you want too maintain Pelini has left a wake of goodwill and high regard at his prior coaching destinations, google "Nebraska Pelini" and see what comes up.

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What makes you so damn dumb that you think I don't already know all about about the circumstances surrounding Pelini's firing at Nebraska?

In fact, in that particular incident in the life and times of Bo Pelini, I supported Pelini and still do in that regard to this day. Indeed, to this day I still feel Nebraska made a very stupid mistake and the proof of it is years later their football program is still on a downward trajectory.

You're obviously more than just a few cards short of making up a full deck.

Didn’t he say he interviewed him on Skype

Shocked he admitted it. Pissed for Jordy to lose his job over saying it.

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Still can’t get over O not personally interviewing Pellini.

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i could've overlooked it if not for Matt Canada. Pelini won a NC here, so we already knew he used to be able to do the job. The problem was I wonder how much he really wanted to.