re: Please explain why you thought Pelini was a good hire

Stability.

1) I believe players make coaches more than coaches make players.

2) I don’t think coaches forget how to coach. They usually fade when they don’t have as much talent. (See Andy Reid, Bill Belichick, Dick vermeil, Pete carol, John Gruden, etc)

3) I don’t think anyone thought the talent at line backer and safety would be this bad Not would we be playing without Vincent, shelvin, ika, and starting a true freshman qb. If you remember last year, Harris and delpit was not playing well fo about 10 games. Our defense didn’t get it together for 10 games. So you take the best players off that defense and you think it will be better? Wrong.

I know what O was trying to do. He didn’t want to have a revolving door of coaches. He’s trying to model his staff more like Clemson than Alabama. One of stability. Has it worked this year? Obviously not.

All of this. And a lot of coaches, especially in college, speak to how much their talent makes them great. Jimmy and Joe's and all that... talent erases alot of issues. Its clear watching speed, strength, basic stuff, were lacking this year.

Agree cant just lose your top flight senior dt, fs, and depth and expect the guys behind to play like a 350 lb fridge that can move, and suddenly run 4.3 40's like kary.

An ATTACKING defense designed by the fabled Bo Pelini!

I didn’t

Want a different scheme? Fine. But it was a lazy uninspiring hire.

How about you mind your own fricking business.

Go look at old threads if you really want to know. But you don’t, you just want to whine like a bitch.

I was worried, expectant that the D would be "good" with potential to be a little bit better than good (less than "very good"). Reasons why I thought that:

- DL with Shelvin would be extremely stout against the run and we would be disruptive behind the LoS
- Bo's experience, years worth
- Stingley would shut down their best WR and the rest would play zone with a good cover LB in Cox and Flott+Ricks covering lots and lots of ground.
- If the DL was disruptive the S's had an easier job back away from the LoS and we wouldn't be reliant on what I thought was going to be the weakest link in LBs in runs stoppage and short passing game (because S's were free).

He's in a box now. Can't use Stingley to his full potential (or now that we've seen Ricks in games him either) because had to simplify the defense to overcome bad gap discipline and back end assignments/positioning. That simplification was an absolute necessity because the players didn't get coached up on scheme and assignments. And that's on Bo. And don't tell me about the spring; the season was delayed almost as much as spring camp was erased, with permission to practice. There is little net loss in time. Some, but not enough to explain this.

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There were a lot of you in January who thought Pelini would be a good hire and were excited about a guy who was great 13 years ago, but hasn’t had any success since then. My question to you is what made you think this was a good idea?

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He had the #1 Defense in the country in 2009
#10 in 2010

He’s a good DV with elite DL talent. I dont Think his Xs and Os will
Blow anyone away.

2006 - 2008 top 10 defenses

A lot of us were pissed by it, I think most people were or it was at least a 50/50 split

Hated the hire from the beginning. We took a step forward into the modern age on offense and threw ourselves in a time machine going back to the past on defense.