pehawk":2a2wyhmm said:Part of me hope as a goof OSU reaches out to Chip.
HuskerHawk":2rupzzc8 said:As a Husker fan, please someone talk me off the ledge. Didn't even know who Riley was before an hour ago, and am both perplexed and pissed right now. Any room for optimism?
drrew":szt31w28 said:Mike Riley last won a conference/division in 1990 as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
On the Nebraska message boards, they're hoping that Riley is a low dollar move leaving more money to bring Frost in as OC and head coach in waiting. No sure I buy that, but we'll see what happens.
I don't think so anymore man. And that makes me sad as a Coug fan.pehawk":1d50gd3k said:...........I also want a better understanding of the NCAA football landscape as well. It used to be at a school like OSU or WSU, you can succeed every 3 years with a good crop of upperclassman, now I'm not sure.........
hawksfansinceday1":2xs2053a said:I don't think so anymore man. And that makes me sad as a Coug fan.pehawk":2xs2053a said:...........I also want a better understanding of the NCAA football landscape as well. It used to be at a school like OSU or WSU, you can succeed every 3 years with a good crop of upperclassman, now I'm not sure.........
Seahawks1983":vn48232q said:hawksfansinceday1":vn48232q said:I don't think so anymore man. And that makes me sad as a Coug fan.pehawk":vn48232q said:...........I also want a better understanding of the NCAA football landscape as well. It used to be at a school like OSU or WSU, you can succeed every 3 years with a good crop of upperclassman, now I'm not sure.........
It's absolutely still true. Don't let the recent institutional blunders at WSU (read: allowing Doba assistants to drive program into the ground and then hiring Wulff to bury it) cloud your sight of what is possible.
Leach may or may not succeed there, but if he doesn't, it won't be because of some bullsheet reasoning of "it's because it's WSU." Every major conference school is capable of having success, some just come by it easier than others. Oregon State has been a bowl team 3 of the past 6 years. They were playing a Civil War for a Rose Bowl bid as recently as 2009.
drrew":22lg7xjx said:Seahawks1983":22lg7xjx said:hawksfansinceday1":22lg7xjx said:I don't think so anymore man. And that makes me sad as a Coug fan.pehawk":22lg7xjx said:...........I also want a better understanding of the NCAA football landscape as well. It used to be at a school like OSU or WSU, you can succeed every 3 years with a good crop of upperclassman, now I'm not sure.........
It's absolutely still true. Don't let the recent institutional blunders at WSU (read: allowing Doba assistants to drive program into the ground and then hiring Wulff to bury it) cloud your sight of what is possible.
Leach may or may not succeed there, but if he doesn't, it won't be because of some bullsheet reasoning of "it's because it's WSU." Every major conference school is capable of having success, some just come by it easier than others. Oregon State has been a bowl team 3 of the past 6 years. They were playing a Civil War for a Rose Bowl bid as recently as 2009.
Mississippi State proves that it's still doable. That program was completely irrelevant on the national scene five years ago, and they likely will be again five years from now, but right now, they're a major player.
WSU and OSU absolutely can succeed on a semi-regular basis, getting into low tier bowls most seasons with occasional looks at the conference title and some really down years sprinkled in.
I'm not sure Mike Leach gets the Cougars there, just seems way too reckless, but its doable. WSU offers something different than most of the other Pac12 schools that some kids will be drawn too. I'm a UW fan and employee, but I can appreciate the slower pace of life and general solitude out on the Palouse. It can be relaxing.