| it is the nature of sports these days, but it doesnt make it right. I've been preaching for months that owners and Athletic Directors are too quick to can a coach after struggling. For instance, there was a point last season where no coach in the NBA's Eastern Conference had been with his team for more than one year. How about the coaching carousel in the NHL? how is a team supposed to build any sort of consistency, when a coach is only given 1 or 2 seasons to build a team and implement his system?
Last year, Nebraska football finished with a 9-3 record and fired their coach. 9-3!!!!!!
To put that in perspective, thats the equivalent of a 12-4 record in the NFL, a 60-20 record in the NBA (which would probably get you best record in the league), and 120-40 in baseball, which would be a record. Looking at other college sports, its the equivalent of a 24-6 basketball team, which would get them a 2 or 3 seed in the Tournament
I said that they would rue the day they fired a 9-3 coach, and sure enough they went 5-6 this year and missed a bowl game for the first time in 35 years. There is much rueing going on in Lincoln, NE right now.
I know this went way off-topic, just wanted to throw some of my thoughts out there
On another tangent, did you know that Nebraska has NEVER had a QB throw for 300 yards in a game? |