Alex Lewis will remain captain
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Maybe the team voted to let him stay captain. IMO it should be the team's decision.
But I'd be surprised if he doesn't end up in the spotlight for the wrong reasons again. Now he's got that target on his back and when it goes badly, the trolls are gonna be looking for him.
But I'd be surprised if he doesn't end up in the spotlight for the wrong reasons again. Now he's got that target on his back and when it goes badly, the trolls are gonna be looking for him.
Bad, bad move Riley IMO. Does nothing to make Lewis a better person, or at the very least more respecting of the fans. Shows that disrespect of fans, traveling at that, is of no consequence.
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Before we jump all over Riley for this just keep in mind that he has to consider the feelings of the team in all of this before making a decision. I am reasonably certain that if Riley thought demoting Lewis from captain would help the team he would do so. We are not privy to what is going on in the locker room right now. So I am content to let Riley make this decision and to just let it rest and move on.
Not a fan of this decision. I like ALOT of what Riley has done so far here. But this I don't agree with.
I think Riley's hands are tied with this situation. Lewis was voted captain for a reason. And probably that reason is there is a good amount of players that feel exactly like he does. He's quietly weeded out seniors and juniors and replaced them with freshman, redshirt freshman and sophomores. He's in an extremely difficult situation and you see how some posters are reacting with every move. As the saying goes... the long knives are out for Riley.
That all being said he should of kicked him off the team to expose the others.
That all being said he should of kicked him off the team to expose the others.
Agree, If these guys voted him captain they obviously have a similar mindset to his. So if Riley has any hope of just maintaining this team until these players get out of here he has to play nice with them or not have a team at all
With the facts we know, it seems like a mistake. There's probably more than meets the eye. Still, at this point, the anti-fan sentiment running through the team needs to be cut out.
Well, okay then.
Riley played for a coach (Bear Bryant) that would have known how to deal with this situation. If there is indeed a team division over who is the coach now, Bear would have kicked everyone off the team that didn't support what he was trying to do. I think that Nebraska fans would respect that decision and bite the bullet for a year while Riley recruited the players needed to put together his program.
I am not saying that there is a cancer since I am not privy to any information that would indicate that there is. If there is a cancer however, then it needs to be addressed now IMHO.
Seems to me that there is a leadership vacuum in Lincoln where players and coaches are not held to much of a standard of excellence. Leadership isn't always about doing the most popular thing, it is about doing the right thing.
I think Riley is just trying to get through the next year or two without a full scale mutany. Theses are still Bo's players and they're more loyal to each other than the staff. It's a difficult situation. He needs some of these guys to win now (because we already have lunatics calling for his job) but he can't fully tap the potential of the team until everyone fully buys in (which the Bo loyalists like Lewis will never do). If he kicks Lewis off the team or denotes him, then who knows how many players will fully rebel against the staff and then things will be an even worse dumpster fire than they are now. That "us against the world" mindset isn't as easy to get rid of as firing Bo. We need a few graduating classes yet to get there
A classic case of the tail wagging the dog. Riley needs to grow a pair and show his team who the freakin boss is. This kid is still a captain? He should have been booted off the team. THAT would send a message of no more bullsh%t. Bo cancer continues to spread.
I don't think he should be booted but I think you have a great point. It really would stop the BS (I would think)
No it's not.
What Lewis did was dumb, but it was also in the heat of the moment after a heart breaking loss and he didn't punch anyone, or call their mama names, or sleep with a boosters daughter, etc. I would have been fine whatever MR decided here, but I still think if we were 5-0 instead of 2-3 people would care about him a lot less. I still say he's an easy target to point to and blame.
Riley doesn't fly off the handle and I am sure he weighed all the possibilities. I am fine with this decision. His job is to help young men mature and to win football games. I am guessing, in this decision, he was trying to do just that.
Riley deserves a lot of ripping for how he has coached this year. He doesn't deserve to be ripped for this.
Riley deserves a lot of ripping for how he has coached this year. He doesn't deserve to be ripped for this.
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He should at least made him switch to defense. Then he'd have to play the whole game without a false start.
Wrong. Bear Bryant would have taken the team out to Junction Texas and made them run gassers for an hour in 100 degree heat with no water. Then they would scrimmage for two hours on a sand field full of goat heads, then more gassers. At the end of the day, coach would point out the box that had the bus tickets home for anyone wanting to quit. That made it pretty easy to figure who was "buying in".
You'd be absolutely correct if the player in question did not have 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. etc. chances already and didn't just have a huge episode of fan hate/hurting his team. This isn't some random player. This is a player with a very poor history who obviously does not and will not get it. He embodies the exact opposite of what Huskers say they expect from student athletes, yet he gets a pass? Sorry, hard to root for that.
Many of he same people who were making excuses when Pelini was trying to sabotage the program ...
Are now making excuses for this.
We have apparently learned NOTHING !
this should not be another 'judgement call"
Steps should be in place for 3 strikes your out. this is crap
Steps should be in place for 3 strikes your out. this is crap
Bryant couldn't get away with doing that now like he did back then. I do think however, that everyone would know who was boss and if they didn't he would run or kick them off the team.
F*ck their feelings. These are adults. Treat them like adults. Make an adult decision. Feelings shouldn't have anything to do with it. The guy (Lewis) isn't acting like a captain/leader/team player and he should sit or be suspended until he gets his act together and shows that he wants to be a contributing member of the team.
Maybe this is Riley's adult decision, but from the info I have, which could be incomplete, it doesn't seem like it, but there isn't anything else I can do.
But you don't make a decision because of feelings.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. C`mon Mike you are better than this.
I wasn't for booting him, or even removing him as captain if that is a player vote, but thought some penalty would be in order, like maybe sitting a half, or even maybe just making him get up and apologize to the fans who turned out in Illinois to see him.
This is a messed up situation that is for sure. The us against the world mentality and the fans are the enemy stuff will do nothing but hurt the program. If you kick him I feel like many players could potentially quit on this staff. If you don't he gets to stay around and continue to spread his bad attitude to others. I wonder what Meyer, Saban or Harbaugh would do with this thing.
