Nebraska

[chito_and_leon]

Why bother fire Pelini for a lateral hire of Riley?
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[TUMe]

Mitch Sherman of ESPN said when he first heard it he thought it was a joke.

 

[TUMe]

Is he kin to the Riley at ECU?

 

[chito_and_leon]

It's like us hiring Nutt!
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[Oregon alum]

Actually a lot of people here in Oregon were very surprised too, but for a different reason: Riley was on the hot-seat, donors were grumbling about how soon to push him out.

 

[TUBballJunkie]

There's some inexplicable fawning going on over on twitter by a fair amount of national media. That he had hardly any resources and actually overachieved for what he had to work with.

Not that I buy it.

 

[TU_BLA]

Oregon St. has "nothing" compared to Oregon who essentially is a university extension of Nike. Nebraska is grasping at straws on this one. While I think Mike Riley is a good coach, he couldn't be very competitive in the PAC-12 so I can't imagine it will be much easier in the B1G. Honestly, in 2 years Nebraska fans will be wondering "Why did we fire Pelini?"

 

[TUBballJunkie]

I don't actually know a lot of Nebraska fans, but the few I do were not excited about firing Pelini.

 

[TUMe]

My son lives in New Braska and will have a lot of fun with this hire.

 

[chito_and_leon]

LOL, ESPN reporting that Nebraska fired Pelini because he was too much of a jerk and hired Riley because everyone likes him.