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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostNebraska is talking to familiar retreads: Monken, Rhule, Patterson, etc. My buddy at another Big 12 athletic dept in a neighboring state says "there's no way in hell Nebraska's big money donors will okay a black coach" meaning interim Mickey Joseph.
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If “Patterson” is talking about Gary Patterson, the guy is 62 and will be 63 by the time the next CFB season starts and his last really good team at TCU was 5 years ago. Surely Nebraska isn’t going to roll the dice on a near retiree who was showing declining performance at the tail end of his last job.
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Originally posted by TheBigCat2192 View PostIf “Patterson” is talking about Gary Patterson, the guy is 62 and will be 63 by the time the next CFB season starts and his last really good team at TCU was 5 years ago. Surely Nebraska isn’t going to roll the dice on a near retiree who was showing declining performance at the tail end of his last job.
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I’m always wary of aging coaches because I worry about them losing energy for recruiting and being too stuck in their ways to adapt to different schemes or offensive philosophies. Saban is really the only one I can think of who’s consistently done those things. Paterno held on for a long time too but he had some inconsistency at the end of his tenure.
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Originally posted by TheBigCat2192 View PostIf “Patterson” is talking about Gary Patterson, the guy is 62 and will be 63 by the time the next CFB season starts and his last really good team at TCU was 5 years ago. Surely Nebraska isn’t going to roll the dice on a near retiree who was showing declining performance at the tail end of his last job.
That said, I don't think it's a coincidence that Nebraska has been a dumpster fire of a program since then, often going head-to-head with UJoisey as the worst team in the B1G.
Even if Gary Patterson is serious about pursuing one more head coaching gig (I doubt that he is, to be honest), why would he want to go to Lincoln and deal with that nonsense?Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by TheBigCat2192 View PostI’m always wary of aging coaches because I worry about them losing energy for recruiting and being too stuck in their ways to adapt to different schemes or offensive philosophies. Saban is really the only one I can think of who’s consistently done those things. Paterno held on for a long time too but he had some inconsistency at the end of his tenure.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by ctrabs74 View Post
Did you mean that Saban has at least adapted to different schemes and still won at a high level?
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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View Post
Some D1 message boards make ours like G-Rated. Wow.
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Originally posted by TheBigCat2192 View Post
Yes. He’s shifted from a one-back style that was still heavy on single backs and even used I formations to a more shotgun happy spread-to-run and even pass-happy at times offense. It took a bit for things to mesh but the time that Lane Kiffin (of all people) spent there fundamentally changed Alabama’s offensive identity into something more “modern”. Saban’s also maintained his edge in recruiting and hired a long string of successful coordinators. Some of them were former HCs looking to rehab their images like Kiffin and Sarkisian while others were looking for their first jobs elsewhere like Smart. But the list of guys who’ve maintained elite FBS football programs deep into old age in the scholarship limit era is basically just Saban and to a lesser extent Paterno + Bowden at FSU. Guys get old, tired, or develop health issues from the stress of the job and I believe it eventually takes a toll on their on-field performance.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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