Tony White to Nebraska

[money3189]

Nebraska is 9th all time in wins, we are 30th. 5 national titles to our 1. Their football budget in the B10 is perhaps double ours. Yes they have been a train wreck lately but our train wreck days aren’t far in the rear view. I would hardly call it a lateral move.

It’s a lateral move to fans like us. Behind the scenes in the coaching world there are so many connections and reasons why you want to be on particular staffs. A lot of different exits off the freeway that lead to certain places they want to end up. It’s not going to make sense to us.

 

[MSOrange]

Nebraska is 9th all time in wins, we are 30th. 5 national titles to our 1. Their football budget in the B10 is perhaps double ours. Yes they have been a train wreck lately but our train wreck days aren’t far in the rear view. I would hardly call it a lateral move.

And even when they've been bad, they continue to sell out a 90K seat stadium. There are pros and cons to it, but I can understand the attraction of wanting to coach in a football mad environment like that.

 

[djorange1989]

And even when they've been bad, they continue to sell out a 90K seat stadium. There are pros and cons to it, but I can understand the attraction of wanting to coach in a football mad environment like that.

Yeah let’s be real here, they are a bigger program with much bigger resources and much bigger fan support than we have. Right now we are better but their ceiling, although not what is was in the Osborne days, is still higher than ours

 

[Cusefan69]

Nebraska is 9th all time in wins, we are 30th. 5 national titles to our 1. Their football budget in the B10 is perhaps double ours. Yes they have been a train wreck lately but our train wreck days aren’t far in the rear view. I would hardly call it a lateral move.

Yeah agree. Nebraska is not a lateral move. Also it's rare for any football coach to stay at a school longterm. If TW was a winner and TW led us to 3 or 4 bowls and rankings in as many years and decided to leave that's better than not having had those good seasons.

 

[kcsu]

Dino and many others made move after move to get to their current jobs including guys like Saban. Based on the article White had multiple opportunities. If he can do as well in Nebraska as he did here, he will be in line for a great head coaching job.

 

[huskerfan33]

I hope Nebraska continues to suck. The program deserves it for running solich out

There was supposedly an off field issue that wasn't documented. He wasn't fired because of his record.

 

[huskerfan33]

I guess Tony, besides the assumed big raise in pay, must thrive on challenges.

Nebraska needs help - their best record in the past eight years has been 9-4. This year as you can see 4-8, the year previous 3-9, 3-5, 5-7, 4-8, 4-8.

He has his work cut out for him. Matt Rhule brought him into a mess. (edit)

	Overall	Conference	SRS	Polls
Rk	Year	Conf	W	L	T	Pct	W	L	T	Pct	SRS	SOS	AP Pre	AP High	AP Post	Coach(es)	Bowl	Notes
1	2022	Big Ten	4	8	0	.333	3	6	0	.333	-1.95	2.30				Scott Frost (1-2), Mickey Joseph (3-6)
2	2021	Big Ten	3	9	0	.250	1	8	0	.111	7.10	6.60				Scott Frost (3-9)
3	2020	Big Ten	3	5	0	.375	3	5	0	.375	0.14	5.14				Scott Frost (3-5)
4	2019	Big Ten	5	7	0	.417	3	6	0	.333	2.67	4.00	24	24		Scott Frost (5-7)
5	2018	Big Ten	4	8	0	.333	3	6	0	.333	3.48	4.82				Scott Frost (4-8)
6	2017	Big Ten	4	8	0	.333	3	6	0	.333	1.52	8.18				Mike Riley (4-8)
7	2016	Big Ten	9	4	0	.692	6	3	0	.667	7.55	2.94		7		Mike Riley (9-4)	Music City Bowl-L
8	2015	Big Ten	6	7	0	.462	3	5	0	.375	6.56	3.94				Mike Riley (6-7)	Foster Farms Bowl-W

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As long as rhule isn't enjoying the night life and showing up to recruiting visits while drunk.

 

[OrangeDW]

I guess Tony, besides the assumed big raise in pay, must thrive on challenges.

Nebraska needs help - their best record in the past eight years has been 9-4. This year as you can see 4-8, the year previous 3-9, 3-5, 5-7, 4-8, 4-8.

He has his work cut out for him. Matt Rhule brought him into a mess. (edit)

	Overall	Conference	SRS	Polls
Rk	Year	Conf	W	L	T	Pct	W	L	T	Pct	SRS	SOS	AP Pre	AP High	AP Post	Coach(es)	Bowl	Notes
1	2022	Big Ten	4	8	0	.333	3	6	0	.333	-1.95	2.30				Scott Frost (1-2), Mickey Joseph (3-6)
2	2021	Big Ten	3	9	0	.250	1	8	0	.111	7.10	6.60				Scott Frost (3-9)
3	2020	Big Ten	3	5	0	.375	3	5	0	.375	0.14	5.14				Scott Frost (3-5)
4	2019	Big Ten	5	7	0	.417	3	6	0	.333	2.67	4.00	24	24		Scott Frost (5-7)
5	2018	Big Ten	4	8	0	.333	3	6	0	.333	3.48	4.82				Scott Frost (4-8)
6	2017	Big Ten	4	8	0	.333	3	6	0	.333	1.52	8.18				Mike Riley (4-8)
7	2016	Big Ten	9	4	0	.692	6	3	0	.667	7.55	2.94		7		Mike Riley (9-4)	Music City Bowl-L
8	2015	Big Ten	6	7	0	.462	3	5	0	.375	6.56	3.94				Mike Riley (6-7)	Foster Farms Bowl-W

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6 straight losing seasons? Yikes. Even in our bad last 2 decades, we’ve never had that many consecutive losing seasons.

 

[SmilinBob]

There was supposedly an off field issue that wasn't documented. He wasn't fired because of his record.

It reminds me of Buddy Ryan when he said after they cut Carter from Philly..."All he does is catch TD's.". He took the bullet on that one for him.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

As long as rhule isn't enjoying the night life and showing up to recruiting visits while drunk.

Sounds like Frost was a total disaster at Nebraska. good lord

 

[Grbac]

Per Footballscoop

Matt Rhule has hired Kevin McGarry away from us as his new Senior Defensive Analyst. He joins Tony White.
He was an Analyst(Defense) for us. He was with Rocky Long at San Diego St for 11 years.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Per Footballscoop

Matt Rhule has hired Kevin McGarry away from us as his new Senior Defensive Analyst. He joins Tony White.
He was an Analyst(Defense) for us. He was with Rocky Long at San Diego St for 11 years.

- Football Coach - Syracuse University Athletics

cuse.com

 

[kcsu]

I have to believe some part of White's thinking is that Rhule was an NFL coach and will run an NFL system and he wants to coach in that system which could get him an NFL job, along with Rhules contacts.

White accomplished all that he could at SU. Other than getting a head coaching job down a division his best move was to the NFL or run D for another D1 school. Nebraska checks all the boxes for him. My sense is he will be making another move within 3 years max

 

[Lax2020]

Per Footballscoop

Matt Rhule has hired Kevin McGarry away from us as his new Senior Defensive Analyst. He joins Tony White.
He was an Analyst(Defense) for us. He was with Rocky Long at San Diego St for 11 years.

How did we allow this ? Is DC Long bringing in his own guy ?

 

[Trueblue25]

Alright ive exhausted my good will towards the guy.

Still hope Nebraska goes 0 -

 

[MadNY3]

How did we allow this ? Is DC Long bringing in his own guy ?

Analysts hires/losses? This is like zero concern.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Two Syracuse defensive grad assistants depart for Nebraska

Jack Potenza and Josh Bringuel left Saturday.

www.syracuse.com

 

[SmilinBob]

Two Syracuse defensive grad assistants depart for Nebraska

Jack Potenza and Josh Bringuel left Saturday.

www.syracuse.com

Interesting no position coach though, unless there will be movement after the convention.

 

[FrancoPizza]

White accomplished all that he could at SU. Other than getting a head coaching job down a division his best move was to the NFL or run D for another D1 school. Nebraska checks all the boxes for him. My sense is he will be making another move within 3 years max

As our new HC

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[orangepassion]

Titles matter to people.

 

[Orangezoo]

Titles matter to people.

To those that receive them as well as those around them that must justify what they are paid.

That said personally I'll gladly take a mill a year with the title of assistant to the regional floor scrubber any day.

 

[NYCCuse826]

Titles matter to people.

Learned that early on in my Finance career.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Re titles mattering... I will say, I'm on month three at a new company as a VP. The function I'm in hasn't had a VP level person since summer when their CMO retired. Highest level on the team was a senior director.

Hierarchy matters. It's frustrating. There are good things they advocated for that they couldn't get off the ground. Then I showed up with the fancy title, and stuff started getting done.

Whenever they backfill the CMO it'll be an even bigger impact.

People are weird. We're all just wolves some time.

 

[Orangezoo]

Re titles mattering... I will say, I'm on month three at a new company as a VP. The function I'm in hasn't had a VP level person since summer when their CMO retired. Highest level on the team was a senior director.

Hierarchy matters. It's frustrating. There are good things they advocated for that they couldn't get off the ground. Then I showed up with the fancy title, and stuff started getting done.

Whenever they backfill the CMO it'll be an even bigger impact.

People are weird. We're all just wolves some time.

Yep its a weird illogical society we live in these days.