CornNationBT

So, a team with enough problems to get their very successful and experienced coach let go will need no rebuilding at all? So BirdsOnTheBat took umbrage to my LOL response to this post. So, let me explain further why I think this was an intellectually lazy and asinine response to what I said above. B1GN assumes Yori was let go rather than accepting the story that she resigned for family reasons. OK, let's go along with that. What's been published in the media was that 10 players and staff came forward with complaints that Yori was a bully and pushed kids too hard. Romeo says it's not true, that players were immature; Shepard says Romeo threw her teammates under the bus for saying that. Nowhere in that discussion does anyone say that Connie Yori failed to recruit players with which she could win at this level. If you're making a coaching change because of bullying -- which is ostensibly the case -- then the coaching change better be the fix for the problem. They're not bringing in this new coach and paying her over half a million right off the bat for her to come in and fail to win. She is NOT inheriting a rebuilding job. This is NOT Tim Miles inheriting an empty cupboard when he took over. The "problems" had nothing to do with the talent level on the team and everything to do with the manner with which that talent was motivated (or not motivated.) So, no, those problems do NOT constitute a "rebuilding" project and to suggest otherwise is absurd. I repeat: You do NOT bring in a half-million-dollar-a-year coach in this game to inherit the program she's inherting without expecting immediate results. I'm sorry if a couple of you can't deal with that. BirdsOnTheBat, I await your intelligent, considered response, but I'll probably get down arrows instead. First time, long time. I'll say to that: she'll get a little bit more time considering that she's alumni and getting less money from Nebraska right now than Yori was. That being said, it should not be tough for her to get back on top of the NCAA/B1G mountain if she's as good as advertised. Hindsight-question (and apologies if it's already been asked): her husband... I would think there's a lot of stress on the family if both are working as college coaches, but would he be a decent fit for Miles' staff? Granted, it could be a family issue where kids need a parent worse, and the money would help keep him home, but it isn't the worst thought.