Pelini is one guy. He is the one guy in charge of the program. I am not here to defend him, but he is not working with adults with regard to his coaching staff. His staff is also more than half responsible for getting the right players and having them prepared. They are not because his staff is incapable. Part of this has to do with the financial resources he has available to him.....not much. Either way. not only do you have to be a good recruiter of players, but you must also be a good recruiter of coaches, especially when you have limited resources. This means the Pelini has to find good up-and-coming coaches that are good recruiters, good coaches, and will work for less to have the opportunities. But they also need some experience and natural talent because they will need players to make up for coaching inexperience until they learn their coaching positions well.
We don't have this. Pelini can recognize a good player but he cannot recognize good coach. You win with the best players, but those players are schemed and motivated by coaching, at least until the team cohesion takes effect. We don't have that cohesiveness because we don't have the leadership in the assistant coaching positions (outside of Carl). We need some adults in the room and we just don't have them.
That is where this shifts to Strollo. Shift more money to football. That is the only sport the community cares for. All of the others pale in comparison. Give the resources to get what we want. Don't let this turn into what happened with Heacock where you eliminate what is left if the fan base. I watched the fans disappear every year under Heacock and it continued under Wolford and now we are getting to a new low under Pelini. Ron your 5 year plan is failing. You need to help fix this mess you helped to make.
