An interesting decision by Nebraska...UPDATED

The University of Nebraska has announced that they're going to do it again.

A decade ago, they fired Frank Solich for the heinous crime of not being Tom Osbourne. 
Solich won nine games a year, but because it was NEBRASKA! and they weren't winning national championships, UN figured they could do better.

They were wrong.

Suffering through a pair of coaches where .500 was an accomplishment, they finally got to Bo Pellini, a Nebraska man through and through, who went 67-27 over the seven years of his tenure as head man.

Today, he is no longer Nebraska's head man.

Saying they needed to move in a new direction, AD Shawn Eichorst relieved Pellini of his duties this morning, to the universal Twitter dismay of his players as well as his "alter ego", @FauxPellini (it's a fascinating statement about media that FauxPellini has more followers than the real Bo does!):

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT YOU ARE PAYING ME NOT TO LIVE IN LINCOLN NEBRASKA AND I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SAD

9:05 AM - 30 Nov 2014

CAN I GO BACK INTO THE STADIUM AND SAY GOODBYE ONE LAST TIME ALSO WHERE IS MY BLOWTORCH

9:10 AM - 30 Nov 2014

So, any wagers on the won-loss record of the next coach they manage to talk into the job? "Oh, by the way, we're going to fire you if you don't win the conference championship every other year and a national title or two within the next five..."

The truth, of course, is that there was much more to the firing of Pellini than 67-27. His on and off field anger issues were well known, and the leaked tape incident didn't help his credibility (which was undoubtedly the reason it WAS leaked). And he may not have lost very often, but it was the WAY those games were lost - giving up 70 in the lone conference title game, letting Melvin Gordon run for 408 in three quarters in the snow, letting McNeese almost beat them, and the sheer stupidity of the player choices in Friday's Iowa game was probably the last straw. 

We've gone on record as saying that 12-0 doesn't matter if Jamies Winston has been sheltered from the law at FSU, then wholesale firings must occur. 9-3 is no shelter from firing, either, if the external causes are sufficient.

UPDATE: Brian Hamilton asks the same questions in this article on SI.com...and says much more about what happens from here...