But you need speed at the skill positions to make it work, and he’s mostly struck out trying to get those guys to come to the Heartland. The mistake I made in believing Frost would win big there: I thought his Oregon-style offense would give the Huskers an advantage in the mostly stodgy Big Ten West. People (including most of those you just mentioned) are going to want that job. You’re a Big Ten school with ample resources and a rabid fan base that’s sold out every football game since 1962*! (* Not sure this week’s should really count?) Scott Frost makes $5 million a year, and with the expected windfall from the Big Ten’s next TV contract in a couple of years, Nebraska can probably afford to pay the next guy even more. How attractive is the Nebraska job to people now? I know it’s not great, but how bad can it be? I know Matt Campbell isn’t coming here, but would a Gary Patterson pick up the phone? Dave Aranda? Hell, even Lance Leipold? Beyond the Big 12, I’m sure Luke Fickell won’t pick us, but would a Jim Leonhard or Justin Wilcox consider us? - Ari S., Lincoln, NebraskaĪri, I know that was a rough loss the other day, but why such a defeatist attitude? The Nebraska job may not be what it was in 1995, but c’mon, man. It seems that Nebraska is going to be looking for a new coach very soon. (Submitted questions have been lightly edited for length and clarity.) But before all that, we have to check in on the one Power 5 fan base that didn’t even make it that far before waving the white flag. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the college football site.I’ll get to your requisite Big 12/realignment questions in a bit first, I want to dive smack dab into Week 1 action. Mandel began working at The Athletic in 2016. He wrote his first column for on July 8, 2014. In June 2014, Fox Sports announced it had hired Mandel as a senior columnist covering college football and basketball. He returned in early July." Ī practicing Jew, Mandel once held off from writing his featured SI.com sports blog during and in observance of Yom Kippur when it fell on a game day during the college football season. In February 2009, SI.com announced Mandel would be taking a sabbatical from the site "to work on other projects. A review in The New York Times complimented the book's "breezy, airy tone" and Mandel's ability to be "sarcastic without being cynical and critical without sounding jaded" during the "intricate tour through the ills of the college football world." In 2007, Mandel released his first book: Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football. He was an AP voter in the NCAA Football AP poll, but gave the duty up to fellow SI.com writer Andy Staples. He also wrote about men's college basketball. Mandel described his job as primarily "attempting to explain to irrational college football fan bases across the country just how illogical the current system of college football is". Beginning in 1999, Mandel worked for SI.com, where he wrote the "College Football Mailbag" (The Mailbag) column, numerous individual features, and analyses of various games. Writing in Gelf Magazine, David Goldenberg noted that Mandel "has a broad perspective on the sport and its various constituencies". Mandel was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending Sycamore High School, and is a graduate of Northwestern University (1998) with a degree in journalism. Stewart Lance Mandel is an American sports writer for The All-American and The Athletic who focuses on college football and college basketball.
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