I still can't figure out why you think Cosgrove is so bad. He was very successful at Wisconsin and had two bad years at Nebraska. It just so happens the last year was very bad. So some seem to ignore his success before that.
I still don't know if him or Brewster will get it done in the end, but I'm not going to try to find every little negative thing about them, and, at the same time, ignore everything positive they have done. That's what you're doing.
Again not true, I have stated that Brewster has improved recruiting. My concerns are that he appears to not know what direction he wants to take the team in, we first hire Dunbar then Brewster says we have to let him go and get a guy who wants to run the ball more. Brewster should have known before ever taking the job what sort of offense he wanted to run. Dunbar ran the same offense he has run at his previous jobs so it shouldn't have been a surprise to Brewster. He either hired Dunbar without doing his research/due diligence or didn't have a plan when he was hired of what his offensive vision was. We have a tight A.D. budget to begin with because of the mistakes Maturi made handing out premature extensions to Monson and Mason and now we have less money available to attract coaches because of the Dunbar debacle. I also worry that getting rid of all of these coaches in the short time he has been here will hamper the ability to attract other coaches. I also have concerns about Brewsters game day coaching abilities as he was awarded this job after never even being an coordinator. He was a position coach for 17 years and never got promoted to a coordinator job. How do you not get promoted in 17 years unless these coaches realized he was a good recruiter and salesman but X and O's and organizationally didn't have what it takes to be a coordinator. In regards to Cosgrove as I have stated his prime was 10-15 years ago and in a downward slide since then, both in on the field results and in recruiting and developing talent. Here was some of the talent he had to work with at Nebraska and it doesn't seem to match with how poorly the defenses played in those 4 years.
Scott Shanle, LB, Saints (Starter)
Daniel Bullocks, S, Lions (Starter)
Stewart Bradley, LB, Eagles (Starter)
Barrett Ruud, LB, Buccaneers, (Starter, Nebraska all-time leading tackler)
Adam Carriker, DT, Rams (13th overall pick)(started every game last season)
Fabian Washington, CB, Ravens (Starter)(23rd overall pick)
Titus Adams, DT, Patriots
Ryon Bingham, DT, Chargers
Zach Bowman, CB, Bears
Josh Bullocks, FS, Saints (semi-finalist for Jim Thorpe Award and Sporting News All-American in 2003)
Steve Octavien, LB, Cowboys
Bo Ruud, LB, Patriots
LeKevin Smith, DT, Patriots
