Since Bill Moos’ new book has come out, quite a lot has been made (mostly by him) about how differently things would have worked out had several people not gotten in the way of how he ran the Nebraska athletics program. Chief among the former AD’s claims is that he was overruled when he wanted to hire Dana Altman as the team’s new basketball coach. He also admitted he wasn’t sure Scott Frost was ready to take over the football program.
The way Moos tells it, he was the hero that Nebraska needed. When he did make the wrong decision, it was only because he knew the fans wanted him to (as was the case with Frost). However, as he keeps telling these tales, it’s become obvious that it was probably a good thing he was kicked to the curb, especially after hiring Frost.
“I was hired to hire the football coach,” Moos recently told Nebraska radio station 93.7 The Ticket. “I went under the radar and interviewed Chip Kelly at his kitchen table. Before the season was over … and I liked it. He would have been a good fit in a lot of ways. He wins football games. And he knows how to do it.” and that was met with resistance.
Bill Moos made one big wrong decision at Nebraska and it’s why its good he’s gone
While it was clear the powers that be wanted Frost because of the season he was having, Moos’ claims that hiring Chip Kelly were met with resistance, but not as far as they did with Altman. That indicates that had he pushed for Kelly, the man who was once Scott Frost’s boss at Oregon would have taken over in Nebraska…