Mark Anthony "Bo" Pelini (born December 13, 1967) is the head coach of American football for the Youngstown State Penguins football team at Youngstown State University. He served as head coach of Nebraska Cornhuskers from December 2007 to November 2014. Before leading a football program in Nebraska, he was the defensive coordinator for LSU Tigers, Oklahoma Sooners, and Nebraska Cornhuskers.
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Pelini grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, a former steel production center with a strong athletic tradition. He was nicknamed "Bo" after former Cleveland Brown ran back to Bo Scott. After graduating from Youngstown Cardinal Mooney High School (same high school as Bob Stoops, former head coach of Oklahoma Sooners), he went on to play free security for Buckeyes at Ohio State University under College Football Hall of Fame head coach Earle Bruce and John Cooper from 1987 to 1990. Pelini began in the last two years, and served as a team captain in his senior year, along with Vinnie Clark, Jeff Graham, and Greg Frey. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Ohio State College of Business in December 1990.
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Train a career
After his playing career, Pelini began his coaching career at the University of Iowa as a graduate assistant for Iowa Hawkeyes under Hayden Fry in 1991. During this period, he also completed his master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1992. In 1993, he served for one year as a midfield coach at Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown. After the season, Pelini had worked as a linebacker coach with the Detroit Drive of Arena Football League.
In 1994, Pelini earned first place in the National Football League when she was hired by San Francisco 49ers head coach George Seifert as a reconnaissance assistant. He was quickly promoted to secondary assistant coach, and in the spring of 1994 he was promoted back to the defensive back coach. In 1995, in his new position, he trained in his first Super Bowl as the 49ers beat San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.
In 1997, Pelini was hired by New England Patriots head coach Pete Carroll, again as defensive back coach, helping Patriot reach the playoffs twice over three years there.
In 2000, Pelini became the linebacker coach for Green Bay Packers under head coach Mike Sherman. Green Bay scored a record of 33-15 and reached the playoffs twice in three years of Pelini there as a linebacker coach.
Pelini returned to the college ranks in 2003 when he was hired as Defensive Coordinator for Nebraska Cornhuskers by Chief Coach Frank Solich. In 2002, the season before his recruitment, the Cornhuskers defense was ranked 55th nationally. In its first year, it increased to 11 and led the country in turnover margin. At the end of the regular season, despite posting a 9-3 record, Solich was fired by Nebraska's new athletic director Steve Pederson. Pelini was appointed as the interim head coach and led the Cornhuskers to a 17-3 win over the Spartan Michigan State at Alamo Bowl 2003. Pelini was interviewed for the Nebraska head coach position, but Pederson instead decided after 41-days looking to hire Bill Callahan, who had just been fired by Oakland Raiders after a disappointing 4-12 season. The following year, the Nebraska defense fell to 56 nationwide.
For 2004, Pelini joins the Oklahoma Sooners as a co-defensive coordinator under head coach Bob Stoops, helping the Sooners to sixth place national defense and national 11th defense on the way to winning the 2004 Great Championship Match and venue at the 2005 BCS National Championship , where they were defeated 55-19 by USC Trojans.
In 2005, Pelini was hired by LSU Tigers Head Coach Les Miles, again as a defensive coordinator. His success continued, as LSU was ranked 3rd nationally in overall defense for each of the three years with the Tiger. At the end of the 2007 regular season, LSU Tigers beat Tennessee Volunteers 21-14 in the 2007 SEC Championship Game and went on to win 38-24 against Ohio State Buckeyes, the Pelini alma mater, at the 2008 BCS National Championship Game.
During the 2007 football season, Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman fired athletic director Steve Pederson, and appointed former head coach Cornhuskers Tom Osborne as Director of Athletic Interim. One day after the last match of the Cornhuskers this season, losing 65-51 for the Colorado Buffalo and finishing the season with 5 wins and 7 losses, Osborne fired Bill Callahan and announced an immediate search for a new football coach. Pelini was selected after a nine-day search as the next head coach. Two names were revealed among the five candidates interviewed including Buffalo head coach Turner Gill and head coach Wake Forest Demon Diacons Jim Grobe.
2008 season
Nebraska opened with 3 consecutive wins against the Western Michigan Broncos, the San Jose State Spartans, and the New Mexico State Aggies. Bo Pelini's arrival sees renewed interest and optimism in Nebraska football, as evidenced by their Pay-Per View payout record.
Nebraska then began losing games close to Virginia Tech Hokies, and then suffered the worst home loss in school history to the Missouri Tigers 52-17 next week. The first road game of the season resulted in losses to Texas Tech Red Raiders in overtime despite giving up 8.77 meters per game. Then Huskers went to Ames, Iowa and defeated 2-10 Iowa State Cyclones. They returned home and won against Baylor Bears. Pelini's Huskers then disappeared on the road the following week to Oklahoma Sooners in a tone of 62-28, where Oklahoma scored 35 straight before Nebraska's answer. Toward the break, the score is 49-14. The game marked Pelini's first time against Bob Stoops who previously worked as a defensive coordinator for Sooners in 2004. The game also marked the most points ever scored against Nebraska in a quarter.
On November 8th, Nebraska Cornhuskers Bo Pelini won against the Kansas Jayhawks, making them qualified. The 9-4 season was limited by a 26-21 victory over Clemson Tigers at Gator Bowl 2009, which was played just days after Pelini returned from his father's funeral service in Ohio.
Pelini's regular season 2008 record of 9-4 was the highest among the 28 FBS Division I teams with new head coach and staff that year. This performance was rewarded in March 2009 when his salary increased from $ 1.1 to $ 1.8 million. The Pelini contract lasts until February 2014.
season 2009
High hopes heading into the 2009 season for the Cornhuskers. Despite having to replace Joe Ganz's quarterback record, and the entire receiving corps, Nebraska is expected to compete in the Big 12 North Division wide open. The Cornhuskers are ranked pre-seasonally at # 24 by the AP, the first pre-season rank since the 2007 season. Nebraska expects a great season of running back Roy Helu and defensive handling Ndamukong Suh. Before the season begins, Pelini must kick the second rusher, Quentin Castille from the team. Castille's absence caused his appearance to the new students who actually ran back Rex Burkhead during the fall camp.
Pelini leads his team to the 2009 Great Championship Match against Texas Longhorns # 3. Texas, led by Colt McCoy quarterback, is highly favored over Huskers, who are ranked 21. Despite losing the game, Big 12 Championship Game showcases Ndamukong Suh's skills. The All-American has 4.5 sacks to go along with 12 tackles, 7 of them coming behind the line of soccer practice. With her performance, Suh was invited to the 2009 Heisman Heroes ceremony, where she finished 4th position. Suh developed under Pelini coach, finishing the 2009 season with 85 tackles, 12 sacks, 24 tackles for loss, 10 pass drops, 3 blocked kicks, one interception, and forced off. Suh won nearly every major post-season award available to defensive midfielders, including Lombardi Award, Outland Trophy, Chuck Bednarik Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, and The Bill Willis Trophy. Suh is the second winner of Outland and Lombardi Pelini, following Glenn Dorsey.
Nebraska finished the season with a 33-0 victory over the Arizona Wildcats at Holiday Bowl 2009 where Pelini told Nebraska fans at the Holiday Bowl stand "Nebraska back and we're here to stay!". The victory was the closing of the first bowl of the Nebraska 45 bowl history, as well as the first shutout in the history of the Holiday Bowl. Nebraska's last rankings on coach and AP media polls are 14th, ranked highest since 2001. Under Pelini Nebraska completed # 1 in the NCAA rating and passed the efficiency defense, the first time since 1984 and 2003 that Nebraska has led the country in that category. each.
season 2010
After the 2009 mix finishes (especially the Big 12 Championship Game loss and Holiday Bowl win), Bo Cornhuskers starts the season ranked # 8 in the pre-season AP poll. Nebraska is expected by some sports analysts for the title of the Big 12 before leaving for the Big Ten Conference in 2011. Following disappointing losses for Texas Longhorns and Texas A & amp; M Aggies, Cornhuskers dropped to 15th place in the AP polls to the last week of the regular season because it eliminated the realistic expectations of the national championship in 2010. Nebraska went on to defeat the Colorado Buffalo in the last regular game of the season, winning the title of 12 Great North. At the Big 12 Great Championship in 2010, Nebraska made four turnovers and scored a 17-0 lead in the second quarter on the way to a whopping 23-20 from Big 12 South Co-Champion Oklahoma. In the last BCS ranking for the season, Nebraska came in 18th and fifth place among 12 great teams behind Oklahoma, Missouri, Oklahoma State and Texas A & amp; M. Nebraska lost the Holiday Bowl 2010, 19-7, to Washington Huskies. Three months earlier, the Cornhuskers defeated the Huskies with 35 points in Seattle.
2011 season
After a disappointing final for the 2010 season, Nebraska started 2011 with victories in its first four games against Chattanooga, Fresno State, Washington and Wyoming. Nebraska was defeated by Wisconsin Badgers in the first Big Ten Conference game at Cornhuskers. Cornhuskers out strongly tied him at 14-14 with four minutes to go in the 2nd quarter, but Wisconsin's offense dominated Nebraska in the 2nd round and eventually won the match with a score of 48-17. Nebraska rebounded by winning three games in a row, including 21 second-largest comeback points in school history - against Ohio State and a 24-3 victory against # 9 Michigan State. After the winning streak they were disrupted by an unmanned Northwest Wildcats where they suffered two errors in a 30-yard Northwestern line. After the defeat there was a match against # 12 Penn State. A week before the game a lot of national focus was rolling with the dismissal of coach Joe Paterno and allegations of sexual assault in the Penn State sex abuse scandal. Prayer held before the match for both teams by Nebraska ran back coach Ron Brown. The Cornhuskers will win the match 17-14. 2 January 2012, Nebraska loses Capital One Bowl 2012 in South Carolina Gamecocks, 13-30.
season 2012
The Cornhuskers started the season 2012 with the # 17 ranking in the AP Poll. After losing to UCLA Bruins, Nebraska won the rest of their regular season match with the exception of losing 38-63 to eventual champions of Ten Division Leader of Ohio State. The Cornhuskers' 7-1 conference record earned their first team the title of Ten Legend Divisions, and the first appearance into the 2012 Big Ten Football Championship Game. Due to ineligible postseason from both Ohio State and Penn State, they play third place teams in the Leadership Division, Wisconsin. The Cornhuskers never took the lead during the match and were beaten by a score of 31-70. In their second appearance in many seasons, Cornhuskers played in 2013 Capital One Bowl and lost to Southeastern Conference Co-Champions Georgia Bulldogs, 31-45.
2013 season
The Cornhuskers start the 2013 season with a # 18 ranking on AP Poll. After losing to the UCLA Bruins, Nebraska lost early quarterback Taylor Martinez, the first of many injuries during the 2013 season. Nebraska will lose to Minnesota Golden Gophers, Michigan State Spartans and Iowa Hawkeyes to complete the regular season 8-4. Nebraska went on and beat Georgia 24-19 at Gator Bowl, avenging last year's bowl loss to the Bulldogs. Nebraska completed the 2013 season with a 9-4 record, Pelini's sixth straight season with nine wins or more. Nebraska also finished the season with # 25 in the last Coaching Poll but did not have a partner in the AP Poll final.
season 2014
The Cornhuskers start the 2014 season with a # 22 ranking in AP Poll and Coaches polls. They finished tied for second in the Great Ten West Division with a 9-3 record and 25th place in the country.
Enable
On 30 November 2014, after the end of the regular season, Pelini was fired by Nebraska Athletics Director Shawn Eichorst, effective immediately. The university is contracted to pay Pelini $ 7.65 million in salary after termination in the form of a $ 150,000 monthly payment for the next 51 months. Total liquidation to be paid to Pelini is approximately $ 7.9 million.
Pelini left the NU football program with a 67-27 record, winning at least 9 games in each season. Although this record Nebraska has never won a conference title under Pelini. Eichorst stated at a press conference that Pelini did not win a "really important match" against top-level opponents despite having significant resources. Barney Cotton was announced as a temporary head coach, and set up the team for his bowl game.
Youngstown State
Pelini was hired by Youngstown State in December 2014 as their new head coach. The Penguins went 5-6 in 2015 but rebounded in 2016 to go 12-4, losing the FCS Championship game to James Madison University.
Social media
Pelini is the subject of Twitter account @FauxPelini. @FauxPelini has influenced Husker's program, including the creation of competition trophies and Nebraska Red and White games.
Controversy
First audio recording
After losing a home match over UCLA on September 14, 2013, and shortly after responding to criticism from former Nebraska football player Tommie Frazier about the defeat, a two-year-old audio recording with an indecent tirade by Pelini anonymously leaked to Deadspin. The footage was made after Nebraska won from Ohio State in 2011, when it was reported that some students went when Nebraska fell 27-6 early in the third quarter. The Huskers won 34-27. According to Deadspin, among the statements made on the audio recording, Pelini said:
Our people. What a damn fucking-fucking weather - they can all kiss my ass out of a fucking door. Because today is coming now. We'll see what they can do when I'm gone. IAM very angry.
Shortly after the recording was released, Pelini apologized:
I take full responsibility for these comments. They were pronounced in a private room after the Ohio State game. I vented a series of emotional events that caused this moment. That said, these comments do not really show my true feelings. I love being here in Nebraska and feel lucky to be in touch with the University and a great fan base. I again apologize to anyone I have hurt.
After the release of the audio recording, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman stated that the university would consider how to respond to the problem, and then decided to move away from the incident. Tom Osborne, former coach and athletic director in Nebraska, later announced that he had heard the tape in 2012 (about a year earlier) and talked to Pelini about it but did not tell Perlman about it.
Some observers and media members believe that Pelini will have difficulty winning back fan support. Pelini believes that he has built up enough "points" for at least partial forgiveness for his remarks from fans. He says he enjoys his work in Nebraska and gets great support; actually he refused the job offer from another school. The reactions of sports media to audio recordings ranged from calls for Pelini to be dismissed with the view that what Pelini says is nothing more than what the other trainers have said in the past.
Behavior in the field
Pelini's behavior was once again questioned during Nebraska's disappearance on national television to the Iowa Hawkeyes at the end of the regular season of 2013. At halftime, the coach snapped ESPN at ABC reporter Quint Kessenich when asked about a pair of Cornhusker turnovers, responding with "What kind of question is that?" Then, in a dispute with a call made on the pitch, Pelini swung his hat in the official face of an official, pulling a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike behavior. Pelini remains challenged in a post-match press conference, referring to his personal foul call as "chicken droppings" and stated, "If they want to fire me, please... I'm not apologizing for anything I've done." Pelini later apologized for his behavior after the Iowa game.
During the November 14, 2015 game against Bison North Dakota State in the 4th quarter, Pelini involved the referee in several fierce arguments for penalties that they called including two unsportsmanlike penalties against Pelini (his team took the lead with 14 points into the 4th quarter). He was reprimanded by the Missouri Valley Football Conference for his actions on the field.
Second audio recording
After his dismissal on November 30, 2014, Pelini met the (former) team at a local high school on December 2nd. Audio leaks from the meeting revealed that the trainer verbally attacked the administration of the University of Nebraska. At one point Pelini said:
That was not a surprise to me. Absolutely not. I do not really have a relationship with AD. That person - you see it (Sunday) - that person is totally p. I mean, he is. He's really c ---.
After the leak, the Nebraska government issued a statement, saying:
If this comment is, indeed, spoken by Mr. Pelini, we are very disappointed, but that only reaffirms the decision that he should no longer be a youth leader in Nebraska. His habit of using inappropriate language, and his personal and professional attacks on administrators, goes against our university values. His behavior is consistent with the unprofessional and disrespectful behavior pattern directed by Mr. Pelini towards Nebraska fans, university employees, and most concerned, our student athletes. This behavior was not tolerated at the University of Nebraska and, among many other issues, played a role in his dismissal.
Youngstown State, who hired Pelini stated:
"Coach Pelini's statement as reported is inappropriate and unprofitable.We have discussed the report with Coach We are confident that Coach will act accordingly We will not comment further on the matter."
Head coaching record
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Assistant under Bo Pelini who is head coach of the NCAA or NFL:
- Carl Pelini: Florida Atlantic (2012-2013)
See also
- List of soccer college head coaches with non-consecutive term of office
References
Explanation notes
Quotes
External links
- Youngstown State profile
- Nebraska Profile
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