Nebraska Football: Hiring Dave Aranda is a ‘difficult stone to overturn,’ writer says

While there is some indication that the Nebraska football coaching search started earlier than anyone realized, it doesn’t appear that it’s going to be completed anytime soon. There are quite a few candidates that have been mentioned over the last few weeks but right at the top of the list has been Baylor Bears coach Dave Aranda. However, if Husker fans think they can get anyone they want, one beat writer thinks they might be mistaken. In fact, he said that getting Aranda to Lincoln would be quite a bit harder than anyone assumes.

Speaking to the Hail Varsity Radio program, The Athletic writer, Mitch Sherman made the case for why it’s unlikely Aranda would want to join the Nebraska football program. Right at the top of that list is that Baylor is not in the kind of tenuous situation it was even a few years ago.

"“It’s a totally different story, when you talk about Baylor and Aranda. There’s a tendency on the part of Nebraska fans to look at Baylor in the way that people saw Baylor when Nebraska left the Big 12 more than a decade ago.”"

Sherman then went on to talk about the fact that the Bears have been through some of the darkest times that any program could imagine going through. He also pointed out that at this point, they have cleaned house and put new people in charge. There really isn’t anyone left from the program that Nebraska football fans know as being the perennial loser.

"“He [Aranda] has built that thing at Baylor, and money isn’t an issue….the league is changing the way that it looks in a way that could allow Baylor to reign supreme.”"

That last point is interesting because one of the biggest arguments that Nebraska football fans have made in the last few weeks is that because the Big 12 is going to get a bit watered down, Aranda might decide he’d like to come to a more powerful conference so that he can have a better chance at a playoff berth.

Sherman believes that the Bears could be in a situation that would be much easier to make the playoffs than the one the Nebraska football team finds itself.

Sherman added that people need to think about that when they dream on wooing Dave Aranda because he believes it would be a “very, very difficult stone to overturn.”

On the other hand, The Athletic beat writer did make it clear that the Huskers have resources that wouldn’t make the move out of the question. It simply wouldn’t be as easy for the Nebraska football program as some have convinced themselves.