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.
That Moos didn't stick to his guns is already an indictment. If the scene he laid out during his interview is true, that he still hired the current and former UCF coach is a massive fail.
"We had it all set up. Kendra had the room set up as she always does. And in comes Scott. with Gerrod Lambrecht, who I didn't even know who he was. They were both in sweats, hadn't shaved. And to me, that's a red flag right there."
To recap, in Moos' book he said that he and his wife both knew Frost wasn't ready after they finished the interview. The former Husker AD hated the idea from the very beginning. And yet...
Moos's story gets even worse.
"Matt [Davison] jumps up and hugs him and says, 'Come on, sit down. Let's get this thing going.' And I looked at him. And if that glare, that I gave Matt Davison, could have won a major conflict war in the world. He knew his a-- was in trouble."
It doesn't appear that Davison was in that much trouble, as he continued to work for Nebraska throughout Frost's time. Meanwhile, pressure aside, Moos hired a guy he absolutely didn't want to hire.
Unsurprisingly, the man Bill Moos never wanted to make the Nebraska head coach didn't work out. And NU is almost certainly in better shape from moving on from both of them.