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What happened to these guys? Did they stay retired from football. These two were great O-line coaches. I was reading a 1994 clinic speech last night by Coach Young. It was interesting. Coach Dan gave some interesting numbers. For the option gurus... In 1993-94 season, Nebraska ran the power, traps, leads and sweeps, 442 times, while running the option 141 times. He said contrary to popular belief the option is only 20% of Nebraska's offense. He also said that almost every great athlete that TO brought in was put on defense. He said the offensive line usually got the leftovers. He was exaggerating some, but there was a lot of truth to it. Cally is doing the opposite and it shows. I just thought these tidbits were interesting and was wondering if anyone knew what these coaches were doing now.

Jeff Tedford, NFL coaches, and especially Terry Bowden, are not answers. If Neberaska goes after another left coast, panty waist, pass happy, no defense, guru, I'll puke. I'm sick of no defense in college football. Nebraska needs a defensive minded coach. It could be an offensive guy with a defensive mentality like Paul Johnson. (before you say the wishbone won't work, he wouldn't run it at Nebraska, and he was an OC with Hawaii for a time) or even Jim Grobe. I think Bo Pelini might be a good choice, however, has he had any head coaching experience.

Well, that is the only defense they have played.

Nice reporting, I Bleed Red. Congrats Nebraska. Looks like you've moving in the right direction. Don't forget about power football. If Nebraska starts looking at Tedford at CAL, I'll be on here screaming NO NO NO NO NO. DEFENSE wins championships. It is time for Nebraska to go back to the old ways. The Tide is rising !!!! Roll Tide and Go Big Red !!!

Bob Bockrath was to Alabma what Pederson (sp?) is to Nebraska. We pay 4 mil a year now, to hopefully revive Bama's program.

Like I said before. Florida's base play is the zone read option. They won an NCAA championship in D1. Illinois didn't run the option a "couple times" Saturday. They ran it (including the triple option from shotgun) throughout most of the game. The option is not only alive and well, it is thriving. SPEED DOES NOT COUNTER THE OPTION !!! IT IS DESIGNED TO NEUTRALIZE SPEED!!!! Facing an option attack forces your defense to play assignment football and tackle well. It helps your defense. Besides, teams don't practice against their own offense all week, they practice against what the team they play will run.

One reason for this is because they were using zone blocking schemes before everyone else was. That was a very good post by the way.

Dumbest post I have ever seen on this forum!! If you think the option is dead, you obviously know very little about football. Also, Nebraska's offense of old was not a true option offense. They ran the option, sure, but it was power football at its best. Read the "Assembly Line" ! As for offenses being based on the option? Well, the zone read is an option play. The zone read is the base play for Florida, West Virginia, Illinois, and others spread running teams. So you could say their offenses are based on the option. The option is far from dead. You probably won't see teams running the bone, except for the service academies, who do well with what they have by the way. However, the option is still the single best play in football. Callahan's offense is not that bad, although it looked it Saturday night. The problem with him is that he is a west coast guy and that equals no defense. As long as he is in charge the defense will be weak no matter who the DC is because he will put the best players on offense because that is his side of the ball. Nebraska's old power running game was one of the reason's the Black Shirts were so good. You go up against smashmouth football with option in practice every day, especially in the Spring, you are going to be good on defense. It is ridiculous to think the option is dead. Speed does not kill the option. The option is designed to neutralize speed, so saying defenses are too fast for the option is also ridiculous. Like someone posted earlier, all offenses have their good points and can be effective but their are consequences. For example see Texas Tech's defense. Before posting something like "the option is dead", please research, watch a few games, read some clinic books, and learn football.

Get used to it as long as you have a West Coast minded guy in charge.

See head. See sand. See you sticking head in the sand.

How do you figure? if this continues, publicity like this will help needed change come about. pressure isnt always a bad thing. He also said nobody wanted to coach at the University of Alabama. They all did.

Yeah that's pretty much what I meant. I don't think the option is dead though. The spread option is alive and well. I see Nebraska running somehting like West Virginia's power spread with a little more I formation built in. I never saw Nebraska as an option team anyway, I saw them as a power football team.

Its me again, the Bama fan. I just wanted to comment on how similar this forum is compared to Bama forums during the Mike Shula era. You have the ones that want the head coach gone, the ones that want assistant coaches gone, and then you have the apologists that have accepted mediocrity. Its not going to get any better until Nebraska finds a new head coach that embraces the Nebraska tradition of running the ball and playing great defense.

Many of your posts bring absolutely nothing to the table.

great post !!!