4 years and still....

I'm new here, but I'm extremely suprised at those of you who are saying you think Callahan called a good game, offensively. Were we all watching the same game, or...?

Sadly, the Huskers were going to lose anyway you look at it....but after they took the lead 10-7, Callahan went into his usual conservative mode, as if he hoped to run the clock out for the next 2 1/2 quarters. Then they fell so far behind (no thanks to one of the Black Shirts' worse defensive performances I have ever seen up the middle), he had to start passing on every down.

If there's one thing I've seen from Callahan during his years in Lincoln, he is scared to death to go for the jugular.

 
Pete Carrol is a better coach and USC is a better team. Simple as that. Best team we've played since 2001 Miami. Kevin Cosgrove could be a PeeWee defensive coordinator and he'd still have no idea what he's doing.

 
Licensed to Ill said:
Pete Carrol is a better coach and USC is a better team. Simple as that. Best team we've played since 2001 Miami. Kevin Cosgrove could be a PeeWee defensive coordinator and he'd still have no idea what he's doing.
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It's easy to blow this loss off on USC being such a great program. I agree they are far superior. But there's no excuse for getting blown out 35-0 for a quarter and a half at home.

This year's Trojan team may or may not be the best team Nebraska has played since Miami '01. It remains to be seen. USC has played 2 games this season. One against a cupcake, and one against a Big 12 team that sure looked like one last night.

 
SwiftFan87 said:
who would you rather have coaching this game for us?

Solich or Callahan?

yeah that's what I thought.
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Solich but your not giving me much of a choice. At least when Solich had talent 1999 we saw how good he could coach. Calahan hasnt shown much against anyone.

 
REDSTEEL said:
melscott62 said:
no_name_needed_2001 said:
Switch coaches

Would Carroll win this game for NU?
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LOL no. its not hard to win with that talent
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Well would Carroll still have COZ as his Def cordinator?
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Probably not however the defense did have some poor tackling ability and the line just got blown off the ball!!!! This is not Coz's fault however I am NOT sticking up for him. You can't pin it on the coach all of the time because of the execution however well the hell are these guys getting their tackling technique from??? You have one f'ing goal in your life and that is to tackle someone. I'm not asking you to catch a ball or throw the ball 65 yards.......................JUST F*&KING TACKLE!!!!!

The offensive gameplan was better than last year, but we tried to run the ball a little bit too much IMO. The times we moved the ball is when we were passing it. That was working and they were giving us 5 to 6 yards each time. Keller still looks uncomfortable in the pocket and I realize that he played a little better last night, but he is NOT impressing me at all and I realize the O-line didn't help him much in that respect. :steam

 
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HuskerJosh82 said:
hskrfan4life said:
this game did not make or break our season. if you guys haven't figured it out yet WE still have the Big XII in front of us
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You got that right, the North is ours to lose. I don't see us losing anymore games until the Big XII championship game.
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Yeah, win the putrid BigXII North and lose to every ranked team we play.

Progress??
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5-6,8-4,9-5 yeah I see progress. One loss against the #1 team is not a losing season.

 
husker4ever07 said:
cant compete with top caliber teams. Frank got fired for this reason and BC gets an extension for it.
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so would you prefer us fire bill? good idea, lets correct a mistake by doing the same thing over again. after all, when we fired frank everyone was beating down our door to be our coach. I'm sure if we trashed cally we'd have even more qualified applicants lined up to lead us. :clap good job

 
I think in time BC can get it done. He just needs to get a better DC. Given the reality of today's college football landscape the traditional powers just can't dominate for long anymore. Even USC must go through a down period like they did for a good 2 decades before Pete came along.

 
quitou said:
motorboatjonesNU said:
husker4ever07 said:
no_name_needed_2001 said:
Switch coaches

Would Carroll win this game for NU?
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No but he would have came much much closer. Carol got to where he is by being able to get 3 and 4 star players to play at a 5 star level. Now the 5 stars all wanna go to USC and pete gets them to play at their highest potential. We are never gonna be able to recruit like USC until we start to develop players better. under cally 3 star players play like 3 star players, carol is able to get more out of his players. Heck look at the five star players from BCs recruiting classes would you say they are playing like 5 star players? is lucky playing like the 2nd best back from his class? Not even close
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Let's not forget PC is in year #7.

BC had to start really worse than from scratch. He had very little talent to work with, AND had to fit square pegs into round holes in '04. Everyone wants Meyer- or Stoops-like success with a NC title run in the first 2-4 years. Sorry, folks... not everyone gets that.

We'll just have to be patient. We're still 2 or 3 years away from that.
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Hey, you know... you might want to look at Pete Carroll's win/lose record.

Pete's first season was 6 - 6... then the next 6 years he was 60 - 6.

Pete took what he had and made an outstanding team by the second year... that's what great coaches do. Carroll, Stoops, and many others came in, made their changes, and rapidly guided their teams to greatness. Callahan is not, and never will be this caliber of coach... the days of you getting a decade to show results is gone. At this point we've seen his best... he might hang in there a little longer if he gets new staff on the defense side, but I'll be very surprised if we ever break the top ten with him as head coach.
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Your comments should be post of the year. You are certainly right in every sense. Callahan will never be a coach of a team that finishes top 10. If he retires from NU, as he hopes, then NU will always be an afterthought, maybe fringe top 25 team --- well like now.

The toughest thing for managment ever to do is admit a mistake. So, often they do not rectify the situation and the problem simply lingers. If this lingers much longer, then the NU coaching position will, when it does open, not be at all a major job and will not command the attention of already established excellent coaches. Thus, NU will have to hope to get a new coach who is unproven and hopefully is nontheless excellent. The notion of an extension for Callahan was a devastingly bad move.

 
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