Pelini's behavior
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Vince from ShamWOW
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dizzturbedNUfan
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I am indeed. I respect your opinion, I even like yours sometimes. 
I just wish you wouldn't change other peoples post because you think yours is so much more important.
That is all. Go Big Red!
I just wish you wouldn't change other peoples post because you think yours is so much more important.That is all. Go Big Red!
walksalone
Heisman Trophy Winner
One lopsided loss, and everyone is going apesh*t...
The game plan wasn't good going into TT, the execution wasn't there, and guess what, we lost.
This has turned into a pissing match of people who like Bo, and those who don't, plain and simple. We're 4-2, and there are plenty of teams that wish they had that record.
Do we have a QB and RB issue? Possibly, but you need to work that out during a game, making adjustments on the fly.
The game plan wasn't good going into TT, the execution wasn't there, and guess what, we lost.
This has turned into a pissing match of people who like Bo, and those who don't, plain and simple. We're 4-2, and there are plenty of teams that wish they had that record.
Do we have a QB and RB issue? Possibly, but you need to work that out during a game, making adjustments on the fly.
melscott62
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Tom and Frank never acted like that...!!!!!
HuskerTrucker
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Bo don't do the TEAM any favors by riding the refs so much...you have to pick your battles, otherwise your looked upon as a whiner and complainer, and they turn a deaf ear to you, even when your right.
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
Neither did Bob Devaney, who could get very hot-headed on the field and in the locker room, but knew how to be your favorite Irish uncle with the press.
Frankly I like a coach who swears and gets pissed off. And the questions they have to answer are often asinine and obvious. But part of the job is being the face of the franchise and that requires some PR instincts. Bo Pelini is learning on the job. I think he'll be okay.
Still......kinda funny being on a fan site where people parse every Husker word and action into dust, then pretend they don't care what the media has to say.
Opinions are cheap, but beat reporters know more than we do. Whether you like it or not.
good post, Bo is over the top right now....for the most part, his coaches are missing the discipline, it isn't the refs, not all the time, that's for damn sure.
To and devaney would give some really good post game interviews sprinkled with humor. But if you give the press noithing to write about they write about your rude comments and problems with the refs and the offense or your abrupt press conference. So, set the table with your press conferrence. Then, you can influence the stuff they write about and quotes the next day.
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
This one is better. And more to the point. Sadly, I didn't write it:
Revisionist History?
Commentary: Too late for coaches to play experience, media cards
by Samuel McKewon
October 20, 2009
FILE PHOTO
Nebraska offensive coordinator Shawn Watson
So now it's the media. Now it's the fans. So now it's about whether you played college football.
“No one knows what's going on in our meeting and practice room,” Nebraska quarterback Zac Lee said. “Only we know. That's how it is.”
“He feels like the whole state of Nebraska is against him,” head coach Bo Pelini said of Lee. “That would affect anybody.”
“I feel sorry for him tremendously,” competitor Cody Green said. “I wish I could take some of the pain off of him. I just don't want that feeling for anybody, that a whole state would jump on somebody's bandwagon one second, and jump off the next.”
“We won't have a split locker room at all,” Ndamukong Suh said. “I know that's what you guys are looking for, and that's your little thing, you want to see who's going to go for Cody, who's going to go for Zac.”
“Did you play?” offensive coordinator Shawn Watson asked a reporter. “If you did, you would understand what I'm talking about.”
The comments and sentiment seemed designed to rally around Lee, whom Pelini and Watson – not the fans, not the media – yanked twice from a 31-10 loss to Texas Tech.
But this is a team overreacting, frankly, to a situation that happens just about everywhere. Fans boo. The media speculates. You think this is potentially divisive? Head back to 1995, when arguably the best team in college football history was split to the core over Brook Berringer and Tommie Frazier. Head back to 1997, when Scott Frost received a chorus of boos with a 13-2 starting record. Head back to 1999, when Eric Crouch left the program for a couple hours.
It. Happens.
Nebraska's response Tuesday was to take pity on Lee, and re-frame his performance – indeed the whole offense – as part of a great rebuilding/development process. Watson actually talked about how much it hurt to lose Lydon Murtha, Matt Slauson and Jaivorio Burkes in the offseason. He hasn't uttered those first two names since last spring.
Now, suddenly, Lee's “logging time” at the quarterback position, making up for lost reps he didn't get last year because Patrick Witt was the backup. Huh? A month ago, after a dazzling performance vs. Arkansas State, Watson called Lee “lights out, a cool customer.” Two weeks ago, after a 27-12 win over Missouri, Watson said “this is the moment we've been waiting for.”
Tuesday, when a reporter rightly pointed out that Lee is not a new player in the system – he's been at Nebraska for two years now – Watson touched off this exchange:
“But they're playing for the first time. You don't get it. Did you play?”
Not at this level, the reporter responded.
“OK. Well, if you did, you would understand what I'm talking about. It takes time to develop those things. It just doesn't come natural.”
Watson's trying to set the boundaries for his authority and leadership, which is fine. He's taken his share of shots across the bow in the last two weeks; he's allowed to dish a few out.
But his argument doesn't jibe, especially when Nebraska is considering starting Green, an 18-year-old who's admittedly become a “new quarterback” in the last month.
“I'm not going to lie, all I wanted to do is run,” Green said. “If I get in the game, just give me the ball, tell them get out of the way, I just want to take off running. Now I've learned how to manage an offense, when to take chances and when not to. Learn how to be a complete quarterback.”
Reporters tend to read into media performances too much. Joe Dailey, for example. But Green is smooth, assured, and smart for such a young player.
“I'll always tell Coach Watson just let me get hit one time,” Green said. “Whenever I get in, just let me run the ball, let me run right into somebody, let them try to break me, and then the butterflies will be gone, all that, and I'll be focused in. With the run, if I get in there, and we get the called play for me to run, I'm pretty sure y'all be able to see my smile from the press box.”
That kind of spirit is infectious.
Lee can have it, too. His smile after getting thwacked on an option play at Missouri said a lot about him. But that confidence was missing Tuesday. Lee's still the starter, technically, and although he wouldn't be my choice for Saturday vs. Iowa State, he's going to get every chance, I sense, to hold on to his job.
Curiously, he didn't own his mistakes vs. Texas Tech. Or, at least, he didn't own them in a way that suggested he played out of the ordinary.
“That's your opinion,” Lee said. “I didn't necessarily feel like that. There were some decisions that maybe looking back weren't the best decision. There were two or three of those, which is every game. For whatever reason, we didn't have breakout plays. That's kind of the black and white of it. We didn't have plays we needed to make. And I'm the guy up front. That's just how it is.”
The “black and white of it” is that Lee didn't push the ball downfield to open receivers, and he didn't run for first downs that were available to him.
I'm surprised Lee didn't dimiss Pelini's “whole state of Nebraska” comment out of hand, especially when Lee claimed he didn't even hear the boos, most of which were aimed at the referees anyway.
The comment simply isn't true anyway. After practice Monday, some kids milled around Memorial Stadium, and asked to take a picture with Lee. Were they against him? Of course not.
And while Lee is able to articulate that, he did not Tuesday.
“It's not easy, being in this state and being in this situation,” Lee said. “It is what it is.”
True. It's also a job a lot of kids would kill to have for 12 seconds. Would Lee?
SUHperHusker
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Yes, I did support Callahan. At that point I thought that the "F'ing hillbillies" comment was a sign of Callahan buying into the Nebraska way of life. Turns out it wasn't as he turned out to be a major arse and waste of time, but I supported that statement, because in my experience it's true.
Also, Dr. Tom didn't need to argue calls. He seldom was even close enough for calls to matter. In the '93 championship vs. FSU, he did get jobbed and did not get mad. That's because Dr. Tom, for one, is the greatest coach ever to take a breath, and two, he never got mad. According to Scott Frost, you know Dr. Tom is pissed when he throws in a "Dag Gummit!" Some people are more prone to anger than others, but that does not mean that Bo is a bad coach.
Whoever that recruit was that someone mentioned, the one who removed Nebraska from their list after Bo's protest, doesn't deserve to come anywhere near a NU uniform outside of getting beaten down by the men wearing them.
AF Husker Fan
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Good post BTW but I believe the person that said that was actually a Missouri troll... :facepalm: