KrakowIntellectuals

The financial explanation doesn’t hold up: if you want extra revenue, how much “extra” do you really make? Home ticket sales and concessions? There’s no guarantee that we will have full stadiums by fall. Even if we do, you still have to pay the buyout to OU and pay the new team to come here. After those expenses, is what you have left REALLY worth losing all your integrity and respect over? Sadly, the damage is already done and it’s more permanent than we all realize. You can be labeled a lot of things in football and life....but scared is a label that’s impossible to come back from.

Maybe it's just a European Shoulder Bag..............................

You'll find this out when you have kids. Bo's not throwing the team under the bus-he's just telling the truth. You can coach a kid til you're blue in the face but if they don't do what you've coached them to do then what can you do? When you tell your kid, 'Don't touch that hot stove, it will burn you!' and they turn around and touch it, what can you do? So how is it Bo's responsibility to get them to play like he coaches them? He can't go out on the field and hold their hand! My point is this: At some point, these kids are going to have to be accountable for what they are taught in practice. They are going to have to be responsible for their mistakes. No one says anything when these kids do what they were coached to do. Everything is fine then. But when they don't execute it's all the coach's fault. I'm sorry, I don't buy that. Do we have problems? Yep. But can we really blame all of this on the coach? To quote a contemporary of Vince Lombardi. He said Vince could take his player and beat yours, then turn around, and take your players and beat his. Simply put, it IS the coaching. It IS the coaches responsibility. Tom Osborne never spoke ill of his players in public. The coach is always the face of the program. The players win and lose the games on the field, but the coaches determine the outcome by how well the players are taught to deal with the different situations that may arise during the game. If they are prepared, they will respond as taught. Plus, it is not valid to compare a 5 year old to an adult. Yes, these players are adults, and so are the coaches. This is big boy football, not pee wee league. Ask Jason Peter, ask Grant Wistrom, ask Tommie Frazier what it means to be well prepared for a game. These players are not well prepared. And, not to mention, we are being out coached when it comes to half time adjustments.

The Bullocks brothers. Chris Kelsay. Scott Shanle. Richie Incognito. Brandon Jackson. Josh Brown. Stewart Bradley. Demorrio Williams. I could go on, but all we are saying is that we are not ahead of where we were when Frank was here. We went an entire decade without winning a conference title, which has not happened here since the 1950's. Yes, much of that was on Callahan and Steve P., but some of the best defense Bo assembled was with Frank's players in 2003 as DC. Let's not argue, we should all get along. We all want the same thing, and that is Nebraska back on top and not an afterthought in the national media.

The same points that you made were said above about Bo doing much better with Callahan recruits. The only point we are trying to make is that we were more relevant under Solich than we are right now. We also cannot forget that most, if not all, the players in the NFL making an impact right now are Solich recruits (other than Suh...but he is busy paying fines so we don't need to discuss that here). Over here at Krakow, we bleed red. We love Bo, but sometimes you have to be honest with yourself and not look at the program through "fan colored glasses" and see it as an outsider would. And right now, the outsiders see sideline meltdowns, undisciplined play, and when the lights are brightest, we melt. Sad but true, and I don't know if the fix can truly come from the current staff.

I believe we all need to step back and realize this program is not at the level of Frank Solich. Under Solich, we had a Heisman, a conference title, and were much more relevant on the national stage. We are THIS close, after blowout losses to Michigan and Wisconsin on national TV, followed by an implosion against a second level SEC team, who did not play LSU or Alabama, to being an afterthought of the national media. This is where we were under Billy C!!!!!!