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We had the top ranked class 3 years ago according to ESPN.....HMMMMM...how'd that work out for us? Here's a few top recruits from that year....Justin Tomerlin, Franz Hardy, Leon Jackson, Chris Brooks, Harrison Beck, Zach Bowman. Bowman was good for 1 year. A few 3 stars and lower turned out OK...Zack Taylor, Matt Slauson (0 stars), Barry Cryer... I'm not saying we don't need 4-5 star players, but if they don't want to play for N then we don't need them. Callahan could have stayed and Gabbert could have broken every record we had, and we still would have lost 3-5 games a year. I'm not interested in that. It's not the class, it's the coach. That class of freshman are seniors now so they should be winning more than 5 games a year. We'll see how Bo does.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amen brother - I have been saying that for 5 weeks since Bo was hired. I will take 25 3 star players and Bo as coach than 25 4 stars and Callahan and Cosgrove at the helm. Did you ever hear one player say that Callahan got them to be the best they could have been? Did Callahan ever have the type of sentiment that Bo's former players are saying about him? He might have been a good recruiter, but it makes me wonder what he was saying to all of his recruits when they jump ship as quickly as they have. He wasn't recruiting the program and being honest, he was filling their heads will all sorts of NFL dream lingo. We are 100 times better off now than we were 2 months ago.

I agree wholeheartedly that hiring a new coach is a huge risk. But keeping Callahan will drive a stake through the hearts of many Husker fans. Some eventually got on board with Callahan, but many have not. Those that got on board, many have not stayed due to his poor gameday coaching, arrogance, irrational comments, and loyalty to assistants that clearly cannot do the job. I consider myself a huge Husker fan, and my apathy toward this year's team was the highest it has ever been. I was mad when we lost to USC, disappointed and embarrassed when we got blown out at Mizzou, and then things started fading away to the point where I simply wanted the season to be over with. With Coach Pelini, he will not allow a team to give away games; they will be fired up for each and every play. He understands what college football is all about and that you cannot simply take games, weeks, or seasons off. I fully understand that he might not be as polished as Callahan, as good at offensive X's and O's as Callahan, and probably doesn't understand the Husker legend as well as Gill or Osborne. But, I want him as my coach because he knows football, passion, and is willing to learn what it takes to be a Husker. He showed that ability in 1 year than any other assistant coach we have ever had. Bring Bo on!!!

Rose is done - just announced it on KFAB. Let the full house-cleaning begin...

Way to go out on a limb there you one-year bandwagon fan.... you are undefeated and we are below .500 and you declare you will win on your home field. I'm sure next you will say that your hoops team will probably beat ours in Allen Fieldhouse. Stay on your own message board you freak and I'm sure we'll see you next year when you are not as good and we are better and we play you in Lincoln. Go away.

Pelini is the man, plain and simple. He took a very average defense from 2002 and turned it into a fiery, aggressive, turnover-creating unit in 2003. He put up with Stevie P's crap for 45 days and still held it together for the bowl game. He has seen some of the best football in the nation since his NU departure, and I'm sure has created recruiting contacts during that timespan. Bo has been at the very top of college football since 2003 and will be able to share that knowledge with his players on what it takes to get there. People criticize him for his Bill Snyder rant in 2003, but I loved it. He stands up for his kids, gets them to play hard, and has a top-notch defensive mind. After the last four years, I'm so ready for that. Plus, with T.O. at the helm, Bo can be mentored on the "polished" side of being a D-1 head coach. BRING HIM ON.

Pederson will be gone - Perlman has heard enough from the boosters, who nearly all want Pedey gone. There has NEVER been a person in our athletic department that caused such hatred, and Perlman has to be smart enough to realize that. I firmly believe Pedey, Callahan, and all of the assistants will be gone the Saturday after Colorado. Pelini is the natural choice - he LOVED it at Nebraska when he was here, and he'd come back in a minute if Pedey was gone. Especially if he had the top job. Fill in his staff with a few former Huskers, and give TO the AD job and we are set. The talent level is here - all we need is a motivator and some decent technical people to allow this talent to excel. The Pelini transition would be the smoothest possible since he already knows what it means to be a Husker, he knows that Pedey has ruined this program, and he knows football and defense specifically. His defense will keep us in every game next year.

Dennis Dodd on CBS Sportsline.com said it best - clean house from Pederson to Elmo... beg and hire T.O. as A.D., beg and hire Pelini as Head Coach, and bring back some old Husker blood as assistants. We need to find a correct mixture of old Husker blood that can instill what it means to play FOR Nebraska (instead of playing AT Nebraska), and new Husker blood that can recruit, coach, and develop talent. Regardless who the new coaches are, nothing can be worse than what we have now.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AMEN!!!! Well said Hanc, well said.

Good lord people, I am as big of a fan as they come, but can we not set football aside for this issue? Clearly the man is going through something, and I hope he makes a full recovery - NOT for what is best for our beloved Big Red, but for what is best for ML. If recovering and moving back to Cali and his family is what is best for him, so be it. We will survive without him - what is of the most importance is his health and overall well being. Get better #20 - get better.

Comparing Meyer and Cally is so unfair - Meyer trips over a dozen 4-star players on his way to the office each day. Cally has to work his you-know-what off just to get a 4-star to visit. Zook had that program stocked with talent before Meyer got there. Solich had some decent defensive players on board, but nothing in the way of QB, OL, or WR's. Cally has done a decent job - I'd give him a B. He needs to do three things for us to get better long-term: (1) Turn more of the play-calling over to Norvell so he can watch the entire game and motivate the entire team, (2) Stop giving full control of the defense to Cosgrove, if not replace him. Our D has been so inconsistent for 3 years with improving talent and that falls entirely on the DC, and (3) Get rid of Elmo and reassign Busch to special teams and recruiting only. We need to get a quality secondary coach. Firing BC would be catastrophic to our program, but a tweaking of the staff is mandatory at this point.

Elmo needs to go, Busch needs to stick to special teams only and recruiting, and we need to hire a complete secondary coach - one that is really good at teaching technique and can motivate. I agree with the sentiment that there is a reason a person has 20 jobs in 22 years (or whatever the numbers are) - people don't want to keep him around for very long! I don't think Busch is a very good coach either, but he can recruit like a mother. I think the talent is there to be a decent secondary, but unfortunately they are all sitting on the bench watching Grixby, Shanle, Green, and Jones getting routinely burnt.

Hoping for Devine and getting him are 2 very distinct things at this point - the way Cally & Co. are stockpiling RB's with the vast majority of them sitting on the sidelines and not getting any playing time will start scaring RB recruits away. Lucky was THE MAN coming out of high school along with J.Stewart who went to Oregon. Stewart starts for Oregon and averaged 15 carries a game. Lucky averaged 9. High school kids see that, along with the numerous other recruits already on board. Castille is starting to shy away as will Bo and Noel.

Least intriguing perhaps, but our best shot to end the season on a winning note. Assuming we go to Tempe and win, that would make our season a raging success at 11-3. I can't think of any better way to head into the off-season.

I think we would all be amazed if we had a decent safety in place of Shanle. Think about it - one weak link back there makes everyone look bad. If Green could cover his space and not worry about Shanle screwing up, he and the corners could afford to play more aggressively and probably better overall. Please put Culbert in.

I think it was completely classy for BC to get Glenn in the game in quality time with all of his family and friends in the stadium. I'm sure he has winning the game first and foremost in his mind, but he just as easily could have had B-Jax score those first two TD's. Maybe not the 2nd one because Glenn ran like a Mack Truck on that TD. Kudos to Billy C for getting Glenn some much-deserved P.T.