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Well... I guess you can't trust student newspapers? I hope what you said isn't true. Kelly is far and away my favorite potential coach. Whatever- at this point I just want the search to be over. We can't be any worse than we were this year.

How would Kelly be considered Callahan-lite? Kelly was originally my top choice, before I got on the Pelini bandwagon. Now I like Grobe as well. Pelini, Grobe, or Kelly - each would be good for us. The reason why he would be considered Callahan-lite is that he enjoys passing the ball and he is an offensive guru as opposed to a defensively minded coach. If he can win at Cincy with mediocre talent and subpar facilities, one can only imagine what he could do here with all the talent that we have just sitting around.

I hope he would be willing to come to Nebraska- all of his other teams were in the rust belt. I also wonder if Dr. Tom would see him as Callahan-lite, which would be unfortunate because BC and BK are entirely different people. You just can't deny BK's track record, and he's a great recruiter too. Bo also has my support, but I like Kelly best.

Here's an article that gives some excellent reasons why Kelly would make a great coach: http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=Am...n&type=lgns

I totally agree with Thenarse. He should have been played more. Also, I love how just because Callahan wasn't a fan of Bowman, he benched our best player. Bowman will be drafted in the first round or two of the NFL draft, and Callahan had him riding the pine behind a freshman. Bill just acted like a child throwing a tantrum. Blue did so-so in Bowman's place, but there is NO WAY he was better than Bowman.

Check it out- NU has asked to talk to Brian Kelly! He's my coach of choice, personally. PLEASE BRING HIM HERE!!!! http://media.www.newsrecord.org/media/pape...1128Sports.html

Dr. Tom saw it coming. He knew that Nebraska would get hosed in the Big XII and Texas would dominate all of the policy decisions because they have the biggest market. How the powers that be failed to set up a yearly OU v NU game is beyond me. The Big XII with no OU v NU game is totally worthless. NU v CU is fun to watch but it's hardly a rivalry. NU leads the series by so much it's barely worth discussing. The only fans who get more pumped about this game than any other game are the CU fans. And by pumped I mean drunk.

Petrino is the only coach I would consider out of Gruden and Ferentz. Ferentz has slipped at Iowa the past few years. And Gruden is a pro coach first. Didn't we already do that experiment and it crashed and burned? No thanks. I agree for the most part, but Gruden is 10 times the coach that Callahan is. Do you remember the super bowl? Gruden left Callahan dumbfounded. All the same, I would like a college coach as our next HC, not a former pro coach.

Honestly, the only two guys I will miss from this year are Purify and Octo. I would say that I'll miss Bowman, but he never really saw the playing field much...

If for some reason Dr. Tom kept Callahan after this season, you bet I would complain. While it is true that the replacement might not be all that great, how could you be satisfied with the way things are now? You have to try something new. After a debacle of a season like this, after four years, we suck worse than ever. Even if the next coach is another failure, it honestly can't get much worse than this. Callahan has already shattered every bad record in the books this year, so it's not like that would feel like anything new if the next coach also sucked. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain by replacing Callahan. I can already see all the Callafans sipping too much kool aid getting ready to type "But we put up 73 on KSU!!1!! ZOMG!" Hey- newsflash- that was only because Callahan has no class and he continually went for the throat, throwing downfield every play when we clearly had the game in the bag and going for it on 4th and 20. He kept all of our starters in waaaay too long. One game isn't going to change my mind. I'd still root for NU no matter who the coach is, but it's hard to say that I wouldn't grow more apathetic after each successive disasterous Callahan season.

Thanks- sorry about that.

Does anyone see a reason why Shawn Watson would not be in the running for head coach? He's a solid recruiter, and during the one half that he was allowed to do the offensive play calling I was impressed. I'm not necessarily advocating him over another candidate, but I just don't see why nobody has mentioned him. Any thoughts?

Honestly, it's tough to classify 85,000+ people into any one group. Good fans, bad fans, rich fans, poor fans, etc. etc.- honestly I don't put any stock of my identity into a fanbase. It's way too huge and diverse for any generalizations like that. Anyone who says something like "NU has the best fans" or "CU has the worst fans" or anything similar is just blowing smoke. Even if 20,000 CU fans or NU fans were a$$hole$, you can't just say that their fan base at large is terrible. Most fans at every stadium are cordial enough. I'm tired of people saying what is a good fan and what is a bad fan. Who cares? To me, fandom is an individual thing- you like a team so you root for them and want them to do well- the end. Questioning a staff or a team's direction or being critical of a player or anything else does not make you a bad fan. Do you want NU to do well? If so, then you're a fan. Let's not try to classify all people into one of two arbitrary "good fan" and "bad fan" camps. That being said, if you want your team to do well you're better off cheering than booing. The only booing I've ever done at Memorial Stadium is anytime the refs make a questionable call that affects NU in a bad way, but I think that's obligatory for the home fans at any sporting event.

ugh... thats not good. wont be long before other coaches get wind of this. bye bye class of 2008 Well look at our great recruiting classes under the current regime. Please explain how the current coaching staff has yet to develop all the great talent we have acquired from the past recruiting classes? See what I mean. We can get all the great recruits now but history has shown, BC and CO. can't get the job done! I totally agree with guru. We have the talent to go 12-2, but we suck. Is it because Callahan hasn't had enough time to get the system in place? 4 years is not enough? Even if we sign another top recruiting class it won't do anything. We'll just have a lot of talent loitering around just like we do now. If we have to lose a few primadonna recruits to bring in a new coach, so be it. We don't want to be penny-wise and pound-foolish here.

I am still behind him in as much as he's the coach of my favorite team and if I want to support the team, well, he is the coach. That and during a time of transition I think the program needs as much support as it can get. If we go through yet another one, even though I have my thoughts as who I wouldn't like to see as coach, I'll still support the team. That being said, this season has really taken it out of me. I really have no idea what's going on and why there is such a LARGE difference between last year in getting to the Big 12 championship and this year being 4-4 at this point. I can't even know. Yeah there has been a huge dropoff this year, but that's not new to Callahan. Say what you want about implementing that "radical" west coast offense in 2004, but what happened to the defense is what was terrifying. Callahan & co. took the best defense in the country in 2003 and turned it into one of the absolute worst in 2004 with the exact same players! Callahan's recruits get worse with each passing year in the program, which is pretty pathetic. You notice how full of promise Lucky and Glenn were when they arrived? Now look at them- they've regressed. Helu and Castille look much more explosive, but I suppose if we give them a few years under Callahan their skills will denegrate quite nicely. His players are getting worse- that seems to be my best explanation. Principally because of a lack of proper strength and conditioning, but when combined with inept coaching and play calling it is a recipe for disaster. Supposedly he's good at recruiting- that's one thing everyone gives him credit for. I might add that all this recruiting crap is largely BS. You need to recruit the players you need, not the players that rivals says are the best. Tom Osborne always had recruiting classes ranked in the 20s and 30s- I think it panned out alright for him.

The Auburn game last year. The fake punt on our own, what- 30 yard line? That could have been the worst call I've ever seen. I don't care what anyone says about "if it would have worked". It didn't work, and even if it did, it would have been a horrible, extremely risky and unneccessary call. I would never have called it "gutsy" - it was just vanilla flavored stupid. Auburn couldn't move the ball on us at all, but they only had to move the ball about 20 yards to get their first two scores. Then when he didn't even TRY the field goal at the end... Given the last few weeks, I'm beginning to think that Callahan has a thing against kicking field goals- like he doesn't believe in them or something. Anyway, that was the first game that I just didn't even get excited about. I felt like we were going to lose because of some bonehead call before the game even started. *Also, since Callahan's second year of coaching me and my friends have always joked that the game was decided by halftime- if we were down the game was over and we lost. It has still held true to this day. Last week against A&M when Marlon stayed on his feet and inbounds, eliminating any chance of a field goal before halftime, I knew the game was over, even though we were only down 14-16.

I'd like to see him strap on a set of balls and run up the field for 10 or 20 yards once or twice in a game. Then opposing teams would have a lot more respect for him as a multi-purpose QB. I don't know if he's fast enough to get that far before getting creamed. It is limiting that he can't or won't take off when nothing develops downfield. That's why it will be nice to see Zac Lee starting next year.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=Au...p&type=lgns

A friend of mine predicted that if we did not make a bowl game this year and if Pedersen and Callahan were still in place, the sellout record could end as early as next year. Do you think this is possible? There is a huge groundswell of disgust with the NU football administration, and a huge amount of frustration from the fact that both the AD and the head coach were given long contract extensions before actually doing anything worthy of them. I'd say it's at least a possibility. I'll still buy tickets, but I couldn't blame someone for holding off- it's a lot of money to watch NU lose to every decent team that comes to town.

Here's the problem though man. You know nothing will change. Pedersen will just go along like no big deal and we'll get coach speak from Callahan like always. I'm tired of it! My sentiments exactly. It's so frustrating to watch our team play like sh#t week after week and have Callahan and Pedersen acting like nothing is wrong. Everything is progress somehow- like that beautiful win over Ball St.- a step forward? Barf. It's like Neville Chamberlin is coaching our football team. Callahan has had 4 years... we suck as bad as ever. We might not even make a bowl game. It's scary.

Huskers1- Of course Callahan would say that he plans on being here for life. What else would he say? "Oh I'll just hang on to this job for a while until a good NFL opportunity opens up." Something tells me that wouldn't fly. I have a feeling that Callahan will be here two or three more years and when he leaves, a new coach could walk into a great situation. Callahan came into a pretty sh**ty situation with poor athletes and mediocre facilities. (by modern standards) The next coach will walk into great talent and great facilities.

I think Coz needs to go- I've been saying that for a while. What has he done to impress? I also agree that somehow Callahan takes top-notch recruits and turns them into mediocre players. I have no idea how that happens or why, but it does. I'm just saying that he does bring top-notch athletes to NU. You have to give him that much. My main point to my last post was that nobody can speak from a position of authority about the future. Everyone has theories as to what might happen and even if it's backed up by history, stats, etc. it might not happen. To say that you are correct and everyone else is stupid and if they disagree with you then they don't understand is both arrogant and close-minded.

Honestly this is ridiculous. Ok I am not for firing Callahan, though the only aspect of coaching that he has impressed me with is his recruiting. In the long term I don't see him staying here, mainly because I don't think he is a Nebraska kind of guy, the fans have never been fully behind him, and I think he'll jump for the NFL if he ever gets the chance. In the short term it would have a terrible effect on our team to fire him right now. We need to give him a bit longer- a revolving door of coaches has never helped a large program- but we can't go on forever being satisfied with 9-5 records either. I say give him 2-3 more years. However, to say that anyone who suggests firing Callahan or Cosgrove is just totally wrong and they are ignorant and they don't understand the situation is infuriating. Such condescending remarks don't help anything. This is an issue upon which reasonable minds may differ. I THINK keeping Callahan aboard would help the team, but who knows? What if we brought in some Urban Meyer miracle worker and we win the national championship next year? Is it likely to happen? No. Could it happen? Possibly. Does anyone KNOW what would happen if we fired Callahan? No.

Oklahoma was lining Malcolm Kelly up against Grixby. They WANTED that matchup. I didn't mean to knock on Miles so much, but to just discount their size and say it doesn't matter is a bit shortsighted I think. There is a reason pro teams are licking their chops to get a hand on Bowman.

Yes and I tried to address it, essentially saying that in spite of his lack of safety help, he's still not very good. Miles wasn't a GREAT corner either- he was pretty good.