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He is the Terminator... sent here to protect Nebraska Football from other machines like Bill Callahan.

I reffed a few Pope John games this year... the kids definatly play for the guy, good motivator, and they have a fun offense to watch. Only weird thing about him is that he wears a backwards Mets hat... very odd for the head coach of a high school team, but hey whatever gets it done right.

Remember Ganz is only a junior... Also don't forget about Sam Keller and Carl Nicks. Keller is the protype NFL QB and Nicks has the tools and size for an NFL guard or tackle. And scouts love Green's physical tools, yes I know he hasn't been the best player on our defense, but hey Andrew Shanle got on an NFL team. I just think Green is far too soft to play safety in the NFL. I can't see him providing much run support against NFL running backs. Could you see Green taking on a Lorenzo Neal lead block? Me niether. Maybe he could fit in somewhere as a nickel corner; this is unlikely, as the transition from safety to corner is much more infrequent as the transition from corner to safety. Agreed, I am not saying I believe Green could be a good corner. But at the same time Andrew Shanle was pretty soft and didn't have a very good football knowledge. Also you have to look at it from the aspect of the scheme they play in, he is fast and strong and if he goes to the combine and preforms well he'll get drafted.

I think this is a good point. He seems to have the size, speed and other physical tools to succeed at the next level, and I'm not sure that I wouldn't be doing the same thing if I was in his shoes. If he has a good combine, I think that he could be the highest (and one of the only) drafted Husker. That's what I was thinking too. I think if Purify has another good game at CU, and a good combine he could be up there as well. I think Ganz has improved his draft status immensely the last couple of weeks. Remember Ganz is only a junior... Also don't forget about Sam Keller and Carl Nicks. Keller is the protype NFL QB and Nicks has the tools and size for an NFL guard or tackle. And scouts love Green's physical tools, yes I know he hasn't been the best player on our defense, but hey Andrew Shanle got on an NFL team.

I was sitting in the north endzone and I am not sure what quarter it was... but it was when K-State was heading towards our endzone. Blue was playing on the NU side of the field and after being burnded twice Bill Busch grabbed Blue and got him off the field and threw in Bowman. Busch was quite aways away from Callahan and Coz so I am thinking he made the decision on his own... I really feel for the guy he did so much to get back on this team and he seemed like the only true captain this year... sucks he did see much of the field on his final home game.

As a football, wrestling, and baseball Mom, I will tell you this: When my boys won a game, was a champion in his weight class, or hit a home run.....of course I celebrated with them. But AFTER they had celebrated with their team or as an individual. That moment belonged to them! It was "theirs"! (My oldest son got married in May and yes, we celebrated with them, but the day belonged to HIM. ) Just a Mom's opinion....... I am not saying he should run out on the field and celebrate with them after a touchdown or a big tackle. But when all the players... and also THE REST OF THE COACHING STAFF is in a group saluting the fans you should join in, that's what builds chemistry and a willingness to play for one another that this team doesn't have. Everything starts at the top and when the head coach distances himself from the team, what kind of example does that set for the players. I am guessing you didn't see before the Texas game either when the team came onto the field that Callhan ran out way ahead of the team instead of coming out together as a TEAM. You guys can apologize for him all you want but pull down the blinders and see that this guy has ruined so many thing that makes us NEBRASKA... he has never embrased the college game and it has torn our program down.

Quite a few times I saw Ganz coming to the sideline to get the play from Callahan. I would guess it was a mix of both like it's been since A&M

C'mon we're a lock!!! I bet McKeon will have a "Restore the Order II" shirt under his pads

I was at the game in in the Northwest corner and it just burned me that he left the field because it was just one more thing in college football that he missed out on. College football is about emotion, chemistry, the student body, the band, etc., etc.... this isn't the pros. Callahan alwasy call's these players his "kids", well all of you parents tell me something, when your kids do something great to you leave without celebrating at all with them? So I guess when his kids graduate, win a state title, or get married... he'll just leave because it's not about him it's about them. Come on that is a bunch of bull, go out there and have a good time and celebrate with your senior "kids" and walk off the field with them for their last time.

Oh it's never enough. Plus if it's true that Cory was taking sh*t about the 97' team and TO after the game the other day... it is all deserving.

Some of you may have seen this... but for the one's who haven't...

Buffet is quoted on 1620 yesterday as saying the idea that he would all of a sudden give money to is "Silly". Also changes were made and Cook pulled all his money.... so that says how true that story is.

Isn't cook the same guy that wore a half UNL/Creighton coat to the game at Rosenblatt this year. He is a big backer of Creighton basketball if I believe right.

Well somebody is mixed up... because from what it sounds Perlman will be releasing a comment sometime soon

I wonder if she was supposed to say what she said.... THE BALL IS ROLLING!!!!!

of course that will be their statement until something is official. I work in sports information and trust me that is one of the major rules... release nothing until it's a go.

Just got information from a wrestler at UNL... he called my buddy (who is the wrestler's brother) stating that Pederson has been fired... he said he hears an announcement will be around noonish possibly mid afternoon

Well Stevey is doing one thing... uniting the Husker Nation, too bad for him it's not exactly under optimal circumstances.

I doubt anything will happen this morning... if it was going to be at 9:30, local media would know about it and there would be some type of story on OWH or LJS.

You really want a bowl game? I guess yes I want the team to have success... but if we just squeeze by, I think too many problems will carry over to next year. I almost want it to hit rock bottom so the house gets a total cleaning.

What does this team really need right now?!? IMO, your team needs better players. it is not all on the coaches. If you look at it though this coaching staff has not developed talent at all. Cory McKeon has gotten worse every year... same with Barry Tuner, Tierre Green, Bo Rudd... should I continue? Our line and wide reciever core still suffer from the same problems they did when Callahan got here... too many dropped passes at key moments and the inability to run the ball, and did I mention we still have J.B. Phillips at TE!?!?! And don't get me started on why guys like Ricky Thenarse don't see the field.... where is Menelik Holt, Will Henry, Mike McNeil, Niles Paul!!! This staff has an NFL mentality that doesn't work at the college level. It's the same reason college coaches don't work at the NFL level, NFL coaches don't work with the college game.... they are two totally different ways of coaching.

Hopes were high and then we got dashed Dashed is an understatement.....crushed would fit better. Crushed, demoralized, utter disbelief... not enough words to describe an indescribable feeling..........

Sorry, didn't see it had already been posted. It finally gives some concrete evidence though that boosters are pissed... and willing to stop giving money if changes don't happen.

Future of NU brass up in air By BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON / Lincoln Journal Star Sunday, Oct 14, 2007 - 11:58:25 pm CDT Sure, Dale Jensen had a few minutes to talk Nebraska football. Got a half hour? Never mind that it was hours before his Arizona Diamondbacks were to play Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday. Jensen had his Huskers on the mind. He painfully listened to Saturday’s game, a 45-14 Husker home loss to Oklahoma State, a day Jensen considers the program’s lowest in modern history. “At halftime, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, just don’t let this thing get into the 60s,’” Jensen said. A Lincoln native and one-time University of Nebraska-Lincoln student, Jensen made himself worth hundreds of millions of dollars as a bank computer software mogul, big enough that he’s now part of a four-man partnership that owns the Diamondbacks. Big enough that he’s given millions to UNL. Big enough that when he says he’s had it with that university’s athletic director and football coach, you pay attention. “The general consensus from everybody I’ve talked to is that (Bill) Callahan and (Steve) Pederson both have to go,” Jensen said. And if they don’t go, would he keep sending money to the athletic department? “Right now, today, if someone came to me (asking for money) and I knew the current leadership was going to be there, probably not,” he said. “Not even probably. I get to vote with my pocketbook and that’s the only vote I have.” Jensen said he doesn’t know of any coordinated effort afoot by big donors to try to inflict changes on the athletic department. But he does hear plenty of unpleasant talk after an embarrassing seven-game start to this Husker football season. Losses by 18, 35 and 31 points have left many red-faced and asking for dismissals. Much of the disgruntled voices don’t want to just get rid of coach Bill Callahan, but also of the man who hired him, athletic director Steve Pederson. “I don’t have a bone to pick with anybody. I just know what’s happening, and it’s not good,” Jensen said. “I’m a Nebraskan and Nebraska football became the largest single point of pride for many Nebraskans that never even had anything to do with the university. Well, that pride isn’t there now.” Insert another opinion, this one from Dan Cook, another guy with a lot of money, a 72-year-old and prominent Husker booster. “Don’t panic in a decision like this. This has profound changes if you make some quick move,” Cook said Sunday. “And what message does it send to other people that you may want to hire? If you fire a coach or something like that, what’s the next coach think: ‘Every time they lose a game, they’re going to want to hang me.’” Though he called Saturday “a sad, sad day for Nebraska,” he thinks he’d give Callahan and Pederson at least one more year. “Steve Pederson is a friend of mine. I will say that straight out,” Cook said. “But I will say … if you don’t deliver, there is a time when you pull a plug. I don’t think this is the time to pull the plug on either of those guys.” But if the plug were to get pulled on Pederson, who’s doing the pulling? According to University of Nebraska Board of Regents members Randy Ferlic, Kent Schroeder and Chuck Wilson, such a decision is reserved for Chancellor Harvey Perlman. “In this case, Perlman has the management decision in his hands,” Ferlic said. “The regents could interfere, but I think it’s highly doubtful.” Perlman could not be reached Sunday and did not return a message left on his home phone. Ferlic said no regents meetings have been held to discuss the state of the football program, nor were any scheduled. “I just get the same e-mails everyone gets (from fans), 100 a day,” he said. “They’re all saying roughly the same thing.” Wilson, the regents chairman, said he had received a couple hundred e-mails over the weekend “lamenting the sad state of things.” Such is the gloom that has overcome Husker football. By the final minutes of Saturday’s loss to Oklahoma State, half the stadium was empty. Callahan heard angry shouts from fans as he left the field, and even worse things were being written by the anonymous on message boards in the day that followed. Cook thinks the negativity has almost reached the point of absurd. “I think there are people in this state who really want to see this thing fail, and if enough people want to see things fail, it’ll fail,” Cook said. “And the consequences of it are enormous to Nebraska.” Jay Noddle, a booster out of Omaha, said the results on the field have been troubling, but hoped decisions of potential changes would not be made rashly. “To rush to a decision and make major changes and so on and so forth may seem like the right thing to do at this moment, but could do more harm than good,” Noddle said. He had a hard time watching Saturday’s game, not just what happened on the field but also the environment that surrounded it. “It’s sort of shocking. It’s sad,” he said. “I don’t think it’s indicative at all of the spirit of Nebraska. We got to go get that back.” Noddle does not think big boosters will influence any change so much as Nebraskans at large. Cook also downplayed the role of the boosters, saying the people who shoot off their mouths the most often give the least to the program. “You’d be stunned at the number of people who are the loudest talkers who do nothing for that program except sit back and bitch and carp,” Cook said. He said he would not pull back on the donations he gives despite the recent struggles. Some former Husker players have been less accepting. There was one invitation sent to former Husker letterwinners Saturday night inviting them to a Wednesday meeting where they could have an “open and candid discussion on the direction of the Nebraska football program.” Jensen said he knows of many people in Nebraska’s N Club, made up of former Husker letterwinners, who “feel alienated” from the current program. This started soon after Pederson arrived as AD, he said. “I’m not going to name names, but trust me, these are people with household names and they are incredibly upset,” Jensen said. “It’s one thing when the program is going through a down time, but when you feel betrayed, you were loyal all these years, and these guys are N Club members feeling that. There’s too many of them for somebody to just dismiss it.” Jensen wanted to stress that he’s not blaming the current players. He thinks Nebraska’s athletes are as good as anyone’s out there. “I don’t blame the kids at all,” he said. “The problem comes from leadership. That’s where it all starts. It starts with leadership, and that leadership is as far up the flagpole as you want to go.”

Has anyone thought that maybe there is no press conference scheduled yet because they havne't gotten a "Yes" yet from whoever they want to replace Steve? They won't can him until they have someone for sure... hopefully Dave Rimington is on a flight from New York to get the details worked out.