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I'm going to miss having a Ruud to cheer for...........I gotta think about it before I predict potential draft picks.

Gotta love the d-bags from Bristol. Instead of heading to KC for a game between teams ranked 3rd (KU) and 5th (Mizzou) in the BCS, they are headed to watch an irrelevant game that has no national title implications between Ohio State and Michigan. Hopefully Herbie is sitting the whole time so we dont have to see his boner over the Buckeyes. I realize that these anti-ESPN threads get repetitive, but there is no reason for them not to be at the game between KU and Mizzou.

Probly because he dared question their unbelievable coaching prowess. The guy takes off his blackshirt on his own accord because he feels he didn't earn it, and for whatever reason they dont let him play ON SENIOR DAY! Obviously that's not the reason he didn't play, but I just think that a guy that shows that kind of leadership and integrity deserves to be commended, not benched. Someone let me know when Cally's plane is leaving town for good, I'll be there to give him one last big middle finger.

Good point........although it woulda been funny to actually hear him say that.

I can definitely believe it. This is right up Callahan's alley, giving himself credit for the performance of his players. He talks about "development" when with the exception of a few players, many guys have become WORSE in his system. He's basically auditioning for a new job right now, so he's gotta talk himself up.

I really hope this comes to fruition, it'd be great to see some of the former greats who didn't go to the league have a shot to keep playing for fans who care about them .

More Husker football = less off season = good.

Well one thing should be said for big Tom Callahan: he could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves.

Tough call here. OU most likely has the best chance of winning, but I don't really want to see the Sooners win another national title, particularly in a bad year for us. KU would be a great story, but I don't see them winning out and to be honest I don't want them stealing any regional recruits from us (same with Mizzou). So I'd probly have to say OU.

I know they have eight-man in Nebraska and Iowa (played it there), but up here in Minnesota, they indeed do have 9 man football.

From SI.com LINK 76 points! This is ridiculous. Put on your thinking cap and tell me who the next coach of Nebraska is. --Mike, Fargo, N.D. The two most popular names in Lincoln right now are Turner Gill and Bo Pelini, both because of their coaching accomplishments (Gill is orchestrating an impressive turnaround in his second year at Buffalo; Pelini produces highly regarded defenses annually at LSU) and, just as importantly, because they "know" Nebraska (Gill was a former star quarterback and assistant there; Pelini was a highly successful defensive coordinator for one season under Frank Solich). After such a negative experience with complete outsider Callahan, it's understandable why Nebraskans would clamor for one of their own this time. But with all due respect to Gill and Pelini -- neither of whom has been a head coach at the highest level -- quite frankly, Nebraska can do better. If I were Tom Osborne ... well, I'd be in the Hall of Fame, but that's another story ... I'd hire the best coach for the job, regardless of Nebraska ties. My choice: Cincinnati's Brian Kelly. He's an experienced head coach who's won everywhere he's been (national titles at Grand Valley State, a MAC title at Central Michigan, now leading a Big East title contender at Cincinnati), and his preferred style of offense -- the spread -- would be the most logical way to transition away from Callahan's disastrous West Coast experiment while running a system that fits the personnel on hand. I don't think Nebraska needs to return to the days of the belly-option to be competitive; the spread is a sort of modern-day triple option in the way it can neutralize a more talented opponent, while the athletes Callahan already recruited at running back and receiver would benefit from the scheme greatly. In the meantime, of course, it's painfully evident that whoever the coach is needs to do some serious recruiting on the other side of the ball.

Good luck to Joe (and I hear Lee is great), but I'm still thinking Witt is going to be the guy. He's a stud. If nothing else, it'll be another interesting spring (which is something we'll need after the season we are enduring now).

Barrett was on Rome and said that there was no way Monte would leave the Bucs at this stage of his career. So who knows what's accurate anymore.

Those were the days..........*sigh*

I'm worried about the CU game only for the brave souls who wear red into Foslom. Those jackasses are going to be merciless. And extremely drunk. I'm expecting some bad stories after that one.

Well it was about this time that I realized that Bill Callahan was 7 stories tall and looked an awful lot like the God-d*mn lochness monster!

Why Kansas State might win: Nebraska's defensive back seven can't tackle, the secondary is getting torched by anyone who tries to throw, and the line isn't generating and pass rush and is getting shoved around against the run. Outside of that, everything is peachy for the Nebraska defense. Kansas State's offense isn't consistent, but it can explode with several big plays. Expect KSU to come up with at least three huge scoring plays from 40+ yards. Getting 400 yards passing yards won't be a problem. Pretty much sums it up. This season just seems like a fog, a haze, a bad dream from which nobody can escape. The sad thing is people aren't just making fun of us, they straight-up feel bad for us, like we're a pity case. Sad days. Let's hope the seniors rise up and finish strong.

I gotta go with Barrett Ruud, his rise started during my junior and senior year of high school, and it was great to have someone who played the same position as me to to look up to. Still my favorite to this day.

Probly referring to the slip of the tongue to KETV about the "new coaching staff".........I think it was during the A&M game? Correct me if I'm wrong, I can't remember which embarrassing loss it was during.

LINK In three seasons at Notre Dame, head coach Charlie Weis has won nine games, 10 games and one game, making him the first person in history to hit 20 and bust. As Notre Dame and Nebraska plummet toward the bottom of their respective history books, as the Fighting Irish and the Cornhuskers find out how the other half has lived for the past few decades, their fans share a great many emotions: embarrassment, humiliation, disgust. What they don't share is a solution. Notre Dame is not entertaining the idea of firing Weis. There isn't a soul between Scottsbluff and Omaha who believes Bill Callahan should or will return to run the Huskers next season. Notre Dame has fallen farther, and faster, than Nebraska. The last team to play in a BCS bowl and win as few as three games was Alabama, which followed its SEC Championship and an Orange Bowl berth in 1999 by going 3-8 in 2000. Crimson Tide coach Mike DuBose didn't survive that fall. Yet Weis won't be fired this year. Weis will survive in part because of the heights to which he took the Irish in the past two seasons. But he will also survive because he embraced the culture on campus. Callahan came in as an agent of change, dismantling what had worked for three decades. It's not just the West Coast offense that Callahan brought in. Callahan and athletic director Steve Pederson brought a professional, business mentality to what had been a homey athletic department. Out went the framed paintings of past Huskers stars that lined the walls. In came a new building with security worthy of a Manhattan office building. Neither move sat well with the Nebraska faithful. Callahan struggled, but in the midst of struggling, neither he nor Pederson developed a base among the fans. When the bottom dropped out this season -- five straight losses, capped by a 76-39 loss at Kansas -- no one rallied to Callahan's defense. Instead, they are pinning their hopes on interim athletic director Tom Osborne, who already has indicated that he will make a coaching change. Looking on from afar is Callahan's predecessor, Frank Solich, a former Huskers running back, an assistant to Osborne for 19 seasons and the man who went 58-19 as the Huskers' head coach from 1998-2003. Pederson fired him after the Huskers went 10-3 in 2003. Solich said he has spoken with Osborne since the Hall of Fame coach returned to run the athletic department. "We thought we were moving in the right direction. What happened, happened," Solich said. "There were just a few people that I was bothered with. You like to see your alma mater do well. But things are where they are at. I'm sure Tom will get things upgraded there." Weis likely will get things upgraded at Notre Dame. It's difficult to imagine how they could get worse.

3 MORE WEEKS PEOPLE, LET'S JUST FORGET ABOUT THIS RESIGN TALK AND WAIT THE MONDAY AFTER THE BUFFS

I hadn't heard about this until now, but wow, what an inexcusable display of disrespect to one of the greats. Cally is absolutely classless.

Why does he even bother going to these conferences anymore? He should have just recorded his statements from the one at Ball State and replayed them after every game the past 5 weeks (with the exception of the Texas game). This d-bag never brings any honesty or real analysis of what is going on with his team to the table, it's the same s*it every time, and a fan base like Nebraska's doesn't tolerate people jerking them around. Own up to it and say that you were out-coached, out-played, out-everythinged. As much as we might not want to hear how horrible we are, it's better than seeing it on the field then having the face of the program come and try to coach-speak his way out of it. News flash, Bill: it doesn't matter what you say, your ass is gone after CU. You might as well open up and have fun with it while you're still here. We're not idiots, and we are sick of being talked to like we are. Just come out and say you have done a horrible job of preparing this team.

Yea, that's where I find myself as well. As much as I want Cally gone ASAP so we can bring in someone new right away to recruit, there's no way I can root against the Huskers no matter what the circumstances. Besides, we're not going to make it to a bowl anyways.

Obviously our chances at a bowl game are dim, but after the Husker's great effort against Texas, who knows, maybe we could surprise a couple teams. That said, here's my question: some of us want to not make a bowl game to get rid of Callahan, but what about the younger players? Would it be worth it to make a bowl game to get guys like our young recievers, backs, and linebackers an extra month of practice? Or would it be better to lose and just move on to the next staff and maybe salvage some recruits? That extra month of practice is a great learning tool for younger players, but does it really matter if the coaching staff is on it's way out after the bowl game? I gotta admit, I'm torn here.