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It's an option by Taylor to throw to the player he feels is open. Poor decision by Taylor. I love the call. Sigh The play worked. An excellent call, that took huge balls that possible could have went for big yardage with Shanle, great speed, had THE PLAYER caught it. I love gutsy calls. He's a great head coach because he trusts and loves his players. He trusted his players to play the game without worrying about making mistakes. That's a great quality to have as a coach...TRUST!!!!!!!!Unfortunately, PLAYERS aren't perfect and sometime make mistakes. Life goes on. Yep, it's never the coaches fault. It was a bonehead call, regardless of whether it worked or not. Plain stupidity.

I agree, Callahan is perfect. After a dozen or so more average recruiting classes, Big 12 North titles, and losses to every ranked team we play, we can put him in the Cornhusker Hall of Fame right next to Osborne and Devaney.

ok then. What would you be saying if the play went off without a hitch?.............................that's what i thought. That it is still a stupid call and he got lucky it worked. Any play can theoretically work at any time. A good coach knows when to take risks and when to limit them.

I agree. Let me ask a serious question though. I know there is much that we do not see watching the games on T.V. However, it appears to me that we run the same plays with little variety, weather they worked or not. It feels like we all know the play book in the second half even though I have heard the book is very extensive. Someone want to weigh in with their observations on this or educate me? I think there are two issues at play here. First is the execution. Coach Osborne used to get the constant harping of predictability but his players could execute the plays. He often stated that the other team might know what he was going to run but they still had to stop it. He did have quite a bit of success. The second is Coach Callahan not always molding the plays to the players. Earlier in the year Damon Benning made the observation that Coach Callahan often looks at the play and knows that the play should work and gets caught in the Xs and Os more than who the personnel are. So you are saying its poor and inept ability of our coaches?

When alot of the top recruits commit, this class may not be in the top 10. Everyone thought that the 2005 class was great and up to this point its really not that impressive.

He is blamed because he is the head coach, it is his repsonsibility, he calls the plays, it led to the 7 points that lost the game, and oh yeah, it was a F-ING STOOOOPID CALL!!!!!!!!!

wow... that's just... wow. so to make up for this horrible season, coach callahan will have to... win a minimum of 10 games. win the north. win the big twelve. compete in a BCS bowl. (bonus if it's for NC) otherwise, pack your bags, billy... cause YER GONE..! clearly, he's not getting the job done 'cause he's an idiot. after that, we'll just find someone to take over our legendary football program. and keep firing and re-hiring until we get the perect match. i mean, how bad could it get? look how alabama is doing. Or we could just keep losing 5-6 games a year in a weak division of a down conference and lose to any halfway decent team we play. But at least the recruiting has supposedly improved.

Most of those guys that played so great on the defense today were Solich's guys.

This is a trend of his over his 5 years as a head coach. He's to stubborn. Do you honestly think he will ever learn and change?

Maybe he is in over his head, needs to quit, and should go back to being an offensive line coach, is that what you are saying?

EXCACTLY!!! Most of the so called Husker fans don't remember the years when Osborne would go to the Orange bowl and get his ass handed to him year after year! It only took the guy almost 20 years to get his first NC! Oh well, I expect that from people who only started watching the Huskers in 1995!!!!! The big difference is that Osborne never lost 4,5,6 games, got whipped by Kansas, and lost by 60. Osborne won his games but was usually beat by teams that were top 5 teams.

The same could be said about any offense, however. Did you see how our faster defenses of the 90's handled the pro-style offenses of the Florida's and Miami's? This statement sounds like a vote in favor of the option. Wouldn't any major program who's athletes are "not as talented" benefit from the option, as you have mentioned? It was much easier when Osborne's system was unique and he would recruit guys to fit his system. He could pull almost anyone he wanted. Compare that to the West Coast or any pro-style offense. We are recruiting players from thousands of miles away to come to Lincoln to play in an offesne that is similar to the one that they see in their back yard. Face it it's tougher to fight the Texas schools, LSU, U of G, Florida schools, California schools, and Ohio St for kids in their back yards. Would they rather take on the culture shock of Lincoln, the small town, crappy weather, no beach, no mountain, sub-standard nightlife, far from family and home ambiance of Lincoln? A certain special few will but most will stay in their comfort zone. We now have a pro style offense yet still have not been able to attract the top-notch kids to play in the offense. Under Osborne, NU used to be special, now we are ordinary.

The offense only averaged 429 yards and 32 points a game with his help. Zac Taylor has become one of the best if not the best QB in the Big 12 under his coaching. Other then that he really hasn't done anything that impresses me either. How has the offense done in his entire 3 years here?

Not so fast. Reportedly he is leaving cuz he's upset that Watson was given the title of recruiting coordinator. He is a great human being and was a great recruiter but finding a better coach shouldn't be difficult. Good luck to him!

And punting game, WTF? If you don't ever use your punter, how can that be a weakness? Also, nice touch adding in the LP blast and the mentioning of "only one All-American" instead of telling about how we kicked everyones asses that year. ESPN sucks and always will hate Nebraska. ESPN=POS

There was also a BJax fumble in the 1st qtr that was not called. When we were throwing out of our own endzone, there was holding on that play that wasn't called, it would have been a safety. Shanle got burned, grabbed the arms of an OU wr and got away with it. Bad calls go both ways, and Patrick did get out of the endzone.

95 maybe?

Some valid points are made by all. I think one thing we all can agree on is that we ar not back where we would like to be. Only time will tell how this will shake down. Here's hoping for the best!

It seems to me like Callahan was more annoyed/pissed then anything. He did take responsibility for some bad play calls but it didn't sound real sincere for some reason. He also said something along the lines of hearing the criticism of Coz, made a couple of antimated references to walkons, and called out the officials for not calling holding. It was pretty interesting comentary on his part, maybe the pressure is getting to him? He said that the first fumble by Purify was his fault. I don't agree, Mo was trying to make a play, and the ball got stripped like Nunn's fumble agianst Texas. It was just a good play by the D. If Callahan made any mistakes IMO it was the reverse on the kickoff, and calling so many pass plays when the running game seemed to work well. I think that the D gameplan was pretty solid. Watching the replays, the tackling was rather good too, the only problem was the coverage. Even that wasn't terrible, but OU had guys make plays. Our special teams won the field position game all night. All in all, the team didn't seem to be overwhelmed, and the gameplans weren't terrible except for lack of balance on offense. Where I see that OU won the game was turnovers, they had better "playmakers," they seemed to have a little more speed then us, but they seemed to be much more physical. Almost all of the big hits were made by OU. You got to hand it to Zac. I don't know how that guy walked off the flield as much as OU blew him up. We are in for another tough one in a month, so let's buckle up those chinstraps!

It seemed to me like the crowd was VERY loud at times, both our fans and there fans.

Maybe he sees how Glenn is used and wants to be more of a feature back then a specialty back?

That was an amazing pick. I saw the pass and was like "Touchdown!!!" and that guy came out of nowhere for that ball.

Not to beat a dead horse but in the interest of fairness, the previous staff won on Big 12 championship, acutally beat Stoops, and had what many considered the best team in the nation (99). What saddens me is that we will likely never have another year like this one. The 2 teams from last years NC game lost tons of great players and were shells of there previous teams. OU lost its starting QB and the Heisman front runner RB and still defeated NU soundly. OU and UT will be great for years to come. CU hired a great coach who is putting together a very solid recruiting class they will be back. KSU hired a very good coach who is a nut, but put togther a truly outstanding season. Even though he is 1-2 againt Callahan, Mangino has outcoached NU in every one of those games. ISU just hired a guy who by all accounts, is an outstanding coach who will likely surpass what McCarney did. Gundy is great at OSU, everyone knows what Leach can do. Franchioni is a good coach who is brining A&M back, even Baylor is improving. Wake looks to be better next year, and if USC has every one return, NU will be hard pressed to win that game. It's not getting any easier.

Also, if he really did say that it sure is a refreshing turn around from his comments after the USC game. How foolish do those comments look now?