fatirishhusker

I think that it will depend on who we hire as our coach. I think we all want 9 + wins next year, but we don't even know for sure which recruits will stay or go. We might lose some existing players as well. The difference for me next year will be hope. I have never hated watching football so much in my life because after the Ok State game, I lost all hope that I had for our program. We could win the same number of games next year, and I will feel better because the team will improve.

Congrats to CU. Congrats to our players on making the most of a difficult year, even if it doesn't show in terms of wins and losses. Congrats to our fans. Many teams would have given up on the program after a year like this, but I know it will only strengthen our support for the team during an important transition.

Another example of how sales is not football coaching. The similarities are that sales and coaching are both results-oriented situations and highly competitive. If you don't produce results in either, you're out. If Callahan were a salesman, not only would he have poor sales numbers, but he would insist that the only reason the company he's working for is still in business is because of him. He would take examples of other people's work to support himself, even when it's clear that it has nothing to do with him and someone else made the sale. You wouldn't want to work with that guy, and I don't want him as my football coach. You wouldn't feel bad for him if you had to work with him. You would loathe every ounce of his soul.

Must be for their new jobs at Office Max for the holidays.

I have moved beyond the "If Callahan gets fired" mode and on to "When Callahan gets fired" mode. So, when is our new coach in place? I have heard suggestions on this board and others that the new coach will be in place next week. I wish that were true, but I am thinking it won't be until January, since most of the candidates will have teams in Bowl games. I think it's unlikely that someone would leave their bowl-bound team early, even for the best job in college football. I want to be wrong here, but I think we won't know until January, just because of the caliber of candidates we're looking at. Is that crazy?

Unless he admitted that he's not actually a very good coach and that his system is not the best in the universe, I don't care what he wears to the damn press conference. There are bigger problems with him than his penchant for wearing Cleveland Browns team colors.

Does anyone really believe that Coz is going to prepare his best defensive gameplan? He has no reason to prepare anything for Colorado, so I wouldn't be shocked to see him play prevent defense for 4 quarters. The players are our only hope, which is also a scary thought at this point. He could help himself find another job, but who would hire him to coach after this season?

I don't see any possible outcome to the CU game that could result in Callahan staying, unless all other potential head coach candidates are so shocked to see us win in Boulder that they all die of heart attacks.

What if he rehires Frank Solich? Okay, that is just not funny... ...alright...maybe it is. Though I must admit the same thing -- what happens when Pelini is NOT the next new coach If Pelini turns out not to be the head coach, we can all go back to these posts and call bs on all these so-called insiders. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of disappointed Pelinistas, if we hire someone else. They'll be the ones during the next coaching regime to remind us what a huge mistake we made when we didn't hire Bo. That won't be annoying. No, not at all.

Wow, shameless self-promotion of his offense to help him get an OC job next year. Shocking.

This doesn't seem like TO's style or in keeping with his "things will be evaluated at the end of the season" mantra. Travis Justice is a puke, so it wouldn't shock me if this turned out to be speculation disguised as news.

Thanks a ton. Even if Paul Johnson doesn't lead the Huskers to the Big 12 Championship in his first year, I could always sell them to Baylor or Iowa State fans, since we all know that's what the match-up will be next year.

This is a massive over-generalization. Because high school kids are behaving very poorly, that the entire Husker fan base is "average"? Come on. This is incredibly inappropriate behavior, and it sounds like school officials are handling it well. If you think the same thing doesn't happen at other Universities, you are crazy.

This is an interesting question because you have to take what the players are feeling vs. what they would tell you or show publicly if asked. The players obviously are not going to bad mouth their current head coach publicly. There is a code among players, and aside from the obvious consequence of being benched, the players know better than to publicly criticize a coach or say they are happy to see him leave, regardless of how they feel. On the other hand, how could you be a player and not be frustrated with every aspect of how this season has turned out in terms of coaching, execution etc. These are very talented players, and are not used to losing this many games by this many points. The players are really stuck, which is why they need and have our support.

To all those fans who think they are so much better fans than everyone else: Please stop trying to influence the behavior of other people by posting how you think Husker fans should act, as if you are the perfect template of human behavior. Real Husker fans don't need to be reminded that it's Senior Day. Or not to boo. Or told how to act. We know this already, and it doesn't make you the world's greatest fan to point it out. The people you would call "bad" fans, who boo and curse at the players on campus, and behave like idiots in many aspects of their lives, do not care what you say. And the rest of us are tired or reading posts that sound like advice from our mothers.

And he doesn't just run the option. He has at Navy because you have to be able to read to play football there, and he can't get the players. He has always run the offense that fits his players' skills best. That's what we need. We don't need a system, we need a damn coach. Too bad most Nebraska boards right now are like Bo Pelini fan clubs. I like Bo Pelini as a candidate, but he's not our best option. I'm glad TO is making the decision and not my fellow fans. We'd have Bo up in Lincoln in time to hit the doorbuster sales on the day after Thanksgiving if that were the case. In Tom we Trust

I am going to give the seniors a liberal amount of support on Senior Day. I am going to drink a liberal quantity of beer.

Turner Gill is not ready after 18 months of HC experience at the D-I level to coach Nebraska. Why are we selling ourselves short? Why not get someone that has proven that they can be a HC over more than 1 1/2 seasons? We all love Turner Gill as a person, he's just not ready for that large of a jump. Pelini hasn't been a HC anywhere either, except for one bowl game that every Bo Pelini fan out there holds up like the holy grail of coaching. He's a great DC, and I think he could recruit at Nebraska, but again, why are we settling for someone else's DC? Let's go get ourselves a HEAD coach, like Paul Johnson, Joe Glenn, or Jim Grobe. We're Nebraska, why are we making a case for candidates that wouldn't get a call back from K-State?

I see no reason why we cant get a good coach and save the class And in fact, if you listen to what the recruits are saying that have not decommitted, getting a good coach (rather than just getting someone as fast as possible) will have a huge impact on whether or not we lose some of these players. The two things are not mutually exclusive, but rather I think getting the RIGHT coach will help us to keep the players who want to play for Nebraska.

It will be high scoring, but I think the Huskers pull this one out. KSU 38 Nebraska 42

Everytime I write this, I get 10 replies giving me the smackdown, but would Kuli really commit to Nebraska as the #1 JUCO DL in the country, if someone hadn't had the "people we might be considering as coach" discussion with him? I'm not saying TO confided some secret plan to recruit a new coach to a recruit, but I believe this is evidence that there is a plan in motion right now. I just don't believe the Kuli would have committed to having Cosgrove as his DC, when LSU was his leading choice for much of the process, and they have a much better DC by the name of Pelini. Is Kuli's commitment a harbinger of things to come? We'll know in a few weeks for sure. I just think it's very interesting.

So many KU fans at your job, you must work at a workshop for developmentally delayed adults.

Wow. That was really digging deep for something to write about on that one. People make T-shirts that say everything. You can go to Cafe Press.com right now and get a t-shirt that says "Hiring TO as AD does NOT solve all of our problems" in big white letters on a red t-shirt. I'm sure that would sell like hotcakes and support your point.

Nothing written in that column is untrue. Depressing, but true. The only good thing about being at the bottom of it all is that there's (hopefully) only one direction to go: UP!

You'll see a common theme here. I favor coaches who have done better than expected in difficult circumstances and who would excel if given a chance with a program like Nebraska. My top guys do lots with very little talent, and play to the strengths of what they have. Brian Kelly (Cincinnati) - Excellent coach at a small school. Exciting offense. Joe Glenn (Wyoming) - Another excellent coach - has done more with no talent at Wyoming than anyone could have hoped. Paul Johnson (Navy) - A great coach at a school where recruiting is difficult. Turner Gill (Buffalo) - Young coach with tons of potential - has done a lot at Buffalo, which would be a recruiting nightmare (like recruiting kids to play in Siberia). Bo Pelini (DC LSU) - A great DC - is he really ready to be a head coach? Kevin Steele - Great recruiter - Baylor project was a problem Jim Grobe (Wake Forest) - Unlikely Jim Leavitt (USF) - Not leaving SF Gary Patterson (TCU) - Good Texas connections, but would take A/M interview first. Bobby Petrino (Atlanta Falcons) - Not coming back to college after one rough year. Greg Schiano (Rutgers) - Waiting for JoPa to die.