fatirishhusker

I'll admit that I wrote off the game in Lubbock initially, but hindsight is a beautiful thing. For me, the Maine game in 2005 was an eye-opener. At one point, we had the ball 1st and goal at the 3 yard line. Callahan threw three straight passes and we had to kick a field goal. That series of plays demonstrated to me how Callahan was putting the sucess of his offensive philsophy over the sucess of the team. He wanted to prove that his offensive system was the best, and at times this happened at the expense of winning. There have been numerous examples of this since that time. Giving up the run in the Big 12 Championship last year when B. Jack was running well. Giving up on the passing game against USC last year to avoid a blowout. And last weekend, running a QB bootleg to the short side of the field on 3rd and 2 with Keller! The signs have been there all along.

Have the Missouri fans stopped talking about a National Championship this year yet? When I was in Columbia, between the welcoming jeers of profanity and dodging hurled objects from the best fans in college football, that's all people could talk about. Of course, that was before the Oklahoma game. I would love to beat KU, but the only game that really matters for you is the Mizzou/KU game. The way the North is shaping up, the winner of that game will have to play Oklahoma, and as much as it pains me to admit, I think KU has a better shot to beat them. Mizzou played a great game against Tech last weekend, but Oklahoma and Illinois both made them look soft (like how everyone makes NU's D look this year). Best of luck to the Tigers, but remember Gary Pinkel is still your head coach. At least we're likely going to be done with our mediocre coach.

I think this should be required reading for anyone out there who thinks that we should dump Callahan before the end of the season. It is like taking 6 weeks to pull off a band-aid on a really hairy arm watching him run the team into the ground with such resignation, but it's nice to know things will be Ok in the long run. Cook figured out that if he took his ball and went home that he would have no say in the future of Nebraska Football. He'll be around.

I know this sounds like the usual BS that people post on here, but my sister's fiance is a 3rd string LB for Wyoming (Jake Edmunds). Not only does Jake love playing for Joe, but the players and fans at Wyoming know about the clause in his contract and are very concerned. Here's Joe's bio. You'll notice his hometown is some place familiar to all Husker fans: http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-...lenn_joe00.html I also neglected to mention that Joe won a D-IAA National Championship at Montana after he left Northern Colorado. You might not give Joe his due, but I can tell you that Dr. Tom will give him a good look. Anyone who is seriously suggesting that we would get Urban Meyer needs to put a unicorn on their signature, so we know you live in fantasy land.

Cowboy Joe Glenn is the real deal folks. We want a coach who wants to coach at Nebraska and has a passion for it. Joe Glenn is that guy. He doesn't get the press because he's coaching at Wyoming. He won two DII National Championship at Northern Colorado and no one has done more with less talent at Wyoming than he has. He's a defensive-minded coach, a Nebraksa native, and has a stipulation in his contract that if Nebraska comes calling, Wyoming has to let him go. More importantly, he's not a system coach. He does whatever he has to do with the players he has to win the game. Pelini has never been a head coach. Joe Glenn took lowly Wyoming to a Las Vegas Bowl win against UCLA a couple years ago, when no one gave them a chance. We need a coach with heart and there isn't a bigger heart in college football than Joe Glenn.

Thanks Aggie Lady, I wish we could have given you a better game in the second half Best of luck the rest of the season.

Maybe if we just keep repeating what we want over and over again (Callahan to be fired/resign this week), it will happen? TO said no coaching changes until the end of the season, and I believe him for several reasons: 1) If we fire Callahan or he resigns before the end of the season, it doesn't give us a head start in the coaching search, since most schools won't allow us to have official talks with their coaches until the end of the season anyway. 2) Firing the current coaching staff without having a real replacement would be a recruiting disaster. Most of the current recruits are waiting to see what happens. I know we all want to think that TO can save the recruiting class, but he can't do it without a head coach. No kid wants to commit to a school without a head coach. We all want answers now instead of having to wait until after CU, but reality is that we won't know anything until at least the week after the CU game.

I belong to several boards, and I'm not sure the reception will be any different. There will always be doubters, and I doubt that IBR will be able to keep things to himself. He likes the way people hang on every word on these boards.

I think it's important to distinguish between making baseless negative statements about players (which I think is bad), and valid criticism regarding poor play on the field. These guys are college students, but that doesn't mean they are above being criticized for not giving their all. We can't worship the ground they walk on when they do well, and all smile and chant GBR when they play without heart like they did against Ok. State. Losing doesn't bother me, but not giving 100% like I saw yesterday should not go on without criticism.

Cook and SP are friends, which is why Cook is angry. If his friendship with SP is more important than the success of the football program, I don't want his dirty money. He'd be the only booster left after this season if we didn't do something. Just goes to show you that people will put friendships ahead of common sense.

All will depend on if SP stays or goes (really - we haven't even had a press conference announcement yet) AD: Dave Rimmington HC: Joe Glenn (HC at Wyoming; Nebraska native) OC: Turner Gill (probably wouldn't leave HC position for OC, but this is a dream right?) DC: Monte Kiffin

As much as we all want this to be the case, if one news organization or another had this information, you can bet they wouldn't be holding it. Suggesting that this is happening based solely on rumors does not make it so. A good friend of mine that works over at KETV has said that they have heard nothing official, just lots of chatter like this on message boards. I've heard rumors that TO is the AD, Dave Rimmington is the AD, that Callahan stays and Cosgrove and all D coaches are being forced to resign or be fired. All of these things are possible, and would be good news, but I'm holding out until I hear something more than my second-cousin's brother's uncle's ex-landlord told me that the entire coaching staff is going to be executed by TO in a ceremony following the season finale of the Biggest Loser.

We'll be lucky to have any recruits left if our defense continues to play like this. What makes us the best fans in college football is how much we care about our team. Do you think a recruit would want to see a discussion board where all you could read is the drone of GBR GBR GBR regardless of how the team played? Recruits aren't stupid, and any recruit who doesn't live in a cave is probably thinking some of the same things that people have voiced here that have drawn your ire.

McKeon making excuses (let's face it, that's what he did today) doesn't bother me as much as the fact that it looks like he's lost his fire. I'm happy to hear that Dillard might get more reps this weekend. Change is needed. I hate to hear these guys complain because they have it so much better than they even know. A good player would take all this criticism and do something positive with it. We're about to find out a lot about the character of our team over the next month. Ryan

I have a problem with anyone who saw the way the defense played yesterday and wasn't booing. We hold these players up so high when they do good things, but we're supposed to just bite our tongues when they play like St. Mary's School for the Blind. You can't have it both ways. Don't expect real fans that care about their team to stand by and blindly accept a performance like what we witnessed yesterday. Not booing doesn't make you a better person, doesn't make you classy, and doesn't make you a bigger Husker fan. We all know how badly the defense played yesterday, some of us just weren't afraid to voice our displeasure.

I'd rather be considered a redneck than a USC fan. Any day of the week. :asshat We need an assclown emoticon so we can fully encompass the USC fan this week.

We need to run to beat USC and not that stupid stretch play either. USC's defense is too fast for that. I honestly feel that if we had not forced Taylor to win the game with his arm against OU last year in the Big 12 title game in KC and kept running the ball with Jackson, we could have kept ourselves in it until the end. Callahan cannot force Keller to take the entire weight of the USC defense on his arm. Castille and Glenn can be our fresh horses in the 2nd half! Go 'SKERS

I hope tons of USC fans do show up for the game, so that they can experience what a real football fans are like. Not many of those out in L.A. Come talk to us when you've sold out nearly 300 consecutive home games or when your fans outnumber ND fans in South Bend. We've been at this for a long time. You should send as many people as you can to learn our ways.

I think Mark May and Kirk Herbstreit fight over who gets to cover the USC segments that ESPN shows every 8 minutes because they both want to be the next Mrs. Pete Carroll. Mark May is the worst analyst in the history of football. I think he and Lou Holtz share a brain cell.