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Ends whatever uncertainty there is and provides another reason to HOPE.

You can watch it on KETV 7's website. It should still be on there. I watched it live along with other pregame warm up stuff. tunnel walk Wow. Watch that video and catch the enthusiasm with which Callahan slaps the horseshoe.

Are Callahan and Cosgrove really not calling plays and defenses????

This is Cosgrove, right?

I really hope you are not a UNL grad. I am not a UNL graduate. I had to type fast in the small amount of time I was given to write my comments. Typical that a brainiac like yourself is correcting my spelling instead of replying to the subject. So Mr. Spell-check do you have anything thought provoking to post? :asshat Here you go: try this one...Spelling/Grammer It's spelled grammar. Maybe Bill's right; maybe a hike in the Sandhills would help my perspective. It just seems to me that this is more evidence that the guy has no respect or feel for my home state, my school and the team I grew up learning to love as a source of pride for a state that pretty often gets described as being full of overall-wearing rubes from the middle of nowhere. (Maybe, but our Blackshirts used to be able to kick your boys' butts, so it's OK.) So having moved to Nebraska and having agreed to take hundreds of thousands of Nebraskans' dollars as a public employee, I find it pretty damning of him. I don't want him taking money from my university or being on national TV representing my home state and my school if he doesn't respect Nebraska and Nebraskans.

I really hope you are not a UNL grad.

Here's a little more context indicating that Ostergard told this story in the context of Callahan's failure over time to grasp the feelings of Nebraskans. Again, Callahan, given the opportunity, did not deny making any of these comments. OK, Frisco, the book's not out yet and even then we may not know the precise context of his comments. But sometimes when you walk outside and everything is wet, you can pretty safely assume that it has rained. ----- Ostergard told Crowl he was originally impressed with Callahan's attempts to learn the culture of Nebraska football when he was first hired, but several incidents forced his opinion to deteriorate. Some of Crowl's accounts - mostly from Ostergard - indicate that Callahan became disconnected with the state, its traditions and the history of its football program. In one instance, Ostergard recalled a meeting with Callahan where the coach voiced his frustration over an article printed in a local newspaper. "F-ing people need to get a life," Ostergard quoted Callahan as saying in the book. In the book, Ostergard continues to quote Callahan: "Why don't they go read a book or get lost in the Sandhills? I'm going to get me a real newspaper. I'm going to read The New York Times."

Would not want to get confused by the facts. I in no way defend anything he actually said or did. I just happen to believe when one makes negative claims about someone else they should make every effort to be accurate. Maybe that's just me. Given the opportunity to respond, he didn't Deny it. Explain that he didn't mean it about fans or Nebraskans broadly. Or apologize.

You're right. I'm just making an assumption that the "f-ing people" he would like to have go "get lost in the Sandhills" are disgruntled Nebraska fans quoted in the article that upset him. Sort of like Oklahomans are "f-ing hillbillies." Seems that he thinks a whole lot of people are beneath him. I'll stand on my assumption that he's talking about Nebraska fans generally before I'll make the stretch of trying to defend him or explain it away because we don't know the precise context. I think it's one piece in a growing body of evidence that he (and Pederson) had no respect for the tradition of the program or what it means to the people of the state and alumni who support it with money and emotion.

“F-ing people need to get a life,” Callahan said, according to Ostergard. “Why don’t they go read a book or get lost in the Sandhills?” He didn't deny it, referring questions to a statement about how he's "building a relationship" with Osborne.

Callahan didn't deny making any of the comments. So here's what he thinks about Nebraskans: “F-ing people need to get a life,” Callahan said, according to Ostergard. “Why don’t they go read a book or get lost in the Sandhills?”

Here's how Bill feels about you: “F-ing people need to get a life,” Callahan said, according to Ostergard. “Why don’t they go read a book or get lost in the Sandhills?” Callahan, when asked after Thursday’s practice if he denied the comments in Crowl’s book, declined comment and referred to a statement released with Osborne’s.

Assuming you mean took over a program that had never been a winning program ... Not quite. The threat is "A little History Lesson." The '40s and '50s were low times for a program that is among the top five in wins in history. They were awesome in the '20s and '30s, their biggest wins in the days before polls over Knute Rockne's Notre Dame teams, beating the Four Horsemen in 1922 (7-0) and 1923 (14-7) and again in 1925 (14-0), after the Horsemen had graduated. Those guys could play defense.

Yeah, to have any impact and get us to a bowl this year, it has to happen Sunday so the new coaches have a week to make some basic adjustments -- the first being attitude. Sounds like Oz and McBride going to practice was a negotiating tactic in the buyout effort. "We're here, Bill, just breathing down your neck. No pressure to go or anything."

All Nebraskans have full standing. I wondered where your comment about "all 19 of them" was coming from, though. Seemed anti-student. There wouldn't be a university without the students (sorry, but it's true), and I don't think students are capable of embarrassing (or influencing) Tom Osborne. As an alumnus and native Nebraskan, I have to support today's students showing passion for the program in any way that's not profane. When I was a student, certain groups among us would call for wearing blue to a game once a year to protest tuition increases. You know, whatever -- they were part of the university and entitled to use its biggest stage to be heard. I wore red and cheered for the team and never sold my ticket to anyone. This isn't the state song or the fight song right here -- it's the school song. Dear Old Nebraska U (There Is No Place Like Nebraska) Words and Music by Harry Pecha, class of 1924 There is no place like Nebraska, Dear old Nebraska U. Where the girls are the fairest, The boys are the squarest, Of any old school that I knew. There is no place like Nebraska, Where they're all true blue. We'll all stick together, In all kinds of weather, For dear old Nebraska U. Go Big Red!

Just curious ... You go to the games? Were a UNL student? Just wondering.

The '95 Huskers beat the point spread every week. Not sure any other college football team has ever done that. Devaney had a whole lot more success in his early years than Callahan has had -- assuming that's the point -- and took over a program that was at a low point after several down years -- not quite the case with Callahan. Remember, the point was to avoid gravitating to mediocrity when we hired Bill. Not to beat a dead horse, but that was his mission, at which he very clearly has failed.

I hope the Huskers win all of the rest of their games. I've lived and died with them since I was a little boy. But realistically at this point -- tweaking???

Whatever the student section wants to be enthusiastic about is cool with me. Passion rocks. It's their school. As an alum, I'm a bit saddened by people belittling blackouts or whatever else the students might want to cheer about. It means they care. That's what we want.

"We want you to know you are always welcome in your home." Beautiful. I got chills, almost teared up, just like when the band plays "Hail Varsity" when the team runs onto the field. What recruit isn't going to want to be part of this? (And, by the way, Callahan is GONE at the end of the year. He's been part of keeping the players away and breaking the tradition. He knows it. TO knows it. This is Dr. Tom's program again. Thank goodness!!!)

Irving Fryer a QB?!?!? Also everything that you heard was omitted has never been omitted. Everything is there where it belongs. All the trophies are on display inside the west stadium "club" entrance. Just saw them before the Iowa State game.

Are you serious? Of course not. Gosh, poor Cos. We oughta give him a key to the washroom at Love Library so he has a place to stay after he can't get a coaching job after playing such a critical role in the destruction of a great football program whose defense was at the center of our pride.

Callahan is more than competent at breaking down film. Because that's real class, just the kind of thing you'd want Nebraska to do, right? Yeah, I'm truly advocating tarring and feathering, not just letting off some steam. Stand him at the 50 at halftime with a football and let the former Blackshirts "fly to the ball."

Mentioned this on another thread, but think it is worth its own topic: Osborne said on 1620 today that he was at practice, as was McBride. Said that's probably how the rumor got started -- "somebody probably saw Charlie and me on campus ..." Anyway, if anything can focus the players and give them some bounce, it's hearing from those two guys and having their coaches get some, uh, pointers from the masters. Maybe we'll get to a bowl game after all. And I don't think that saves anybody's job. Callahan and Cosgrove are GONE. The fact that they need remedial coaching help midseason is all that needs to be said. You don't pay some clown $2 million a year or whatever it is and then have to have a retired coach go buck up his players, hold his hand and point some things out on film (which Osborne said yesterday he might do -- if "asked"). Cosgrove has been truly terrible throughout his tenure. I just don't think firing him is sufficient. There should be some greater humiliation and punishment.

Osborne just said on Omaha sports radio that he was at practice today. "I hadn't been at a football practice in about 10 years." He also said Charlie McBride was in the football office. "Somebody must have seen Charlie and I together and that's how that rumor got started."