Jump to content


kansas husker

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,886

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Posts posted by kansas husker

    We Need Prayers

    in Big Red Lounge: Official BS Forum

    Posted

    What I am about to post is mot BS , but I didn't know where else to post this. Huskerboard, it's been a long time since I've posted, but my wife and I need prayers.Last Thursday my wife had to have an emergency C-section and our daughter, Hadassah Leigh was born at 26 weeks weighing only 2 lbs. She has been doing well but we are calling on every one we can think of for prayers of deliverance for our child as well as strength for her mother and I.

     

    Hadassah

    The Bo Must Go Crowd

    in Husker Football

    Posted

    I can't believe this is even a serious topic. I thought I would research the last 4 (successful) coaches in their first four years. I also thought it would be relevent to look at the teams they took over.

     

    Bob Devany

    took over a team that was 3-6-1

    first 4 years record 38-6 .863

    Ranked teams played 6

    record against ranked opp. 2-4

    took 8 years to win a NC

     

    Tom Osborne

    took over a team that was 9-2-1

    first 4 years record 37- 10-2 .755

    Raked teams played 17

    Record against ranked opp. 9-8

    took 21 years to win an NC

     

    Frank Solich

    took over a team that was 13-0

    first 4 years record 42-9 .807

    Ranked teams played 18

    Record against ranked opp. 10-8

     

    Bo Pelini (assuming two wins in last two games)

    took over a team that was 5-7

    first 4 years record 39-15 .750

    Ranked teams played 16

    Record against ranked opp. 7-9

     

    So staked up agianst the others, I don't think Bo looks that bad. He does not have the best record aginst ranked opp. but has kept up with the pace of about 9-10 wins per seaon. I will also note that of the five NC won, the coach was not in his frist four years to expect more of Bo than the others produced is just silly.

    The "Nobody" needs to be fired thread....

    in Husker Football

    Posted

    Lets go get Turner Gill! He'll need a job soon, lets fire Bo and get Turner Gill!

     

    We all know what's best for the team....if we only would have hired Turner 4 years ago right?

     

    I should be quoting this in the board feedback forum because it is the strongest arguement I've ever heard to bring back negative rep. Why would someone want to fire a successful coach to hire one that has been unsuccessful. Bo is winning games, I hope this talk ends soon, otherwise I see history repeating itself.

    This Season Seems Hollow . . .

    in Husker Football

    Posted

    Face the facts...the season is hollow because there is no Texas or K-State or other traditional opponents to hate this year. After over a hundred years of facing off against a Missouri or Kansas and after a hundred years of built up animosity between fan bases from real or perceived slights these games weren't just games...they were vindications that Nebraska was Nebraska and all was well with the world after stomping an Iowa State or Texas Tech.

     

    This years? Oh yah! We beat Minnesota! Good...cuz we sure do hate those Gophers! That'll teach em for disrespecting us back in...uh...well...that'll teach em anyway! Why we'll show those dang Hoosiers! We need to teach them a lesson after they...uh...well...I guess they haven't really ever done anything to us but we'll teach em anyway!

     

    Really...who cares? Do you really want to be playing in a Big 10 championship game against Penn State or would you REALLY like to be playing Oklahoma in the Big 12? And are the fans really that excited about playing Northwestern...or Illinois...or Purdue EVER? Tell the truth...how many of you still check out the standings and results from the Big 12 games and really wish you had a chance to blast K-State or OSU again?

     

    But...such is life. The powers that be picked money over tradition so you got what you got and all the baggage that comes with it while the Big 12 has what is has including the entry of some really top-flite football schools. Hopefully the Huskers can keep the sell-out record intact after most of the blue-hairs move on to the nursing homes but I have a feeling interest just won't be the same in the Big 10 and that, too, shall come to an end.

    I think you're a decade and a half off with this post, once OU decided they had become our yearly doormat and decided to end our Traditional series that determined more National Championships than any other rivalry over the last 40 years...........that hollow feeling has hung around for a LONG time. No one gets up for OU lite since Barry Sanders. Sure Bill Snyder punked Solich but the yearly KSU game meaning much to anyone North of Pawnee City or Wymore Nebraska is ridiculous. Colorado was pretty much it for the Huskers and I would trade them for Michigan, PSU, tOSU and even lowly Iowa which is basically a wash. The Hollow feeling is watching boring games, getting beat by Northwestern due to horrible coaching, getting smoked by Wisconsin.....sigh....and having your destiny decided by MSU????

     

    It's year 4 in the Pelini era and we have terrible coaching including obvious recruiting flaws, game management ( timeouts used up by defense, end of Northwestern game???) Not getting Backups in in garbage time, no depth or lack of playing certain people due to vendettas, buddy hires gone wrong (also known as Cosgrovean Cottonism) and playing like crap over the last 2 years against arguably the easiest schedules in YEARS. When Wisconsin and MSU are the biggest games of the year you know you have a NC schedule on your hands. We tried as hard as we could to let a dysfunctional PSU beat us, a decent team would have hung a half a hundred on them last week and emptied the bench after the turmoil they went through. We canned Callahan after 4 years, our 3 million dollar man better step up to the plate SOON. Remember that Callahan was playing KU,Missou, Leached TT's teams that were battling for BCS bowls not to mention strong Texas/Sooners/USC teams. At least we saw talent being recruited

     

     

    Horrible coaching??

     

    9-10-10 wins a season is a country mile away from "horrible coaching". We're at 8 - 2 now......I don't see anything even remotely close to Clownahan results from our coaches. I don't even want to know what you're smoking that makes you think Bo & Clownahan are in the same boat.

     

    Also, let's not forget Bo took over a NU program that won "5" games it's last year and was 10,000 galaxies away from Devaney's 72 Huskers. TO took over a brand new Maserati & Bo a used Pinto. TO got time to win big and so will Bo.

     

    GBR!!

    Its not those easy 9-10-10 wins against terrible opponents that make him a horrible coach, its the losses against terrible opponents. You seem to base coaching on win percentages only, I look at the losses, quality of recruiting, game management, strength training and respectability of the program. 9-10 wins with our schedules is a no brainer, we have had that many gimmes each of Pelinis years. You don't see anything remotely close to Callahan in Pelini and thats fair, I don't either. Callahan played the likes of a cheating USC coming off multiple National Championships, KUs going to BCS bowls, a booger eater Missou, lets just say the "5 win" Big XII North was 10,000 galaxies ahead of last years Big XII north where we struggled into OT with Iowa State. The Texas debacle of last year mixed with the Barely Bowl eligible Washington, this years -.500 Northwestern, the Iowa States and struggling with Div II patsies looks exactly like Callahan Teams. I would even say the putrid Cosgrove Defenses would match up well with this years Pelini stocked defense. If Bo got a used Pinto than Callahan received a brand new Gremlin. Callahan was left Joe Dailey and Pelini got Joe Ganz, N'Suh and the rest. Im not saying the Callahan years were good at all with the Cosgrove defense, but I don't see anything remotely promising these days either. Next years defense? Yikes

     

    There is no such thing as an easy 10 win season. Even Osborne had some crappy losses at the start of his career namely a losses to unranked mizzou and unranked wisconson in 74. The fact is Bo is turning the program around. I'm sure that really gets under your skin your username alone indicates that you are bitter about something.

    This Season Seems Hollow . . .

    in Husker Football

    Posted

    We set such high goals I think. Set obtainable goals, bringing less chance for failure, and build those goals to reach the top. We set ourselves up for this every single year. That I guess is our job. Win every game, win every NC, no chance of it not happening in August.

     

    We all knew it would be hard this year. We took on a beginner OC, changed some others around. Bought into the hype of being one of the top defenses in the country on paper.

     

    We need honesty coming from the coaching staff, and an actual report of what goes on in practice, honesty about injuries, would help us understand why certain things happen the way they do.

     

    We are a young team, and with that comes inconsistency, but should never bring lack of motivation. I think we all see this as a major problem with this program right now.

     

    That is why I have lowered my expectations of Nebraska at this time. I do not expect a Big Championship this year. I only hope that we win the rest of the games we play, end this season on a positive note, and hope next year will be better.. These young kids need to end knowing they are improving. Take a little less this year to strengthen their drive for next year.

     

    Why would the coaches change what they do, coach talk is a part of strategy, just so the fans can set expectations? If the Huskers win, I'm happy. If they don't, I'm not happy. Regardless of what my expectations were.

×
×
  • Create New...