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I'd be proud of that. J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!!!!! I wouldn't wipe my dogs a$$ with that ball.

Sure, Adam. Calllllllahan won't return your calls, and you consider him a friend, and he won't put a good word in for his former players to help get them into the NFL. It sounds like typical Calllllllahan blaming others for his shortcomings.

I thought that all you needed was a top 5 recruiting class.

You shouldn't slam a good player (Woodhead) just because your boy Calllllllahan passed on Danny. He will get his shot at the NFL.

This is a great article. The WCO is the offense of the 80's and early 90's. It's great for professionals who have 100 hours a week to devote to football, but it's just too much for college kids to perfect. If we can run some zone read, and unlike Calllllllahan did, if we gradually move from the WCO to a zone read/option style of offense, we can return to the elite.

That's what Calllllllahan and Coz thought too, obviously.

I can agree with that, nine might be a little bit of a strech. But eight wins is very do-able. Here's an objective viewpoint.... Best case scenario. Could get better if MU, KU or CU suffers any significant injuries: Western Michigan Home Should win 1-0 San Jose State Home Should win 2-0 New Mexico State Home Should win 3-0 Virginia Tech Home Tough loss 3-1 Missouri Home No way 3-2 Texas Tech Road Unlikely 3-3 Iowa State Road Difficult win 4-3 Baylor Home Big win 5-3 Oklahoma Road No way 5-4 Kansas Home Difficult win 6-4 Kansas State Road Difficult win 7-4 Colorado Home Difficult win 8-4 Nebraska has a very favorable schedule this season. Only 4 games outside of Lincoln, most of the toughest in-conference foes are playing in Lincoln (MU, KU, CU). I don't see NU as a very good road team yet, but when you mostly eating home cooking.... if the Huskers get a few breaks, ya never know. I don't think NU will have ANY easy games after October 1, except maybe Baylor... but the way they improved in basketball, you should be very wary. I'd agree with you on this, pretty much exactly. The schedule is a little more manageable with 8 home games. I'd agree with this, except that MU and Tech are both winnable games. The only game I feel that we don't have a shot at winning is the game in Norman, but some of these questionable games will almost certainly end up as losses.

Yeah, good call, its all of 2 1/2 weeks old.

He left town quietly, LOL! Seriously, he lowered the expectations, showed everyone what NOT to do to be successful in major college football, and gave a real coach and a good coaching staff a chance to build a program the right way. Also, his failure led directly to the firing of Pederson, and brought Coach/Dr. Tom Osborne back into the program.

I'm not 100% positive, but I think it was in Bo's spring press conference were he said "I told the players if you don't beleive we can win every game this year then you don't belong on this team." I'd say he has a little higher goal then 6-6. My point was that if 5-7 definitely wasn't acceptable, why would a 1 game improvement be considered acceptable by the same standards? In my opinion, they are not. You can't hold one person to a certain standard of wins/losses, but give the next a pass "because they played hard." That's garbage, queue the Gundy pic. I don't expect 12-0, but 6-6 isn't going to make me jump for joy. There were some on here that said they would rather not NU go to a bowl if they had won the last game against CU to get to 6-6. We are 1 year later, without losing a ton of the core from last year's team and hopefully a drastic improvement in attitude and performance on the defense. 6-6 is worst case scenario, IMO. I expect 8-4, at least. Just an fyi, the previous coach wasn't almost burned at the stake simply for going 5-7. He was almost burned at the stake for taking the team backwards, to a point that almost all Husker fans have never seen, when the year before he got hired, the team took a huge step forwards. It was due to him crapping on the past and changing the culture of a very special program, to a very ordinary program with no distinguishing features. He was almost burned at the stake for not giving a damn about it. The conditioning, attitude, passion, and football intelligence of the team can be changed in one year. It has the talent to compete in the Big 12, now it has coaches who have the ability to lead them into the future. I can guarantee this defense being a top 40 defense, and can see it being even better. I would think that anything less than 7 wins will be a disappointment, and I can see 10 wins and a spot in the Big 12 championship game.

Thats a strange comment from Osborne. Does Dr Tom regret not being more emotional and sometimes to nice? no no no...the the next line makes that make sense... "we have now rectified that" dr tom states he's very sarcastic in more then winning and that's him being sarcastic. it was a joke. That is just Dr. Tom's way at taking a shot at the "experts" who know more about football than he did. Kind of like the "Its the offense of the 50's versus the offense of the 90's. We will see who wins." quote that he made before the 96 Fiesta Bowl.

I don't know if we will win 5 games or 11 next year, but the attitude will be much better. Kick ass!

Maybe but I didn't see a quote from Pederson or Calllllllahan anywhere. If you miss your boys so much, Pitt just got their guy back, and the Jets just got the offensive genious they were looking for.

You need to stop, dude. For real, it's getting really old. From what we have seen in the past 6 years, Pelini almost worked miracles in 03. That defense was garbage in 02, and garbage in 04, and it had alot of the same personel all 3 years. Not one of us with any common sense wouldn't take 2003 over any other year out of the past 6. I'm by no means saying that we will have a top 20 defense and finish in the top 15 this year, but I would bet that we will see HUGE and VAST improvements. If the old vets who liked to play grab-ass don't buy in, unlike Calllllllahan and Coz, Bo won't let them play.

That is a big lie. Every one of those 3 games were close through halftime. We were beating Mizzou into the 4th qtr. Things happened and momentum switched. We lost. But I would take that season over last in a heartbeat. I won't predict a National Title next season, but I would bet you anything that in 2 years your mind will change. Bank on it

Ironmike --- you are right on the money --- but 90% of the Husker fans on this board are under the delusion that NU is really talented. They want to think that all the problems were coaching and cannot bend their minds around the notion that MU, KU and CU also have more speed, more quickness, better conditioned athletes and are more physical than NU. The problem will come next season when the Huskers will again be behind the competition --- and then the dogs will be out all over the Pelini staff. I feel that last years trainwreck was both horrid coaching and sub par talent. This year upcoming will be better --- the coaching should be much improved. Effort and intensity should return. Pelini has us going the right way. But 7 maybe 8 wins is all anyone could possibly expect. There is a new order and there has been for some time now --- NU is in the middle of the conference --- at best --- and the climb up will be slow. The pieces are in place (we hope) with this staff --- but one falls faster than they rise. NU has a long path ahead of itself --- how long? WHO knows. But next year, if NU makes a bowl game than we should be pleased that the ascent has started.. The talent is not here, not yet, to realistically expect much more. And Ironmike --- you are correct --- MU is light years ahead in talent relative to NU. i agree to a certain level, but not completely.. yes, a lot of people think we are way more talented than we actually are.. however, saying that this is not all coaching related isn't exactly true.. you use speed, quickness, conditioning, and how physical they are.. well speed i'll give you for sure.. quickness, conditioning, and lack of physical play i am going to pin on the last staffs lack of focus on this issue. there is no doubt that we didn't play as hard as we should of because the sort of NFL mentality the team had. not that everything is this issue, but a lot of it was. and for you to say the talent is not here.. i ask you what is wrong with our running backs? what is wrong with our WR's? what is wrong with our QB's? the lack of talent comes on the defensive side of the ball, partially because of a lack of intense focus on that side of the ball in recruiting the past years.. i think our offense has all the talent it needs to win, just needs to be coached and trained... our defense needs to play with heart, along with get some more talent, i think everyone believes Bo will do that.. MU is not LIGHTYEARS ahead of us, but they are def. ahead of us, same with KU. both those games are winnable this year, just not likely.. we need time to get everything into place and more than just one offseason of conditioning.. Very reasonable analysis --- somewhat more positive than mine and certainly may be accurate. That conditioning physicality etc were coaching issues (and even attitude as well) cannot be contested. I too agree that both the MU and KU and the CU games are winnable --- though in each case it is unlikely --- we'll have the best shot at KU or CU but really MU should not really be much of a game. If we win one of those and are close in the other two then kudos to pelini. I'll add my .02. I think that we have the best talent in the North, and the 3rd best in the conference. Do we have what USC and Florida have, probably not. What is going to happen is that we have almost 1 full year to get these kids into playing shape and condition, which is not difficult at all. Also, we now have a staff that will put the best players in the best position to win, and will have a gameplan that the kids have confidence in. IF we have guys like Asante and Culbert moving to LB, Turner dropping 25 pounds, and they understand and believe in the system, I guarantee that this defense will look every bit as fast as Mizzou or KU. That alone gives us a shot at the Big 12 title and a BCS game.

I'm not sure what team you watched in the 90's, but once we got the right kind of cb's, NU played primarily bump-n-run coverage with the db's. I think Darlington said it was about 85% man, 15% zone.

Just because Calllllllahan couldn't handle a bigger roster, it doesn't mean that it can't be done. There are lots of things he didn't do well.

Take pretty much the entire 2005 recruiting class (with a couple of exceptions), throw them into a hat, and pull one out. Any one of them will due.

With no last second decommits, hopefully these kids are heart and soul guys who want to play FOR Nebraska. Not just a bunch of soft, heartless guys who want to use NU as a stepping stone to the NFL. There was a great article in the Chicago Sun Times about the highly overrated 2005 class of Calllllllahan's, which ended up being the most under-acheiving class in NU history.

I assume you are talking about Barry Sanders, with an "s" on the end. Yeah, that would have been a nice steal! I heard even the Jayhawks passed on him. About the article posted: Why would Callahan quit recruiting an entire high school after one kid changes his mind? It said that this year alone they have five, yes five, DI recruits. That doesn't make any sense to label all the kids from that high school because of one athlete. Simple....BC is a complete moron!!!!!! One thing I won't say bad about BC was his recruiting ability! Anyone who denies the talent that he brought to Nebraska is truly the "moron"! All that "talent" yet 2 losing seasons in 4 years?

It is purely subjective, but IMO there is no way that either Mizzou or KU would have beaten our teams from 97 or 99. First, Dr. Tom was the head coach and O-coordinator, he didn't call the D's. Second, you must have missed the enitre 90's because we changed from a read and react defense in the early 90's, to a team that had NFL quality CB's who played mostly man/bump and run coverage, and rarely dropped into zone. Third, our D-lines from those days featured one 300 lb NT, a 290 lb DT, and a couple of ends who weighed in at no more than 260 lbs. I wouldn't say that they ran into many O-lines that had less than a 270 lb average.

Sucks for OU. LOL

I could care less. His offenses have been mediocre, and anybody with a West Coast Offense background is better off gone. Bring in someone who wants to play college football in the current century.

It is? Oops.