Yeah, f??in' NFL coach has us 6-1 and has restrained the weapons that could beat Texas not once, but twice and put us in a very favorable position for a post season bowl.
Damn I hate those NFL flunkies.
Yeah..Me too...But at least they're more likely to put the game of Football in proper perspective..Took me ~45 years to figgure that out.
A Proper coach would have us 7-0 right now..
But Seriously...I think we've seen the last of undefeated seasons at UNL.
I hope our backups got some serious playing time at least.
Actually I was being super-sarcastic when I posted to your response. What I was trying to convey was that Callahan appears to have 'mastered' the passing portion of the WCO with the players he has and now wants to complete the gameplan by developing a respectable run-offense. If you look back to last year we passed a lot and ran a little Ross here and a little Ross there. Some power Glenn in short yardage and then some Swift/Nunn/Hardy on the fly.
You don't hear too much about Nunn and Swift this year as you did last year. You also don't see Herian being used that much either. Callahan has A LOT of tools in his shed and, with added run efficiency (as you are witnessing) will probably be able to drag any team behind his 'woodshed' so to speak. Could I say that he has flashed his weapons during the earlier games this year against lesser opponents? Yes. But then we see the KU game and wonder. I am not in Callahan's head and don't see what he is trying to achieve. We can only speculate. I expect NU to reach the Top 10 next year.
I get frustrated with the mediocre wins as well. Why? Because I grew up with Tom. I am used to the 'scoring explosions' of the 80's and the glorious mid-90's where the Huskers reigned supreme. It was time for a change. If you could not see in some of our games after Tom's departure that teams had figured out how to stop the option, you were definately watching with blinders on.
I wish, at times like tonight, that Callahan would just cut the kids loose. But apparently that is not going to happen just yet - and maybe never. College football is hard to figure. Who would have thought that the same team we beat in the Alamo Bowl last year might possibly have a shot at playing for the National Championship this year? Our time will come again.