I've posted this elsewhere, but that was before I saw this thread!
My God! How pathetic do you want our Husker Nation to look? Yeah, we look pathetic right now, but everyone around the country already makes fun of us for firing Solich in the first place. Let's be honest with ourselves, Solich came in, took a strong TO team, and started making Nebraska look like a joke. Should we have fired him? No. Absolutely not. Yet, at least his program was a rapidly declining team. Solich was unable to recruit solid players to come play even HIS style of offense, whereas at least Callahan is improving this aspect of the team. Even after the last several games, Callahan is improving this team. Yes, it is a new system, and yes, sometimes it looks like we are having monkeys writing the play calls, but give it time (as I am sure many of you hate hearing ... again). We, the fans, often like to think of ourselves as knowing everything there is to know about our team, and that we know how our program should be run, but let's face it: none of us know what is going on better than the coaches. It is really easy for us to sit in our "Ivory Towers" and complain about what is going on in our Husker Nation, but ultimately we A ) have no real tangible power to change it, and B ) no real knowledge of the situation. I know at this point it sounds silly to ask people to just trust in the system, but the system is brand new and we aren't even giving it a chance. Heck, when America was first created we had to go through some changes to our Democracy until we found the right system. Right know, we are transferring power from the Monarchy to the Democracy, otherwise known as the I-Formation O to the WCO, and we'll have to re-write the Articles of Confederation to be the Constitution before we can truly see the system come to life. Let Callahan re-write the mode of play, and the mentality of the people. 'Cause let's face it folks, all of this constant nay saying is not going to help our players, nor our coaches. Every week, even when we win, Callahan feels like he has to defend certain aspects of his coaching in order to appease the hunger Husker fan base. We pride ourselves on being the best fans in College ball, but recently, I haven't seen many fans sticking with OUR team. We are supposed to be the shining example of what makes a college football fan, but all of the negativity lobbed towards Callahan and the rest of the coaches only proves that we are elitists who don't deserve the title of fan. Some people who post on this board who come out and proudly declare themselves fair-weather fans aren't the fans that we should want to represent. I for one do not cheer for the Huskers because of their dominance in past years, I cheer for them because I am a Huskers fan, and always will be. I am proud to say that after attending the KU game and watching some fans start to leave at the start of the fourth quarter, there were many, many more fans that stood by their team even though there was no hope of victory. These are the fans that I think should be represented. These are the fans that matter so much to this program and will ensure that our team will rise again. To those of you who are calling for Callahan's head: you are not going to help your team. This will not bring back power to the Nebraska football tradition. All you will succeed in doing is ensuring that the Nebraska fan base is ridiculed for once again for not being patient enough to see something through to the end. Please, please stop harming your football program, and start finding other things to bash. Try Hollywood, or the Government, just leave college kids who are trying their best out of it. They are more upset that we are playing poorly than you will ever be. Stop rubbing salt into their wounds. Thank you for your time. Let's be prepared for happier times ahead! GO HUSKERS!!!