Huskers Need a New Coach

They are not on the field yet. The real girth of the talent is not starting, or at least what he is recruiting. I think he has a real problem with youth starting. Some coachs are like that. Years ago we never let Freshman be on the squad, they had their own team. That is one thing that does bother me with BC. Other programs have true freshman making an impact. Ours do seem to ride the bench after burning their redshirt. I can honestly say I don't understand how these players at other programs can play and work well, and ours can't. I don't know if it is a loyalty thing or a professional veteran type thinking.

But it is not fair to say BC has his recruits in place. This is the fourth year, next year it will all be on him, I doubt there will be any medical redshirts given, but could be I suppose.

With the prior staff we were losing badly to in conference programs. And not the likes of Oklahoma, but KState and others. Anyone with talent burried us.

SC blew us out of the water at home. I truly expected it and if people are honest they expected it to. It was a lot worse than the score, no question. But that game and the Wake Forest game exposed things to other DCs around the country. We have weak lines on both sides of the ball. Not enough depth and maybe not the killer instinct they need.

I truly think more attention has been given to the offensive side of the ball as far as quality personel are concerned. I hope that changes in this class.

I will not argue the Coz thing, because I am not a football coach, never played the game at that level. I do coach and train on a very high level, and I know the value of positives and negatives. That is where my head is at.

And I think overall the Big 12 is better. Every conference except the Pac 10 are seeing the top fall out.

Michigan, Penn State, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Tenn, Texas, Oklahoma, Rutgers, Louisville, WV, Florida State, Miami.

It is a situation that is going around now.

All teams are better over all making it tougher to beat those that we used to trounce

All you have to do is look at the top 25 and see the names in there, to understand that things are changing.

We are still in that group, and have a chance this week to move up. We should be more excited about that than screaming the world is ending.

 
HuskerJosh82 said:
I think we need a new coach. :sarcasm
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Well you are actually right. I don't think he warrants getting fired, but he will in 2 years when they can his a$$. And then what will you say?

Fired now:no

Fired before the contract ends: yes

Right coach:no

AD fired:Please, pretty please

Coz fired: this year

 
skersfan said:
They are not on the field yet. The real girth of the talent is not starting, or at least what he is recruiting. I think he has a real problem with youth starting. Some coachs are like that. Years ago we never let Freshman be on the squad, they had their own team. That is one thing that does bother me with BC. Other programs have true freshman making an impact. Ours do seem to ride the bench after burning their redshirt. I can honestly say I don't understand how these players at other programs can play and work well, and ours can't. I don't know if it is a loyalty thing or a professional veteran type thinking.

But it is not fair to say BC has his recruits in place. This is the fourth year, next year it will all be on him, I doubt there will be any medical redshirts given, but could be I suppose.

With the prior staff we were losing badly to in conference programs. And not the likes of Oklahoma, but KState and others. Anyone with talent burried us.

SC blew us out of the water at home. I truly expected it and if people are honest they expected it to. It was a lot worse than the score, no question. But that game and the Wake Forest game exposed things to other DCs around the country. We have weak lines on both sides of the ball. Not enough depth and maybe not the killer instinct they need.

I truly think more attention has been given to the offensive side of the ball as far as quality personel are concerned. I hope that changes in this class.

I will not argue the Coz thing, because I am not a football coach, never played the game at that level. I do coach and train on a very high level, and I know the value of positives and negatives. That is where my head is at.

And I think overall the Big 12 is better. Every conference except the Pac 10 are seeing the top fall out.

Michigan, Penn State, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Tenn, Texas, Oklahoma, Rutgers, Louisville, WV, Florida State, Miami.

It is a situation that is going around now.

All teams are better over all making it tougher to beat those that we used to trounce

All you have to do is look at the top 25 and see the names in there, to understand that things are changing.

We are still in that group, and have a chance this week to move up. We should be more excited about that than screaming the world is ending.
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Umm, you are wrong about the recruits. This is year 4 which means everyone but redshirt seniors are his. And that is the vast majority of the team. I am not sure you totally understand the recruiting aspect. By year 3 at least half the players should be yours, by year 4 80-90% should be yours on the field and by year 5 100%, especially if you had crap talent when you got there. You typically give a coach 5 years to turn it around....great, look at our defensive backs and qb's for next year. Most of them will be babies and lacking experience, he should have top notch players ready to step in and I don't see them.

 
I Bleed RED said:
HuskerJosh82 said:
I think we need a new coach. :sarcasm
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Well you are actually right. I don't think he warrants getting fired, but he will in 2 years when they can his a$$. And then what will you say?

Fired now:no

Fired before the contract ends: yes

Right coach:no

AD fired:Please, pretty please

Coz fired: this year
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I'm ok with giving Callahan another 2 years, but Coz has got to go at the end of this year.

 
I Bleed RED said:
skersfan said:
They are not on the field yet. The real girth of the talent is not starting, or at least what he is recruiting. I think he has a real problem with youth starting. Some coachs are like that. Years ago we never let Freshman be on the squad, they had their own team. That is one thing that does bother me with BC. Other programs have true freshman making an impact. Ours do seem to ride the bench after burning their redshirt. I can honestly say I don't understand how these players at other programs can play and work well, and ours can't. I don't know if it is a loyalty thing or a professional veteran type thinking.

But it is not fair to say BC has his recruits in place. This is the fourth year, next year it will all be on him, I doubt there will be any medical redshirts given, but could be I suppose.

With the prior staff we were losing badly to in conference programs. And not the likes of Oklahoma, but KState and others. Anyone with talent burried us.

SC blew us out of the water at home. I truly expected it and if people are honest they expected it to. It was a lot worse than the score, no question. But that game and the Wake Forest game exposed things to other DCs around the country. We have weak lines on both sides of the ball. Not enough depth and maybe not the killer instinct they need.

I truly think more attention has been given to the offensive side of the ball as far as quality personel are concerned. I hope that changes in this class.

I will not argue the Coz thing, because I am not a football coach, never played the game at that level. I do coach and train on a very high level, and I know the value of positives and negatives. That is where my head is at.

And I think overall the Big 12 is better. Every conference except the Pac 10 are seeing the top fall out.

Michigan, Penn State, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Tenn, Texas, Oklahoma, Rutgers, Louisville, WV, Florida State, Miami.

It is a situation that is going around now.

All teams are better over all making it tougher to beat those that we used to trounce

All you have to do is look at the top 25 and see the names in there, to understand that things are changing.

We are still in that group, and have a chance this week to move up. We should be more excited about that than screaming the world is ending.
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Umm, you are wrong about the recruits. This is year 4 which means everyone but redshirt seniors are his. And that is the vast majority of the team. I am not sure you totally understand the recruiting aspect. By year 3 at least half the players should be yours, by year 4 80-90% should be yours on the field and by year 5 100%, especially if you had crap talent when you got there. You typically give a coach 5 years to turn it around....great, look at our defensive backs and qb's for next year. Most of them will be babies and lacking experience, he should have top notch players ready to step in and I don't see them.
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guess he is not very good at player development?

 
As stated he is not starting them.

I do not count Juco's in the recruiting equation. He had a month to try and save what was comitted and what he could scrape up. Pelini did everything he could to destroy the recruiting effort that year and the following year when we lost Smith.

His first year was hap hazzard at best. He took most of what Solich had promised.

There are still a lot of Franks players starting on the defensive side of the ball, correct me if I am wrong.

His first real class has been a mass exodus over all. A lot of supposed talent left for what ever reason.

I give him two years of recruiting the type of athletes he is looking for. This being the third. I know that is not correct, but being fair to him it is the truth.

He did not stumble into a rose garden. He walked into a hornets nest to say the least. Last year seemed to be going pretty good, with close losses to Texas and Auburn.

I don't know what is wrong this year, I agree something is, but I will wait it out and see where we end up.

We may end up 4 and 8 or we may end of up 11 and 1 regular season. We have to play the games. Neither of us know what is going to happen. Your doom and gloom and I am not s pumper, I am a wait and see where we are, then make my mind up as what I think should be done. It is too early to call for our coaches head. WE are only doing harm to this program by doing it.

 
It'll be great two years from now when they can BC and do a search for the 3rd/4th best coach on the market. It might be time to start following the women's VB team.

 
i think we were all hoping for some signs of steady progress, no "flash in the pan" wins, but some sign of steady forward movement. now you can make all the excuses you want as to why that has not happened, but to date, steady forward progress is very hard to measure.

correct me if i am wrong, but isn't that the goal, isn't that what Pud was looking for and promised us all? true, it takes time, we would be foolish to think otherwise, but there has been so much backsliding and personally i can't put my finger on any particular phase of coaching or player development that just jumps out and sez......"yeah, this is gonna be our guy". Or did I miss it?

maybe it is still in the works?

 
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1. "Girth" of talent? WTH does that even mean?

2. I'm tired of the speed argument... after checking Rivals, our guys are as fast as anyone. We have people all over the place running 4.4s and 4.5s.

So no new coach. Stick with the program. Quit your whining and let's start winning!

 
Zaimejs said:
1. "Girth" of talent? WTH does that even mean?

2. I'm tired of the speed argument... after checking Rivals, our guys are as fast as anyone. We have people all over the place running 4.4s and 4.5s.

So no new coach. Stick with the program. Quit your whining and let's start winning!
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ah, if it was only that simple.

 
It means the youth and most of it is not starting for some reason. Explained in the post. As stated my main question about Coach Callahan and Coz for that matter.

 
But what is the identity of this year's Nebraska football team?

For NU Coach Bill Callahan, it's all about improvement. Taking one game at a time and looking at how every area of the team -- special teams, offense and defense -- is making plays, executing in practice and carrying over lessons learned from week to week.

"What I think is important right now is the rate of improvement relative to everyone else's," Callahan said. "If we can maintain that standard of improvement week in and week out, that's all I'm looking for."

......well let's see now......we have been improving our play for 4 years now? no sense in setting real goals like winning the north? although i am sure he has said that, wouldn't you like to hear about higher goals??

So, in terms of offense and defense, where does Nebraska stack up?

Suh defined the Blackshirts as a strong rushing defense. So far this season, the Huskers rank last in the Big 12 Conference in this area and eighth in passing defense.

Improvement is always a possibility, he said.

"I've always thought our strength was stopping the run," Suh said, "and I still think that's going to be one of our strengths."

Before Big 12 play started, when the defense was under enormous public pressure to improve, Suh said NU defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove would like to give up only 300 yards or less to opponents.

That's not happening right now, as the Blackshirts have allowed 2,043 yards -- that's 408 yards per game -- and 133 total points, good for last in the conference.

"I definitely think it's something that should be happening and obviously hasn't," Suh said of allowing only 300 yards. "But we've been holding teams enough to win."

......guess that is good enough? not an attitude you would expect from a Blackshirt linemen, pretty obvious Coz is OK with these numbers too, as long as the offense can bail them out every week?

 
Hunter94 said:
But what is the identity of this year's Nebraska football team?

For NU Coach Bill Callahan, it's all about improvement. Taking one game at a time and looking at how every area of the team -- special teams, offense and defense -- is making plays, executing in practice and carrying over lessons learned from week to week.

"What I think is important right now is the rate of improvement relative to everyone else's," Callahan said. "If we can maintain that standard of improvement week in and week out, that's all I'm looking for."

......well let's see now......we have been improving our play for 4 years now? no sense in setting real goals like winning the north? although i am sure he has said that, wouldn't you like to hear about higher goals??

So, in terms of offense and defense, where does Nebraska stack up?

Suh defined the Blackshirts as a strong rushing defense. So far this season, the Huskers rank last in the Big 12 Conference in this area and eighth in passing defense.

Improvement is always a possibility, he said.

"I've always thought our strength was stopping the run," Suh said, "and I still think that's going to be one of our strengths."

Before Big 12 play started, when the defense was under enormous public pressure to improve, Suh said NU defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove would like to give up only 300 yards or less to opponents.

That's not happening right now, as the Blackshirts have allowed 2,043 yards -- that's 408 yards per game -- and 133 total points, good for last in the conference.

"I definitely think it's something that should be happening and obviously hasn't," Suh said of allowing only 300 yards. "But we've been holding teams enough to win."

......guess that is good enough? not an attitude you would expect from a Blackshirt linemen, pretty obvious Coz is OK with these numbers too, as long as the offense can bail them out every week?
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This is a very good post. It is so upsetting to hear this banter from players and coaches. Amazing that you don't hear enthusiasm and confidence from us like you do other BIG 12 teams. Everyone complains Mizzou is 'talking' well at least I hear some confidence and not whining and accepting of mediocrity.

 
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