2006 was BC's best year here. We were 9-5. We put up gigantic offensive numbers like 10 against USC and 7 against OU. In the time BC was coach, we put most of our points up against teams with a pulse when the game was clearly lost. The only thing I would have liked to have seen was what a BC recruited QB could have done his jr. or sr. year. However, BC could never keep a QB around long enough to get there. Beck bolted. Freeman decommitted. Gabbert decommitted. With another couple of BC coached years, Suh would have been lucky to be a mid-fourth round draft pick. BC was good at getting the talent, but he rarely ever developed it once he got it to Nebraska.
DING DING DING. We have a winner. It amazes me when people talk about how good the offense was under BC. It sucked. Oh, against cupcakes, and good teams that had pulled their starters, it could score.
Does it amaze you when people say our D is good under Bo? Should we cherry pick scores of old?
BC's offenses didn't do well at times..but other times it did. 200 yard
IN THE FIRST HALF vs USC in 07.
Edit - just realized I looked at the wrong game. Regardless, I can pull up any number of scores to contradict your point. That
very same offense only scored 6 points against a far less talented defense on the road.
Also, Pelini has had two defenses finish in the top ten in scoring defense and yards allowed. Did any facet of Callahan's teams ever finish in the Top 10, in anything?
Didn't the 07 offense finish around #10?
Also...Bo had a lot of very talented BC recruits to work w/. and as they have started to leave the D has gotten worse each year. Next year is all Bo players so we'll see where we go.
AND BC had to field an offense from FS players who weren't recruited to run BC's offense...so he was handicapped off the bat. Again, BC had is faults. I just think his track record/resume show he's a great coach...and I would have liked to see how he could have grown as our HC. I already pointed out how he got better w/ recruiting in his later years at NU. AND he wanted to bring in a better DC but we wouldn't put the $ up for it.
Nebraska is too conservative...stubborn...spoiled to give an outsider like BC a legit chance IMO. He'd be better off at a place like KU, ASU, UA, WSU, S or N Carolina...etc.