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While we constantly hear of the one or 2 examples of NFL coaches doing well in college, there have been many NFL coaches/assistants fail in college. Likewise, college coaches fail in the NFL (ie. Steve Spurrier). In a way, the same goes for basketball. Everyone talks about Larry Brown, but many have failed on one level and succeeded on another.

Is the college game different because of passion and tradition and the weekly must win? When an NFL staff runs an NFL team, they make changes and seem to be patient, regardless of wins and losses. It is more of a business or profession. What they do today is a plan or strategy that will pay out in a few years.

In college I see more excitement, more personal involvement, more live or die week by week (in terms of coaches). Could part of the problem of Callahan and Co. be that they simply are approaching Saturdays in a similar fashion to how they handled Sundays in the NFL?

Before you jump on that, the team has no fire (we all agree). Callahan does not get in anyone's face, I mean seriously get in anyone's face. He takes losses rather well, too well. In fact, it seems like he always thinks he has another week to adjust.

I just can't help to think that a lot of it is how the NFL staffs approach their games and their strategy. In the NFL you are in 1 of 3 spots) 1. rebuilding, 2. trying to make the playoffs or 3. win it all. I just don't know if Callahan and Co. see things with the same sense of urgency this year and the die-hard Husker fan.

 
Very likely. Of course, some college coaches take a similar approach - Tommy Tuberville at Auburn is one that come innediately to mind. These type of coaches feel that the teams are better off not being ruled by emotion - when the emotion "goes", the team heads south. They'd rather have them playing consistently.

Not to say that's a good way to do it - just that some do it that way.

 
Very likely. Of course, some college coaches take a similar approach - Tommy Tuberville at Auburn is one that come innediately to mind. These type of coaches feel that the teams are better off not being ruled by emotion - when the emotion "goes", the team heads south. They'd rather have them playing consistently.
Not to say that's a good way to do it - just that some do it that way.
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Then you have coaches that cant make it in the NFL or College( callahan )

 
Very likely.  Of course, some college coaches take a similar approach - Tommy Tuberville at Auburn is one that come innediately to mind.  These type of coaches feel that the teams are better off not being ruled by emotion - when the emotion "goes", the team heads south.  They'd rather have them playing consistently.
Not to say that's a good way to do it - just that some do it that way.
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Then you have coaches that cant make it in the NFL or College( callahan )
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BS. I guess winning a Super Bowl doesn't count? Yea, I know what you are going to say about that so just save it. That's the thing about some of you. You would rather b!^@h about anything and everything instead of talking actual football.

 
Very likely.  Of course, some college coaches take a similar approach - Tommy Tuberville at Auburn is one that come innediately to mind.  These type of coaches feel that the teams are better off not being ruled by emotion - when the emotion "goes", the team heads south.  They'd rather have them playing consistently.
Not to say that's a good way to do it - just that some do it that way.
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Then you have coaches that cant make it in the NFL or College( callahan )
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BS. I guess winning a Super Bowl doesn't count? Yea, I know what you are going to say about that so just save it. That's the thing about some of you. You would rather b!^@h about anything and everything instead of talking actual football.
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I know this thread ended a while ago...but I thought you'd like to know that Callahan never actually won the Super Bowl. He got there once, but got creamed because he couldn't adjust to what the Tampa Bay defense was doing to him. Sound familiar?

 
Very likely.  Of course, some college coaches take a similar approach - Tommy Tuberville at Auburn is one that come innediately to mind.  These type of coaches feel that the teams are better off not being ruled by emotion - when the emotion "goes", the team heads south.  They'd rather have them playing consistently.
Not to say that's a good way to do it - just that some do it that way.
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Then you have coaches that cant make it in the NFL or College( callahan )
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BS. I guess winning a Super Bowl doesn't count? Yea, I know what you are going to say about that so just save it. That's the thing about some of you. You would rather b!^@h about anything and everything instead of talking actual football.
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I know this thread ended a while ago...but I thought you'd like to know that Callahan never actually won the Super Bowl. He got there once, but got creamed because he couldn't adjust to what the Tampa Bay defense was doing to him. Sound familiar?
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My bad.

But no it doesn't sound familar. He doesn't coach the defense here. I am sure the Tampa Bay defense that year would appreciate you taking their credit away from them.

I love how people think you can make magical "adjustments" and make everything hunky dory again. Like there is some magic playbook that can only be used in the second half. I guess it's a side affect of not knowing you are looking from the outside in.

 
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My bad.
But no it doesn't sound familar. He doesn't coach the defense here. I am sure the Tampa Bay defense that year would appreciate you taking their credit away from them.

I love how people think you can make magical "adjustments" and make everything hunky dory again. Like there is some magic playbook that can only be used in the second half. I guess it's a side affect of not knowing you are looking from the outside in.
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No, he doesn't coach the defense, but he did bring in a moron to screw that up for him. Any coach worth anything knows if your primary gameplan isn't working, you take what the defense gives you. People like you always complain that Solich couldn't do that. Well, hold Callahan to the same standard. I know he's changed to go almost 50-50 run-pass...but why does he keep going back to the same old busted pass plays in critical situations when he knows that the running game is on? If he would actually give the run a shot for an extended period of time, it might open up his precious WCO a little more. Those are the adjustments I speak of.

 
My bad.
But no it doesn't sound familar. He doesn't coach the defense here. I am sure the Tampa Bay defense that year would appreciate you taking their credit away from them.

I love how people think you can make magical "adjustments" and make everything hunky dory again. Like there is some magic playbook that can only be used in the second half. I guess it's a side affect of not knowing you are looking from the outside in.
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No, he doesn't coach the defense, but he did bring in a moron to screw that up for him. Any coach worth anything knows if your primary gameplan isn't working, you take what the defense gives you. People like you always complain that Solich couldn't do that. Well, hold Callahan to the same standard. I know he's changed to go almost 50-50 run-pass...but why does he keep going back to the same old busted pass plays in critical situations when he knows that the running game is on? If he would actually give the run a shot for an extended period of time, it might open up his precious WCO a little more. Those are the adjustments I speak of.
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The pass game was open last week. I was there and saw the whole damn thing, Joe just didn't make the plays.

 
No, he doesn't coach the defense, but he did bring in a moron to screw that up for him. Any coach worth anything knows if your primary gameplan isn't working, you take what the defense gives you. People like you always complain that Solich couldn't do that. Well, hold Callahan to the same standard. I know he's changed to go almost 50-50 run-pass...but why does he keep going back to the same old busted pass plays in critical situations when he knows that the running game is on? If he would actually give the run a shot for an extended period of time, it might open up his precious WCO a little more. Those are the adjustments I speak of.

Hey Utah did you ever complain when Frankie kept running the same old BUSTED option every other down? What option right. When the defense puts 9 freakin people in the box don't you think you should pass the ball. Any coach worth anything knows if your primary gameplan isn't working, you take what the defense gives you. People LIKE you gave Frankie boy slack why don't you allow Callahan any? If he would of actually give the passing game a shot, it might of opened up his precious Option a little more. Does the name Craig Bohl ring a bell? Moron given the Defense to screw everything up.

 
Well actually Frank and boys didnt really have the ability to pass when needed like Callahan has the ability to run when he needs to. When the old version of the big red machine got their backs against the wall, i.e. 3rd and long, everyone knew we would have to try a pass, which was out of our game plan, and we usually always failed. Fast fwd to present day "big red machine" if you can call it that, and look at the flip side. When the pass aint workin for Cally or they are only stacking 3 etc. Callahan hasnt exactly proven he can shake himself from his gameplan and adjust to what he has, when in reality it SHOULD be much easier for him than it was for Frank. Hence the benefit of the WCO!! Now take advantage of the damn thing Coach!!

 
Well actually Frank and boys didnt really have the ability to pass when needed like Callahan has the ability to run when he needs to. When the old version of the big red machine got their backs against the wall, i.e. 3rd and long, everyone knew we would have to try a pass, which was out of our game plan, and we usually always failed. Fast fwd to present day "big red machine" if you can call it that, and look at the flip side. When the pass aint workin for Cally or they are only stacking 3 etc. Callahan hasnt exactly proven he can shake himself from his gameplan and adjust to what he has, when in reality it SHOULD be much easier for him than it was for Frank. Hence the benefit of the WCO!! Now take advantage of the damn thing Coach!!
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Amen.

 
Well actually Frank and boys didnt really have the ability to pass when needed like Callahan has the ability to run when he needs to. When the old version of the big red machine got their backs against the wall, i.e. 3rd and long, everyone knew we would have to try a pass, which was out of our game plan, and we usually always failed. Fast fwd to present day "big red machine" if you can call it that, and look at the flip side. When the pass aint workin for Cally or they are only stacking 3 etc. Callahan hasnt exactly proven he can shake himself from his gameplan and adjust to what he has, when in reality it SHOULD be much easier for him than it was for Frank. Hence the benefit of the WCO!! Now take advantage of the damn thing Coach!!
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I'm not talking about passing on 3rd and long. There are a couple of downs before you get to that point.

 
I sense the frustration with Callahan and all, but a new system takes time. Frank's system was like Windows 98, very reliable, but everyone knew the code and was hacking it like crazy.

Callahan is better suited to the college game, but getting the WCO to work with a bunch of I-formation recruits is overly impossible. Now that time, a seson (on the field and in the recruiting field) has almost past, we shall be able to see the direction our beloved program is heading. Not with points and wins or losses, but through the caliber of athlete we attract.

Things are looking very positive right now, and Callahan seems to have the patience with college men that's needed. He certainly blew up and off the overrated baby men of the Raiders last year as that program self destructed under his guidance.

Can the WCO be played successfully? Yes, with the correct personnel. Look at Mike Vick, one heckuva QB, but the WCO has been a style that he has yet learned to adjust to. Other QBs physical and mental talents are more suited to the WCO, and we have made that discovery this season.

By the way, last time I checked the U was still a college, not in the NFL.

Callahan will thrive at NU and you can say you read it here, today, first. Mark my words.

 
Well actually Frank and boys didnt really have the ability to pass when needed like Callahan has the ability to run when he needs to. When the old version of the big red machine got their backs against the wall, i.e. 3rd and long, everyone knew we would have to try a pass, which was out of our game plan, and we usually always failed. Fast fwd to present day "big red machine" if you can call it that, and look at the flip side. When the pass aint workin for Cally or they are only stacking 3 etc. Callahan hasnt exactly proven he can shake himself from his gameplan and adjust to what he has, when in reality it SHOULD be much easier for him than it was for Frank. Hence the benefit of the WCO!! Now take advantage of the damn thing Coach!!
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WE could pass some with crouch, lord just wasn't a great 3rd down passer. Dailey would of been a good passer in barney's offense.

 
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