some people just get their panties in a bunch because you dont agree with them. me personally, i am tired of the blame game going toward Callahan for Blake leaving. Blake has kept nothing a secret about his ambitions about being a head coach again and i would be a matter of time that he would leave anyway. he took the opportunity that he was given that he thought would be best for him and his family.
Callahan could not fire Coz in the middle of bowl preperations and offer the job to Blake to try to get him to stay. Coz may or may not be the right answer for the Huskers, but firing him before the bowl game would definitely be the wrong answer.
Callahan did what was best for this team right now. After the game then there might be some changes in the staff or the staff's philosophys.
I still have to go back to the defenses of Charlie McBride. it seems to me that alot of people on this board are not old enough to remember the bend but not break attitude and slow footed LB and DB that NU had in the 80's and early 90's under McBride. Over 10 years mind you. Then after another Orange Bowl defeat to a Florida school with superior team speed, a change was made to the 4-3 scheme. Charlie made LB's out of DB's and recruited even faster DB's
We are in the 3 year of Cozgrove's tenure and we are already calling for his head.
again i will say that you have to give a coach and his staff 4-5 years before you can truley judge how capable they are as coaches and recruiters.
sorry for the long rant, just my opinion
I know what you are saying, and I agree that a coach should be given a chance. However, even though it did take McBride a while to change… he did change, and for the better. The result was one of the most dominating defenses in college football history. The numbers for those McBride defenses in the `90’s are almost all better than Cosgrove’s best numbers, even when Coz was at a place where he had plenty of time to recruit and implement his own system. And, McBride’s numbers include a huge amount of play by second and third team guys since the games were commonly blow-outs by halftime.
In my humble opinion you shouldn’t fix something that isn’t broken. In other words, I don’t care how long it took McBride to get it right…he got it right. Speed, Speed, Speed. That was the answer in the `90’s and it hasn’t changed now. I hate seeing 235-250 pound linebackers out there chasing around wide receivers. When McBride coached we had linebackers like T-Far who went about 205lbs, and Jamel Williams who was 205lbs soaking wet, and Tony Ortiz at 205lbs, and EJ who was 200lbs, and McFarlain who was 200lbs… Cooper, Hollowell, were both a bit bigger, but they only went about 220lbs, Demario was about 210lbs (he’s bigger now). Those guys could cover receivers if they had to.
Coz has a whole different philosophy. We don’t have a linebacker on our roster right now under 220lbs. And all of the starters are over 225lbs. That includes Bradley who goes 250lbs. I don’t blame Bradley, but I believe in the McBride era, (and the couple of years that followed) Bradley would have been playing Rush End.
I’m not saying coaches don’t deserve a chance, my problem is that I think Coz’s philosophy has us moving in the wrong direction. That’s why I would like to see him go before he does any more damage. Just my humble opinion. I certainly respect your right to disagree.
