Posted on 11/24/2007 7:01:43 AM PST by conservativehusker
A source close to Nebraska coach Bill Callahan has confirmed that Callahan was fired Saturday morning at a meeting with interim athletic director Tom Osborne.
A news conference will be held in Lincoln at 10:30 ET.
Joe Schad is a college football reporter for ESPN.
Gig’em!
Ping.
Thank God. Bring back Pelini and the black shirts.
I think Pelini is an excellent coach. However, I don’t think he is the best fit for Nebraska. I think they need to go back to the way Nebraska football was established by Devaney and Osborne. Right now, I would like to see Gill get the position. He was embedded as a player and coach in a program that was established in a way that was second to none.
By the way...great tagline!:)
Can’t come as much of a surprise, given the Hooskers’ season this year.
Here are my thoughts: The Cornhuskers are on the right track with the west coast offense. This will attract recruits who will want to goto the next level. As far as I can tell, the ingredients are there. The defense on the other hand is in dire straits. If Bo Pelini can strentghen the defense and simplify the west coast offense, then they will rise up again.
If you doubt my wisdom, just look at the offensive scores, even on their losses.
franksolich time? I don’t think so.
Taking as much emotion out of this as I can..I think Callahan is probably as good of an offense guy as there is...he’s just not head coach material....he lost the Raiders after the superbowl and he lost this team after USC. I’m not a very knowledgeable X’s and O’s guy but know enough that he needed to go as head coach...
Why should any college athletic club care about recruits that want to go to the next level?
I’m assuming that by “the next level” you mean pro.
I wholeheartedly believe that it is not about offense, defense or special teams. It is about character. The foundation of the Nebraska program under Osborne was built on character. That is the spirit that the Nebraska program needs to recapture. I believe Nebraska had something different, something more special than any other program in the country. Osborne not only preached character, but he lived it and the players eventually learned from it.
word is they’re going to hire Pat Jones...
The best athletes expect to continue to the next level, at which they can secure their fortune. Therefore, any team which wants to attract the best athletes must show that it can help those athletes along the way to that destination.
Therefore, any team which wants to win and believes the athleticism of its players contributes to its likelihood of victory will care about the sort of football played at the professional level.
“Why should any college athletic club care about recruits that want to go to the next level?”
Because it is a selling point to the recruits. Any college recruit who says they don’t dream of going pro is lying. It is human nature to progress. Now granted, most college football players won’t make the pro’s for whatever reason.
That is not necessarily true. Ask Urban Myer. In fact, the opposite is true. At least that is what he says anyway. I saw him speak about two years ago and the problem he first encountered at Florida was that the players were only concerned with going to the next level instead playing as a team and winning football games.
Florida...I didn’t know they had college football teams. Do they even have Pro teams? I mean seriousely, Miami Dolphins?
OK,you are right. But leadership knows how to temper the drive for the next level and play as a team. college footbal is a team sport mixed with personal drive.
Horsesh1t.
The huskers got 3 national championships with running plays and option quarterbacks that never went anywhere after college.
Now they are using the west coast offense with an NFL coach paid millions per year and what do they get? THE worst season in 30 years.
We sent alot of players to the NFL..just not QB’s
“Now they are using the west coast offense with an NFL coach paid millions per year and what do they get? THE worst season in 30 years.”
The west coast offense coupled with a high school defense will get you a losing season.
The high schools defense is exactly like Chase Daniels the Mizzu Quarter back described the Nebraska defense formarly know as the Blackshirts....
Very good point. Osborne certainly knew how to lead. Nebraska had something special. It would be nice to see it the way it was...or at least something close.
The thing I liked best about the huskers was their ability to stomp teams with “superior” players of “superior” talent. I especially loved the tennessee vs nebraska game that I think was osborn’s last game...but I could be wrong. The tennessee quarterback went on to be a bigshot in the NFL. But he couldn’t do a dam thing against nebraska. I loved that game.
When they fired solich, all that went out the window. Never again will the huskers be a team of regualar farm boys that beat the “talented” teams.
Also, it used to be that the sports commentators always criticized nebraska and talked like they didn’t deserve the rankings they got. That’s part of what made me like nebraska. Everyone would say how the huskers just got lucky and then every time they would kick a$$ again. It was hilarious! Then about 10-15 years ago, the commentators started talking up the huskers like they had been husker fans all along.
If you havn't figured it out by now, I was a huge devaney-osborn fan. Sadly, my beloved husker spirit is dead and gone forever. Until they bring back the option and running plays and start showing preference to local and semi local kids in recruiting, I don't care if they never win another game.
If my memory serves me right, Phillips is doing time now. There were others similar to this, but I can’t remember them now.
I am assuming you know all of the inside details of what went on between Osborne and Phillips. I think it is very unfortunate the direction that Phillips chose to take. Osborne could not choose for him. I don’t know for sure, but I am certain that for every one Phillips, there were a hundred Brook Berringers.
Everytime I hear an Uniformed no nothing talk about the situation condemn Tom Osborn for Larence Phillips I see a very jealous fan of another team....Dr Tom was trying to help a young man and doesn’t deserve the condemnation he has received...May someone try to help me out if I ever need it....Phillips just P**sed away the chance...for anyone who says DR Tom played LP to win go back and watch the tape..LP was needed at all....
LP was’t needed at all....
In 1993, when his player, Christian Peter, sexually assaulted Miss Nebraska Natalie Kuijvenhoven, George [magazine] reported that Osborne minimized the serious nature of the assault, questioned her motivation, making up a baseless story that her boyfriend had been cut from the team. After convicted and sentenced, Osborne suspended Peter for only a practice game.A real paragon of virtue there!When Kathy Redmond reported Peter's two rapes against her, Osborne questioned her motivation – fabricating allegations that her sister had been raped, too, and she wanted the same attention from family members as her sister. He also minimized the brutal assault by player, Lawrence Phillips on his former girlfriend, attacking the eye-witness account of Sandy Worm, who saw him drag her by the hair down three flights of stairs and then pounding her head against the wall.
"There was no brutal beating," Osborne told George.
None of this is to mention Osborne-defended players (like Tyrone Williams and Riley Washington) who shot at people or (like Jason Jenkins) took out a victim's eye. "I'm certain there was no intent to hit anyone with gunfire," said Osborne. According to George, "Lincoln County Attorney Gary Lacy complained publicly that in a string of cases Osborne had used 'his influence to disrupt the criminal justice system.'" Interfering with investigations, obstructing justice.
Dennis Franchione is available - maybe he’d be a good fit. ;-)
Must be true-— no reporter would make up or embellish a story due to hatred of a Football program......nooooooo...we can always rely of the medie for the truth......
Dr Osborne is a good man ..I’m certain that these players were not angels but neither did Dt Tom feild a team full of animals...but jealuousy of a program or hatred of Footbal in general will make anyone see just the bad or even only the worse side of a situation.
You might want to read Debbie’s article (at the link) about how she was harassed by Dr. Tom after her article came out.
I started to read it a realize she has an agenda...she talked about Tom calling her to discuss a past article —she didn’t want to talk about it so Tom is evil...no agenda there.....why not discuss tha article..was she not secure in what she wrote?????
I hope they feel like a nutt again.
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