Seeing Red....
Wow, the Husker fanbase is coming apart. Everywhere I turn Husker fans are tearing each other up trying to figure out a) what happened and b) (more importantly) what should be done.
There are very loud supports of Pedersen and Callahan doing their best to prove that the option was dead and Callahan is a good coach with the wrong talent. There's an equally loud group that thinks Callahan is a joke and needs to be chucked aside before its really too late.
Where do I sit? At the start of the week I was a 'let us give Coach C a chance and see what comes' kind of a guy. Mostly it was because I wanted to be a 'good fan'.
Now I've been talked with ex-players and friends of current players and I say get the bum out now. I have heard some pretty awful stories about how current players that Solich recruited are being treated and it chaps my hide. This is college ball! That kind of crappy, underhanded stuff shows what a creep Callahan is. I have also heard that the team isn't having full contact drills in practice. How can that be? How can players be ready for a full speed, full strength game when they are being hamstrung in practice.
I read a really interesting blog entry by Scott Frost. He's very unhappy with the turn the Huskers have taken, but more on the loss of class and integrity than anything else (if I read it right). It made me sad. Husker football used to be a reflection of the people of Nebraska. Hard working, honest people who gave all they had for what they loved. Now we're just like everyone else. The Huskers are an entry in Stevie P's big balance book. A line item in the pages of a business model.
This current situation at Nebraska is like learning that Santa Claus was real, but he was acquired and downsized by Toys 'R' Us.
Its like finding out your grandfather is terminally ill, but instead of allowing him to linger on your slimy, used car saleman uncle comes in, pulls the plug and marries grandma off to the neighbor so he can inherit grampa's Mustang.
There are some very hurt and angry people in Nebraska. To everyone else its a ballgame. To the folks around here it was our way of life--and its simply gone to hell.
Saturday should prove interesting. I'm taking my dad to his first Nebraska game. He picked a fine time to stop in for a game.
There are very loud supports of Pedersen and Callahan doing their best to prove that the option was dead and Callahan is a good coach with the wrong talent. There's an equally loud group that thinks Callahan is a joke and needs to be chucked aside before its really too late.
Where do I sit? At the start of the week I was a 'let us give Coach C a chance and see what comes' kind of a guy. Mostly it was because I wanted to be a 'good fan'.
Now I've been talked with ex-players and friends of current players and I say get the bum out now. I have heard some pretty awful stories about how current players that Solich recruited are being treated and it chaps my hide. This is college ball! That kind of crappy, underhanded stuff shows what a creep Callahan is. I have also heard that the team isn't having full contact drills in practice. How can that be? How can players be ready for a full speed, full strength game when they are being hamstrung in practice.
I read a really interesting blog entry by Scott Frost. He's very unhappy with the turn the Huskers have taken, but more on the loss of class and integrity than anything else (if I read it right). It made me sad. Husker football used to be a reflection of the people of Nebraska. Hard working, honest people who gave all they had for what they loved. Now we're just like everyone else. The Huskers are an entry in Stevie P's big balance book. A line item in the pages of a business model.
This current situation at Nebraska is like learning that Santa Claus was real, but he was acquired and downsized by Toys 'R' Us.
Its like finding out your grandfather is terminally ill, but instead of allowing him to linger on your slimy, used car saleman uncle comes in, pulls the plug and marries grandma off to the neighbor so he can inherit grampa's Mustang.
There are some very hurt and angry people in Nebraska. To everyone else its a ballgame. To the folks around here it was our way of life--and its simply gone to hell.
Saturday should prove interesting. I'm taking my dad to his first Nebraska game. He picked a fine time to stop in for a game.
posted by Carl at 9:03 PM
1 Comments:
To put it bluntly: Like Shit.
One former player claims that Callahan would not talk to players he didn't recruit or would not be starting. That seems a little over generalized, but I trust this student's judgement.
One of our players was told he would not get any playing time this year. He applied for a red-shirt to keep his elligibility alive. Callahan put him in during the Baylor game for 5 plays (and only 5 plays) to make sure the red-shirt could not be issued to him. This kid had hopes to go pro, they are now dashed on the rocks.
You just have to read the Scott Frost blog entry to get a feeling for how he's treating the graduated athletes.
http://journalstar.com/huskerextra2/blogs/
always_husker.php?title=
title_11&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
All of this is hearsay of course, but I trust both sources. There are also other things that make this sort of stuff ring true. The 'F***ing Hillbillies' comment at OU last year, the 'throat cutting gesture' at the ref and the player's revolt while he was at Oakland all seem to point to a petty, volite person who should not be teaching kids.
I'm secretly hoping he gets over it. I hope that its just leftover NFL mentality and not deeply inbedded character issues.
If nothing else, know that the losses at Oakland were not his fault. He had "the dumbest team in America".
Classy guy.
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