What do you think about this?

To tell you the truth, I kind of wish he was actually holding a knife. I was a HUGE Husker fan until this moron got the job. Now, I can't stand to watch them. Hopefully they'll get rid of him soon so I can get my Nebraska gear out of storage.

could really care less about callahan and his gesture..he was an idiot that ruined my Raiders team

Since I coach in this state, and since I worked Big Red Football School for years (don’t anymore) I’ll offer my two cents. First, Callahan is not a bad guy, nor does he have a bad scheme. I do not have the same philosophy as he does, but I won’t knock it. There were a lot of rumors circulating around RE: Solich… the recent trouble doesn’t help that much either, but Pederson pushed Solich out without a plan- Callahan became the best available, but I question whether his system and approach is best for Nebraska football. I coach in a small (tiny) school… we do not often have DI kids, but we do have them. I’ve seen players this year who we played in the tiny school division who play and play well (Matt Ikes, for ex.). Nebraska does not have many QB/RB/Rec./DB types (Gale Sayers is an exception), but we have a lot of role players in this state who are eager to play that role. Eliminating the walk-on program will really hurt- 10 years ago players would walk-on at Nebraska rather than accept a scholarship at Iowa St. That is no longer the case and that will hurt this program. I also wonder why a “pro style” offense is such a sell- true, Nebraska really never had a big time NFL QB (David Humm, Vince Ferrigamo -sp?), but did have a lot of guys who went on. Plus, Nebraska usually obtained one of the, if not the best running QB in the nation. A QB who runs and wanted to play QB could go to the Service Academies, Rice or Nebraska. Now, a passing QB has choices like Miami (beaches, bikinis), USC/UCLA (same), Florida schools (same), etc. or Nebraska (blizzards, corn and cattle). I just don’t see Nebraska getting a top QB. Callahan is running his system- but Pederson fails to accept that this system and approach turn away Nebraska kids. Even Machiavelli warned of the weaknesses to an army by using mercenaries (perhaps he never read that). Marginal DI Nebraska kids would come to school, redshirt, play scout team, get their but kicked daily and then play Wide Receiver and routinely keep the force man 7 yards from the pitch back because they LOVED the HUSKERS and would do ANYTHING to play even a minor part in the continued success. That is lost now… and the 7-7 year did have something to do with that, but 9-3 (10-3?) the following year let people of this state know everything was back on track… until Pederson made a hasty decision without having a plan to make it better. The truth is Callahan was down the list as far as choices go--- Pederson talked too much about “big name” coaching interviews that when no one took the job and an NFL coach needed one- it was too tempting to be ignored by SP. Nebraska will compete (in the North anyway), but the mystique, the decades of dominance… that’s over.

As far as the throat slash, well, it probably shouldn’t have been done. I’ve done some things at games that I regretted outside of the heat of the moment. I bet accountants and lawyers do stuff like this too, but it goes unnoticed because no one really wants to watch them at their jobs.

sorry so long... blizzard, 2+ feet of blowing snow, no school all week... I'm getting a bit nuts (remember the Shining...)

i though you were referring to the new way you have your name written. how do you pronounce the two little dot things?

i just noticed that also


tog always trying to one-up us

whatareya, Nordic, tog?

I agree with Bluto's assessment....very fair and honest. I was a BIG Husker fan in the 80's and 90's. Some of my best memories was visiting the campus and talking with McBride and Osborne (GREAT guy)....I've seen the Husker-lite they put on the field now and it is such a culture shock. I've watched games off-and-on since Callahan got there, and still cannot stomach it. It's like watching an elephant do ballet. I think the offense is great, Cory Ross is a great back - but it's not "NEBRASKA" football. All the people I talk to IN Nebraska are fair and supportive of Callahan, but even when Nebraska struggled under Crouch in the final years of Solich, it was still NEBRASKA option football and an aggressive defense. Now, I don't know what to make of it.

I've seen the gif before, but I never understood what context Callahan was using it in....

my wife is from iowa does that count for the first part?

and I once got a papercut when I tried to put my practice schedule in a little plastic protecto thingy