After 10 years and constant mystical unexplainable insanity regardless of coach….
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If we are engaging in the way back machine how about we go back and kick TO in the balls until he doesn't force Solich as his successor.
WE SHOULD HAVE JUST KEPT BO.
We could be sitting here with Bill Callahan in his 20th season. Could have had Blaine Gabbert, Nathan Scheelhasse, Tyler Gabbert, Tyler Matthews, Drew Lock, Skylar Thompson, Tristian Gebbia, Graham Mertz, Jake Garcia, Avery Johnson, Dylan Raiola, and Daniel Kaelin at qb.
But nooo fucking cock weasels wanted him out so bad
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Shit we could of had lots of guys post TO but TO fucked us
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Music when it's good...and life - Tom T. Hall.
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It’s all hypothetical, but I’m of the opinion that Bo was about a year or two away from crashing and burning.
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I honestly think 2015 would have been about as bad if Bo were still the HC. His shitty recruiting was going to catch up in a big way.
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He built us into a 5-7 program in his 4th season. He cratered the Raiders and NU. No one has asked him to be a HC again and for good reason. Great OL coach, meh coordinator, terrible HC.
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Based on what he did after NU that seems reasonable. Nobody was trying to hire him after us.
Not to mention he probably still holds 7-8 of the 10 worst defensive performances ever by the Huskers
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An Ode to Good ol’ Nebraska U
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Ok, I will say it and I don't care if you dipshits disagree, it is time to go back to option football. We have proven through how many damn coaches we can't get things to work anyway else, what the hell do we have to lose?
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if dont think Bo would’ve gotten fired eventually with a defense that got outdated(look at LSU which he called in a favor to get) & a guy that couldn’t recruit or develop OL/DL then I got a beachfront property to sell u in Lincoln
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His best teams at Nebraska were full of Callahan recruits.
He was successful his first couple years at YSU with some Nebraska transfers.
Once time goes on and the teams are filled with players he recruited, things started to go downhill. Plus, could you imagine Bo in the portal/NIL era? The man would have aneurysms on a weekly basis.
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I still think recruiting-focused fans look back on Callahan with rose colored glasses because A) he was a great recruiter, and B) it was when sites like Rivals were first taking off.
He wasn't going to stay here for 20 years. He was not a DC away from building a juggernaut. He never seemed to enjoy or connect with Nebraska or college football in general. He was so set in his ways he took a program that was just 6 years removed from the greatest stretch in CFB history, 2 years removed from a natty appearance (deserved or not), and decided he should flip a switch and start completely from scratch with a system that was the antithesis of what led to the greatest stretch in CFB history, which again was only 6 years earlier... I think we forget just how recent all of that still was at the time.
He got a bad rap, all things considered, but it was always an odd and bad fit. And that's ok, we've seen plenty worse since then.
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He was a really bad fit at the time, he'd be a much better fit now.
Yes, bringing the WCO to a team that had ran option football for 3+decades was only going to work if you were a great coach with ample time.
Other than a DC the main issue with Bill is struggling to connect to kids in a meaningful way. That last team quit on him bigly and he wasn't able to keep them motivated.
He ran it like a pro env where you expect your players to act like pros.
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