AJ Bush

[jlb321]

Callahan was doomed from the minute TO lost that election. The campaign to oust Pederson and Callahan was in full swing early in that last season. No way Callahan had survived. Beck was never going to develop no matter how much time we gave him I'm afraid. All pulling the shirt did was let us find out earlier IMO. Some guys are gamers others not so much.

you know I was joking right ???

 

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I might have to check out a game or 2 if I can.

 

[dockentwo]

yes, agreed, if it is going to be several games then so be it ... just wouldn't do it for a half or a quarter

I agree with the notion that you don't really know until the bullets start flying with the caveat being that if a kid struggles under fake fire in practice they rarely thrive and getter better when the ammo is live in a real game ... the more common scenario is to look great in practice and wilt in real game situations

plus, remember what happened after we pulled Beck's redshirt in an emergency .. the kid was never the same .. Callahan would still be here and we would be competing for national championships had we just given the kid time to develop

But if he spent more time developing, wouldn't he have had to give up his band????

 

[dinglefritz]

Agree with you about Beck. Disagree about Callahan. Had he won more games he would have stayed. And his main problem was not his offense, but the crappy defense. Osborne admitted as much when he hired Bo to fix the defense while ordering Bo to keep Watson.

A booster of substance that I know disagrees with the idea that Callahan would have kept his job.

you know I was joking right ???

We need the old emoticons back. My sarcasm meter must be broken.

 

[Pennsyhusker]

A booster of substance that I know disagrees with the idea that Callahan would have kept his job.

We need the old emoticons back. My sarcasm meter must be broken.

I don't care about your "booster of substance". No offense. But there is NO WAY, if Callahan had won, say, 10 games in 2007 that he would have been fired.

 

[dinglefritz]

I don't care about your "booster of substance". No offense. But there is NO WAY, if Callahan had won, say, 10 games in 2007 that he would have been fired.

There was no way midway through the season that Callahan could have won 10 games.

 

[Pennsyhusker]

There was no way midway through the season that Callahan could have won 10 games.

Oh I agree with that. Sorry dinglefritz and please excuse my obtuseness. I guess I misunderstood your point.

All I was trying to say was that Callahan would not have been fired had he won more. And that, of course, is an obvious point. Sorry I misunderstood.

 

[NikkiSixx]

Callahan was doomed from the minute TO lost that election. The campaign to oust Pederson and Callahan was in full swing early in that last season. No way Callahan had survived. Beck was never going to develop no matter how much time we gave him I'm afraid. All pulling the shirt did was let us find out earlier IMO. Some guys are gamers others not so much.

Callahan lost the team that season and that was obvious to everyone when it happened. I believe that is why he was fired. Had he done something about Cosgrove, the wheels might not have come off like that. Prior to that happening, BC was doing a pretty good job and I don't think anyone could foresee what was going to happen.

 

[Pennsyhusker]

I was a Callahan supporter until midway that season. I loved his recruiting and his offense. But his blind support for Cosgrove was his undoing.

 

[dinglefritz]

I was a Callahan supporter until midway that season. I loved his recruiting and his offense. But his blind support for Cosgrove was his undoing.

There were former players (at least one with a younger brother on the defense) that were advising Coz's players to do things differently than he was trying to coach. It was a mess. I'm not saying Coz was a good D coordinator but there were other factors not helping either. He had an out and out rebellion going on. His defensive staff was incredibly dysfunctional. According to TO, BC asked him near the end of the season if he wanted him to fire Coz and TO told him that he wasn't going to tell him to fire anybody......meaning you're all gone anyway. You have to remember, we had a reasonably good year the year before and were ranked nationally (I think top 10ish or teens) headed in to that final year so it really would have been odd to fire him until those final defensive melt downs.

 

[bigboxes]

There were former players (at least one with a younger brother on the defense) that were advising Coz's players to do things differently than he was trying to coach. It was a mess. I'm not saying Coz was a good D coordinator but there were other factors not helping either. He had an out and out rebellion going on. His defensive staff was incredibly dysfunctional. According to TO, BC asked him near the end of the season if he wanted him to fire Coz and TO told him that he wasn't going to tell him to fire anybody......meaning you're all gone anyway. You have to remember, we had a reasonably good year the year before and were ranked nationally (I think top 10ish or teens) headed in to that final year so it really would have been odd to fire him until those final defensive melt downs.

TO was brought on as well and that added to the instability. Lots of politics going on a blue blood school like NU.

 

[dragonraider1]

Husker Nation needs more shovels to finally bury discussion of coaches that under achieved as DR Osborne's successors. Callahan in a thread about AJ Bush? GBR 14-0.

 

[Hoosker Du]

What's frustrating is that there isn't a whole lot wrong with TA's game. He's got to make a handful of better decisions and he'd be what we need to put us in that 10 win category as a start. Let Lee take it from there.

I seem to remember TA coming out the first couple of series against BYU and running the ball, throwing the check down, screens, sideline routes, crossing routes. I sat there thinking, Riley is a muther ****ing miracle worker. We might be unstoppable. TA didn't keep that up long.

Yeah, I remember that first series against BYU...and me getting my pencil sharpened to put us in my playoff bracket. Just kidding, sorta. But he truly looked amazing.

The thing I look at is how very rare it is for any true freshman or even a redshirt freshman to be a difference maker at QB. Look at Kaaya at Miami and Rosen at UCLA. Both were 2 of the highest recruited QBs in the nation, and yet both still had completion percentages at around 56% and 59% respectively, and I believe 11 and 9 INTs their freshman years. Decent, but not earth-shattering numbers. And those numbers are from two of the most sought after QBs in the country. Expecting FR QBs to come in and start, let alone excel, is asking quite a bit of them.

 

[nordakotahusker]

yes, agreed, if it is going to be several games then so be it ... just wouldn't do it for a half or a quarter

I agree with the notion that you don't really know until the bullets start flying with the caveat being that if a kid struggles under fake fire in practice they rarely thrive and getter better when the ammo is live in a real game ... the more common scenario is to look great in practice and wilt in real game situations

plus, remember what happened after we pulled Beck's redshirt in an emergency .. the kid was never the same .. Callahan would still be here and we would be competing for national championships had we just given the kid time to develop

Beck had one decent year at D2 Northern Alabama after washing out at Nebraska and NC State. Don't think he would have re-written the record books or saved Callahan's job at NU had he stayed.

Edit: I obviously didn't realize you were joking either.