I liked Callahan. I thought he was a dignified guy. Two things doomed him. His loyalty to Cosgrove and whatever promises he had made to Sam Kellar to get him to come to Lincoln. Ganz was the better QB but did not get a chance until Sam broke his collarbone against Texas.
I agree. But damn we have to fix our special teams and get our offensive line playing better.
That MD Iowa game is interesting. Iowa might have some issues on defense.
Well he was handcuffed more by some of the assistants the Pedie suggested he hire on defense. Cosgrove wasn't terrible the next to last year. That last year he had a full on player revolt on defense. I could be wrong but I think Cosgrove was a defensive analyst for LSU the year they won the title with Burrow. We had a player on the team who had an older brother who played for Frank. He literally was telling his younger brother and the other DBs to play different techniques than Coz' was coaching.
yep. pretty rare for a guy to have a career like he's had and be basically universally liked.
classic trap game/look ahead spot with state penn coming to town in 2 weeks
I actually agree and we may the only ones in state that believe this ( besides players and coaches).
He wore the shit out of that play with porkchop.
Best coach we've had since Osborne, and not really close.
I'd feel better if it was coaching changes this week to address ST and OL penalities.
My brother used to be involved with the Seward football team. He attended a coaches clinic for Nebraska HS coaches and assistants in Lincoln. My brother helped coach linebackers so he attended a session run by Cosgrove. He told me that of all the clinics he had attended that Cosgrove’s was the best. Said the guy could explain things really well and was unbelievably knowledgeable about how to defense modern offenses. When the defensive implosion happened in 2007 my brother was dumbfounded and told me that only one thing could explain it: player dissension.
Three things doomed Callahan. The two you mentioned and his combining the words "flustered" and "frustrated" and making "flustrated". That used to drive me nuts.
If Billy C. would have replaced his life long buddy Cosgrove at DC he may have been our head coach for many years.
Maybe, maybe not. I don't think he was invested in being at Nebraska and would have parlayed any success into a different job pretty quickly. People forget he was very much a square peg in a round hole.
The trouble is that Callahan would have had to fire him in the previous year, but the defense was ok that year. By the time you get to the troubles in 2007, Pederson is fired and Osborne is hired. At that point, even if Callahan had fired Cosgrove mid season, it was too late. Osborne was brought in to fire Callahan and there was nothing Callahan could do at that point anyway.
Did not realize our next head coach was right here on RSS.
And some are assuming that Alberts was hired to fire Frost.. But there is more to the story behind Moos why he was let go with a nice retirement gift..
You are probably right, I never watch them, it is like watching paint dry and then painting over that dry paint only to watch it dry again. In all my life I have never said "Can't wait for that Iowa game" unless they are playing NU.
Busted his ass on the play, but AM made the play not Cam.
Keller played well while he was here. He played against the toughest defenses on the schedule that year. Ganz got to played against the weaker ones.
Isn’t it a shame when a common schmuck like myself could be mistaken for the real deal so easily?
I remember him and coach Osborne having a strong mutual admiration of each other too.
Nothing against your brother, but I also listened to a Cosgrove multiple times and actually got to talk to him about a couple ideas once.
not sure what you expect from a minn fan
Frost has 2 HUGE opportunities that he better take advantage the next 2 weeks.
Of course the system can't change in the middle of the season. But I have always believed that we should be preparing, from the first day of spring ball, some group of plays using an extra lineman as a FB or a TE.
