His first 3-4 quarters looked promising but then the product on the field started to drop off a bit. What was it that caused the wheels to fall off?
Why did Crapahan fail at NU
- Thread starter Charlie Marlow
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Because of some "fight" in the basement of the Alamo with some boosters...
What do you mean there isn't a basement in the Alamo?
What movie?
What do you mean there isn't a basement in the Alamo?
What movie?
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Callahan did a lot of things right and was innovative in a lot of ways. He obviously recruited at the highest level of any coach since TO...had a top 5 class in October of the 2007 season, and his 2005-2006 classes lead to most of Bo's success. He got our spring game on the NFL network which was great exposure and ahead of its time, and he was very innovative with football education technology. He also grew into a fan of our fan base after the 2006 season. His press conference following the big 12 championship game in KC is one of the best. He was just blown away by the fan support in 10 degree weather...and to start the next season he really worked hard to teach his players that it meant something to play for the state. Something people overlooked is we HAD to hire a new Dline coach and we absolutely no defensive depth because of the small classes in 2003-2004 that Frankie signed. Cally did waste a to of schollies on jucos and so his defense in 2007 was really weak. He was breaking in a new qb, ZT graduated in 2006, We also played 7 or 8 top 30 offenses that season, this year we played 2-3, so the ability to be blown out went up exponentially. We played 6 top 25 teams and including multiple top 10 teams on the road...so expectations were too high and the bottom fell out. Cally only had 2 years hc experience when he came to NU,the same as Frost...and those years were not program building. Considering that I think he improved overall and had some interesting ideas...but his learning curve was too steep...probably should have gone to a MAC school first.
IMO cut throat bill didn't want to be here he took the job because he got fired from the raiders, he had no idea how to operate a college team, actually just a all around bad hire he wouldn't have stayed had he been successful the first chance the NFL came calling he would have bolted. Plus cosgrove was another nail in the coffin
Christahan had some great offenses, but he seemed to think you could just win every game on offense. The defenses were pretty poor during his time in Lincoln. Cosgrove was not a great hire on his part. It also seemed like recruiting was too heavily balanced toward the offense.
Exactly...... couldn’t open his eyes— I firmly believe if he would have changed DC and gone more aggressive thing would have worked out differently
Clownahan's offense at NU is EXTREMELY overrated. A big portion of his offensive numbers for yards & TDs were got at garbage time.
While NU was getting slaughtered like stuck pigs usually around half-time we were playing the opponents water boys. So, our offense then looked very good. Just like the Oregon game this year.....totally destroy NU by half-time then go in cruise control.
While NU was getting slaughtered like stuck pigs usually around half-time we were playing the opponents water boys. So, our offense then looked very good. Just like the Oregon game this year.....totally destroy NU by half-time then go in cruise control.
To be fair our defense was crap in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006,2007,2008, 2012, 2013,2014,2015, 2016, 2017....not sure Callahan was the problem. Our inability to field good depth on the dline has been the problem. You guys put too much emphasis on coaching. We haven't had the defensive players, just look at who has been drafted from our defenses? Nearly everybody over the last 20 years came from 2003, 2009-2011 defenses. We just had good personnel who came of age at the right time. Now we HAVE to have a great defense to win a championship, we CANNOT win without a good dline, but it comes down to personnel more than coaching on that side of the ball. There is no such things as a scheme that works, only guys who can beat the other guys. Hopefully Scottie can puts all of his eggs into the defensive basket...and hope he happens ot have a couple all americans on the dline. If not our hopes are pointless.
As marginal as our Beaver DLine was the last three years our Oline was even worse. Imo, far worse.
Frost will have his hands full initially but he'll get it done.
Exactly, our offense under Callahan was average at best. Put up a bunch of numbers in garbage time, but that's it.
There has never been a national champion that finished worse than 20th in scoring defense. Offense matters but offense only needs to be efficient and limit turnovers while scoring 24+ points a game. The defense determines games on the biggest stage and we have not recruited the defensive side of the ball well enough since TO retired. Callahan had a good enough offense to win a championship...but he recruited the best defensive players we have had since 1999-2000. Bo reaped the benefits, because once those kids were gone the d went in the crapper. I love the Frost hire but I don't see us winning anything big unless we somehow pull a defense that can get stops continually against good talent. We won't outscore teams with better d and olines.
