[Husker] The era of the big red machine; I lived my life withis over today.

[Dick Karre]

If your "worst case" is that NU misses a bowl next year, your expectations 
may be too high.

I thought most of the year that Callahan's primary emphasis was on getting 
his offense in place. I suspect he believed that he could win while doing 
so, but I also suspect that winning this year was secondary with him. He 
knew going in that virtually no record this year would be bad enough to get 
him fired, and he probably believes that the long-term interests of the 
program are best served by getting the players familar with his system. I 
don't have a shred of evidence (other than what I saw on the field) to 
support this, and I don't necessarily agree with it, but it's what I 
believe.

Dick Karre
dkarre at comcast.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "j j" <jjj112665 at yahoo.com>
To: "Bob Beach" <rrbeach at rrbeach.com>; <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] The era of the big red machine;I lived my life withis 
over today.


> Well if he ran a certain style without regards to
> winning then IMHO that makes him a damn poor coach.
> The coaches job is to win games, not to implement a
> certain offense. What happens if these new recruits
> dont pan out to be the great WCO player he thinks. Do
> we just keep implementing the system and not worry
> about winning? He wont be here very long if thats the
> case. Worst case scenerio question. If NU fails to go
> bowling next year do Pedersen or Callahan survive?
> --- Bob Beach <rrbeach at rrbeach.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:04:54 -0800 (PST), j j wrote:
>> > Bob I have to disagree on the play calling. BC
>> stated at the start
>> > of the season that NU would take what the defense
>> gave them. To me
>> > that would mean playing to their weakness.
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>>      I have known people many times to say one thing
>> and do another.  Look, all I was trying to say is
>> there has to be some reason Callahan coached the way
>> he did.  It didn't appear many times he was really
>> trying to win as much as implementing his system.
>> If one is going to completely overhaul the offense
>> at some point you have to just flat do it regardless
>> of wins and losses.  Then you keep running it and
>> little by little plug your people in and then if the
>> right talent is recruited the wins will come.  He
>> either is doing that or he is a damn poor coach.  I
>> am not ready to go that direction at this point so I
>> would like to think he indeed has a plan.  Time may
>> indeed change my opinion.E
>>
>>
>> Bob Beach
>>
>>
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