[Husker] Coaches

[Bob Beach]

At 09:50 AM 1/9/2005, Andy Knipp wrote:





>Funny Bob,  you were the one who start this thread.



      Ever heard of tongue in cheek?  I was only taking a good natured 
swipe at myself.  Sorry if that didn't come through.




>I have not seen anyone claim that BC should have kept all the 
>assistants.  However IMHO he
>should have atleast considered who he had and talked to them for more than 
>5 minutes to tell
>them they were all fired.




      Okay, maybe the words "kept all the assistants" wasn't used but the 
implication from some was that Callahan really missed the boat when he 
didn't retain a great share of Solich's staff.





>I could easily understand not wanting to retain Cotton and some of the 
>other O coaches.  But to dismiss
>everyone without consideration was crazy, esp with the level of 
>improvement in the D in 1 year.




      I have never said Callahan should have cleaned house.  I have never 
said some of Solich's coaches shouldn't have been retained.  The point I am 
trying to make is Husker fans shouldn't have been surprised Callahan 
brought in his own people.  Coaches just do it that way right, wrong, or 
indifferent.  And, I used Solich as another example as he is bringing his 
people into Ohio.  Even though they had a bad season last year there may 
have been a coach or two on the Ohio University staff that was tenured and 
respected by the Ohio fans.  Solich is just following the normal practice 
of populating his staff with his people.  And I have tried to make the 
point it is certainly understandable why coaches would do that.


      That is really all I have been saying the whole time.  I haven't been 
defending what Callahan did nor have I said he did the wrong thing.  I am 
just saying it wasn't surprising.


Bob Beach










>IMHO he kept Downing since he was the recruiting coordinator & initially 
>was only going to keep him until
>signing day,  later he relented.  I also suspect Gill was a PR 
>move,  since he was probably the most popular
>coach with the fans.
>
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