[Husker] Let there be Peace on Earth, and Let it begin with me

[Mike Jaixen]

>>> GREAT <<< post.

Dick Karre asked "how many" calls came in like this? 
I wasn't counting, but I'd say it was at least a
dozen.  They even let the show run over for a half an
hour to get more people in.  Of course, some of the
"change believers" called in to rebuke, though some of
them came awfully close to admitting that they might
have rooted for Nebraska to lose under Solich to force
the change 2 years ago.

--- Alan Siporin <alans at efn.org> wrote:

> On 9/14/05 5:28 PM, "Mike Jaixen"
> <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think the implosion is already well underway. A
> > local talk show tonight was filled with Husker
> fans
> > who are rooting for Pitt this weekend in the hope
> that
> > it fortells the beginning of the end of this
> chapter
> > of Nebraska football.
> > 
> > And before the "change backers" start pointing
> > fingers, they should be reminded that they were
> the
> > first ones to lose patience.
> > 
> > There is plenty of blame to go around; I'm trying
> to
> > find out if there is any middle ground to be had
> here.
> 
> Let me offer some middle ground, or at least a place
> to gain perspective.
> As a person who felt Solich should have been given
> another year or two, it
> makes me sad to hear of people who would root
> against Nebraska. I'm a
> Callahan fan now, though I still root for Solich,
> too. That doesn't seem
> like a very hard proposition.
> 
> Unfortunately, this rooting against Nebraska has cut
> both ways. I knew a lot
> of so-called fans, a few years ago, who rooted for
> Solich to lose in order
> to speed up his firing. That always seemed so
> bizarre to me. If he's winning
> you don't need to have him fired. But they didn't
> see it that way. If you
> think about it, since Pederson had clearly decided
> to fire Solich prior to
> the Colorado game that year - after all, he fired
> him after the Nebraska WIN
> - it's reasonable (but not certain by any means) to
> assume that Pederson was
> actually rooting for Nebraska to lose, which would
> have made his firing of
> Solich much easier. No way of knowing what was in
> his head, though.
> 
> I would like people on both sides of this to
> consider an important
> difference about patience. If you believed that
> Solich was ruining the
> program, then you wouldn't mind a couple bad years
> under Callahan. In fact,
> you would expect a couple bad years before the
> program was righted. Easy to
> be patient if that's what you believe. On the other
> hand, if you believed
> that Solich had one bad year (7-7) and maybe a
> couple bad recruiting years
> before getting a new staff who turned it around in
> one year (10-3) and was
> recruiting better, too, rated 14 by rivals in
> recruiting the day before
> Solich was fired, then you don't understand why
> Callahan needs to get worse
> for more than one year, if that, before he gets
> better. IN other words, you
> would find it a lot more difficult to be as patient
> as the anti-Solich
> person.
> 
> Without digressing into a rehash of which
> perspective is right or wrong,
> just try to recognize that people who thought the
> program was going down the
> tubes are not as bothered by losses - for now. They
> see it as a necessary
> price to pay to right the ship. But if you are one
> of those folks, please
> recognize that if you didn't see it that way, if you
> saw the Solich losses
> as a blip before he got back on track, then cut
> those folks a little slack
> if they show some impatience now as they fear the
> program was okay and are
> nervous that it might be going down the tubes, now.
> 
> It will all work out, one way or another. Or is that
> won way or another? Go
> Huskers. Alan Siporin
> 
> 


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com

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