[Husker] West Coast Offense? (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> So the WCO is responsible for all of the offensive penalties?

Absolutely!  Either that or Brent Musberger.  :=}

An offense is only as good as your ability to execute it.  So far, it
isn't clear this team can run the WCO.  

Tom Osborne won over 250 games and three national championships by 
recruiting players who could both understand and perform the offensive 
schemes they were taught, despite the repeated claims that it was 
out-of-date, much of it coming from media critics who were themselves 
failed football coaches.

It wasn't really out of date, it might have been out of step with the 
trend and a bit one-dimensional for those 'experts', but dadgum it, it 
worked!

So far, we don't have a lot of evidence that the WCO will work at Nebraska.
Maybe in a year or two when the majority of players are ones who were
recruited to fit in the WCO we'll know for sure, if Callahan and Co. survive
that long.  (However, I also agree that like it or not Nebraska is committed
to the new offense, changing coaches this year or even next year would put
us on the road to a decade or more of mediocrity.  (See Oklahoma in the
post-Switzer era for what a real trainwreck looks like.)

Hopefully it will only SEEM like forever before the Huskers are a top 25
school again.  Right now I'm not sure they're a top 50 (aka bowl-eligible 
school.  5-6 seems well within this team's range despite being 3-0.  

Have any of the schools where the WCO has been successful had anything
like the sustained success Nebraska had during the 70's, 80's and 90's?  
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Mike Nolan