[Husker] Callahan to Vikings? (fwd)

[Jeff Volk]

>> he didn't help himself by dissing (some would
>> say gutting) the walkon program the way he did.

>There were 155 players on the roster for Frank Solich's final season.
>There were 121 on the roster for the 2005 season.  

>IMHO, it isn't a canard, the number of scholarship players cannot be more
>than 85, so there must be fewer walkons than there were under the 
>previous coach.


The canard isn't that there are fewer walk-ons, rather that the walk-on program was eliminated or that somehow the team is worse off and less competetive having a roster of 121 versus 155. 

A walk-on program is a vital part of any sucessful college football program - although I think that tightening up the program so that any Joe Schmoe off the street who can pass a basic physical and some agility tests (basically the qualifications under the previous program) doesn't automatically make the team as a walk-on isn't the horrific, program and tradition altering event that it has been painted as on this list and by some media outlets in Nebraska. I must have missed the memo when I was born that as a native Nebraskan I was somehow immediately entitled to be a Husker walk-on. 

Go Big Red!

Jeff