FW: [personal] [Husker] The latest from Bill

[Tommy Thompson]

BC's offense isn't the only one to have "slumps".  Here are the number of 
times the Huskers scored less than 20 points in a game since 1990.

BC
2007 - 3 times
2006 - 3 times
2005 - 2 times
2004 - 4 times

FS
2003 - 5 times
2002 - 4 times
2001 - 1 time
2000 - 1 time
1999 - 0 times
1998 - 2 times

TO
1997 - 0 times
1996 - 2 times
1995 - 0 times
1994 - 2 times
1993 - 2 times
1992 - 3 times
1991 - 4 times
1990 - 3 times


Tommy Thompson
"GO BIG RED"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Gaule" <pgaule at cox.net>
To: <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: FW: [personal] [Husker] The latest from Bill


> Kaufsss at aol.com wrote:
>> But that is from the defensive side - HE MUST GET RID OF COSGROVE -  If 
>> he does that(fires Cosgrove) -  I Hope he stays!   The offense is a good 
>> idea- He is learning and he wanted to invite the Alums back... but it was 
>> not allowed.  HE coaches it well. He has learned - But if he can't  fire 
>> cosgrove  he has to go.
>
> The only way to say this is...........NO!
>
> I do not want Callahan in charge of hiring the next defensive coordinator 
> because he botched it so badly the first time.  He hired Cosgrove simply 
> because he was a good friend, not because of his performance at Wisconsin. 
> Furthermore, he has neglected to do anything about it to this point!
>
> Callahan had plenty of chances to dump Cosgrove, and he chose to stick 
> with a sinking ship.  No competent coach would have stuck with Cosgrove 
> for this long.    He should have been given the boot after the first 
> season (2004) when NU finished 56th in total defense and 71st in scoring 
> defense.  Craig Bohl, a respected coach who was an 8-year assistant at NU 
> got the boot for a similar performance in 2002 (55th in total defense).
>
> If that wasn't enough reason to let him go, 2006 saw Nebraska finish 56th 
> in total defense.  Again, this ranks *below* the performance that got 
> Craig Bohl canned in 2002.  Yet, Callahan refused to make any changes and 
> that got us to where we are today.  Nebraska is currently ranked 112th in 
> total defense.  I believe they have been below 80th since the Ball State 
> game.  At the very least, changes should have been made in the middle of 
> this season.  There is absolutely no way that Nebraska could have done any 
> worse if an assistant was appointed on an interim basis.  At the very 
> least it would have sent a message that this performance is completely 
> unacceptable at any level of football.  This is what Texas Tech did and 
> their defense currently sits at 47th (which is at least servicable, even 
> if it's not good by Nebraska's standards).
>
> There is absolutely no reason to believe that Callahan can make a good 
> defensive hire, and there is absolutely no reason that NU should give him 
> that chance.
>
> And all of this talk about the offense performing great is humorous. One 
> game against an awful KSU team that will likely finish with a losing 
> record is not indicative of a great offense.  Where was this offense 
> during the losses to Missouri, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M an extremely 
> important part of the schedule that saw the Huskers goes 0-4 in October?
>
> Callahan will be gone at season's end and nobody will miss him.  Let him 
> "learn" his offense somewhere else.
>
> _______________________________________________
> husker site list
> husker at tssi.com
> http://romaine.tssi.com/mailman/listinfo/husker
>