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

Lynette Tillner ltillner at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 13 22:27:39 CST 2007


How does that translate to wins/losses? I assume our scoring less
than 20 points does not necessarily mean the other team scored more
points than we did. 

GBR, 

Lynette

--- Tommy Thompson <huskertt at charter.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
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