[personal] Re: [Husker] Davidson

[Pat Gaule]

Skylar Dodds wrote:

>Maybe I didn't come across clear.  My point was the offense has done well.
>It really has, like it or not.  They barely got on the field last night.  In
>the last 2 games, the opposition has ran 187 plays to our 127.  Wow.
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The offense definitely did not do well last night.  Even if they ran 60 
more plays, I don't see them coming close to eclipsing Missouri's mark 
of 600 yards.

>I'm not claiming the team was great or has played great.  You can tell us
>how we could be 2-4, but the fact of the matter is we're not.  Please, use
>facts in your argument, not 'could be'.
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I have always said that you need to look at these things both ways.  
There are always some games that Nebraska could have lost, but there are 
usually games that Nebraska could have won.  With a good team, these 
near-wins and near-losses usually even out.  Unfortunately, there is 
absolutely no way in hell that Nebraska could have won the two games 
they lost.  They were absolutely dominated and outclassed in every facet 
of the game.  On the other hand, two of our wins (Ball State and @Wake 
Forest) went down to the wire against mediocre competition.  A win might 
be a win in the W column, but anyone who took off the rose-colored 
glasses and looked at those games objectively could see there was 
trouble ahead for this team.  After the Ball State game, I said that 
this team would likely lose 3-4 more games, which would put them at 8-4 
or 7-5 heading into the bowl game.  At the time, I even said "that may 
be generous."  I think that 7-5 or 6-6 is a much more likely scenario at 
this point.  I arrived at that conclusion because I looked at the 
'facts" of both games.  So don't talk down to me as if I am wildly 
throwing assertions out there with no backing.

>BC should get the chance to replace his coordinator, if he doesn't.  Then he
>wouldn't be doing his job and he should be replaced.  
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I have no confidence that BC will get this turned around, and I'll go on 
record as saying that I don't think he will ever be succesful at 
Nebraska.  And by "succesful", I mean putting us in position to contend 
for a national championship every once in a while and contending for the 
conference championship on a near-perenial basis.  That is what he was 
hired for, according to Mr. Pederson.  I would love to eat my words and 
be proven wrong, but I don't see it happening.  At this point, I just 
want to see this experiment ended.

As Bob Beach has said, that would be the easy part.  The hard part is 
determining who should be brought in.  I'm not going to pretend I have 
an answer for that, especially because it's the middle of the college 
and NFL season and we don't really know who would be available at 
season's end.  I would be interested to hear what names would be 
suggested by others.