[Husker] Important? Unimportant?

[Steve Stone]

Frequently things happen to college football teams, things that are 
beyond the power of coaches to deal with or even affect. Sometimes 
teams don't "gel" or lack leadership or are missing one or even two 
key components. Not every losing team is the victim of poor coaching.

That said, Callahan has shown me a couple of positive things and a 
couple of negative things, so I thought I'd share with you other 
kiddies to find out you're thinking:

Positives:
1) The man knows football, inside and out.
2) The man works at the game like a demented gnome.
3) Since arriving at NU, the man has shown signs of adapting to some 
of the peculiar circumstances of the state and the program, albeit 
somewhat slowly.
4) The man has been signing more "multiple star" HS recruits lately, 
which is at least good publicity.
5) The man has been signing top-notch JC recruits lately.

Negatives:
1) The man seems possessed by the NFL mentality that the starting 
quarterback must play the entire game no matter what. He didn't give 
Joe Ganz a whirl even in the latter parts of the MU and OSU games 
when clearly some sort of change seemed necessary. (As the man said 
to the forty-four year old virgin....")
2) The man makes it virtually impossible for fans and the public to 
know when he's is being candid or opaque in his public 
pronouncements. I hold that while we shouldn't know everything, we're 
entitled to know  s o m e t h i n g.
3) The man's head remains buried in playsheets (midway through the 
season) when the quarterback trots back to the bench for 
instructions. Is the WC offense THAT complicated?
4) Does the man need to immerse himself in statistical data in order 
to be able to call about five basic running plays and six basic 
passing plays?
5) The man needs to enlarge his public-communication vocabulary 
beyond "No question," "absolutely," and "huge." I'm not asking for 
William Jennings Bryan here, just a smattering of plain-English 
synonyms.

Steve Stone