[Husker] A Supreme effort

[andy at knipp.com]

While saying you hate anyone is not appropriate, it is only a football 
game, it is certainly reasonable to have been on the Get Rid Of 
Callahan bandwagon. I have been on that for a long time as well. 

He may be a great guy, a good father and probably will be a good 
assistant in the pro ranks. What he is not good at is being the head 
coach for the University of Nebraska. 

That is what he has been paid several million dollars to do, and 
starting next month, he will be paid another 2 million NOT to coach 
NU. 

So if his daughter is so distraught BC can buy her a Porsche every 
year with the interest he will make off of the buyout alone. 

I take what current players say with a grain of salt. Statements from 
current players in the press can have serious negative affects on their 
team status. A few years ago MU had a starting RB named Damien Nash. he 
criticized the coaches in teh media and was off the team mid season.  
Nash did go on to play at Denver, so he has talent. 


>> Dave
>> ridin' shotgun on the GROC party bus
>> "I hated Callahan before it was cool"
>
>I don't understand that sort of sentiment, as if it's some
>sort of party.  It's certainly not "cool" to hate Bill Callahan.
>Regardless of your opinion on Callahan's success as Husker coach
>(and I say that as someone who often has posted criticisms),
>your signature line reflects a sad, small, juvenile attitude.
>
>Those closest to Bill Callahan as Husker coach, have good things
>to say about the type of man he is, e.g.,  [Courtney] Grixby said:
>"The players, we trust him.  We know Coach Callahan and we know
>the type of man that he is. There's nothing bad to say."
>
>Callahan's daughter is a classmate and friend of my daughter.
>They are a nice family.  This must be a gut-wrenching time for
>coaches and players.
>
>I suggest you think about TR Roosevelt's often quoted speech:
>"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
>strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
>better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
>whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
>valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there 
is
>no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive
>to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; 
who
>spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end 
the
>triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at
>least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be 
with
>those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
>
>You should be ashamed of yourself.
>
>
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