[Husker] What it.... and what it means to be a Husker

[Jeff Volk]

>>Now that Tom Osborne has hand picked a new coach, what will happen if
Coach Pelini struggles as Coach Callahan had? It is now >>Tom Osborne's
legacy on the line, as well as Coach Pelini's future. 

I think that you have to separate this into two different categories. No
matter what happens with Pelini, it shouldn't have any sort of effect on
Tom's legacy as a Head Coach. What another coach in another era does has
nothing to do what Tom accomplished when he was on the sidelines. It
will certainly effect his legacy as an Administrator - in fact in a lot
of ways it will be the only benchmark he will be judged by as an
Administrator. 


>>How patient will the Husker nation being this time around?


In my opinion far more patient. Not only did the patron saint of
Nebraska Football select him as the Head Coach, a lot of Husker fans
hold close this ridiculous notion that he is somehow "one of us" because
he previously spent one season on campus. And since everything is
cyclical, Pelini supporters will fall back on the age old "they aren't
his players" reasoning that Callahan supporters used if he isn't
successful right away. Further, Pelini is in a win-win situation,
because if you believe, as I do, that the talent on campus is very good
and give us a chance to win right now, he will win even more praise for
"coachin' em' up" in a way that the previous staff couldn't.  


>>Even those out of state guys begin are changed by the fellowship and
sense of family that being a Husker means.
>>The may article by a former walk on speaks to this.


Speaking of walk-on's, the expansion of our fabled walk-on program has
forced the athletic department to build a "football walk-on locker room"
in the Hawks Center. The main football locker room has space for roughly
105 athletes, where as the current roster has close to 150 athletes on
it. I am all for kids getting a chance to be a part of the program, but
those on the list who so vociferously point to the walk-on program as
the biggest pillar of Husker Football success should think about how
much it costs the athletic department to equip, feed, tutor, etc. 50
additional football athletes the next time the Athletic Department
raises ticket prices, donation requirements, etc. 


Twenty-five days to kickoff and I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Go Big Red!!!

Jeff

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