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

[Mike Jaixen]

Not to beat a dead horse further into the ground, but this coaching transition was much smoother than the last one because, for the most part, there was little discord over the termination.  I mean, fans are STILL arguing whether Frank Solich should have been fired.

Very few Husker fans were all that upset that Bill Callahan was terminated.  Bill Callahan had to deal with all that discord on the heels of a ten win season.

Pelini arrives with a national championship ring to a place where the defense gave up 172 points in their final three football games.  Husker fans are looking for a hero, and thus annoints Pelini as our next savior.


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


--- On Tue, 8/5/08, Jeff Volk <jeffv at alphavideo.com> wrote:

> >>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
>