[Husker] NC State/Rutgers, Callahan and Daniel

Wed Dec 31 00:06:02 CST 2008

I think we've had a pretty good season for a first year head coach who  
had to salvage a recruiting class, and then ended up redshirting some  
of the players in that class that may have otherwise seen the field if  
we were more about a single year than a program.

The offensive line rotation got better as the year went on, but they  
still need to be more physical, quicker off the ball. We're going to  
have a hard time replacing Nate Swift, although Mike McNeill came  
along really well as a pass-catching tight end. That was a nice  
surprise.

On defense.... Suh is a beast, otherwise, the defensive line is just  
okay. Linebackers.... we have some bodies, and the defensive backfield  
still has a ways to go. As a team, we have quite a ways to go on  
defense. We still need linebackers next season, and if the secondary  
doesn't improve next year, at least one coach will find another home.

We have a ways to go before we're amongst the nation's best, and at  
least a couple more years with good recruiting and coaching before we  
consistently win the North (although the rest of the North... well,  
frankly, sucks). ISU is lost, Ron Prince dismantled KSU to the point  
that Snyder will have to start over, and Hawkins so far is a huge  
disappointment in Boulder. That leaves Mizzou, and they'll still have  
Pinkel and his factor.

The season bore out that Missouri was overrated, but that's not when  
we got to play them, was it? They beat the snot out of us, and in the  
end, it didn't get them much. To be honest, I find that rather funny.

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:53 PM, j j wrote:

> So Missouri has four players that we dont have the same talent for.  
> How do we match up other wise in your opinion? I think pretty well  
> so we should not let four players beat us. I think we came into the  
> game thinking we had to play perfect and put way to much pressure on  
> our selves and then when things started going bad, instead of  
> regrouping we had guys trying to make plays they weren't capable of  
> and it got worse. I would still take NU today over Mizzou. How about  
> you? Think it would end up 52-17 again? NO! Mizzou was way over rated.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/30/08, jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] NC State/Rutgers, Callahan and Daniel
> To: "Scott R Lawson" <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu>
> Cc: jjj112665 at yahoo.com, husker at tssi.com, scott71lawson at yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 9:00 AM
>
> Let's not get carried away....  We have no one who comes close to  
> Jeremy
> Maclin, nor do we have a tight end that's close to Coffman. You could
> compare Chase Daniel to Joe Ganz, but if you compared them at the  
> beginning of
> the season, there would be no comparison.
>
> We have no linebacker close to Weatherspoon, in fact, other than  
> Suh, we have
> no one close on defense.
>
> After Missouri lost to Oklahoma State, they never got over their
> disappointment, never got their confidence back, and it's only  
> because they
> had some pretty good talent that they won as many as they did, and  
> won the
> North. Last night you had Northwestern playing as well as they  
> possibly could
> and they lost to a Missouri team that played like crap most of the  
> game.
>
> The Missouri game changed our philosophy, at least offensively.  
> Pelini figured
> out that this offensive line was never going to run block worth a  
> damn, so they
> moved to spreading the ball around and it worked remarkably well for  
> the rest of
> the season.
>
> Perhaps it's the step to bigger and better things. Devaney had his  
> 47-0
> loss to Oklahoma. Who knows what lies ahead...!?
>
> Jon Johnston
> http://www.cornnation.com
>
>
> On Dec 30, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Scott R Lawson wrote:
>
> > I agree- in fact it seems now like things just snowballed against  
> NU in
> that game and perhaps Missouri wasn't really that far ahead in terms  
> of
> talent.
> >
> > Scott in NY
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On  
> Behalf
> Of j j
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:44 AM
> > To: husker at tssi.com; scott71lawson at yahoo.com
> > Subject: Re: [Husker] NC State/Rutgers, Callahan and Daniel
> >
> > He was a very average qb against Northwestern. Man I would love  
> another
> shot at Mizzou. They have really collapased this year, not even  
> close to the
> same team that kicked our butts.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 12/29/08, Scott Lawson <scott71lawson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Scott Lawson <scott71lawson at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Husker] NC State/Rutgers, Callahan and Daniel
> > To: husker at tssi.com
> > Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 11:16 PM
> >
> > Not 100% Husker related, but close- after today's bowl games, I sure
> am glad
> > Harrison Beck did not stay at Nebraska, he looked like he never  
> stepped on
> a
> > field in his life today against Rutgers.
> >
> > Also, Bill Callahan is being mentioned as a potential replacement  
> for
> fired
> > Jets coach Eric Mangini. I LOVE IT!!! That's got 3 years of 7-9
> written ALL
> > over it.
> >
> > (As a Steeler fan I enjoy watching the Jets suffer)
> >
> > Chase Daniel is a GREAT college QB but is not good enough to start  
> at the
> next
> > level.
> >
> > Scott in NY
> >
> >
> >
> >
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