[Husker] Callahan to NY

[Pat Gaule]

Bob Beach wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2008 at 19:51, Pat Gaule wrote:
> 
> 
>>That has about as much chance of happening as the possibility that 5 or 
>>6 teams would have gone undefeated in college football this year.  (I 
>>believe that was something you also predicted before the season 
>>started).  Bill Callahan will never be a head coach in the college or 
>>the NFL.
> 
> 
>       For one I would have to research that conversation about 5-6 teams 
> being undefeated.  IIRC there was a little more to the story than just me 
> predicting 5-6 teams would go unfeated.  


You didn't "predict" it (which I'll admit was not a great choice of 
words on my part), but you did say 4-6 teams *could* go undefeated in 
college football this year.  I pointed out that such an occurence would 
have been unprecedented, and was not at all likely to happen.  Of 
course, it didn't even come close to being a reality.  I believe the 
same with regards to Callahan ever being the head coach of an NFL team.

> 
> 
>      However, I can't tell you the guys name but the guy that has Sports 
> Nightly on KLIN radio feels the same way about Callahan being a Head 
> Coach in the NFL.  He believes it will happen for two reasons.  One is 
> Callahan is an NFL guy and the other is he has taken a team to the Super 
> Bowl.  That swings a lot of weight in NFL circles.  Beings you are so 
> smart would you like to take a bet on this one?  
> 
> 

Lane Grindle?  I'd put more stock in what people on Huskerpedia are 
saying (and I hardly believe anything I read on HuskerPedia).  He was a 
bigger Pederson/Callahan apologist than Jim Rose could have ever dreamed 
of.  The fact that he "took" a team to the Super Bowl is largely 
overshadowed by what happened next year, when the entire Raider team 
commited mutiny.  The 4-12 record that season is not why it's almost 
certain that no team will ever let him roam the sideline as head coach. 
  It's the fact that by the end of the season, most of the team hated 
him.  Coaches can survive bad seasons, but when your players don't 
respect you, it's almost impossible to survive that.

I could possibly see the scenario Mike envisioned (where he gets 
appointed as interim head coach in the middle of a season), but I do not 
see him ever becoming a permanant NFL head coach.  And yes, I will take 
that bet.