[Husker] Oracle of Omaha Predicts 8 Wins

[Mike Jaixen]

First of all, I never quoted Buffet...just paraphrased
him.  I said "West Coast Years"...which includes "a
couple of years ago".  The era of the West Coast
Offense at Nebraska is over. (For now, perhaps.  Who
knows in the future.)  It started in the spring of
2004 and ended Thanksgiving weekend 2007.

Let's take your claims here:
> 1.  The offense was not the problem last year...the
> defense was.

The defense was catastrophically bad last year, but
the offense wasn't very good the first couple of
months last year either.  They couldn't score a
touchdown in a stretch of seven quarters against
Missouri and Oklahoma State.  Nearly went four
quarters without a touchdown against A&M and Texas. 
Until they started to run up the score in November,
the offensive numbers were in the bottom half of the
Big XII.

> 2.  Shawn Watson is still the Offensive Coordinator.
>  He ran the WCO last 
> year.

That was last year.  2008 is a different season with a
different staff.

> 3.  Callahan was severely criticized for immediately
> jumping to the WCO, 
> when he had players who were recruited for the
> option.  I don't think Pelini 
> will make the same mistake.

It's interesting that offensive production exploded
once they instituted a little bit of option with Joe
Ganz into the offense last season.

> 4.  Has Pelini ever publicly stated that he will
> return the Huskers to the 
> option?  If so, I must have missed that article.
> 
Pelini has talked about being "multiple".  But Shawn
Watson told the Lincoln Journal-Star that "But that's
the beautiful thing about the Nebraska offense. We're
not going to be West Coast, we're not going to be
spread."

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/02/15/huskerextra/football/doc47b4fb3277823995554504.txt

More specifically, they are going to run a hybrid
offense. The West Coast era at Nebraska is over.  It's
not going to be a cold-turkey shift like 2004.

--- Tommy Thompson <huskertt at charter.net> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Jaixen" <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
> > I liked the joke from a couple of years ago where
> the
> > Huskers needed a 6'4" 125 lb. fullback in order to
> > squeeze through the holes opened during the West
> Coast years...
> 
> You misquoted Mr. Buffett.
> 
> >From the article:  "Buffett joked that a couple
> years ago the Nebraska coach 
> was looking for a 6-foot-4 fullback who weighed only
> 120 pounds. Buffett 
> said that the team needed that skinny fullback
> because he would have been 
> the only kind of player who could get through the
> holes the offensive line 
> opened up."
> 
> His comments were not that the West Coast offense
> was causing the problem, 
> but that the offensive line was.    He went on to
> say, "the team looks 
> stronger now and should do all right."
> 
> In reading some of the recent posts and articles,
> including the Callahan 
> satire, I believe some Nebraska fans are of the
> belief that, since Callahan 
> is gone, so is the West Coast offense.  I feel
> differently.
> 



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


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