[Husker] Better or Worst

Sun Oct 25 05:52:19 CDT 2009

Got to agree with Mike's post.  You can qutoes stats all you want.  I saw Callahan's offenses handled easily on many occasions by good teams.  Lots of games scoring points in the 4th quarter of a game that had long ago been lost by a wide margin.  No offense put on the field by Nebraska from 2003-2007 could be termed "great".  (Nothing has changed there.)

Dave

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From: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
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Bill Callahan's offenses at Nebraska were never great.  Occasionally decent to perhaps good (see 2006).  But in 2004, 2005, and in 2007 when Sam Keller was at quarterback...  eeeeeeyuuuuuuuuuccchhhh.

This is completely different.  In 2007, we had a horrible defense and a lousy offense much of the season.  The final 3 games skewed things a bit because the offense got the ball back so quickly (more possessions), and the offense actually became productive.  But it wasn't a great offense much of the season; in fact, it was downright bad at times.  (No touchdowns in 7 quarters against Missouri and Okie State, then four more quarters against A&M and Texas...)  This year, we've got an outstanding defense at least.

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From: jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com>
To: Quinn Coldiron <qcoldir at yahoo.com>
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Uh. yeah, great offense Under BC. Did I miss something? Zac Taylor? Bueller?

Defense, no.

Jon Johnston
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On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:46 PM, Quinn Coldiron wrote:

> Great offense under BC?  I would have thought you were joking, but you typed it in two emails.
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> From: jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com>
> To: TODD STRONG  <strongtodd at msn.com>
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> I don't think the point is that BC's offenses were bad. The point is that you have a head coach who's good at his particular expertise - BC on offense, Pelini on defense.
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> We had a great offense under BC. We have a great defense under BP. Both are missing the other side of the ball..
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> We gave Bill Callahan four years, and he had no respect for our past, or for Nebraska traditions or otherwise. If people are upset enough to consider his firing, God help us, we're just bloody doomed.
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> Jon J.
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:12 PM, TODD STRONG wrote:
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>> I knew somebody would have the stats. BC offenses were inept against good competition and had nothing to hang their hat on either
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>> From: Tommy Thompson
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>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Better or Worst
>> Sent: Oct 24, 2009 9:02 PM
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>> I disagree that Callahan's offenses were just as bad.  Here are the Points
>> Per Game (NU OPP) since 1998.  This is the worst offense I can remember.
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>> Solich
>> 1998    31.9    15.2
>> 1999    34.2    12.5
>> 2000    41.5    19.4
>> 2001    37.4    15.8
>> 2002    27.4    23.9
>> 2003    24.8    14.5
>> Callahan
>> 2004    25.0    27.1
>> 2005    24.7    21.0
>> 2006    30.6    18.3
>> 2007    33.4    37.9
>> Pelini
>> 2008    35.4    28.5
>> 2009    20.9    11.4  (to date)
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>> Tommy Thompson (Pa)
>> "GO BIG RED"
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>>> Callhans offenses were as bad
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>>> Subject: [Husker] Better or Worst
>>> Sent: Oct 24, 2009 8:43 PM
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>>> Which is better or worst?
>>> Callahan's offense that could score points with Cosgrove's defense that
>>> could not stop their grandmother?
>>> Bo's defense that is giving up very few points with Watson's offense that
>>> can't score?
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>>> There is no way Bo fires Watson. Bo needs to make the coaches as
>>> accountable as the players, but that won't happen.
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