After listening to yet another fine Nebraska football tradition shot down in flames today (it had been 36 years since KU beat NU), Husker fans need to ask Athletic Director Steve Pedersen just two questions:

1. Will you fire Bill Callahan and resign at the end of this season?

2. If the answer to question No. 1 is "no," then why?

NU is headed for another losing season after today...KSU will beat us in Lincoln and CU will work us over in Boulder to close out yet another 5-6 season.

And this comes from a lifelong, died-in-the-wool, die-hard Husker fan. It has become quite obvious that the firing of Frank Solich -- and the hiring of Pedersen that preceded it -- was a huge mistake on the part of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

We will soon have to where a bag over our heads .

Dump Peterson 1st .

But, but, but, but, but, we didn't want to plunge into mediocrity!!!

A loss to Kansas by 25 points is the epitomy of sub-mediocrity...

Let's see...

-- Struggling to beat D-1AA Maine AT HOME.
-- Needing a last-second FG block to beat a worthless Pittsburgh team AT HOME.
-- Needing overtime to beat Iowa State AT HOME.
-- Giving up almost 500 yards of total offense TO ONE PERSON.
-- Going into Lawrence and losing BY 25 POINTS for the first time since the year before man first landed on the friggin' moon.

Rocker...we've flown PAST mediocrity, zipped ahead of sub-mediocrity and landed right in the middle of greater metropolitan downtown Sucksville.

The more I think about it, the more my decision to not attend a Husker game until Pederson leaves the A.D. post looks like a darn good idea right about now.

About the only tradition Pederson hasn't canned is the streak of home sellouts. Anybody want to lay odds on the over-under for the number of games it will take before THAT Husker tradition bites the big one??? The way things are going...that number has got to be in the single digits right about now.

Kansas 40, Nebraska 15 -- egad!

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whats ohios record
or where ever frank went

Compare apples to apples...Frank Solich inherited a program with NO track record of past success at the University of Ohio. If I remember right, that team has been to a grand total of ONE bowl game in its history.

Bill Callahan inherited a program that went 9-2 (before Solich was fired) the previous season, finished 10-2 with a win in the Alamo Bowl, and has needed the better part of two seasons to match that win total under Callahan's, ahem, guidance -- leading it to its first non-bowl season in 36 years, its first losing record since the Kennedy administration, losses to perennial whipping boys such as Kan't-sas (last loss 1968) and Miz-z-z-z-zou (last loss 1978) and its worst beating in the 117-year history of the program (Texas Tech's 70-point romp).

Ahhhh the good old Nebraska fan…both an epitome of being biased and short sighted. What Bill has inherited is a team of inferior athletes that can not play at the Division I level. If this was Frankie’s team, they would not have won those close games and would be more like 3 wins for the season.

Let’s talk about people who really understand football, not the Nebraska, biased, fan. How about the country’s Athletic Directors, they must know something…the same ones that after Frankie was fired let him sit on sidelines before offering him the coveted Army and Ohio University positions. One of which he turned down. Now he is back home where he belongs. In Ohio, with a program that will not get to a bowl ever. The MAC is tough for a second tier league and it is a pass first, second, third, fourth, fifth and run last league. It is not by coincidence that nobody offered him a job. He lacks the ability to recruit top notch athletes and run a program that is balanced top to bottom and compete for a national title. At Ohio, he can use the excuse that they are small time and can not get the great athlete. People will eat it up and his second level coaching staff can all claim success their fame living on the coat tails of the congressman from Nebraska.

Let’s examine Frank’s record at Nebraska. He follows in a legend’s footsteps. But Osborn only became a legend after a two year run in which he was able to recruit top level athletes. WE can argue how he got them, because for years he was terrible as a coach and all these great Nebraska fans wanted him fired. Anyone could have been 9-2 in the little 8! That was the worst football conference in the country. SO it took Tom 23 years, he had the benefit of the little 8, and the option was a cute gimmick until the athletes got better and coaches defended the corner! For about 5 years he could walk into a top recruit’s house and get him to come to the Corn Cob state. He only needed those 15 difference makers and he could get them. The old tired coaches that he had on his staff did not go out and recruit could not get it done. Frankie’s mistake was that he kept those old tired coaches. Then when he failed, he showed his true character, other wise know as CYA and let them go to bring in some young talent. But of course he still could not develop an offensive scheme that was new age. i.e. no option, 3 runs and out, can’t come from behind passing game. Because of this he was not able to convince the people he could build a program and compete now in the formidable Big 12.

So for all of you back stabbing, unknowledgeable, rose colored glasses, know it alls, be patient. Coach Callahan will bring the program back to its glory days and compete annually for a title! He is on the right path, he just has to get the rest of the leftovers out of his program and bring in the top level recruits like he is doing! Just ask the real football experts in the country…Nebraska is on the right path now that the option legacy and Frankie are gone!

Is this the same Coach Callahan that inherited a Super Bowl-caliber team that got waxed in the Super Bowl his first year, then went 4-12 in the AFC Worst the following year???

To paraphrase comedian Ron White -- most Div. I athletic directors are trying to abolish mediocrity in their football programs . . . ours is putting in an express lane.

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Nuff said!

i guess well find out in about 5 years wont we

Wrasslin,it's become obvious over time that you are an idiot, but to say the big 8 was a weak football conference tells me you probably are a 12 year old idiot.

Solich was not the answer, he needed to be replaced, but if he was still there, we'd have lost no more than 3 or 4 games either of the last 2 years. Pedersen is the first I'd boot, but Callahan needs to get this turned around soon or he should be replaced as well.what frustrates me, is the lack of cohesion in game management from the coaching staff, and lack the of intensity and heart from the team.

Take 1971's final AP ratings, for example:

1. Nebraska
2. Oklahoma
4. Colorado

And for most of the last 20 years of the Big 8's existence, there were at least two teams consistently ranked in the top 10. NU and OU were regulars, CU came on later and Missouri and Okie State were fairly regular visitors in the second ten.

In the last 25 years of the Big Eight (71-95), NU won 3 titles, OU won 3 and CU shared 1 with Georgia Tech (who beat NU to get its share). By comparison, the Big 10's total of national titles? A big fat zero. The old SWC (Sure We Cheat)? Ditto...and they're still riding the old Big Eight's coattails in football.

No conference dominated the national college football scene quite like the good ol' Big Eight (teams like Penn State, Notre Dame and Miami were independents when they won their titles during this stretch).

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Originally posted by NWI:
Rocker...we've flown PAST mediocrity, zipped ahead of sub-mediocrity and landed right in the middle of greater metropolitan downtown Sucksville.

You sure have a way with words Mikey!!

The firing of Solich was not based on his performance on the football field from what I have heard, but yet his performance with a co-worker. That is what I have heard, and I have been told that Peterson did the "gentleman" thing and put the blame on the success, or lack of from the football team. Didn't you guy's think it was odd that the firing became affective immediately and not at the end of the season.