NIGHT OF THE LONG HUSKS: BLOODLETTING AT NU

He said that there were no other personnel changes to be made right now, and then said that he doesn’t “hire and fire coaches” Yeah, he gets an AD to do that for him.

On the upside….Hey! Nebraska’s Student GPA is up! Aren’t ya glad?

No mention of fatboy Weis?

Not yet.

Harvey Pearlman: “I will not do any hiring or firing of coaches. Now, allow me to introduce my new hatchetma….errrrrrrrrrrr….Athletic Director, and the man who hand-picked Frank Solich, Tom Osborne.”

Is it just me, or does this press conference have just a bit too much humor and laughing to it?

Al Groh says you don’t know what you’re talking about, Orson. But then again he says that about every writer out there.

I was at the Pitt game in 2005. It was terrible. Good thing I had won the tickets in a drawing at work, as opposed to having paid for them.

Something had to be done. The guys calling the Oklahoma State game on the radio sounded like they were at a funeral.

Can someone do the same at Louisiana-Lafayette?

Giving up 600+ yards on defense and losing 52 to 21 to Arkansas State has orphaned me as an alum/fan.

Loser-ana at Laugh-at

i love the way bill goes for the throat slash…stops…thinks better of it….then says “aaahh fuck it” and goes for it full throttle the second time. good stuff.

for every successful coach who has jumped between college and the pros there have to be at least 10 incompetent, ill-mannered and usually mustachioed failures who merely delay their out-to-pasturing for a few more years by the switch. there is absolutely no correlation between success in one league and similar results in the other.

that being said, who wouldn’t give a bodily appendage to watch a Mike Leach/Mike Martz coaching matchup…there would be a detectable rise in the earth’s temperature due to the exothermic footballs spiraling around the field for four hours.

Brewster Crew: There’s often laughter at the reception following a funeral. There’s comedic portions in MacBeth, after all.

And I wonder if Charlie Weis realizes he’s precisely 1 year behind Callahan in tenure.

“There are a number of important things that have happened to this state other than football, including STATEHOOD, which I think is more important than football.” — Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Pearlman

Fucking. Brilliant.

crap — earlier comment meant for Roaringgator.

Brew Crew, I can only hope Oz never promised the HC job to anyone else.

Yes, I will get drunk tonight. WOO HOO!!! FINALLY!!!!!

That was a rough day for Brent. You are looking live at an open container citation.

In fairness to Weis that he probably doesn’t deserve, the topic at hand was “NFL head coaches who took a college head coaching position appear to have failed just as badly as Spurrier did with the Redskins” not “NFL coordinators” who did the same…

I remember having a college vs. pro football argument at a bar about two years ago. Some dude, basically quoting Bill Simmons verbatim, offered the Pete-Carroll-sucked-with-the-Pats-but-is-now-dominating-college-ball argument as to why the NFL was superior. The bartender, a big Longhorn fan and arguing the affirmative case, noted that “Bill Callahan took his team to the Super Bowl and is now getting his ass handed to him at a program that’s won three national titles since 1994…”

Among the 6 or 7 guys involved in the discussion, it was a “checkmate” moment, and the conversation moved on to college hoops.

So who is this knight you speak of?

I know you won’t print this but what the fuck is this “Zwinky” shit, and why are they advertising on a college football blog? On another note, I’ll be in Tuscaloser on Saturday, sitting in the Bama section with my Bama fan friend, who has voiced concerns about getting his ass kicked by his own fans in an effort to help me fight my way to the exit. Report to follow.

There was also Bill Walsh at Stanford.

I love this. Thou shalt not fire coaches after successful seasons. Right, Ole Miss?

Pederson should have stayed at Pitt, where he could have made the same dumbass mistake as the current Pitt AD made, probably dumber than firing Capitan Morgan, and not gotten the ax for it.

Pederson today, Calli and his group of moronic assistants right after the Colorado game. TO will be the interim AD. Gill or Pelini will be the new HC.

Thank God, this nightmare is almost over.

Welcome Tom Osborne as Nebraska’s new Athletic Director.

sadly, the throat slash (which BC explained was a “ive had it up to here” gesture) was the most emotion seen out of callahan in 3-plus years. not even watching his players play horrible boneheaded football got his panties twisted. all i ask is a head coach that will get riled up and demand the same of his players. Bo Pelini comes to mind.

Maybe someone should make a coach version of Zwinky.
Imagine an undressed Tressel with a sweater vest above it.
C Weis or Mangino with a thong.

How do you categorize Carroll if he goes to San Diego and fails there?

As for Weis, he has some goodwill built up, so he is probably ok. Certainly, he gets through next year, and with signs of improvement will get his fifth. Don’t pay attention to the 10 year deal, the buyout is not $20MM.

If there is a God…

Paul Johnson to Nebraska.

#19. Ole Miss was 4-7 in what ended up being Cutcliffe’s last season there; that’s hardly successful. Grated, they were only one year removed from a 10 win season and Cotton Bowl victory but the future looked pretty bleak. If given another season, I think Coach O might turn the corner and start winning some games in the SEC.

Huskers should have hired Boss Hogg…Cronicas de Cornhuskers?

#27

4-7 IS successful at Ole Miss.

And 10 wins and a Cotton Bowl berth? Dynasty, baby!

how much would you have to pay an AD whose job it is to fire The Orgeron?

The NBA is the worst, but the NFL is horrible about “retreading” mediocre coaches.

#28. My interest in Ole Miss only goes back to 2003 when my wife, an Ole Miss alumna, and I started dating. I may, therefore, have unrealistically high expectations. That sure was a fun season though as all three of my teams won 10 games (Iowa, Nebraska and Ole Miss).

BREAKING NEWS: TAFKATOSU still thinks Saban is in line for the Husker job…bizarre Land Grant, White Trash conspiracy theory to follow…

Saban has a lot of intermediary stops before he can aspire to Nebraska. From the Alabama gig, my guess would be UCLA as the next step up. Less delusional fan base, better looking women, orthodontia.

#29,

I’ll do it for a plane ticket to Oxford, a weekend in a sorority house, and a camcorder to record everything.

The whole Nebraska fiasco is what scares me as a Michigan fan. NU failed both at the in-house successor and the outside-the-box guy. Somehow, ASU debacle aside, Michigan has avoided outright disaster (from a win-loss perspective) with in-house guys Moeller and Carr. Given what happened with ASU and Oregon, there is no chance that either Debord (our OC) or English (the DC) is given the job if (when?) Carr retires at the end of the year. A somewhat similar institution, ND, thought that it could get any candidate it wanted after Lou Holtz and ended up with Bob Davie, George O’Leary, Ty Willingham, and Charlie Weis and hasn’t won a bowl game in 14 years. Coaching transitions are tricky times.

Having said that, I think Paul Johnson is NU’s guy.

#33

Agree with the orthodontic comment, but I’m not so sure about the better looking women part. One may prefer the California blondes over the Alabama belles, but that’s merely a matter of taste and shouldn’t stand as conclusive evidence of which has ‘better looking girls’.

It’s akin to debating Earl Campbell, Hershel Walker, Bo, Barry, etc. At a certain point it’s all a matter of personal taste.

Nebraska’s problem is more the teams around them winning and the state of Texas locked up to them. Bring in TO all you want, but if you can’t keep losing kids to Iowa, Wisconsin – kids that used to come when Nebraska came knocking – then this is all moot.

Groh. Don’t forget Groh.

1. & #35

I can’t imagine too many Husker fans would be excited about Paul Johnson. Some blue-hairs would welcome the return of the option, but that kind of move would set Husker football back more than Callahan did. We don’t have a QB (either on campus or in the current recruiting class) who could run that system. More importantly, I don’t think we could get one. There are way too many systems that rely on “dual-threat” QBs today for Nebraska to just find the fastest one in the country and tell him “We’re your best chance to play QB” (a la Tommie Frazier and Eric Crouch). If we want to take full advantage of the kids on campus now and the new facilities built under Pederson, we’re best served getting an up-and-coming HC (e.g. Brian Kelly) or a hot shot coordinator (e.g. Bo Pelini).

Bo did once threaten to kick Bill Snyder’s ass, so he’s got that going for him.

I can’t imagine why anyone would even live in nebraska much less go to an educational institution in nebraska much less join a sports team at an educational institution in nebraska much less support in any way shape form or fashoin such sports team from nebraska and finally who in hell would be fool enough to say they support the pseudo sports team from nebraska when they could just travel a few miles south and experience the truty and goodness available in the state of Kansas and jay whitlow and eric y will be glad to sponsor anyone willing to desert from that state to the north and join us here in the real heart and sould of America.
jay whitlow and eric y

@ 32

What lottery did you win to escape the confines of the midwest to get a fine Southern Belle as a wife? Congrats.

1. - eric y

I’m gonna go ahead and assume that was a joke. Belittling the academic standing of an entire state while using words like “truty” and “sould” to describe your state must belong in the irony hall of honor.

Plus, Kansas calling Nebraska stupid is like Mark Mangino calling Charlie Weiss fat.

Lance, once she found out I was the new startin’ quarterback she invited me over while her parents were at the gun show and showed me her whipped cream bikini.

Stephen McGee, is that you?

I often wondered why anyone would want to play for Nebraska also…until I visited Nebraska.

The whole state is fanatical about the Huskers. Every home I visited had their family portraits proudly displayed. You guessed it. Every family member was wearing official Husker’s gear. I’ve never seen anything like it. It really is the only game in town.

@ Middle America

Did she ask to be your wide receiver?

Wow. I, a simple, drooling native North Carolinian, and UA ug /Vandy grad /Iowa Sch. of Law alum, am simply laid slack-jawed by Dr. Eric. WTF dude? Did some KU evangelical not touch you enough? WTF is with the animus towards NU? I mean if dinos on saddles are your gig, sure, go to KU. But, NU is a fine state school, despite whatever labored, heaving breaths of Father-Fondle-Me-Not in your ears whilst cowering in a Lawrence dormroom told you.

“Night Of The Long Husks”! Very well done. Nothing like a “Night Of The Long Knives” Nazi history allusion to go along with our schadenfreude concerning the Husker situation. But then again, neither Pederson or Callahan is an Ernst Roehm……………..Now, Nutt; that’s a Hawg of another color.

Don’t forget about Chris Peterson or Jim Grobe…
I think both of them would have success at NU.

1. - I would do just about any job for that compensation…nursing home janitor, Artificial Horse Insemenator, King Crab Fisherman, Meat packing plant butcher, you name it.

My only extra stipulation is that its an HD camcorder, and we (my harem and I) go for dinner at Taylor Grocery at least once, while I’m shit faced off Maker’s Mark, and I get a BJ in the car on the way there.

All of you wishing for Paul Johnson to head to Nebraska …

HANDS OFF OUR JOHNSON
http://navy.scout.com/2/679411.html

I am a died in the wool Husker fan – my dog’s name is Osborne – but Nebraska missed its chance with PJ when they fired Solich and decided to go with Callahan. I want Nebraska to do well, but I’ll take PJ at Navy every day of the week.

If I was an up-and-coming coach in the college football world, I’d have to think that NU is one of the 15-20 best jobs in the sports. Fanatical fanbase for support (as a poster mentioned above, it literally is the “only game in town,” but in my experience the fans are extremely friendly and relatively patient) and the weakest division in any major conference (the entire ACC excluded, of course) that could guarantee a conference championship shot each and every year. That’s more than any coach can say in the SEC, which is a flat-out brawl every year to just reach Atlanta…. all the program needs is a coach who acts like he gives a crap and they’ll do well~

Keep those prying eyes off Will Muschamp. He’s allergic to snow. And corn. And Black shirts, motherfucker.

Well done, Orson.

Pederson’s firing should serve as warning to all college ADs to never, ever hire the table scraps of what NFL owners like Al Davis, Jerry Jones, and the McClaskeys leave behind. Callahan is an especially egregious case, riding a team assembled by his predecessor in Oakland to a Super Bowl and then revealing his true mediocrity within the following season.

When he was hired at Nebraska, I questioned the AD’s sanity in public early and often. If the Huskers would like to get back, they’d do well to money-whip Pellini back to Lincoln.

1. - he missed the mark on fashion also. I’ve heard that the border wars are still pretty heated out there.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/kansas-nebraska_act.htm

The next coach of Nebraska will be Bo Pelini, just like it should have been after the 2003 season. Simple. Done and done.

the September 17th, 2005 game between Callahan’s Huskers and Dave Wannstedt’s Pitt Panthers, a 7-6 Nebraska "victory" in a game rife with some of the worst play-calling, execution, and management ever foisted upon a horrified football public.

You, so you’re really looking forward to Coach Fran and A&M travelling to Lincoln to play NU this weekend, eh?

I’m rooting for Pelini to get the job. We should have hired him four years ago.

Nebraska needs to do a spread offense. It’s best way to make the most out of your talent in the shortest time possible. And it’s not as difficult to learn as the west coast. It’s the college offense.

As an Auburn alum and Nebraska fan by birth, my worst fear was mentioned earlier today over at CBS. Please, oh please, don’t let a Bowden land in Lincoln:

“Certainly Terry Bowden would be interested. He’s proven and wants back in the game. Nebraska can still pull the best and brightest.”

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/10410417/1

1. slow down there, BTK

When did they get the innerweb in prison, anyway?

#60:

Yeah, no shit. I’m thinking there is a reason Terry Bowden is busy writing editorials for Yahoo and not actually coaching right now.

Paul Johnson isn’t going to Nebraska.

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He’s coming to Atlanta.

Pete Carroll should ingore the siren song of the NFL. His “thing” is college football and he’s done an incredible job, irregardless of the recent downturn.

Get used to it Nebraska ( and Alabama) the world of college football has changed. And your dynasty is history.