OSBORNE RETURNETH

The option – keep Callahan or not… Depends on the fanbase read.

Some bad joo-joo from that night. Many nightmares have followed.

Callahan’s toast. The interesting question is who Osborne brings in to take over. Remember, NU fired his handpicked replacement. And who wants a job where a 10-3 season can get you fired? I’ve spent a lot of time in Nebraska, and they feel that if they’re not contending for the title every year, something is wrong.

osborne is giving the throat slash to callahan.

Huh, Osborne’s returning to NU?

Well, Alabama sucks.

Oh yeah, well Auburn blows.

…

I figure, why prolong the inevitable.

Listening to his press conference now. He talked a little bit about history, said he will represent all sports equally as AD, has no timeline on how long he will be in charge, and is favoring waiting until the end of the year to evaluate the coaching staff.

With that said, Bill Callahan is a dead man walking.

I guess we’ll find out for sure if the option will work in a modern college football environment.

Goddamn Tommy Frazier was good…at running, not rapping. Bad at rapping.

Maybe someone can tell me why he was never mentioned for the Heisman (not the Thighsman).

I predict the emasculation of Navy’s Johnson.

That seems like the natural pick, schematically, but who wants to poach a coach from people with battleships and crazy planes? You can’t fight that.

Then again, if anyone is safe from the Navy, it would be someone far, far away from the ocean.

I think this is a good move for NU. The state had been divided on Pederson for some time now and if there is anyone that can unite people behind the university and the team it’s Osborne.

PS. Buck, Frazier was mentioned for the Heisman, he finished second in ’95 to Eddie George and if they had given it out after the bowl games he would have won it going away. – He was also a top 5 candidate in ’94 before his blot clot issues.

#9:

Incorrect! Look, a canal!

#7

Tommie finished second to Eddie George in the 1995 Heisman race.

Of course, Tommie went on to rush for 199 yards against Florida while Eddie was incredibly ineffective in Ohio State’s loss to Tennessee…

7

He was the runner-up to Eddie George in 1995.

See here they go again with washed up re-treads…its the committee who’s fucking it up from the get-go, since they can’t chose appropriate leadership…Jesus H. Christ, Just like I explained earlier.

As a neutral fan that Fiesta Bowl was a hella good time. My brother and I saw:

1. A UF car w/back window soap reading “Run It Up Steve”
2. Live College Gameday for the first time.
3. The greatness that is Lil’ Red bouncing on his head.
4. The horrid prostitution of Sun Devil Stadium. I counted 21 Tostitos banners.
5. Equally horrid, my introduction to the insipid cheer “It’s Great…To Be…(Insert SEC Team + Nickname Here)”
6. The Tempe Mill Ave. NYE Block Party, complete with giant tortilla chip dropping into salsa at midnight.

If only the game had been close.

There is much trepidation on the Great Plains right now. The Holy Father has returned, but he hasn’t done too well with this stuff before. He picked Solich and he picked the guy we just ran out of town (Steve Pederson). That’s 0-for-2 as far as I’m concerned.

Plus, we liked having him at Creighton. It furthered our inborn sense of superiority.

I think a YouTube clip of Frazier breaking about 42 tackles on one play is in order, don’t you?

Callahan’s swinging meat. It’s just a question of when the pneumatic hammer stuns him, hangs him, and bleeds him out.

My guess? Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Nebraska isn’t going back to the option; leastwise, not the triple option. One wonders what components of the spread/zone read option the next staff will implement. And for those who say the option’s dead in major college football, Mssrs. Slaton, White, and Rodriguez in West Fuckin’ Virginia would like a few words.

I wonder… when Nebraska plays Tennessee in 201X and 201X+1, who will Orson be rooting for? Al-Qaeda? I promise, Orson, come out for Nebraska/Tennessee, and we’ll show you how Modern Nebraska Fan does up a Red Room.

redrum… redrum!

Callahan isn’t gone yet. He has 5 games left. Osborne is going to give him some advice. We will see if that advice saves his neck. And, just found out today that Tom is a fan of Urban Meyer.

Osborne: Here’s my advice, son. Make plans to rent a forklift so you can move your playbook out of your office, and get ready to kiss your ass goodbye.

Callahan: Sage advice, Sir. Can I charge the rental fee to the Athletic department?

Osborne: Don’t press your luck, son.

Like Oz’d ever say “ass”. Rookie.

And let’s not pretend Callahan isn’t a dead man walking. He didn’t bother wearing red to his press conference today. He’s going to mail it in and make us fire him. I guess he figures that’s better than negotiating a buyout and quitting on the kids — when it’s more than apparent the kids have well and truly quit on him.

And one other thing.

Wanna know how happy this makes John Q Huskerfan?

Take your average Bammer fan.
Double the IQ and number of teeth.
Tell him that Bear Bryant returned from the dead.

He wouldn’t say “ass”, but he would say…

Well, we’re going to prepare to move that playbook the best we can during the week, and on Saturday we’ll go out and do our best, and take things from there.

You want to know why losing to Appalachian State sucks? I want to make a cheeky comment along the lines of “Does this mean that Nebraska will have to give back their half of the 1997 title that Osborne received as a parting gift?” But I can’t and not because it would reignite the endless debate about who was the better team that year but because even in the midst of their despair all any NU fan has to do is type “Hot! Hot! Hot!” and I have no comeback.

Hey, y’all have fun with the trophy that looks like it got made by the fast-tracked kid in shop class.

We’ll just be keeping the crystal football.

It’s Hot! Hot! Hot!

Something like that?

So, I take it Osborn is going to face-rape Callahan?

having osborne back is like having dad come home and screaming, “WHAT HAVE YOU KIDS DONE TO MY HOUSE!?”

Hasn’t Karma punished you enough Nebraska? Bring the option back. By hiring Paul Johnson. Not Urban Meyer, because that would probably send Orson off the edge, and we need EDSBS.

23: According to my math that would be an IQ of around 10, and about 4 teeth.

Oh an another thing, that outfit Osborne is wearing looks like what Kanye West will wear in a couple months when he gets even more delusional and thinks he’s the Pope. Sweater, neck piece, flowing Papal cape, Papal robes/vestiges things, and Rosary beads. He’ll be more like a Pope from the Dark ages though, in that he’ll still fuck.

#28

yep… exactly what I was thinking.

“Run Junior… Daddy’s home!!!”

Mustard, the tears of the corndog.

I would think that even if Callahan managed to win the final five or even go 3-2, he still wouldn’t retain the job because he’s been so mediocre his entire tenure there. I would think that after the demolition job USC did and Missouri’s hammering and letting the BIG RED POWERHOUSE that is Ball State run all over . . . I would think now or at the end of this season is time to clean out the coaching cabinet and start again.

This one isn’t even ’shopped. The Return of the King:

http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/10/13/news/nebraska/doc4711568f08194592240031.txt

I foresee a pitch to Tom Rathman.

Osborne of Nazareth is returning and he’s about to throw the spread out of the temple.

“Osborne entered the Temple area and drove out all who were coaching there. He rent apart the playbooks of the offensive coordinator and the whiteboard of those coaching the defense. ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ’My house will be called a house of the triple-option, but you are making it a den of the pro-style West Coast offense.” (Devaney 21:12-13)

Also, if we could see fit to leave Callahan in until after the Kansas game, we promise we’ll go back to sub-.500 seasons for the next ten years. Give us just this one… it’s all we ask for.

Florida played a bowl game after the 95 season? Are you sure? I remember no such game.

He’s turning the Blackshirts into Pinkshirts:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/10/16/bc.fbc.nebraska.blackshirts.ap/index.html

Funny, no one remembers that Oz ran a pro-style offense Back In The Day. Jerry Tagge, Dave Humm, and Vince Ferragamo were not, surprisingly enough, the same type of QB’s that Tommie Frazier, Scott Frost, and Eric Crouch were.

He adjusted to the option from what was a pro-style power running game to keep up with the Moatlahomans. Similarly, he (more appropriately, his DC Charlie McBride) changed from a 5-2 to a 4-3 to have a more attacking style of defense.

There’s several interviews Oz has given where if he were coaching, he’d probably run something closer to Florida or West F’ing Virginia’s attacks.

Extra P: 41-15 two years back wasn’t good enough for you? I was at that game; it sure seemed like it was. Further, it would never be a pitch to Rathman; he was a fullback, so it would have been a handoff on a dive or wham trap.

Rudy: It’s more like Dad coming home to find the house trashed after a party and being quietly disappointed. Almost as if he didn’t expect you to do any better.

Oz won’t run Callahan during the season; he’s still too much of a coach for that. However, he’s way gone at season’s end.

So the game between the “Wrecking Crew” and the “Blackshirts” this weekend has the potential to suck so much that it will create a quantum singularity.

Albino – I was being metaphorical an’ shit. The “Pitch to Rathman” was meant to refer to the fact that he’s a coach (albeit with the Raiders) and could at least come back as an assistant.

And no, one win in a season where we still basically went nowhere is not enough for me. This year we can aspire to the Holiday Bowl!!!!

I’m giddy as a school girl. The first football game I remember watching on TV was the Florida State vs. Nebraska Orange Bowl. I’m only 21 now, so I was like 7 at the time, but ever since that day I have loved Cornhusker football. I don’t think it’s possible for me to be happier about Osborne as AD. I am also going to point out that Tagge, Humm, and Ferragamo all ran the “spread option,” although it wasn’t as refined as it is now. Please remember that Ferragamo was an all-pro QB, Nebraska also has had a #1 draft pick at WR, not a 1st rounder, an actual #1 overall.

This coaching change may bring back Turner Gill from the Buffalo Bulls (I hope not) bring Paul Johnson over (I hope not), Bo Pelini (fan favorite) or someone I’m not even aware of. Either way GBR.

I just wanted to say how I always appreciate so much how Orson pays respect to the ‘95 squad in every post he ever makes dealing with NU…it’s always a nice little glimmer of happiness in the otherwise dismal drudgery that is life as a present day Husker fan.