Summary of McBride on 590
1. Fans need to do best they can to stay positive. It does hurt recruiting. It also hurts the players, he said coaches will tell them to block it out but they can't.
2. Team speed lacking at key spots and that it takes a lot of time to build up a new D-line. He laughs at people who get caught star gazing. He say's he'll take a guy that can run over anyone and said they used to whip up on teams that won recruiting titles (UCLA and ND).
3. Said it will take some time to get back to what we were. Started off by saying the cupboard was bear, Perault argues and talks about NFL players, Mcbride says there wasn't the depth of talent needed to play consistently at a high level. He says he knows because he was there at the end of it and it wasn't good.
4. THen he talked about what it takes to fix it. Says the JUCO guys come in for 2 years and don't understand the tradition, says the accountability and leadership is built through 4-5 years of hard work and with the mix of Juco's and under-talented seniors he can see why they have a problem.
5. Spoke about us not wanting to turn into Oklahoma of the 90's and make change after change.
posted by JL @ 10:32 PM
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5 Comments:
None of this would have happened if you would have hired me.
Sincerely,
Bo Pelini
P.S. I'm doing well. Please send my 'regards' to Steve Pederson.
I can barely stand this. My skin is crawling, and I'm not even in the state.
Ms. Lindsay and I attending a wedding in Colorado today, where things couldn't look much better! Me being to eternal optimist, I can't stop talkin about the Huskers and how much they will improve week to week. Especially once we get some on the field leaders! All the Colorado fans can talk about is how we need to keep Callahan and Cosgrove. They love them!
I did as much as I possibly could from a remote location. And anyone who has ever been to a game with me know what that means. I am a die-hard. Nevertheless, it meant nothing to this dilapitated team. We have no schemes worth a poop, we are uninspired, we have no leaders. Just let me on the field for one game. I suck at football, but I have more heart in my pinky toe than this entire team.
I don't know if it's that they have no belief in the schemes, the coaches, or our entire culture, but this team couldn't really care less. Cosgrove is weak to say the least. All Keller cares about is going pro. We have no reason to go to anymore games this year!
Regardless. I love the Huskers. I will be there again on Saturday. I will drink my face off. I will lose my voice. I will put all effort forth (even if they won't) to will this team to victory. Because I was there in 94, 95 and 97. I shared in the good times. I will share in this shit.
Mizzy Marquardt
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/football/ncaa/2007/10/saturday-observations-part-i_13.html?eref=T1
Below is a copy and paste of steward mandels blog:
So what do you have to say now, Steve Pederson?
For four years, Nebraska’s egotistic athletic director has pledged his undying faith to head coach Bill Callahan, despite little-to-no evidence the ex-NFL retread would ever return the once-proud Huskers to national prominence. Pederson even went so far as to give the divisive coach a contract extension at the beginning of this season.
In return, all Callahan’s team has done is take a series of gigantic steps backward: getting blown out by USC and Missouri, giving up 600 yards to Ball State, and now, in its most embarrassing outing to date Saturday, losing 45-14 to 3-3 Oklahoma State -- itself a mediocre team that has been routed by Georgia and Troy. Sam Keller, the vaunted Arizona State transfer who was to take Callahan’s West Coast offense to the next level, threw for 127 yards. And the Huskers’ 96th-ranked defense did its best to ensure they slip into the 100s next week, allowing 552 yards.
Nebraska’s 5-6 disaster in Callahan’s debut season was supposed to be the program’s low point. Not even close. That temporary setback could at least be rationalized away as a necessary speed bump in Callahan’s reinvention of the program. There’s simply no excuse for fielding one of the nation’s worst defenses -- and one of the Big 12’s worst teams -- having had four years to stockpile his preferred breed of talent.
The majority of Nebraska fans’ discontent this season has been directed at defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove. At this point, all but the most blindly optimistic surely realize the problem runs much deeper, and that it won’t be fixable until either the stubborn Pederson finally gives up on his grand Callahan experiment or, if he doesn’t, for someone higher up to pull the plug on Pederson.
Sipple's column in the LJS is money.
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