Those are the words of experience. A very respectful, caring and wise person. Nebraskans should always remember Tom and try to imitate his wisdom and tact. Truthfully, one of the most tactful persons I've had the privilege of seeing. Pellini, take note: if you have this type of personality, your players will love to play for you and Nebraskans will admire you greatly.
@@robjohnson8861 I'm sure you yourself have made a bad decision here or there, but if the greater majority of your decisions are good versus one bad decision, that doesn't make you unwise or bad. Are you unwise because of that one very visible bad choice you made? Or are you perfect? I didn't think so, either way.
@@Mantronix10 Neb fans. Gotta love em. You assumption is that all decisions carry the same weight. Phllips actions against his ex were very, very serious. Osborne, if he is a man with the integrity you all speak of 1) knew the right choice and 2) then most likely ignored many that advised him to dismiss Phllips. He was a man that blundered a lot.
@@Mantronix10 Said another way. How tall would he have looked to say, "I have made the decision to permanently dismiss Phillips from the team." There were 100s that he owed it to vs the lame attempt to reach a man 18 or 19 years old if that was really what he was trying to do, which few outside Neb fanbase probably believe.
@@robjohnson8861 I guess you are unwise because of that one very visible bad choice you made. With the judgment you are judging, you will be judged and with the measure that you are measuring out, you will also be measured. First remove the rafter from your own eye and then you will see clearly how to remove the straw from your fellowman's eye.
Facts. * 9 wins that last season but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked. * 32-7 before CO, then 16-12 after. * 1-9 against ranked teams on the road * worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs * lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams * losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio * 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs
@@robjohnson8861 facts, it didn't matter consider he went 9-3, finished second in Big 12 north that season. Callahan ended up with worst losses than Solich, and or Bo. Wasn't as bad as Riley but fact is Frank won with decent talent. Even with great players, Callahan couldn't do anything
@sorney98 *"Callahan ended up with worst losses than Solich, and or Bo."* Only an idio.t like you would parse blowouts. Again, you keep denying facts. Solich with his players, beat 1 ranked team (#24 OSU) in his last 28 games. With his players 16-12 and then dumbed that mess on to Callahan Callahan 2004, all were Solich's recruits 2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's 2006 S, Juniors, Solich's. Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's.
During Solich time, that telling on your teammate with intentions to hurt them was a big No , & They knew it would be there downfall. Any harm to another player especially physically off the field was grounds for immediate termination. But Callahan allowed Assaults & serious life threats to go silent to protect there job
i never understood how tom osborne was able to be so classy about firing bill callahan and kevin cosgrove. he is the greatest coach ever, and they suck. and i am very confident bo pelini is going to turn our program around.
Callahan brought us Suh and others who still play on Sundays. How did that Bo Pelini experiment go that at the time of your comments made you so confident ? Your a real brainy mug arent you. You know firing good coachs from Solich to Riley are exactly why we are now UN RANKED. And Coach Osbornes choices from Solich to firing Callahan in retrospect took us to BO and you know the rest. Hopefully Trev will have a better perspective on Frost this year than Oz did with Callahan.
@mikeflower4091 which most were ready to move on had Callahan not been fired. But since you brought up Bo, let's see there was David, Burkhead, Abdullah, Gregory and so on that play on Sundays as well. Plus Bo was last guy to have consistent winning seasons so that experiment was better than Riley.
Had Callahan been willing to fire his defensive coordinator I think he deserved another year, that offense was becoming explosive. Think of how good we'd have been with Pelini coaching the D with Callahan on offense 😳
@gregmunn2945 the offense wasn't explosive, despite the one game against Kansas State, they scored 6 points against Missouri, 14 twice to Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. And the blowout losses, most of the scores were against team that had the game won already.
This past year it was debatable that Nebraska was a good team or not 1st year in the big ten. But Callahan's last year with us there was no question that we were a below average team. Bo is no Tom Osborne but I do respect him a lot as our football coach.
Osborne 'I didn't feel like I could survive a losing season" Correct, you probably couldn't have survived a losing season. 9+ wins was a joke. you mentioned the last 4 years. Remove those bowl wins and you record was 8-13 in bowls. Big 8 validation sucked, huh. Solich and Pelini both avged at least 9 win seasons, but got fired. Neb did not want that trap again although that just changed with Scott's 2 year extension. Neb would love 9 wins a year and scott could stay forever.
Still editing comments? Maybe instead of telling people about football, maybe first work in things that don’t require you to edit comments and then your spelling, etc. Kinda pathetic when a guy thinks he’s smart yet has to keep editing comments, has words, names in front of you yet still spelled wrong.
@@robjohnson8861 nah just suggestions that pop up and I watch it. What’s the ironic thing is you still commenting being a fing dumba$$ on these still and editing comments. When you gonna actually get a job, get hobby and do something with your life
i think he found a very capable coach in bo pelini. hes been nothing but a success everywhere hes gone. just look at the 2003 NU defense. if we would have had an offense that year, we woulda been very much a title contender, thanks to bo's awesome defense (not to mention marvin sander's interception-machine secondary. and sanders is back this year too).
If they heard another player was using steroids, they'd snitch to coaches by slipping anonymous letters under doors or even call NCAA to inform them of mates suspected use they only heard 2nd, 3rd and on hand
@RainbowManification No hiring Callahan was the worst decision, Solich was an ok coach (In fact a better coach than Callahan.) but he wasn't a good coach for Nebraska when some of Osborne's recruits graduated he was predictable in a lot of games, when they fired Solich they should've just gone to Pelini but something was wrong with Pederson when he hired Callahan.
i guess we wont know for sure how good he is until the season starts, but even if he goes 0-12, id rather have him than bill c. and he wont. i think we can hope for at least an ok d this year, after going 112th last year, but with enough talent to do well in pelini's d. and on offense, we should be even better than last year: a very physical and deep line will boost our 3 (maybe 4) deep RBs, so look for a strong running game.& with our WRs and mobile QB, look for zone read and plenty of passing.
When you truly love the GAME, & HONOR IT BY play then seeing such scheming by some team mates, it sickens you. Im the mindset of if the team is being dominated by other team I get angry & want to knock out one of them on field cleanly to show them no one messes witn my team mates , but when insecure, fakers see team embarrassed then they start jumping ship like a rat to save themselves & ensure they keep there starting position etc. These same guys distance themselves from team off field by never being seen with team at social event, they only showed up when coaches were looking like sneaky slithering snakes
Nope, because he was, they could of scored more than 6 against Missouri, 14 twice against Okie State and Texas A&M, plus the starters vs USC held them down easily. Callahan's offense wasn't working
@sorney98 He had Solichs recruits. Remember with his recruits (Osborne's were gone) Solich went 16-12 before being fired. Beat 1 rank team in those 28 games. Callahan 2004, all were Solich's recruits 2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's 2006 S, Juniors, Solich's.
Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's.
@acheronnchase6220 if he was the best, why is Browns struggling? Where's the Super Bowl? He's been on few teams telling me if he was good, he have a ring by now, so he's not a top offensive line coach
@@sorney98 that is what his peers say…don’t take my word for it …his peers say it…also, you can only play with the guys you have…tell me that the Pelini brothers aren’t good defensive coordinators because they couldn’t stop zone read teams? I don’t even like Callahan but the man can coach and he will always have a job coaching football ….you’re gauging what he did when he had Joe Daley as his west coast qb, or how the browns are doing now ….he’s typically been the assistant head coach of every team he’s been an assistant at….you can’t say that about anyone else (I don’t know his rank or job title currently, but he’s always been an associate head coach even as a coordinator or position coach)
osborne perfected the power option simply brilliant offense i know it well and its so hard to defend when you execute i dont understand why people want to try running pro style in collegiate football! im mean osborne then solich was on his way to a legendery tenure and that idiot peterson fired him after 9 wins and he had average talent that year! those ad's just messed up the whole program! its very frustrating!!!
"then solich was on his way to a legendery tenure and that idiot peterson fired him after 9 wins and he had average talent that year!" there you go again. Facts. * Who recruited that avg talent? * 9 wins but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked. * 32-7 before CO, then 16-12 after. * 1-9 against ranked teams on the road * worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs * lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams * losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio * 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs The AD was absolutely spot on in firing him.
See, if you were an honest person and we know you aren't, you'd admit that Solich was a mistake but then in the bigger picture that means you'd have to come terms with Osborne made yet another blunder in picking him.
@@robjohnson8861 and see if you were a common sense person, it was a dumb mistake to fire him. Since he was fired, 5 losing season, and other coaches had worst losses then Solich did with their guys. Look at Callahan taking a 38-0 beating at half, Riley 35-0 which lead to horrible losses. So far that firing has worked out real well. Give me a fing break
@@robjohnson8861 yet you and math don’t pan out because Callahan also had JUCO’s and transfers, plus yet Callahan was able to get majority of his guys in the 04 recruiting class so don’t give me that crap
Honestly to tell you to truth if Nebraska wouldn't of fucked around with teams (northwestern, Wisconsin, an Michigan) we could be #2 and going against LSU in the BCS...
The worst of it was Callahan's effect on the Team as whole. Players that were played were the ones that were recruited by means of Game Film Dominance & Top talant, and that had Football Instinct & Heart. Callahan flipped it however, Guys played because they helped Callahan's political maneuvering, or brown nosed him, & would Pretend PASSION, AND Heart From M-F at practice but when Game day came the first Series gets stuffed-shamed, & all sudden they on sidelines quiet 🤫 looking confused 😕 & scared to fight for real. They would then start to skeem up some deflection tactic, & pick out another teammate & side eye smuck stare them as if they were at fault for us being humiliated & would do this in coaches vicinity, so that they could see 👀 you were upset as much as them at mates bad play. Pathetic
@RainbowManification actually we did need to get rid of solich. he wasn't recruiting at all. as you can see from our 7-7 season in 2002, his first full season with only his recruits. in 2003, he was 9-3 but our 3 losses were by a total of 70 points. not competitive with the best. that's why he was let go. the mistake was the hiring of the idiot bill callahan. but everything happens for a reason and things have worked out well thus far..
Yet Solich's guys help give Callahan his best season. Solich hired new guys which gonna take time. I'd take the 3 losses Solich had compared to Callahan
@travis2x I guess your right. Bo Pelini had alot of work to do with the program after he came on. Suh was a godsend. However I have concerns going into the Big 10. We have Burkhead, Taylor Martinez is a 2nd string QB and is a wanna be half-back, don't get me started on Cody Green. Bubba Sterling is a maybe as far as football goes, but if he does come on, we will get to the Big 10 title game at-least.
The man should never been hired solich should have never been fired that's what irritates me about these younger generations alot of them just have no common sense period!!! And solich getting fired was the beginning of the decline of nebraska football and its become a long painful journey to get nebraska football to get it back and it seems everytime were on the road to recovery some genius fires a coach pushing us in the right direction like pelini he should have never been fired hopefully they'll give a frost a chance to turn us around!!!
Solich was 16-12 from the CO loss in 2001 with HIS recruits. No longer was he able to ride the train with Osborne's recruits. How many conf championships does Solich have now with 21 years of coaching? And wasn't he supposed to own the MAC? What is his bowl record?
@@robjohnson8861right since Solich's firing let's look at the great success at Nebraska since then. Callahan 2 losing seasons 60 point loss which is still largest in school history, including the 5-7 in his final year, majority of his guys yet suffered huge losses including allowing 76 points to Kansas. Bo Pelini 67-27, only bad loss was 2012 Big 10 Championship. But kept having 9-10 win seasons Mike Riley 2 losing seasons, 4-8, 2nd largest loss in school history by 59, momentum never picked up after the 23-17 loss to Wisconsin in 16 which carried into 17. Plus Mike Riley hiring never made sense, even national media questioned it. Scott Frost, homegrown, thought to be savior, unfortunately never amounted to nothing, 16-31. Matt Rhule in now, 3-3, he's a builder so hopefully gets it's going but still brings Osborne, Solich for advice. He wants them here. What that shows so far Nebraska since Solich has had maybe 1, hopefully 2 good hires since Solich firing. I think I speak for college football fans that we are glad you aren't a Athletic Director because you sure would suck at your job lol
@sorney98 There are clearly 2 Solich periods at Neb. 1) With Osborne's recruits, and. 2) With his. 42-7 and 16-12. Beat 1 ranked team in that last 28 games, #24 Ok St. So, with his recruits, he sucked. And then Callahan inherited those players. Callahan 2004, all were Solich's recruits 2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's 2006 S, Juniors, Solich's.
Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's. Putting it all together. * 42-7 before CO, then 16-12 after. * 9 wins that last season but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked. * 1-9 against ranked teams on the road * worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs * lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams * losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio * 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs Neb was spot on in firing him.
@sorney98 *"Matt Rhule in now, 3-3, he's a builder so hopefully gets it's going but still brings Osborne, Solich for advice. He wants them here"* Rhule has now won 50 games lifetime. He has beaten 1 top 20 team (#19 Navy), or 2%. Frost beat 2 top 20 teams in his 35 lifetime wins, or 6%. It will be a decade before Rhule matches Frost's 6%. Ha, ha, ha. You B!
@robjohnson8861 wow, and the little boy keep typing useless crap. How do we thank thee for stuff we don't read from Rob Johnson. Why am I not worried about Matt Rhule, building. Built Temple into a winner no one else could. Got Baylor back up after a huge scandal so I ain't worried.
4-0 LOL... like that was going to happen with Billy C. Glad Bo won a BCS title with LSU, it helped insulate him a lot from impatient Husker fans that would have been bitching in 2004-2005.....etc...
Unfortunately this firing came more than a day late and a dollar short. If Callahan was Fired after the “Jest Coast Offense” only beat “MAINE” at Home, only by 17 points???🤔 Failahan did not know is Buttocks from his Elbow. Between the pathetic non football related training, except for Weight Training, was a sort of joke. There purpose seemed more about punishing the team by running countless long distance intervals beyond exhaustion & if any missed there would be a separate morning retakes for those individuals. That basically removes the team aspect of the game to a discombobulation of the entire program. The intention in the beginning was to root out the players who did not want to play bad enough, which in some delusional thought pattern may make sense, but why continue the nonsense style training after the fact & completion of the initial period. It would be like doing a summer style conditioning practice day before the super bowl, or “CHANGING THE GAME PLAN, A DAY BEFORE THE SUPER-BOWL” Cough 2001 Raiders Cough!
Osborne fixed what that idiot A.D. did in firing solich!!! Really stupid move but then another one fired pelini!!! But now we have frost and finally after 3 miserable years with riley were headed in the right direction thank god GBR!!!
"But now we have frost and finally after 3 miserable years with riley were headed in the right direction" With Frost, worst 2 years for a Neb coach ever and that is the right direction? Wrong about Solich, wrong about Frost. Sheesh!
@@robjohnson8861 no your wrong if solich would have been left alone we would have and still a great winning program the jury is still out about frost only time will tell
@@traviskrause8509 Hey Alice in Wonderland, a good coach wins anywhere. Solich is not a winner. Again, 1 conf championship in 21 years and 7-9 in bowls and he has spent most of the time in the MAC where he was supposed to burn it up, right.
well he was in a fairly bad situation in his first few years, but he went at least 9-3 every single year, and when he lost, he didnt lose by 30 or 40 points. bc did, and shouldnt have. as good as both KU and mizzou were last year, we should not have lost that bad, not to mention against mediocre teams like OSU, a&m, and CU. bo has such a different coaching style than bc, and it is so much better. i know bc and cos came to NU in a bad situation, but they just made it worse. and cos just sucks :P
Solich had a 7-7 season which was the motivation to fire him ….that was 2002, so solich had to fire Craig Bohl, which I can imagine was hard for him, and he replaced a lot of coaches, handed over play calling to Barney cotton, and he asked just about everyone whose opinion mattered in the NFL who would be a good fit for his new DC, and everyone recommended Bo….the 7-7 season was the excuse Pederson needed….2003’s staff shake-up was his penance, and it was already in the works to fire solich, which I wouldn’t have done The saddest thing about it is Callahan was like the 20th guy on their list lol
This should be critiqued to figure out how a coach can come from shit, sell shit , and too many people bought the shit he was selling week after week. He was disgracing Nebraksa football more than it had ever seen in 118 years. He was breaking worst records of embarrassment domination. Somehow the excuse of , Lack Of Talanted Recruits was his go to Shit Sandwich Special, that gave Valentinos a run for its money... Truth is, Nebraska had loads of talented athletes that never seen the field once ? Never Put out there to see what they made of... They were jusy hidden & labeled as Not Good Enough-Callahan Standards Chart.
You know, you typed a bunch of words there without 1 single fact. Who cares about your emotion. Callahan inherited a bad FING team. There are clearly 2 Solich periods at Neb. 1) With Osborne's recruits, and. 2) With his. 42-7 and 16-12. Beat 1 ranked team in that last 28 games, #24 Ok St. So, with his recruits, he sucked. And then Callahan inherited those players. Callahan 2004, all were Solich's recruits 2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's 2006 S, Juniors, Solich's.
Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's. Putting it all together. * 42-7 before CO, then 16-12 after. * 9 wins that last season but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked. * 1-9 against ranked teams on the road * worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs * lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams * losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio * 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs Neb was spot on in firing Solich, but left Callahan with a broken team.
@robjohnson8861 oh really yet explain why Callahan was 5th choice on the list? Also why majority of Solich's guys gave Callahan his best years? Oh wait because they actually were good players.
@robjohnson8861 so far you type a bunch of bs, yet so far you bring no facts Nebraska was right for firing Solich. Yet they weren't because so far firing two 9 win coaches hasn't done Nebraska any good and has shown. Maybe there's reason you're in mommas basement and not Athletic Director. You would suck at the job
@JoRoW99 we still could of done better, inconsistent in big 10 play. We lost to Michigan but won against Michigan State. WTF? 9-3 in regular season is not representative of Nebraska play when they were in the Big 12 under pelini. We failed for BCS bowl eligibility first time under pelini.
Pickman Bo was just fine winning 9 or more games. He was trying to find his rhythm again in recruiting which was looking ok. You don’t fire head coaches with winning records unless there are some serious issues like Penn State, Baylor, or force a coach to take a new job like Pete Carrol at USC. Just think had Nebraska fired Tom Osborne after the 1977 season, we wouldn’t been talking about the titles in the 90’s or TO’s guttiest call in the 1984 Orange Bowl title game.
@@sorney98 horsesh*t. GA has glad to fire their 9+ win, idiot coach Richt. How long was Devaney at Neb and how many NCs did he have? 1 every 5 years, vs 1 every 12 years with Osborne. How many NCs did Switzer and Bowden cost Neb? Neb stuck with Osborne way, way too long. 1984 call was just plain stupid. The pundits including the anchor calling the game said Neb would probably have won the NC with a tie.
@@robjohnson8861 first off Devaney didn’t win a National Championship until his 9th and 10th season. Plus a tie was not a guarantee to a National Championship. Plus you don’t go for a tie, you go for the win. Shows the courage of Osborne. If that’s the case, then should be going after more coaches for doing the same. Switzer only won 3 titles, Bowden got 2, Osborne got 3. So Switzer and Osborne are even get over it. Maybe there’s a reason why you aren’t a coach let alone an AD, because you sure be a dumb one.
Should of kept Frank and we would of never had to go throw the Callahan days.
We should hold Golden Boy to the standards.
Those are the words of experience. A very respectful, caring and wise person. Nebraskans should always remember Tom and try to imitate his wisdom and tact. Truthfully, one of the most tactful persons I've had the privilege of seeing. Pellini, take note: if you have this type of personality, your players will love to play for you and Nebraskans will admire you greatly.
Yeah, Osborne cared about women in letting Phllips back on team and how wise was that? Remember, he has a PhD in psychology.
@@robjohnson8861 I'm sure you yourself have made a bad decision here or there, but if the greater majority of your decisions are good versus one bad decision, that doesn't make you unwise or bad. Are you unwise because of that one very visible bad choice you made? Or are you perfect? I didn't think so, either way.
@@Mantronix10 Neb fans. Gotta love em. You assumption is that all decisions carry the same weight. Phllips actions against his ex were very, very serious. Osborne, if he is a man with the integrity you all speak of 1) knew the right choice and 2) then most likely ignored many that advised him to dismiss Phllips.
He was a man that blundered a lot.
@@Mantronix10 Said another way. How tall would he have looked to say, "I have made the decision to permanently dismiss Phillips from the team." There were 100s that he owed it to vs the lame attempt to reach a man 18 or 19 years old if that was really what he was trying to do, which few outside Neb fanbase probably believe.
@@robjohnson8861 I guess you are unwise because of that one very visible bad choice you made. With the judgment you are judging, you will be judged and with the measure that you are measuring out, you will also be measured. First remove the rafter from your own eye and then you will see clearly how to remove the straw from your fellowman's eye.
He sabotaged the Raider franchise and now Nebraskas?! Man does he have an attitude to certain football teams...
As a broncos and buffs fan i love it
Fire Solich was the worst decision ever made in college football.
Facts.
* 9 wins that last season but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked.
* 32-7 before CO, then 16-12 after.
* 1-9 against ranked teams on the road
* worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs
* lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams
* losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio
* 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs
@@robjohnson8861 facts, it didn't matter consider he went 9-3, finished second in Big 12 north that season. Callahan ended up with worst losses than Solich, and or Bo. Wasn't as bad as Riley but fact is Frank won with decent talent. Even with great players, Callahan couldn't do anything
@@robjohnson8861years later and shows still Nebraska made the wrong choice.
@sorney98 *"Callahan ended up with worst losses than Solich, and or Bo."*
Only an idio.t like you would parse blowouts.
Again, you keep denying facts.
Solich with his players, beat 1 ranked team (#24 OSU) in his last 28 games. With his players 16-12 and then dumbed that mess on to Callahan
Callahan
2004, all were Solich's recruits
2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's
2006 S, Juniors, Solich's.
Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's.
@@sorney98Solich deserved to get fired.
During Solich time, that telling on your teammate with intentions to hurt them was a big No , & They knew it would be there downfall. Any harm to another player especially physically off the field was grounds for immediate termination. But Callahan allowed Assaults & serious life threats to go silent to protect there job
The cowlick on the back of his head is driving me crazy...Good man none the less, lol
Some things there isn't any control over but yeah it even drives us crazy that have to put up with it. lol
i never understood how tom osborne was able to be so classy about firing bill callahan and kevin cosgrove. he is the greatest coach ever, and they suck. and i am very confident bo pelini is going to turn our program around.
Callahan brought us Suh and others who still play on Sundays. How did that Bo Pelini experiment go that at the time of your comments made you so confident ? Your a real brainy mug arent you. You know firing good coachs from Solich to Riley are exactly why we are now UN RANKED. And Coach Osbornes choices from Solich to firing Callahan in retrospect took us to BO and you know the rest. Hopefully Trev will have a better perspective on Frost this year than Oz did with Callahan.
@mikeflower4091 which most were ready to move on had Callahan not been fired. But since you brought up Bo, let's see there was David, Burkhead, Abdullah, Gregory and so on that play on Sundays as well. Plus Bo was last guy to have consistent winning seasons so that experiment was better than Riley.
my most fav image of this whole thing is with peterson crying and getting in his black suv with the tinted window and driving away. Perfect
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nebraska’s defense during that 2007 season couldn’t have stopped Boon Pickens on a Dive play.
Had Callahan been willing to fire his defensive coordinator I think he deserved another year, that offense was becoming explosive. Think of how good we'd have been with Pelini coaching the D with Callahan on offense 😳
@gregmunn2945 the offense wasn't explosive, despite the one game against Kansas State, they scored 6 points against Missouri, 14 twice to Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. And the blowout losses, most of the scores were against team that had the game won already.
This past year it was debatable that Nebraska was a good team or not 1st year in the big ten. But Callahan's last year with us there was no question that we were a below average team. Bo is no Tom Osborne but I do respect him a lot as our football coach.
Osborne 'I didn't feel like I could survive a losing season" Correct, you probably couldn't have survived a losing season. 9+ wins was a joke. you mentioned the last 4 years. Remove those bowl wins and you record was 8-13 in bowls. Big 8 validation sucked, huh.
Solich and Pelini both avged at least 9 win seasons, but got fired. Neb did not want that trap again although that just changed with Scott's 2 year extension. Neb would love 9 wins a year and scott could stay forever.
Still editing comments? Maybe instead of telling people about football, maybe first work in things that don’t require you to edit comments and then your spelling, etc. Kinda pathetic when a guy thinks he’s smart yet has to keep editing comments, has words, names in front of you yet still spelled wrong.
@@sorney98 lol. I make mistakes. See how having balls makes you look to others you little priss.
@@sorney98 lol. Neb is sucking so bad IL 30-22 yesterday, that you are here perusing a video of a coach long gone. Lol. Karma sucks.
@@robjohnson8861 nah just suggestions that pop up and I watch it. What’s the ironic thing is you still commenting being a fing dumba$$ on these still and editing comments. When you gonna actually get a job, get hobby and do something with your life
@@sorney98 I own u. Isn't that all that really matters?
This was a Relief....
Scott Frost isn’t going to work either.
Spread offenses don’t work in the big 10. Let alone recruiting those players in Nebraska.
Callahan disliked
i think he found a very capable coach in bo pelini. hes been nothing but a success everywhere hes gone. just look at the 2003 NU defense. if we would have had an offense that year, we woulda been very much a title contender, thanks to bo's awesome defense (not to mention marvin sander's interception-machine secondary. and sanders is back this year too).
well, idk if you're active still but now, we miss bo.
If they heard another player was using steroids, they'd snitch to coaches by slipping anonymous letters under doors or even call NCAA to inform them of mates suspected use they only heard 2nd, 3rd and on hand
He didn't lose like we do now...
ubercrombie5 at least Bo made sure they would keep competing. Callahan teams just quit
Or now
Tom Osborne is a class act
I disagree....signed Kate McEwen (L Phillips ex girlfriend)
@@robjohnson8861 he should have stayed out of politics
@@robjohnson8861 really? You spoke with Kate personally? Hmm I highly doubt it
I dont know, Tom's first five seasons he usually won 9 or 10 games. Just give him some time.
@RainbowManification No hiring Callahan was the worst decision, Solich was an ok coach (In fact a better coach than Callahan.) but he wasn't a good coach for Nebraska when some of Osborne's recruits graduated he was predictable in a lot of games, when they fired Solich they should've just gone to Pelini but something was wrong with Pederson when he hired Callahan.
@6891man Tom Osbourne is the best thing that ever happened to NU football.
1 outright NC every 12 years. Delaney 1 outright NC ever 5 years. Neb could have 3 or 4 more had the had another coach that knew how to finish.
@@robjohnson8861 yet too bad you wouldn't know a good coach anyway
i agree one hundred and ten percent!
i guess we wont know for sure how good he is until the season starts, but even if he goes 0-12, id rather have him than bill c. and he wont. i think we can hope for at least an ok d this year, after going 112th last year, but with enough talent to do well in pelini's d. and on offense, we should be even better than last year: a very physical and deep line will boost our 3 (maybe 4) deep RBs, so look for a strong running game.& with our WRs and mobile QB, look for zone read and plenty of passing.
When you truly love the GAME, & HONOR IT BY play then seeing such scheming by some team mates, it sickens you. Im the mindset of if the team is being dominated by other team I get angry & want to knock out one of them on field cleanly to show them no one messes witn my team mates , but when insecure, fakers see team embarrassed then they start jumping ship like a rat to save themselves & ensure they keep there starting position etc. These same guys distance themselves from team off field by never being seen with team at social event, they only showed up when coaches were looking like sneaky slithering snakes
Like it or not, Callahan is an exceptional offensive mind
Nope, because he was, they could of scored more than 6 against Missouri, 14 twice against Okie State and Texas A&M, plus the starters vs USC held them down easily. Callahan's offense wasn't working
@sorney98 He had Solichs recruits.
Remember with his recruits (Osborne's were gone) Solich went 16-12 before being fired. Beat 1 rank team in those 28 games.
Callahan
2004, all were Solich's recruits
2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's
2006 S, Juniors, Solich's.
Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's.
@@sorney98 his body of work proves you wrong ….best O-line coach in the NFL during the last almost 20 years on top of that
@acheronnchase6220 if he was the best, why is Browns struggling? Where's the Super Bowl? He's been on few teams telling me if he was good, he have a ring by now, so he's not a top offensive line coach
@@sorney98 that is what his peers say…don’t take my word for it …his peers say it…also, you can only play with the guys you have…tell me that the Pelini brothers aren’t good defensive coordinators because they couldn’t stop zone read teams? I don’t even like Callahan but the man can coach and he will always have a job coaching football ….you’re gauging what he did when he had Joe Daley as his west coast qb, or how the browns are doing now ….he’s typically been the assistant head coach of every team he’s been an assistant at….you can’t say that about anyone else (I don’t know his rank or job title currently, but he’s always been an associate head coach even as a coordinator or position coach)
osborne perfected the power option simply brilliant offense i know it well and its so hard to defend when you execute i dont understand why people want to try running pro style in collegiate football! im mean osborne then solich was on his way to a legendery tenure and that idiot peterson fired him after 9 wins and he had average talent that year! those ad's just messed up the whole program! its very frustrating!!!
"then solich was on his way to a legendery tenure and that idiot peterson fired him after 9 wins and he had average talent that year!"
there you go again.
Facts.
* Who recruited that avg talent?
* 9 wins but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked.
* 32-7 before CO, then 16-12 after.
* 1-9 against ranked teams on the road
* worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs
* lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams
* losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio
* 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs
The AD was absolutely spot on in firing him.
See, if you were an honest person and we know you aren't, you'd admit that Solich was a mistake but then in the bigger picture that means you'd have to come terms with Osborne made yet another blunder in picking him.
@@robjohnson8861 and see if you were a common sense person, it was a dumb mistake to fire him. Since he was fired, 5 losing season, and other coaches had worst losses then Solich did with their guys. Look at Callahan taking a 38-0 beating at half, Riley 35-0 which lead to horrible losses. So far that firing has worked out real well. Give me a fing break
@@sorney98 God I swear u and math. solichs last class were Callahan's seniors. Solich was tanking and he spit on Callahan.
@@robjohnson8861 yet you and math don’t pan out because Callahan also had JUCO’s and transfers, plus yet Callahan was able to get majority of his guys in the 04 recruiting class so don’t give me that crap
Honestly to tell you to truth if Nebraska wouldn't of fucked around with teams (northwestern, Wisconsin, an Michigan) we could be #2 and going against LSU in the BCS...
The worst of it was Callahan's effect on the Team as whole. Players that were played were the ones that were recruited by means of Game Film Dominance & Top talant, and that had Football Instinct & Heart. Callahan flipped it however, Guys played because they helped Callahan's political maneuvering, or brown nosed him, & would Pretend PASSION, AND Heart From M-F at practice but when Game day came the first Series gets stuffed-shamed, & all sudden they on sidelines quiet 🤫 looking confused 😕 & scared to fight for real. They would then start to skeem up some deflection tactic, & pick out another teammate & side eye smuck stare them as if they were at fault for us being humiliated & would do this in coaches vicinity, so that they could see 👀 you were upset as much as them at mates bad play. Pathetic
@RainbowManification
actually we did need to get rid of solich. he wasn't recruiting at all. as you can see from our 7-7 season in 2002, his first full season with only his recruits. in 2003, he was 9-3 but our 3 losses were by a total of 70 points. not competitive with the best. that's why he was let go. the mistake was the hiring of the idiot bill callahan. but everything happens for a reason and things have worked out well thus far..
"things have worked out well thus far"
This didn't age well. Don't you hate that.
Yet Solich's guys help give Callahan his best season. Solich hired new guys which gonna take time. I'd take the 3 losses Solich had compared to Callahan
@travis2x I guess your right. Bo Pelini had alot of work to do with the program after he came on. Suh was a godsend. However I have concerns going into the Big 10. We have Burkhead, Taylor Martinez is a 2nd string QB and is a wanna be half-back, don't get me started on Cody Green. Bubba Sterling is a maybe as far as football goes, but if he does come on, we will get to the Big 10 title game at-least.
The man should never been hired solich should have never been fired that's what irritates me about these younger generations alot of them just have no common sense period!!! And solich getting fired was the beginning of the decline of nebraska football and its become a long painful journey to get nebraska football to get it back and it seems everytime were on the road to recovery some genius fires a coach pushing us in the right direction like pelini he should have never been fired hopefully they'll give a frost a chance to turn us around!!!
Solich was 16-12 from the CO loss in 2001 with HIS recruits. No longer was he able to ride the train with Osborne's recruits. How many conf championships does Solich have now with 21 years of coaching? And wasn't he supposed to own the MAC? What is his bowl record?
@@robjohnson8861right since Solich's firing let's look at the great success at Nebraska since then.
Callahan 2 losing seasons 60 point loss which is still largest in school history, including the 5-7 in his final year, majority of his guys yet suffered huge losses including allowing 76 points to Kansas.
Bo Pelini 67-27, only bad loss was 2012 Big 10 Championship. But kept having 9-10 win seasons
Mike Riley 2 losing seasons, 4-8, 2nd largest loss in school history by 59, momentum never picked up after the 23-17 loss to Wisconsin in 16 which carried into 17. Plus Mike Riley hiring never made sense, even national media questioned it.
Scott Frost, homegrown, thought to be savior, unfortunately never amounted to nothing, 16-31.
Matt Rhule in now, 3-3, he's a builder so hopefully gets it's going but still brings Osborne, Solich for advice. He wants them here.
What that shows so far Nebraska since Solich has had maybe 1, hopefully 2 good hires since Solich firing. I think I speak for college football fans that we are glad you aren't a Athletic Director because you sure would suck at your job lol
@sorney98 There are clearly 2 Solich periods at Neb.
1) With Osborne's recruits, and.
2) With his.
42-7 and 16-12. Beat 1 ranked team in that last 28 games, #24 Ok St.
So, with his recruits, he sucked. And then Callahan inherited those players.
Callahan
2004, all were Solich's recruits
2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's
2006 S, Juniors, Solich's.
Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's.
Putting it all together.
* 42-7 before CO, then 16-12 after.
* 9 wins that last season but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked.
* 1-9 against ranked teams on the road
* worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs
* lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams
* losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio
* 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs
Neb was spot on in firing him.
@sorney98 *"Matt Rhule in now, 3-3, he's a builder so hopefully gets it's going but still brings Osborne, Solich for advice. He wants them here"*
Rhule has now won 50 games lifetime. He has beaten 1 top 20 team (#19 Navy), or 2%.
Frost beat 2 top 20 teams in his 35 lifetime wins, or 6%.
It will be a decade before Rhule matches Frost's 6%.
Ha, ha, ha. You B!
@robjohnson8861 wow, and the little boy keep typing useless crap. How do we thank thee for stuff we don't read from Rob Johnson. Why am I not worried about Matt Rhule, building. Built Temple into a winner no one else could. Got Baylor back up after a huge scandal so I ain't worried.
4-0 LOL... like that was going to happen with Billy C.
Glad Bo won a BCS title with LSU, it helped insulate him a lot from impatient Husker fans that would have been bitching in 2004-2005.....etc...
Dam dam dam dam dam dam dam dam
Unfortunately this firing came more than a day late and a dollar short. If Callahan was Fired after the “Jest Coast Offense” only beat “MAINE” at Home, only by 17 points???🤔
Failahan did not know is Buttocks from his Elbow. Between the pathetic non football related training, except for Weight Training, was a sort of joke. There purpose seemed more about punishing the team by running countless long distance intervals beyond exhaustion & if any missed there would be a separate morning retakes for those individuals. That basically removes the team aspect of the game to a discombobulation of the entire program. The intention in the beginning was to root out the players who did not want to play bad enough, which in some delusional thought pattern may make sense, but why continue the nonsense style training after the fact & completion of the initial period. It would be like doing a summer style conditioning practice day before the super bowl, or “CHANGING THE GAME PLAN, A DAY BEFORE THE SUPER-BOWL” Cough 2001 Raiders Cough!
Osborne fixed what that idiot A.D. did in firing solich!!! Really stupid move but then another one fired pelini!!! But now we have frost and finally after 3 miserable years with riley were headed in the right direction thank god GBR!!!
Bo needed to go . Not a matter of wins and loses but how you do it. Bo still hasn’t won a championship as a head coach
"But now we have frost and finally after 3 miserable years with riley were headed in the right direction" With Frost, worst 2 years for a Neb coach ever and that is the right direction? Wrong about Solich, wrong about Frost. Sheesh!
@@robjohnson8861 no your wrong if solich would have been left alone we would have and still a great winning program the jury is still out about frost only time will tell
@@traviskrause8509 Hey Alice in Wonderland, a good coach wins anywhere. Solich is not a winner. Again, 1 conf championship in 21 years and 7-9 in bowls and he has spent most of the time in the MAC where he was supposed to burn it up, right.
@@robjohnson8861 ya says you idiot!!! How many times did osborne not win a championship but I suppose he wasn't a good coach either huh genius!!!
well he was in a fairly bad situation in his first few years, but he went at least 9-3 every single year, and when he lost, he didnt lose by 30 or 40 points. bc did, and shouldnt have. as good as both KU and mizzou were last year, we should not have lost that bad, not to mention against mediocre teams like OSU, a&m, and CU. bo has such a different coaching style than bc, and it is so much better. i know bc and cos came to NU in a bad situation, but they just made it worse. and cos just sucks :P
Solich had a 7-7 season which was the motivation to fire him ….that was 2002, so solich had to fire Craig Bohl, which I can imagine was hard for him, and he replaced a lot of coaches, handed over play calling to Barney cotton, and he asked just about everyone whose opinion mattered in the NFL who would be a good fit for his new DC, and everyone recommended Bo….the 7-7 season was the excuse Pederson needed….2003’s staff shake-up was his penance, and it was already in the works to fire solich, which I wouldn’t have done
The saddest thing about it is Callahan was like the 20th guy on their list lol
This should be critiqued to figure out how a coach can come from shit, sell shit , and too many people bought the shit he was selling week after week. He was disgracing Nebraksa football more than it had ever seen in 118 years. He was breaking worst records of embarrassment domination. Somehow the excuse of , Lack Of Talanted Recruits was his go to Shit Sandwich Special, that gave Valentinos a run for its money... Truth is, Nebraska had loads of talented athletes that never seen the field once ? Never Put out there to see what they made of... They were jusy hidden & labeled as Not Good Enough-Callahan Standards Chart.
You know, you typed a bunch of words there without 1 single fact. Who cares about your emotion.
Callahan inherited a bad FING team.
There are clearly 2 Solich periods at Neb.
1) With Osborne's recruits, and.
2) With his.
42-7 and 16-12. Beat 1 ranked team in that last 28 games, #24 Ok St.
So, with his recruits, he sucked. And then Callahan inherited those players.
Callahan
2004, all were Solich's recruits
2005, S, J, Sophs Solich's
2006 S, Juniors, Solich's.
Callahan didn't stand a chance with Solich's FU's.
Putting it all together.
* 42-7 before CO, then 16-12 after.
* 9 wins that last season but only 1 was ranked (Ok St) and they finished unranked.
* 1-9 against ranked teams on the road
* worst loss at home in 40 years, first non-winning season in 40 yrs
* lost to Synder while ranked in the top 10. Synder was 5-36 against top 10 teams
* losing bowl record at Neb and Ohio
* 1 conf championship in 20+ yrs
Neb was spot on in firing Solich, but left Callahan with a broken team.
@robjohnson8861 oh really yet explain why Callahan was 5th choice on the list? Also why majority of Solich's guys gave Callahan his best years? Oh wait because they actually were good players.
@robjohnson8861 so far you type a bunch of bs, yet so far you bring no facts Nebraska was right for firing Solich. Yet they weren't because so far firing two 9 win coaches hasn't done Nebraska any good and has shown. Maybe there's reason you're in mommas basement and not Athletic Director. You would suck at the job
@JoRoW99 we still could of done better, inconsistent in big 10 play. We lost to Michigan but won against Michigan State. WTF? 9-3 in regular season is not representative of Nebraska play when they were in the Big 12 under pelini. We failed for BCS bowl eligibility first time under pelini.
Pickman Bo was just fine winning 9 or more games. He was trying to find his rhythm again in recruiting which was looking ok. You don’t fire head coaches with winning records unless there are some serious issues like Penn State, Baylor, or force a coach to take a new job like Pete Carrol at USC.
Just think had Nebraska fired Tom Osborne after the 1977 season, we wouldn’t been talking about the titles in the 90’s or TO’s guttiest call in the 1984 Orange Bowl title game.
@@sorney98 horsesh*t.
GA has glad to fire their 9+ win, idiot coach Richt.
How long was Devaney at Neb and how many NCs did he have? 1 every 5 years, vs 1 every 12 years with Osborne.
How many NCs did Switzer and Bowden cost Neb? Neb stuck with Osborne way, way too long.
1984 call was just plain stupid. The pundits including the anchor calling the game said Neb would probably have won the NC with a tie.
@@robjohnson8861 first off Devaney didn’t win a National Championship until his 9th and 10th season.
Plus a tie was not a guarantee to a National Championship. Plus you don’t go for a tie, you go for the win. Shows the courage of Osborne. If that’s the case, then should be going after more coaches for doing the same. Switzer only won 3 titles, Bowden got 2, Osborne got 3. So Switzer and Osborne are even get over it.
Maybe there’s a reason why you aren’t a coach let alone an AD, because you sure be a dumb one.
@RainbowManification wow were you wrong...
Bo = Bill
Bill=losing seasons
Bo=winning seasons