Nebraska AD out

Through 2013. Callahan and Cosgrove likely are next.

 

Cosgrove will be first. Then Callahan will get fired.

 

Callahan just got a new contract, too.

 

This has been coming for a while now. The failures on the football field are the most visible example, but people in the athletic department have described Pederson's steady poisoning of the atmosphere and failings in interpersonal dealings.

He brought in Callahan, who in turn brought in the current staff. Pederson said he made the move because he didn't want the program to gravitate toward mediocrity, that he didn't want to cede the Big 12 to Texas and Oklahoma. At best, the program has not moved forward since Solich's firing ... at worst, it's regressed.

 

He also put the athletic department in debt with his $30 million improvement to the stadium, and other projects. It was done without booster support, and he did it anyway, since the board of regents there just rubber-stamped whatever he wanted.

 

All I think when I see Callahan's face is "1.5 mil"

 

They'll see out the rest of the season. Letting all the heads roll in the middle of the season would be too chaotic.

 

Nick Saban's ears just perked up.

 

No shaggy, it was not the irrational fans, per se. There is a segment of those fools lying around Lincoln who believed that Nebraska should be winning national titles.

Pederson was listening to the irrational boosters who thought that 9-win seasons was gearing towards mediocrity and he pushed the panic button. When we look at Osborne's resume, Osborne has a multitude of 9-win seasons in the Big 8 and Big 12. No one complained.

This had to happened, if not now, the end of the season. Callahan will coach out the season and will be let go, IMO. That is due to the fact that Kevin Cosgrove is the worst defensive coordinator in the history of college football. It's a wonder why Wisconsin was so happy to be rid of him when he left.

Just listening to one of the Omaha stations coming back from lunch and heard this caveat: the '97 National championship team was honored this weekend and some were on the sidelines encouraging the team to play inspired. Rumor has it that they were asked to leave the sidelines during the game. Either Pederson or Callahan felt that the 97 team had no part in the program or being on the sidelines.

Clearly, Callahan have never understood the scope of what the program means to the state, had no appreciation or wherewithal of the tradition, and after four years, he still hasn't gotten it, and never will as long as he is there.

 

I always thought it was a strange hire. The fired coach of a west coast NFL team that excelled in passing goes to a midwestern school that built its rep on the power running game.

It was just weird.

 

If and when the new coach is installed, I wonder if they'll go back to the option style offense.