Interesting piece comparing Notre Dame and Nebraska

I watch ND more now than I used to. I could care less about them beating the patsies on their schedule, but now that I expect them to lose - I love watching them!

 

Nebraska should have never fired Solich.

 

i thought that maybe their ratings are still good because of all the people that hate them. but I cant even force myself to watch them more than a couple of plays when flipping between commercials. they are just too brutal.

if not in tuscaloosa I probably would have watched most of the navy game. i love watching navy regardless but especially if beating down on the michelin man.

not true. the problem was they had no one lined up better to replace him. you dont make a change unless you have a better alternative and nebraska was coming off their decade of dominance and solich was ok. callahan was like 5th on their wishlist.

they could have done a lot better considering where they were when osbourne departed.

 

That's a really fun offense to watch. I do wonder where Paul Johnson will end up. Considering the success Osbourne (?) had with Nebraska and that offense it seems like those two would be a good fit.

 

would seem to be a no-brainer. johnson would have the nebraska program turned around in 2 yrs. heckuva coach.

 

Be sure to tune in Saturday......they're the underdogs against Air Force. :rofl:

 

There definitely is a message here. One of irony. Osborne had "made hay" with his I-back option offense for 20 some years, but when the West Coast offense (and its spread variations) began infiltrating the college ranks... and Nebraska started losing some big games here and there... all of a sudden Nebraska football was "boring and unimaginative".
The concept of a quarterback who could run and a great powerback was passe. According to an article at ESPN, "the game had passed Nebraska by".

So... out with 9-3 Solich and in with Callahan and "The Mother Of Modern Offense" in its Corn Coast version. This was great for Nebraska fans... because if you live in Nebraska, you live in constant fear that you're missing something big. Callahan not only brought the west coast offense, he brought the Bill Walsh original version, which, of course, was a tad outdated.

So now here's Nebraska... it's 2007... and they're trying to compete with the Missouri's, the Kansas'.... or on the bigger stage... Florida, West Virginia, Oregon, Cincy, etc., all of whom are top-ranked... with what... a quarterback who is can run in a varied option offense... and coached by guys who probably attended some of Osborne's clinics back in the late '80's.

All in all, it's you want it, you got it... Toyota!
Or in Callahan's case... Sayonara!

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm in heaven with this Notre Dame nuclear incident, but if anyone here had to guess, how many more years of this train wreck will the ND fanbase have to endure before they get rid of Weiss?

I'm hoping not before ND fades into oblivion and becomes permanently irrelevant.

 

That's a hard question to answer. It would be easy to guess IF ND was a public University and were required to publish their contracts. I say that because then we would have an idea what number they have in place RE: the buyout for CW.

Hey, I'm not a fan of ND. But, I do have to say that a strong ND is good for college football as a whole. With the money they have, the reach around the country when it comes to attracting recruits, I can't see them falling into oblivion. Also, as I mentioned earlier, they are having a good year on the recruiting trail right now. That'll save face for a portion of their fan base.

I don't watch Regis and Kelly in the AM's, but you also have to wonder how happy their audience is not having to hear about ND everyday this fall. Mike Golic has toned down some and switched most of what he has to say in the mornings to NFL talk.

 

Maybe 30 years ago. In today's CFB world, Notre Dame is little more than a rusting hulk. Big Time College Football has reached all four corners of the nation and if Irish football dropped off the face of the earth, no one, except the brainwashed ND fans, would care, or even notice. They are not in a conference and their games are televised on the network equivalent of the present ND program. And today's recruits couldn't care less about Knute Rockne and the Four Horsemen. Everybody with a stake in ND's future are pointing hopefully at Weis' 2008 recruits, but the fat one has yet show he knows how to convert youthful talent into productive college players. The best thing, for me, is that the ND brass won't pull the trigger on Weis until the program has deteriorated to the point that they are on every military academy's homecoming schedule.