Oct

6

Husker fans, please relax and stop calling for Shawn Watson’s job

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Looking around the message boards, it seems like everyones favorite game is ‘fire the coordinator’ or ‘bench this guy.’ While you can make arguments for playing time at individual players, let’s remember benching Joe Ganz, burning redshirts, and firing Shawn Watson isn’t going to solve anything.

In fact, it will set us back.

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Jun

22

Bill Callahan Speaks!

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As previously reported on HG, ’s silence since leaving Nebraska and joining the Jets has been because of, as one Jet’s official put it, a ‘lack of media training.’

Now HG is not here to hate on . We actually wish him well in future endeavors. HG thinks history will show that his hiring was just one, and the most painful, in a series of embarrassing and Nebraska ego-deflating missteps, starting with the firing of Frank Solich.

Bottom line: he was the wrong guy at the wrong place.

Big time.

Thought Bubbles:

TO: Seems like a cordial man.

BC: Never trust a man who doesn’t know the difference between Pinot Noir and Merlot.

But he did open up, the best he can, to the New York Daily News, which is a little lowbrow for Callahan considering his reported “I’m going to get me a real newspaper, I’m going to read the New York Times” rant, which was probably directed specifically at the Journal Star and 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner Steve Sipple.

Some nuggets from the article:

He listens to classical music and fancies himself a Civil War buff, shattering the stereotype of the snarling, drill-sergeant line coach. He relies on quiet discipline and painstaking preparation…

“I don’t take this position any less meaningful than I did my previous positions,” Callahan told the Daily News in his first interview since being named assistant head coach/offense. “This entails a huge responsibility, coming in here as the offensive line coach. It’s a challenge.”

During the Jets’ spring camps, Callahan distributed an in-depth critique each morning to every lineman, breaking down every play from the previous day’s practice. The players were taken aback by his fastidious approach.

“That might seem like a small thing, but to me, it says a lot about him as a coach - very detailed,” said guard Brandon Moore, who described Callahan’s daily tome as “an essay that reads like he’s talking to you.”

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