Husker Top 10

I call this Husker Top Ten List, “you might be an idiot if…”

10) You think having an eight pound playbook makes you brilliant when USC can beat you with one play!

9) You think 80,000 boo’s were meant for someone other than you.

8) You turn away 50 walk-on players a year that are willing to give you their blood and guts because having that many people around would be annoying to you.

7) It takes two years for your players to understand your system, but it only takes the opposing team a week of preparation to figure it out.

6) You inherit a Top 10 Defense with nine returning starters and turn it into a Top 100 Defense, and your excuse is that the talent level is so bare. (Barrett Ruud, Fabian Washington, Daniel Bullocks, Josh Bullocks, Scott Shanle, to name a few have had pretty good NFL careers but their talent level wasn’t good enough for these guys to win with).

5) You give up 610 yards of offense to Ball State and your thoughts are, “the defense really came up big for us at times” and “there are a lot of positives we can take from this win”.

4) You give a mediocre coach a contract extension because you are so impressed with a win over Nevada.

3) If you don’t think Ohio U would kick our [censored] right now.

2) It takes you two years to figure out that when you send five guys in motion and the opposing defense doesn’t move…that you are not tricking anyone…you are just wearing out your own team.

1) You hold a fund raising event and the first guy on your guest list is not the best coach to ever coach college football that still lives in your same town!! (Dr. Tom)

GO BIG RED!

Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amen!!

) You hold a fund raising event and the first guy on your guest list is not the best coach to ever coach college football that still lives in your same town!! (Dr. Tom)

I didn’t know that Bobby Bowden, Pete Carroll, JoePa, Pop Warner or about 10 other coaches had moved to Lincoln. Dr Tom was a decent coach who beat up on the weak sisters of the poor in the old Big 8 and got his butt handed to him in the big game the first 20 years of his career. If you want Bill Callahan to have the same record as TO just schedule teams like UNO and UNK as the are the near equivalent of caliber of competition he faced against ISU, KSU, KU and CU during the 70’s and 80’s. Ozzy got out while the getting was good when the Big 12 was formed b/c he knew that NU would not be able the keep up with the South division.

Bowden? Paterno? What? You’re joking, right?

Tom got of the game because he knew he wouldn’t be able to compete anymore? OK, OK. Now I know you’re just yanking our chain.

(All in good fun, of course )

Little bit of both Wade. There are a lot of coaches I would hire before TO would ever get an interview. And if TO hadn’t switched his offense to more of a spread offense, no I don’t think his record would have been any better in the B12 than Bill Callahan’s. He was a good coach, but was far from walking on water as many Husker fans would like to believe he was.

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There are a lot of coaches I would hire before TO would ever get an interview.

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You’re not an AD, right???

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Little bit of both Wade. There are a lot of coaches I would hire before TO would ever get an interview. And if TO hadn’t switched his offense to more of a spread offense, no I don’t think his record would have been any better in the B12 than Bill Callahan’s. He was a good coach, but was far from walking on water as many Husker fans would like to believe he was.

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First off, I want to make sure you know I’m just joking wiht the picture and all (that’s a photo of Brian K’s good side).

I won’t debate the issue. You can have your opinion and you’re entitled to it. But my opinion of TO is that he is absolutely one of the greatest college coaches of all time. And while he may not be able to walk on water, I have seen him turn water into wine. Much more impressive if you ask me.

First off, I want to make sure you know I’m just joking wiht the picture and all (that’s a photo of Brian K’s good side).

I won’t debate the issue. You can have your opinion and you’re entitled to it. But my opinion of TO is that he is absolutely one of the greatest college coaches of all time. And while he may not be able to walk on water, I have seen him turn water into wine. Much more impressive if you ask me.

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No offense taken.

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) You hold a fund raising event and the first guy on your guest list is not the best coach to ever coach college football that still lives in your same town!! (Dr. Tom)

I didn’t know that Bobby Bowden, Pete Carroll, JoePa, Pop Warner or about 10 other coaches had moved to Lincoln. Dr Tom was a decent coach who beat up on the weak sisters of the poor in the old Big 8 and got his butt handed to him in the big game the first 20 years of his career. If you want Bill Callahan to have the same record as TO just schedule teams like UNO and UNK as the are the near equivalent of caliber of competition he faced against ISU, KSU, KU and CU during the 70’s and 80’s. Ozzy got out while the getting was good when the Big 12 was formed b/c he knew that NU would not be able the keep up with the South division.

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Hey eye, do a search on how many Academic All-Americans Bowden, Carroll, JoePa and Pop had. I bet that combined that aren’t even close to T.O. He was not only a GREAT football coach but a great LIFE coach. The Big 8 was what it was and it took a great man like T.O. to rise above the so-called mediocrity(sp) of the Big 8 and build what he did. A great coach he was.