Nebraska defense only able to stop fans’ expectations
Times are hard in Nebraska. Unless your offense is playing the Cornhuskers. The Nebraska defense has given up an average of 480+ yards to their last 3 opponents.
The defense actually got booed during last week’s game against Ball State.
Linebacker Steve Octavien said afterward “If they don’t like it, they don’t have to come and watch the game.”
He apologized yesterday. After watching film?
“This is the first time in my career that we haven’t had the support,” fellow linebacker Corey McKeon said. “It’s hard enough to win ball games in today’s college football.”
Even harder with Bill Callahan as your coach.
“You’re a student-athlete. It’s supposed to be fun,” McKeon said. “You say ’student-athlete,’ and all people look at is the football. They don’t care about anything else. If I miss a class or if I get a bad grade on a quiz, it’s not in the paper.”
And that’s why Mike Gundy doesn’t read the paper.
Many Nebraska fans are calling for Defensive Coordinator Gary Darnell Kevin Cosgrove to be fired, but Mackovic Callahan says his job is safe.
“We visualize and envision the opportunity to win a national championship,” Callahan said. “When it doesn’t go well, and you get knocked down a few notches and you have problems in one certain area, you’ve got to fix it.”
Unless that area is the head coach.
September 26, 2007 at 9:09 am
It’s a sad day in college sports when players are wanting to be treated like regular students.
It’s supposed to be fun?
Fun-schmun: weak. The fun is where you get all the box you want, show up to class when you want, and if you went to SMU in the 80’s, get a Lexus like Shaq in Blue Chips.
There’s thousands of douche-bags playing NCAA 2007 in a dorm room covered in dorito’s right now - wishing they could be in McKeon’s, Octavien’s, Keller’s shoes—never Purify, that dude’s got legal trouble.
“This is the first time in my career that we haven’t had the support,”
Career? I thought it was school and fun and Sega and hoola-hoop bullshit.
Bring back Laurence Phillips—that dude never complained.
September 26, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Blame Callahan! Blame Callahan! He’s not even a real college coach anyway.
September 26, 2007 at 6:03 pm
What do you expect from an Alec Baldwin lookalike?
September 26, 2007 at 6:19 pm
The football Gods are mad that NU moved away from the option. They will punish that program until they go back to it.
September 27, 2007 at 1:18 pm
“We visualize and envision the opportunity to win a national championship”??? Is Callahan a coach or one of those Zig Zigler sales guys?
September 29, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Nebraska defense is a joke, why did we fire Bo Pelini? That dude is exactly what NU needed, Callahan is good but that assclown Cosgrove needs fired right now. He doesnt even come close to what it takes to be in that position, BLACKSHIRT DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR