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Nebraska Fired Head Coach Callahan
By Audrey Nolan
Under Bill Callahan’s management Nebraska has been a team that has been pushed around. But when it was under Tom Osborn’s , the Cornhuskers had a football program considered one of the toughest, a program to fear.
After five games, Callahan was dismissed after a five minute meeting on Saturday after the team lost on Friday against Colorado 65-51
"We used to be a team people hated to play," Osborne said during a news conference, "because they felt it for two or three weeks."
The team’s management had already advised Callahan in late October that he will lose the job if he didn’t achieve a winning record. The team got defeat after defeat besides loosing by a large amount of points, more than 18; the record right now is 5 defeats in seven games.
"You have to play with intensity. These coaches tried very hard to make that happen. Yet sometimes you didn't see the effort and intensity you like in a football game," Osborne said.
LSU defensive coordinator Bo Pelini and Buffalo Coach Turner Gill are the names mentioned to lead a program that was once one of college football's most prestigious. The decision came after Callahan said he thought he was making a great job in all areas.
"If you lose a fairly large number of games by a significant margin and you have reasonably good players, which I think we have, then that means there may be some systematic issues, some underlying issues," Osborne said. "I don't think the coaches were incompetent. I think they know what they're doing. But there was something missing, as far as I was concerned."
Callahan said that he hasn’t spoken with the candidate coaches.
Pelini was Nebraska's defensive coordinator in 2003 and was popular among fans, who chanted "We want Bo" after he led the Huskers to an Alamo Bowl win over Michigan State as interim head coach following the firing of Frank Solich.
Gill, a long time assistant under Osborne and Solich, was the Huskers' quarterback in the early 1980’s and a Heisman Trophy runner-up in 1983. Osborne said he still talks with Gill about once a week.
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Audrey Nolan is a high-ranking writer on sports for the online betting industry. Feel free to reprint this article in its whole on your site, make sure to leave all links in place and do not modify any of the content.
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