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October 17, 2007
Call The Wolf
In Pulp Fiction, The Wolf helped people get out of messes. You called him, he sped over in his fancy car, he cleaned things up, he goes out for pancakes.
Harvey Perlman, the Chancellor of Nebraska, has called in The Wolf, in the person of Tom Osborne.
Two damaging losses will force your hand like that. In two weeks time, the Nebraska football program has gone from contender for the conference championship, to an also ran, whose biggest goal will now be just reaching a bowl game. Even that looks in jeopardy given that Nebraska's defense hasn't been able to stop anyone yet this season. Unfortunately for them, they already played Iowa State.
Leave aside for a moment that this basically tells basketball coach Doc Sadler that he is an afterthought. Basketball has always been an afterthought at Nebraska, even when their team seemed just on the edge of breaking through.
Instead, focus on Bill Callahan. Bill, the hourglass has flipped and your sand is running out fast. You might find yourself wearing an UC-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs t-shirt soon. First because Osborne is going to dress you down and hose you off. Second, because once you are fired at the end of the season, that may be the only place you can find a job.
You were safe while buddy Steve Pederson was in the driver's seat. He inexplicably fired Frank Solich, Tom Osborne's handpicked successor, when Solich had failed to win at least nine games only once in his six years. And he brought you in, someone with no ties to the program, to lead it. Well, now we see that leadership in action. Outscored 86-20 in the last two weeks, it seems you have hit rock bottom, nevermind that you have had no shot at competing with the top programs in the country, getting walloped by USC the past two years.
The Wolf will come in, get out the cleaning supplies, and start working on getting all the bits of Pederson's brain out of the back seat of the car. Yes, the Wolf is going to call for Bill Callahan's head. It won't be his first move, but you can be sure it is on the list.
After that, he might get some pancakes.
Posted by bmiraski at October 17, 2007 12:05 PM
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