Coaching blog

Just a quick note, I got a note from the guys at College Gridiron Boss. They're off and running, with a lot more consistency so far anyway than this particular blog, but so far they've had some interesting takes. The idea of the blog is to focus more on coaching... so maybe they'll come around to questions like has Bill Callahan really earned his 3 year extension for 1.75 million dollars a year?

I gotta say, when I'm thrilled to death when someone wants to pay me a few hundred dollars to put together a website for them.... it's really hard to fathom a million dollars a year plus to coach football. Although.... come to think of it now.... when you consider the intensity of hatred for Lloyd Carr right now by the better part of a whole state... a state who happens to cheer for the very team he coaches... i'm not sure any paycheck is worth being in that position.

And since I've brought that subject up... why can't we concentrate for once on what I think is the real story out there... that these kids from a smaller school who were not given a prayer played out of their minds for a full game, and just played an incredible game. I think that's the tragedy of it all, that here is this incredible story, one of the true david defeating goliath stories in all of sports... heck, it's even bigger than Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson (gotta stay true to the heavyweight theme, right?)... and yet for all the talking heads and all the blogs I've read, I don't read much about what an incredible game was played by a team that was supposed to be squashed. What I read is about all of Michigan's mistakes and Carr's coaching mistakes and whether Michigan should be dropped from the top 25, how many games will Michigan win the rest of the year, etc. Michigan Michigan Michigan!!!! Ummm, hello? Appalachian State won the game!!! How about a little more credit for the guys who won?

I feel bad really for the kids at Appalachian State. To me, they should be the story, and yet everyone's talking about Michigan. Well, here's at least one guy out there saying way to go guys, you impressed the heck outta me.

Although I'd hate to see it happen to my guys... I find myself wishing it coulda happened here at Nebraska, if for no other reason than to see the guys get the standing ovation as they leave the stadium as is the tradition here. It happens even when guys beat us, and I'd think there'd be nothing greater for those kids to get this huge show of respect from the fans of the opponents. They deserve to kinda feel like Rocky beating the Russian and winning the crowd over.

Okay, I'm waxing sentimental here. But for what it's worth, first of all I have a lot of respect for the Michigan team and I know they're still better than a good share of the teams they dropped past when being booted from the Top 25... but even more important, there's at least one guy here in Nebraska giving Appy State a standing O because they deserve a lot more credit.