Nebraska’s Bill Callahan is almost as quotable as he is easy to beat. During the tail end of his tenure in Oakland, Callahan called his Raiders “the dumbest football team in America”. He’s only 3 years removed from referring to Sooners fans as “fucking hillbillies”. To date, however, Callahan’s critiques have been limited to persons who couldn’t directly fire him, as the Lincoln Star Journal’s Brian Rosenthal explains.
Two days after being hired as Nebraska™s interim athletic director, Tom Osborne (above, left)was already issuing statements defending comments attributed to football coach Bill Callahan (right).
Excerpts from the book œThe Nebraska Way, written by University of Nebraska student Jonathan Crowl, with help from former Nebraska trainer Doak Ostergard, were released in a Thursday article in the Daily Nebraskan, NU™s student newspaper.
Among the brow-raisers was a story told by Ostergard in which Callahan, upset after a phone conversation with Osborne, said the then-congressman was œtrying to run things from Washington, and referred to Osborne as œthat crusty old f”.
The book also details an Ostergard story in which Callahan was upset over a newspaper story.
œF-ing people need to get a life, Callahan said, according to Ostergard. œWhy don™t they go read a book or get lost in the Sandhills? I™m going to get me a real newspaper. I™m going to read the New York Times.
Well, well…..the “genuis” from the NFL ranks is now directly accountable to that “crusty old f—” and I hope that “crusty old f—” gives the worst coach in college football a good old fashioned, crusty old ass-kicking. Nebraska fans will be cheering like they were in THE FIRST QUARTER of the USC game when Bill Callahan and the rest of his used car salesmen are given a one way ticket out of here.
It’s my opinion that Bill probably won’t be left hurting for money but it’s also my opinion he’ll be lucky to land a football coaching job at some inner city middle school program…unless they’ve had a chance (or the misfortune) to have witnessed one of his many pathetic attempts at coaching college football (or the pros for that matter).
Seeya Bill…don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out and remember that the “crusty old f—” you referred to (you’re such an eloquent guy) could outcoach you on any day with any team. You are not a “crusty old f—“….but you will be one day….but the one thing Tom Osborne has never been, you are and always will be…..a loser.
I’m a wyoming cowboy fan from the 60’s as a kid i attended those games. But i follow NU and pull for them due to them being from the west. I remember to this day as a 12 yr old nebraska and oklahoma playing on thanksgiving day to a 35-31 win, I think the cornhuskers won but may be wrong. Flippin Callahan can spin it anyway he wants but I think NU should dump him. Yeah he’ll make more money in one year than I will in 30 yrs combined, but so what he sucks and needs to move on to a Div 2 or 3 school. His record sucks and Cornhuskers fan deserve better. Fuck you Callahan and your cocky attitude about having this great recruiting team that won’t attend because of the unsetttleness of the coaching staff. Well your the end result of the losing and your poooooooooooooooor record, go into politic’s with your bullshit reasoning.