Husker Fans, Please Relax and Stop Calling for Shawn Watson’s Job

Looking around the message boards, it seems like everyone's favorite game is "fire the coordinator" or "bench this guy." While you can make arguments for playing time for individual players, let’s remember benching Joe Ganz, burning redshirts, and firing Shawn Watson isn’t going to solve anything.

In fact, it will set our team back.

We need to support Bo Pelini and this team in their pursuit of a bowl game. That is the challenge for this season.

Come Nebraska-Colorado, that will be the realistic measure this team will be judged by.

If we get to a bowl game, then it is a successful season. And we ought to start the best possible players in pursuit of that goal.

Let’s also remember Bill Callahan was the coach of this team less than a year ago. It will take a few seasons to purge the bad memories and undeveloped talent of those teams.

It will also take Bo Pelini a few seasons to become an experienced coach who win a few games just on his coaching acumen (a la Beamer last week).

In fact, Pinkel and Beamer have over 40 years of head coaching experience to Bo Pelini’s six games.

This is what we signed up for and please, Husker fans, relax.

We have to take a few more knocks to the chin.

There are no All-Americans on this team.

And for those who say “well, what’s the difference between Pelini and Callahan,” I'd like to remind you that Pelini is building a program almost from scratch.

It doesn’t matter if Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll, or Vince Lombardi was coaching these Huskers. The Mizzou game probably wouldn’t have been any different.