[Husker] A Question for the List...

[jonlists]

Does this mean we shouldn't be bitching about the basketball coach during 
the upcoming season too? <G> 

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husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 12/01/2004 01:45:59 PM:

> In reading the posts, not just after the CU game, but during a good 
> portion of the season, one nagging question, or set of questions 
> continued to pop up... 
> 
> With so much of the talk on the list about play calling, schemes, 
> coaching styles, etc. - I wonder how many people on the list are 
> actually qualified to speak on the topics. How many Listers have 
> ever been a football coach, never mind a head coach or coordinator, 
> in HS, never the less college - especially at a D1 program? My guess
> would be few, which makes all of the talk criticizing play calling, 
> offensive styles, etc. just a lot of pontificating. Do the people 
> currently on the list that record the game and "review the game 
> tape" to break it down actually have the experience or necessary 
> skill set to break it down into any sort of meaningful information? 
> Does coaching a Pee Wee team, reading a book on football or watching
> them break down plays on Sportscenter arm one with the proper 
> knowledge to criticize the schemes and play calls of people who have
> dedicated their lives to it?
> 
> Have Bill Callahan, or Frank Solich, or Ron Zook or Ty Willingham or
> any other coach that has come under fire of late individually 
> forgotten more about the game of football than the members of this 
> list collectively know? Probably so. 
> 
> I realize that all of these topics make for entertaining banter and 
> that the Internet and talk radio age that we live in is responsible 
> for creating what I like to now call the, "I am expert, hear me 
> roar" crowd, but at what point do you just say enough? 
> 
> Unfortunately what typically happens, and it happened on this very 
> list, is that the "experts" run off all of the people that do have 
> some expertise and valuable information to share. 
> 
> I am all for an open exchange of ideas and opinions in any forum on 
> any topic, but in the end is there really anything sadder than 
> listening to a select group of individuals, neither of whom 
> completely knows of what they speak, argue over and over about the 
> same topics as if they are somehow qualified to do so? 
> 
> In closing I realize that I was one of the Husker List Members that 
> was guilty of many of the things that I have listed above - but as 
> the season has progressed, I guess I have just grown weary of all 
> the personal insults and discussion of the same topics. Here's to 
> hoping that not only does the Husker Football Team return to glory, 
> but that the Husker List returns to a place where fans, many of whom
> are displaced and no longer in Nebraska, can turn to for intelligent
> conversation and valuable information about the one thing that we 
> all hold close to our heart - our Cornhuskers. 
> 
> And here's to hoping that everyone has a safe and Happy Holiday Season!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jeffrey Volk
> 
> 
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