[Husker] Spurrier Interview

[Steve Reichenbach]

> I understand your point.  But I would have to ask the question
> at what point is that?  How many recruits need to be in place and at
> what positions before you can change over?  Sometimes a coach just has
> to do what he thinks he needs to do even if there are some lean years
> as a result.  If Callahan's goal was to compete every game this year he
> failed miserably.  If his goal was to build for the future then we
> really don't know how he fared.

The point is to prepare your players to execute skills and to only ask
them to execute only what they can execute successfully.  And, that
doens't preclude having high expectations for what players can learn
ad do.  What sense does it make to ask players to do what they can't
do successfully? That sets a team on a course of planned failure.  A
good coach constructs a gameplan on the individual skills that he expects
his players can execute.  Then, as he expands the skills of his players,
he can develop better gameplans.  What would my students think if I gave
them an assignment that I knew they didn't have the preparation to complete?
How would I be evaluated as a teacher?

It seems to me that you are looking pretty far and wide for a reason to
excuse Callahan's coaching this year's team to a losing record.