[Husker] Another Husker leaving and speaking negatively (fwd)

[Mark Landin]

> > I can't speak for anyone else, but this perfectly captures the way
> > I've felt about Nebraska Cornhusker football.
> 
> Yeah, but would you have felt that way if over the last 40 years the
> Huskers had been 6-5 or 5-6 at least as often as they won 10 games
> in a season?

Most likely, yes.

> The first prerequisite for a winning tradition is winning.

Yes. But I was really speaking of the NU tradition, not the NU
"winning" tradition. The fomer is about what "the program" thinks is
important (the "means"). The second is about the results (the "end").
Do the ends justify the means? Not to me. Thus, our means are as
important to me as our ends.

The fact that NU has a winning tradition, AND that the football
program itself appeared to be one that primarily focused on player
enjoyment, character development, and doing it the "right way", makes
me hope that BC can work that same magic the Devaney, Osborne, and
yes, Solich, did. I don't want to have to sell my NU "More Than
Winning" football soul to the bottom-line NFL mentality in order to
win.

> Mark Brungardt's comments are a bit disturbing, unless he was injured the
> fact that he played in 13 games in 2003 and only 5 games in 2004 suggests
> that he got on someone's sh** list.  But that probably happened under
> Osborne, too.

Agreed. Given typical 130+ players rosters, you know a lot of those
guys spent a lot of long practice hours and their only real hope of
playing was the few minutes they got on their Senior Day. Many of them
probably hung up their cleats just like Brungardt and Birkel and
Pilkington did, but we never heard about it.