[Husker] The era of the big red machine; I lived my life with is over today.

[rrbeach at rrbeach.com]

On 27 Nov 2004 at 20:39, j j wrote:

> But Bob I thought the players were buying into the
> system and wanted to play in it?


      Obviously that didn't happen.



 As I said earlier
> wait until the end of the season and see what the
> seniors have to say. So far 2 (Chad Sievers and Ira
> Cooper) have said that players on d didnt really buy
> into the new system (maybe because they had played in
> it with Bohl and it didnt work) and also didn't gel
> with the coaches. Cooper even said it was that way on
> both sides of the ball. A third player (Bernard
> Thomas) said that there were problems at NU but he
> didn't want to get into it right now. That says one of
> two things to me, 1. Either he wanted to wait and see
> what others were going to say before making his
> comments (unusual for BT) or 2. he wanted to cool down
> emotionally before makeing his comments (also unusual
> for BT). I think he will make some comments this next
> week as will some of the other seniors. Could yet be
> an interesting week of NU football. 




     I hear you but why is that the coaches fault?  Don't the players 
have some responsibility to get their butts in gear?


Bob Beach