[Husker] Wisconsin promotes young defensive coordinator to HC

[Mike Jaixen]

I dug around on The Oklahoman web site, and found the
whole story:

http://www.newsok.com/article/1575562/?template=sports/ou
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Here's another quote from that article:
"I don't know if you can put it all on one coach,"
said Bassey. "But the way we did things last year, it
just seemed like everyone was running around
everywhere trying to make all kinds of plays, some
that weren't even supposed to come to them."

I'm not anywhere enough of an X's and O's guy to tell
what the difference between what Nebraska did in 2003
and what Oklahoma did in 2004 was, but apparantly
Pelini and Marvin Sanders must have done a better job
together than Pelini and the rest of the OU defensive
staff did last season.

I don't recall Bret Bielema getting much consideration
3 years ago for the Nebraska defensive coordinator
job; my recollection was that Bo Pelini was the #1
target all along.  KSU co-offensive coordinator Greg
Petersen appeared to be pursued more than Bielma.

--- JEN_SENS <answerman1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The statement was found in an article titled Sooners
> keeping it simple in 
> secondary By Justin Harper in The Oklahoman
> 
> Since Mike will not allow the posting of the whole
> article I will send you 
> the entire article. Here is a quote from the
> article.
> 
> 
> OU defensive coordinator Brent Venables and
> secondary coach Bobby Jack 
> Wright aren't going back to the drawing board.
> They're going back to what 
> has worked in the past. Venables has scrapped the
> strategy that Bo Pelini 
> (last year's defensive backfield coach) favored in
> order to return to the 
> alignment used by Mike Stoops"
> 
> Again, who knows. If Bielema had come here if he
> might have been offered 
> Solich's job. He was one of the top candidates for
> the DC position. 
> Schneider had a stroke when he heard about it.



Mike Jaixen
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