Fwd: Re: [Husker] caution

[pibel]

The problem with Mack Brown and his blue chip recruits is
the same as the problem with the Huskers under Osborne until
they finally began to win against Oklahoma. For UT and OU
the Red River Rivalry is all about bragging rights and
recruiting leverage in a whole other world-Texas High School
Football. You see the best of Texas come North to Norman
year after year but you don't see the top players in
Oklahoma going South to Austin. They prefer to go North to
OSU, Nebraska and KState or Southeast to Miami. You don't
beat OU as a Longhorn coach and you are in danger of losing
your job with a 13-1 record and a Co-MNC. Getting one
outright with a loss to OU might buy you another year. The
Rose Bowl win for the Horns bought Mack at least another
year but if he comes up short in Dallas in October the heat
will be on to get a new coach for the Burnt Orange.

Kerry Hookstra
Erick, Oklahoma

From: Neal Smith <nealsmith_1965 at yahoo.com>
To: weldoc at juno.com, husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] caution
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:26:32 -0800 (PST)

Point 1.  Texas won the Rose Bowl this year and has one of
the top programs in the country.

Point 3.  Name one blue chip that wanted to come to NU that
TO passed on.  NU missed out on a lot of blue chippers under
TO because the perception was that he ran an outdated
offense.  However, the proof of the pudding is in the
eating.  I will eat TO anytime!

Neal Smith

NU Class of 1983

weldoc at juno.com wrote:

1) UT has had Top 10 blue-chip recruiting classes for YEARS
and where has it gotten them ?

3) T.O. was renowned for passing up so-called blue chips,
for those he'd determined had the right work ethic. He
placed emphasis on intangibles other than pure athletic
talent and high-school or juco stats. Not that those weren't
important--they just weren't the ONLY thing. In this light,
if everyone so highly-sought-after played next year, I
wonder what percentage of starters would still be
Nebraska-born boys ?

Bill Laughlin,
Wichita, KS

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