[Fwd: [Husker] Solich]

[Bob Beach]

At 11:49 AM 1/9/2005, Steve Reichenbach wrote:


>To those of you who are tired of the assistant coaches thread, I'd
>say that the assistant coaches are arguably the most important element
>of a successful program.



      You, obviously aren't tired of it because you keep it going.





>To Bob, I say you are changing the argument in two ways: (a) by stating
>"all the assistants in totality" and (b) pointing to coaching changes
>at unsuccessful programs (unlike at NU which was 10-3 with a bowl win).




     I already addressed the "totality" thing in another post.  And, I 
don't have the time or energy to address the 10-3 thing.  That has been 
done before.




>The real issue is whether Callahan would have done better to have tried
>to retain SOME of the assistant coaches that he fired and, in that
>context, whether or not your claim that "no new head coach" keeps
>assistants so therefore Callahan shouldn't be criticized for not
>keeping assistant coaches is a good defense of Callahan's personnel
>actions.  Let's call it the "it just isn't done that way" defense that
>defelects all criticism of Callahan's personnel decisions.




      My argument never was whether or not he could have done better had he 
retained some or all of Solich's staff.  We can talk "what if" all we 
want.  When a coach is hired one has to be ready that he is largely going 
to bring his people in and many times at the expense of the old 
assistants.  I have never said what Callahan did was right or wrong.  I am 
merely saying we shouldn't be shocked or up in arms about it.




Bob Beach