[Husker] Chaney

[Mark Landin]

Just to clarify: 

Chaney's instructions were not to injure someone. He told his guy to
go out and play "hard" and see if the refs will finally take control.
The injured player broke his arm as a result of the fall, not as a
direct result of the foul. Any player can injure themselves falling
onto a hard surface.

Was Chaney justified in telling his player to go out and play extra
rough on purpose? No. Did Chaney instruct or intend for someone to be
seriously injured? No. This is different that what happened in, say,
"The Great Santini", where Robert Duvall's character tells his son to
go out and intentionally "take him down or don't come home".

I don't know if Chaney should be fired or whatever. Punished,
certainly. If Chaney has said "Go injure somebody", then I would be
CERTAIN that he deserved to be fired. All I see is that he had, for a
long time, complained that the refs were being extremely lenient, and
even said in a pre-game conference that if the refs weren't going to
call these hard fouls, that he was going to have his guys use the same
tactics. Again, I don't think he should have done that, but what he
did is NOT the same as if he had deliberately told someone to injure
another player.

Just something to keep in mind while we judge and convict this man on the List.