[Husker] Re: Shatel got it right

[Glen Heiman]

"Bob Beach" <rbeach at neb.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On 3/12/2005 at 3:33 PM Neal Smith <nealsmith_1965 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> :>Tom Shatel got it right in his column yesterday about Collier and NU
> :>being content with basketball mediocrity.  Lets see BC is now 0-5 in the
> :>Big 12 tournament.  Has he ever made it past lunch time in the tourney?
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> :>http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=38&u_sid=1357225
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>      I don't believe Collier has a winning record in the Big 12 if memory
serves me.  If he has a winning record it is barely.  I am not necessarily a
big Shatel fan but, I agree, he absolutely nailed this one.  I particularly
liked this quote from the article:
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> "At least in basketball. There is now a clear distinction at South
Stadium. Remember when former Football Coach Frank Solich was fired after a
9-3 season? And Pederson said he didn't want the program to gravitate toward
mediocrity?
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> The same standard is not being applied in basketball, where Collier is
allowed a chance to "coach his recruits and see what he can do." Solich had
just hired a new staff of recruiters. Why was Collier given the chance that
Solich was not?"


Good question.

I am not well informed on the BB issue, but my first thoughts were that the
FB program was on top for a long time, and had a lot of room to fall, just
to get/stay at mediocraty.  Thus the change (warranted or not).  The BB
program has never been an elite program and has a long way to go, but it
seems that Collier's recruiting is starting to show some promise.

FWIW.

Heiman


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>      I am not going to stir up again whether Solich should have been or
fired or not.  The point here is the same thought process is not used when
evaluating the basketball coach and the football coach.  I know those would
argue that basketball is a different world at NU than football.  That's the
whole point.  It is but it shouldn't be.  Let's hold the basketball coach's
feet to the fire as hard as is the football coach's feet.  It is the only
way to improve the program.
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>      Collier is a long way from getting into the top half of the Big 12
which is what you had to do this year to make the NCAA if the six teams make
it the "experts" are predicting.  I agree with Shatel.  I see no benefit at
this point in time of keeping Collier other than he is a good man.  I hope I
am wrong about the winning.  But, maybe I'm missing something because people
have argued TO could have kept his job by just being a good and upright man.
Maybe NU is applying the same logic to Collier.
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> Bob Beach
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of learning stops.
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