Fwd: Re: [Husker] Ditka

[Bob Beach]

On 5/8/2005 at 1:25 PM Pat <pgaule at cox.net> wrote:

>>I think Ditka was saying what people wanted to hear.  Who wants to go
>>to a 
>>booster banquet and listen to a negative diatribe against Nebraska's 
>>football coach, especially with how divided the fan base is.  If Solich
>>was 
>>still the coach, I imagine he'd have positive things to say about him as 
>>well, at least if he was asked about it.  Ditka was in town visiting 
>>Boys/Girls town, which is mostly a positive PR/image type thing.  That
>>isn't 
>>to cast any negative light on Ditka, as it's great that he took time out
>>of 
>>his presumably busy schedule to chat with Omaha-area youngsters.
>>
>>However, it's silly to expect Ditka to offer up any overly-critical or 
>>negative analysis when he's merely visting Omaha to chat with some kids. 
>>I 
>>imagine controversey is the last thing he'd want to have to deal with on 
>>such a trip.  To treat these comments as anything more than
>>press-friendly 
>>quotables to attract interest of the crowd being lectured to is probably
>>a 
>>tad foolish.  Regardless of your opinion on Callahan/Solich/whatever, I 
>>wouldn't let Ditka's comments influence you one way or the other.





     I agree with what you say.  I just saw the article and thought I would share it is all.  I wasn't trying to make a statement.  I am not very smart but I am smart enough to know that a person is not going to come in and rip a program when speaking to young people in the same state.  I certainly didn't expect Ditka to do anything else.  At least I guess that makes me not silly.  Although, I would expect Ditka being a former NFL coach to be an advocate of the passing game.  I just saw an article and posted it in case others might be interested. My comparison between Ditka and Solich was meant to be no more than a comparison in styles and not an advocacy of a certain style.  Don't make any more out of it than that because that is all that is there.



Bob Beach

I have never learned anything when I was the one doing the talking.