[Husker] I don't understand you people (fwd)

[Steve Reichenbach]

> Steve wrote:
> 
> >"So, Beck didn't come in to previous games because it
> would have >slowed
> >the momentum of the NU offense?  Hey, most of those
> games, there >any momentum to slow.  Were there two
> games without a first down >in the
> >entire first quarter?"
> 
> That is not what I wrote.  I think it is clear that
> Taylor is the best QB right now at NU.  NU has
> struggled at times on offense, not all the fault of
> the QB, and every possession has been important. 
> Saying that, I was asking when would there have been a
> good time to pull Taylor just to get pt for someone
> else?  BC was trying to red shirt Beck, however, the
> injury forced his hand and BC did what was best for
> the team in that situation.
> 
I agree that is what happened --- Callahan was trying to
redshirt Beck until circumstances pursuaded him to pull
the redshirt.  I'm saying that there have been opportunities
opportunities this year to put in another QB --- against
Maine, Wake Forest, and Baylor when NU was ahead and against
Missouri and Kansas when NU wasn't moving the ball to name
five examples.

> >I think it's clear that Callahan didn't play Beck
> because he was >trying
> >to keep his redshirt and not because of any NFL
> mindset about the
> >starting QB nor concerns about the offense falling
> apart if Beck
> >played.
> 
> Again, I did not write that BC was trying to keep the
> red shirt for any NFL mindset, nor did I write that
> the offense would fall apart with Beck.  What I wrote
> is that our best chance right now is with Taylor.  BC
> wanted to red shirt Beck if possible, but if pushed
> into a corner, he would play Beck.
> 
I didn't write that you said that --- but others have.  I
agree with your assessment of Callahan's mind set not those
others.  On the other hand, he should have gotten other QBs
some experience, preferably Beck if he is the QB of the future. 

> >I come down on the side of those who think Callahan
> should have >gotten
> >Beck some playing time earlier in the year and I
> think that if >Callahan
> >felt that Beck gave NU a better chance to win a big
> game than >Ganz then
> >he should have played Beck at the end against KSU.
> 
> So which is it?  Do you think this should have been a
> red shirt year for Beck or that he should have gotten
> more pt this year?  
> 
I've been clear in stating that I think it would have been
better to have given Beck playing time this year.

> Beck is a true freshman in a difficult offense.  I
> doubt that he was ready to play early in the year and
> BC decided that it would be better to red shirt.  I am
> pretty sure that BC wants the best players on the
> field, he is trying to win each game.
> 
I hope so, but that doesn't preclude getting some playing
time for the second-stringers so they are more ready when
called on.  If this is such a difficult system and Beck is
the QB of the future, then I'd say getting him some experience
this year is important.

> BC could have put Beck in a few games, although I
> still have not heard which game or at what point of
> those games would have been acceptable, he uses Beck's
> Frosh and Soph year as a back-up, then spends his
> Junior and Senior (if he doesn't leave for the NFL)as
> the starter.  Or, BC leaves the best available QB in
> for the entire game, because every possession has been
> valuable this year, has Beck ready in an emergency,
> but saves this season as a red shirt so Beck can spend
> next year as the #2, paying in as many games as
> possible.  Beck then has his Soph., Junior, and Senior
> seasons to lead this offense.
> I think it is clear that BC wanted to red shirt Beck
> but was backed into a corner and went for the win with
> the next best available QB.  Was it worth burning a
> red shirt?  Hell yes.  NU needed this win.  For the
> season, the bowl game, for the seniors, for BC's job. 
> 
> I have questions about a lot of things BC has done in
> the last two years.  This one seems to be a no-brainer
> to me.  
> 
> 
> 
> "Not the victory but the action.
>   Not the goal but the game.
>    In the deed the glory."
> 
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