[Husker] Re: Status of the Huskers (My Opinion) (fwd)

[j j]

The thing everyone seems to neglect saying is that we
are running a different style of defense this year. If
we had ran this style last year I think you would have
seen very different results. Maybe not but it sure
would have been interesting to see and would have been
easier to compare the difference between last years
and this years defenses.



--- jonlists at cbsol.com wrote:

> husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 10/31/2005 11:57:37
> AM:
> [snip things not relevant to my reply]
> > 
> > There has been a lot of discussion about records
> and statitistical 
> > streaks.  One poster indicated that he felt that
> this was not a 
> > marker of quality.  I do not understand that
> statement.  In a world 
> > where numbers mean everything, I do think that it
> is a marker. 
> > There is, I believe, several exhibits in the
> College Football Hall 
> > of Fame that reference such streaks, so I would
> think that the 
> > curators there consider it a mark of quality.  Now
> please understand
> > that I do not necessarily believe that numbers
> SHOULD mean 
> > everything.  (If you want to read a great book on
> that subject, let 
> > me suggest "The Sum of Our Discontent" by David
> Boyle)
> > 
> > To that end, please note that another streak may
> very well end this 
> > coming Saturday; that being the continuous win
> streak v. Kansas.
> > 
> > Doug Martin, MD
> > UNL 87
> > UNMC 91
> 
> That "poster" was me. Having gone back and re-read
> my post, in which I 
> stated: 'In terms of 
> measuring the quality of a football team, they
> (streaks) are worthless, 
> meaniningless." 
> 
> I was not as clear as I intended. I am talking about
> measuring a "team" as 
> opposed to a "program". Streaks can be used to
> measure the quality of the 
> program, but not a team. This is not the same team
> as it was last year. 
> What's the point you ask? More explanation below. 
> 
> Others have commented (not on this list) regarding
> why Notre Dame is doing 
> so well when Charlie Weis has just shown up. Why
> couldn't Nebraska do this 
> when ND is supposedly doing it with someone else's
> players? The same 
> reference is made to Pete Carroll. Those situations
> are much different 
> than Nebraska with regards to the coaches those guys
> replaced. Charlie is 
> coming to ND after a number of other coaches have
> failed to live up to 
> expecations. Same with Pete Carroll. 
> 
> Bill Callahan comes into a situation where we've had
> pretty much the same 
> coaches for what, nearly 40 years? That's a fairly
> unique position. He had 
> players last year who clearly were not interested in
> playing for him. He 
> has/had players who were brought in for a different
> kind of football. 
> Asking him to pull off the same success that Weis
> had had at ND is 
> unrealistic. Using the streaks that were established
> under the previous 
> set of coaches to bludgeon this football team, or
> for that matter, the 
> program we're trying to build is unfair to them.
> Other than for the sake 
> of nostalgia, they should be thrown out and that's
> why, other than the 
> sell-out streak, they are meaningless to me. Does
> that make more sense? 
> 
> Further, given Steve R's post about the sell-out
> streak and the additional 
> 6k seats opening up, I'd have to say I was wrong
> about it not being in 
> trouble. I had completely forgotten about the
> additional seating. However, 
> I still think it's up in the air to say that it'll
> end next year because 
> of additional seating, or because of mediocrity.
> Gary Fead's post about 
> it, though, sounds rather ominous. 
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > 
> > From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Mike
> Nolan
> > Sent: Mon 10/31/2005 11:41 AM
> > To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
> > Subject: [Husker] Re: Status of the Huskers (My
> Opinion) (fwd)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > > I hope that this team wins one more game to
> become bowl-eligible, 
> and I am
> > > > pretty confident they will.  Then, my "high"
> expectations for 
> > them this year
> > > > will be achieved.
> > >
> > > Agree. You're a true fan.
> > 
> > So you're only a 'true fan' if you only have
> positive feelings?  I think 
> this
> > year's team is playing WELL below what I consider
> acceptable levels of 
> play.
> > 
> > That doesn't mean I'm not watching the games or
> not cheering for them to 
> win,
> > I just don't feel I have to be satisfied with what
> I'm seeing.
> > 
> > If a day comes when Husker fans are satisifed with
> a 6-5 record, if 
> that's
> > where they wind up in 2005, then Big Red is truly
> dead.
> > --
> > Mike Nolan
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> 
> Jon Johnston
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