[Husker] which is it ?

[weldoc at juno.com]

>From the Husker List: Who is more accurate ?

Person #1:
Thankfully the Blake Tiedtke era is over. I will try to remember him by
his forced fumble on Navarre that led to the winning score and not by the
endless number of times he was beaten, out of position, missed tackles or
just generally was horrible throughout his career.
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Person #2:
This characterization of Tiedtke is objectionable both in principle and
practice:
1) To denigrate a playing Husker by name on this list is nothing short of
dispecable.
2) Tiedtke has played his position extremely well and not at all as
portrayed above. Ask the coaches.
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I ran this by cousin Rich, who follows the Big Red a heckuva lot closer
than I, and this is what he said:

Boy did you hit the sore spot with me.

Person #2 has not watched one minute of football this year.  Tiedtke is
the worst safety in division 1 football.  The only thing worse is Bill
Busch playing him.  I started watching Tiedtke in about the 2nd or 3rd
game, because I could not believe that he was actually starting.  He went
the rest of the season making a huge (bad) play EVERY game without
exception.  He personally turned more 8 yard gains into 60 yard TD's than
anyone I have ever seen.  He continuously overran plays.  A few quick
examples:  he was beaten on the Texas Tech game winning pass.  Overran
Brad Smith on the sideline in the 1st qtr of Missouri (turned about an 8
yard play into 60).  Adrian Peterson down the west sideline (20 yard run
into 40+).  KU running back up the middle (10 yard play into 50). 
Colorado's 1st play of the game (turned 8 yard gain into 48).  Got beat
by Michigan's tight end for TD.  It was unbelievable!  What was more
unbelievable was that Busch continued to play him.  It isn't really
Tiedke's fault - he just isn't a good enough athlete to play safety in
Division 1.  And Busch NEVER took him out!  Look at the play's that
Shanle made against Michigan on punt coverage. Tiedke beat him out. 
Shanle actually played last year when Bullocks was hurt.  He was the
starter going into camp.  No way is Tiedke a better athlete.  And why,
after so many HUGE mistakes does Busch keep him on the field?

Granted, a safety is not going to make every tackle, but I have never
watched a safety that was so easy to single out for screw-ups than him. 
You see corners get beat all the time, because they get matched up
one-on-one all the time and it is a much harder position to play.  But
you rarely notice a safety continuing to screw up, that is, not until
Tiedke came along.

Bottom line is, I totally agree with person #1, but what is worse is
having the Bill Busch era continue.  That guy is the worst coach on the
staff and it isn't even close.  I keep hoping that Callahan watches some
defensive films and realizes that he is a horrible judge of talent and he
can't coach that position.  More evidence of his lousy coaching:  look
how average of a 
season that Bullocks had.  And we KNOW that he is a player.  He is every
bit as good as his TWIN brother and he is playing on Sundays.  But lousy
coaching puts guys in bad positions and they don't look like players.  I
guarantee that is why Josh Bullocks left for the NFL, Pelini was gone and
lousy coaches took over.  Barrett Ruud would not be playing on Sundays if
Craig Bohl was still coaching linebackers.  Ruud was just an average
white linebacker and Pelini turned him into a player.

More on coaching.  Remember how lousy our linebackers looked in Bohl's
last year?  They were terrible and our whole defense was a disaster.  Now
think about where they are.  Scott Shanle is playing for Dallas.  Ruud is
with Tampa.  Demarrio is a stud at Atlanta (of course Bohl alternated him
with TJ Hollowell).  We had 3 linebackers in the NFL and we sucked!  Bad
coaching.

More:  last year.  I think we were about 107th in pass defense and that
was with 3 defensive backs that will be/are playing on Sundays.  Josh
Bullocks, Fabian Washington and Daniel Bullocks.  They looked horrible
last year because of our lousy defensive coaching.

More:  Now that we finally got rid of Jamrog coaching D-line (remember
how many times I used to complain about him?), this was by far the best
our D-line has played since '97.  We led the nation in sacks and it
wasn't all from blitzing.  2 years ago, going into the bowl game, our
starting D-line had a COMBINED 6 sacks!!!!!!  Amazing what a good
position coach (Blake) can do.--Rich