[Husker] Some Comments

[Theodore Heise]

> No game plan is "perfect", since no gameplan survives contact with 
> the enemy (to paraphrase a bit).
>
> Each play has the potential for up to 11 players to make an 
> execution mistake, and being human, odds are high that each play 
> has a player that makes a mistake. Against a weaker opponent, you 
> can have a relatively higher number of mistakes and still succeed. 
> Against a tougher opponent, your tolerance for error is greatly 
> reduced.
>
> Only a detailed film review, by someone who could know every 
> player's assignment, could determine if each play was executed as 
> designed. Any game plan, no matter how simplistic or complicated, 
> depends on the fundamental skills of blocking, tackling, running, 
> and catching. I saw a number of missed tackles, whiffed or 
> ineffective blocks, etc.
>
> I'm not in a position to break down a gameplan, but I do have the 
> opinion that if the execution had been "perfect", the gameplan 
> sure would have looked "perfect"...

I'm probably even less qualified to discuss gameplans, but I won't 
let a little detail lilke *that* stop me!

Seriously though, in addition to execution, doesn't the game plan 
depend on predictions of what the opposing players are going to do 
in any given situation?  If the Nebraska players are in position to 
execute the play but the opponent(s) don't go the predicted way, I 
don't see how it's a failure of execution.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA