[Husker] Boise's Chris Peterson is a GENIUS!!! (fwd)

[Smith, William]

I didn't see the interview, so that's interesting to know.  
 
Still goes to show that good play-calling involves a lot patience!
 
 
Bill Smith
Towson, MD 

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From: Andrew Smith [mailto:arossman at earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [Husker] Boise's Chris Peterson is a GENIUS!!! (fwd)


In the post-game interviews, a Boise St. player said they had been looking for an opportunity to run the Statue of Liberty play well before they used it - they just had always had the short side to the QB's right at the time they considered running it and the ball needs to be in the middle or the left hash.

Smith, William wrote: 

One of the things that really impressed me about both the H&L and the SoL (2 pt. conversion) was their timing.  Since they had those plays ready to go, imagine the discipline it took not to use them earlier.  



Not to be jumping all over Callahan, but I can't help but think if he'd been coaching that game those plays would have come out in the first half.  



Sticking with Callahan for the moment, it seems perfectly acceptable to see progress in a nine-win season where we played higher-ranked teams close.  After all, we tolerated twenty years of that with TO.





Bill Smith

Towson, MD 



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Of Mike Nolan

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Subject: Re: [Husker] Boise's Chris Peterson is a GENIUS!!! (fwd)





  

Todd and Shanle said NU has been working on that play for almost two months.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38 <http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38&u_sid=2305923> &u_sid=2305923

    



That wasn't very apparent from the execution of it.



Osborne always had a few trick plays in the playbook, like the fumblerooski, 

and I'm told they'd practice one of them at the end of each day's practice.  



I'd bet Boise State practices them much more than that, that behind-the-back

variant on the Statue of Liberty play that they used to win the game lookd 

VERY WELL REHEARSED.

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Mike Nolan



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