[Husker] The latest from Bill

[Steve Stone]

Skylar wrote:

(snip)

>"I want to go back to that discussion for just a moment.  A lot of people in
>the media have vilified this offense telling me it's too complicated and
>would never work in college.  If you go back and look, we took a JUCO guy
>who wasn't really getting any attention and made him the Big XII POY.  We
>too Sam, who transferred from another school after losing the starting job
>and he was on pace to set records.  Then we took a guy who was a 
>no-name who didn't have hardly any Div I offers and put up 900 yards 
>and 11 TDs in two games.  It just goes to show that this offense 
>really works.  These numbers, combined with the fact that in a few 
>games we didn't really even get a chance to get into our gameplan 
>and we could be even higher ranked.  The numbers don't lie."

It's only natural that Callahan would like to defend himself and his 
system after the public drubbing he's taken lately, so we should cut 
him a little slack on that score.

However, while his argumentation does constitute a defense of his 
system, it's a condemnation of his coaching: he's the one who 
recruited this no-name guy with few Div I offers and kept him sitting 
on the bench for five consecutive losses without so much as a whiff 
of action. Then when the transfer guy gets hurt, BC put in the 
no-name guy who proceeds to shatter all those offense records - - 
leaving the question: "Why didn't the no-name guy get a chance to 
break those records in, say, the second straight loss?

Steve Stone

"There are liars, damned liars, and statisticians." Mark Twain.