[personal] [Husker] This pretty much says it all

[Skylar Dodds]

Bill:

This is where I consider recruiting services to be useful.  I don't know
that NU has more defensive talent than LSU, but I bet it's a lot closer than
people think.

Bottom line on recruiting services:
On the individual player they can and will be wrong on many occasions.  On a
group of 20 or so guys that suit up every Saturday, well they're not wrong
all the time.  Recruiting rankings, to me anyway, are a great way to judge
how a coach develops talent.  If Team A has 85 guys that average 3 stars and
Team B has 85 guys who averaged 1 star and Team B is better than Team A then
you pretty much know that Team B's coach is better at player development.
Again, on the individual level though, rankings don't mean that much.

I agree wholeheartedly that Cozgrove's failure is catastrophic.  Not many
players on defense have gotten better over their stay here, save Grixby and
Potter.

In my opinion, players that have failed to get better or regressed:
Suh
Octavien (remember his first couple of games, WOW)
Green
Bowman
Andre Jones
Barry Turner
Carriker (Or at least I think he was used VERY poorly in his senior season,
too much gap control not enough attack)

That's just to name a few.  I really believe this year's defense has talent,
just nobody to tell them what to do with it.

--
Skylar
mailto: sklarbodds at cox.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of
> weldoc at juno.com
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 1:16 PM
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: [personal] [Husker] This pretty much says it all
> 
> Recruiting versus Coaching and Player Development
> 
> Pulled this from Huskerpedia. Interesting analysis of star averages:
> 
> Nebraska----------------LSU
> Turner (3)----------------Jackson(3)
> Potter (4)----------------Pittman(4)
> Suh (4)----------------Dorsey(4)
> Dixon (4)----------------Favorite(4)
> Ruud (4)----------------Sanders(4)
> Octavien (4)----------------Highsmith(3)
> Dillard (4)----------------Beckwith(4)
> Murillo (4)----------------Zenon(3)
> Bowman (5)----------------Jackson(3)
> Asante (4)----------------Steltz(4)
> Green (2)----------------Taylor(3)
> 
> Avg Stars
> Nebraska (3.82)---------------LSU (3.54)
> 
> Throw in Jones (5) instead of Murillo and Thenarse (4) instead of Green
> and NU averages an astonishing 4.09 stars per player.
> 
> Help me out here. Which team has the nation's #1 defense and which team
> has the nation's #112th ranked defense?
> 
> WE HAVE BETTER DEFENSIVE RECRUITS THAN LSU!
> 
> I would venture to guess that in terms of raw material Nebraska has one
> of the top-5 defenses in the nation. Yet what do we see on Saturdays...
> week after week?
> 
> This just goes to show you that this defensive staff's failure is of epic
> proportions. The stuff of folklore. In 1000 years, parents will gather
> children around campfires and tell them frightening tales of Nebraska's
> defensive ineptitude.
> _________________________________
> 
> Received the above courtesy of Cousin Rich. Thought it was VERY
> revealing.
> 
> Bill Laughlin
> Wichita, KS
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