[Husker] Time's Up, Bill

[Mark Landin]

>I'm not a great golfer, but I can
> tell whether or not someone else is playing great golf.  Because I'm not
> a good golfer, does that mean I can't say someone else isn't getting the
> job done on the course?  Really, it comes down to results.  Look at the
> results, Bob; if Cosgrove is doing a great job, why is the result of his
> work so bad?  And, if it is bad, why are the observations about the
> nature of the failings so suspect?

Golfing is an indvidual effort. Coaching invovles at least one other
person: the athlete. Therefore, this is a bad analogy. You would have
to WATCH a coach coach before you could evaluate that performance.
Instead, as the average fan without special access to practices,
meetings, etc., we are reduced to watching 11 or so young men attempt
to execute whatever said coaches (not just Cosgrove, but all the
coaches) asked them to do.

Note that I am not offering any opinion on just what nature of the
problems with our defensive preformance may be. Just knocking down the
strawman that we have enough information to assign "blame" to any
particular party or parties.