[personal] Re: [Husker] Time's Up, Bill

[Skylar Dodds]

LOL, that's funny.

Fact of the matter is, it doesn't take a defensive expert to know that 96th
of 119 teams isn't very good.

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> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Steve Reichenbach
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:37 AM
> To: marklandin at gmail.com; reich at inetnebr.com
> Cc: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: [personal] Re: [Husker] Time's Up, Bill
> 
> Okay, analogies can be fun.  I'll revise mine.  Suppose I go to a fancy
> restaurant, Chez Husker.  I order the house specialty, beef victorious,
> which I have been enjoying for years and which has been widely
> recognized as excellent.  My order comes and it doesn't taste good;
> it's too salty (even though I like salty food) and it's overcooked
> (even though I ordered it rare).  I ask what has happened and the
> waiter says that they have made some improvements recently, including
> a new head chef, Kevine Cosgrovier, with a wonderful reputation in his
> previous job and new apprentice cooks who were highly recruited by
> other establishments.  Now, I am not an expert cook, but I know enough
> to say that the food is too salty and overcooked.  I'm not too happy,
> but I'm a loyal customer so I come back the next month.  Again, I order
> my favorite dish, the house specialty, but again it is overcooked and
> salty.  I tell the waiter, Rober Desbeach, that the new chef isn't
> doing a good job (understanding that it was prepared by one of the
> apprentices upon instructions from the head chef) and that the food is
> overcooked and too salty.  The waiter tells me that they've received
> many complaints and retorts: "What do these people know about cooking?
> Do they think the know as much about as Kevine Cosgrovier?
> Preposterous!"  I'm thinking that may be true, but the proof is in the
> pudding, which wasn't very good either.
> 
> > >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.
> >
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