[Husker] Time's Up, Bill

[Brown, Laura (LLU)]

To beat a dead horse.  If the meat consistently comes out of the oven
overdone you do something about it. You check to see if the oven is
working properly, or you cook the next piece of meat at a lower temp or
for less time. 

Wasn't it Ben Franklin that said " the definition of insanity is doing
the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

Laura
-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of Tommy Thompson
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:26 PM
To: Steve Reichenbach; marklandin at gmail.com
Cc: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Time's Up, Bill

How do you know that it's the chef's fault...or even the apprentice's.
It 
could be that the restaurant has also changed suppliers, and are now
getting 
salty meat.  Maybe the oven isn't working properly, causing the meat to
be 
overdone.  Maybe it's not actually the oven, but a problem with the 
building's electricity.  The problem had started before the new chef 
arrived, but didn't surface until he changed cooking styles.  If they
hadn't 
changed chefs, the building was getting ready to burn down.  Maybe you
just 
recently quit smoking, and the food tastes different!

Granted, this is a ridiculous analogy.  Point is, however, neither you,
nor 
most of the rest of us on the list, really knows what is wrong with the 
Huskers.  We feel that it is the Defensive Coordinator, but we don't
know 
for sure.  Hopefully, Bill Callahan will realize the problem (maybe some
old 
friends in the NFL will point something out to him) and the Huskers will
be 
able to recover.


Tommy Thompson
"GO BIG RED"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Reichenbach" <reich at inetnebr.com>
To: <marklandin at gmail.com>; <reich at inetnebr.com>
Cc: <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: 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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