[Husker] Time's Up, Bill

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We could stop this analogy where it was. Really, it was good. 

please. :) 

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 10/08/2007 04:38:11 PM:

> 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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