[Husker] PT for young players

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

Good points on playing time, but with all due respect to Kurt Mann, he 
might have been healthy enough to play but there's no doubt that he lost a 
serious amount of strength during the period he had mononucleosis (if I 
remember correctly) and would have had a hard time getting back to playing 
condition. He had to endure the double-edge sword of having an illness sap 
his strength while not being able to lift or train over a period would and 
that made him weaker as well. 

At the time, Mann had a huge number of starts under his belt, and had he 
not gotten ill, he would have been the starter for most of the season. 
Apparently, God had other plans for him and Brett Byford. 

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 09/03/2007 10:33:26 AM:

>   The Nevada game afforded the team a chance to do something that hasn't
> happened too much in the past - get playing time for the 2nd / 3rd
> string players. It was like the "good old days" out there in getting a
> chance to see some of the upcoming players. This has to help down the
> road in building up depth as well as the coach's confidence in the
> backups. I still can't get over how last year when Mann got sick Byford
> came in and never sat the rest of the season, even after Mann was
> healthy enough to play. How can a coaching staff not give any playing
> time to the better player as Byford obviously was? I read a Byford
> interview this fall and he said his goal for last year was to get a
> couple snaps in for the year. Given how some of the backups got a chance
> against Nevada, maybe they'll have a better chance to play more this
> year.
> Roy
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