[Husker] 2007 Game plan

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 09/11/2007 02:54:59 PM:

> Duane Feldman <dlfeldman at ameritech.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not a believer that BC is a great game day coach, but I am
> > convinced that PC isn't as good.  Without question, PC is the best
> > recruiting coach (and staff) in the country with Mack Brown as a
> > distant second.  But any coach who can take that level of talent
> > and lose to OrStU and UCLA is not getting the most out of that
> > talent.  And if you nearly lose to Fresno State, those deficiencies
> > become more apparent.
> 
> 
> 
>      The name of the game is recruiting.  Get better players than 
> your competition.  That is the way Tom Osborne did it throughout his
> career.  I never did think TO was a great, adequate but not great, 
> game day coach but he typically had more, sometimes much more, 
> talent than did his opposition.  It all goes back to recruiting.
> 
> 
> Bob Beach

I really questioned responding to this, since Bob will now back off his 
original statement, stating that he meant to say something else, but: 

Tom Osborne was possibly the greatest game day coach in the history of the 
game if you're counting preparation and practice as part of being a game 
day coach. 

Osborne did not always have great athletes. He certainly didn't have them 
throughout the 70's and 80's. If Osborne would have had the same athletes, 
say, as those playing at Ohio State, USC, or Alabama, he'd have probably 
won about six national titles. In fact, say the same for Oklahoma 
throughout the Switzer years. 

This will be my only response to a truly foolish statement. 

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com