[Husker] 2007 Game plan

[Bob Beach]

Duane Feldman <dlfeldman at ameritech.net> wrote:


> If competing for the five star athletes and winning those battles
> qualifies as a recruiting master, then TO was NOT a master
> recruiter.  If identifying the underdeveloped athlete who would
> later become an great athlete, then yes, he was a master.  I think
> that most people generally associate a "recruiting master" as the
> former and the latter as a "player development master."



      Regardless of how you want to define it you are not going to win as many football games as did TO without top notch athletes and depth.  However they are found or whatever background they have they have to be great players or at least have the foundation to be made great players.  Even walkons.  I doubt TO would have kept the average student on the team that just wanted to see what he could do.  TO knew what made his system go and he recruited accordingly and kept walkons accordingly.  He and his staff had a great eye for that.  To me that is a master recruiter or at the very least a master judge of talent.


Bob Beach