[Husker] A Word In Edgewise, If You Please...

[Matt Phillips]

Everyone agrees that USC has better players.  But if this season is telling
us anything, it's that the best team does not have to win.

The fact is that Nebraska will likely be outmanned by the traditional
powerhouses for YEARS to come.  There are teams that we will NEVER
out-recruit.  

So, we're going to have to out-coach some teams to win some big games.  

So, the question becomes, 'Do we have _that_ coach, who can consistently do
more with less?' 

Does anybody believe HCBC is that guy?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Steve Stone
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 6:21 PM
> To: husker-tssi.com
> Subject: [Husker] A Word In Edgewise, If You Please...
> 
> I've been reading the exchanges about the pro's and con's of 
> this coach and that coach and who did what and to whom.
> 
> Given the prevailing circumstances (other than coaches) on 
> both campuses, I can't believe the outcome of yesterday's 
> game would've been much different if Nebraska's head coach 
> had been Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, or Bill Parcells.
> 
> USC had the better players. Period.
> 
> This is not exactly a new phenomenon. It happened regularly 
> during the late Seventies and Eighties almost every time we 
> played Oklahoma. 
> It happened last year in Los Angeles.
> 
> I do think yesterday's game might have turned out quite 
> differently if Dr. Tom had been able to stay at the helm 
> because the circumstances on the Lincoln campus would have 
> been dramatically different - - but he couldn't, all our 
> wishes notwithstanding.
> 
> Most of us, myself included, are disappointed in yesterday's 
> result only because our expectations were not in line with 
> those nefarious "facts on the ground" which have a nasty way 
> of intruding themselves into our unwilling collective consciousness.
> 
> Steve Stone
> 
> 
> 
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