[Husker] My Husker thoughts (fwd)

[Scott R Lawson]

If division I college football players still need to be taught how to make tackles they should consider ballet. I would think it is assumed four and five star recruits (heck even walk ons) are fairly skilled in the basic fundamentals of football, including tackling, which is typically taught to players in the Pop Warner years. Anyone who thinks the coaching staff should be blamed for players not making tackles who are in fact in position to make plays is out of touch with reality.

Scott in NY 

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com]On Behalf
Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:58 PM
To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] My Husker thoughts (fwd)


> I find it disturbing that Callahan attributes the failure of the defense 
> to "fundamentals". While that seems obviously correct - witness all the 
> missed tackles - you have to wonder why it is so. Some of the defensive 
> starters have been at NU four or five years, and yet they have to go 
> back to "fundamentals" in the middle of the season? Maybe the coaches 
> spend too much time on overly-complicated schemes and not enough on 
> football. Or, perhaps, they just aren't very good teachers.

Three games isn't really the 'middle of the season' yet.  Moreover, there's 
a subtle difference between 'fundamentals', 'skills' and 'technique'.

You can do everything COMPLETELY RIGHT fundamentally and still get beat
on a play if your technique is wrong or if the other player is more 
skilled than you are (eg, stronger, faster, makes a better cut, etc.)

To me the big difference last Saturday wasn't fundamentals or technique, it 
was skills.  USC was bigger than we were, and faster.  And it showed,
far too many times.  Their 2nd team might be good enough to be rated in 
the top 10.  

As someone noted, some time in the past few years USC and Nebraska passed 
each other on the stairs, Nebraska going down, USC going up.  USC doesn't 
appear to have started going back down yet (nothing lasts forever), 
whether Nebraska is heading up at the moment is much more debatable.  

As Husker fans, we enjoyed a lot of time at or near the top of that 
staircase, perhaps we all forgot what it was like for those below us.  
--
Mike Nolan

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