[Husker] Pelini Article

[Steve Stone]

Bob Beach wrote:

>I guess I don't understand what the population of the state has to do with it.

Oh, come on now, Bob, get serious!

>I also don't understand why at the above mentioned schools it isn't 
>as important as at NU.  NU historically has had great recruits for 
>the most part.  Every school in Division 1A is allowed to have 85 
>players on scholarship for football.  That means NU can have as many 
>on scholarship as Texas, USC, Florida, Florida State, and the rest.

This is so elemental it hardly needs re-saying: any superbly talented 
athlete is a statistical anomaly, one case out of many thousands.

When you have a larger number of thousands, you come up with a 
greater number of superbly talent athletes. Greaterly Los Angeles 
alone has a population in the neighbor hood of ten million compared 
to Nebraska's million plus.

A high percentage of these eighteen-year-old statistical anomalies 
prefer to play close to home.

Now that wasn't so hard, was it?

>With 85 scholarships you can have your first three units on the 
>depth chart on scholarship on both offense and defense plus a punter 
>and place kicker and still have 17 scholarships left over for 
>special teams and additional backups.  It is my contention that if 
>you can't produce a competitive team with 85 scholarships you really 
>need to re-evaluate your recruiting.  I guess I am really dense but 
>I am not seeing how a walk on program is necessary for NU to have it 
>to stay competitive and other schools don't need it as much if at 
>all.  I can see the importance of walk ons in relation to some 
>things but not that it has a direct affect on wins and losses.

Go back and check the 1995 Husker roster one more time.

Steve Stone