[Husker] Pelini Article

[Bob Beach]

Steve Stone wrote:
>
> 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?


       But, Steve we are talking apples and oranges here.  You are 
talking recruiting base and I am talking walk ons.  I totally understand 
LA has more people to recruit from than does Lincoln, Nebraska.  But, 
that is not the issue.  We are talking walk on program.  Every Division 
1A  team has the world to recruit from.  NU has the same recruiting 
territory as does USC that being the whole country and maybe even the 
world.  Now USC and Texas and the like don't have to travel as far but 
what does that have to do with walk ons?  Every Division 1A team can 
offer 85 scholarships.  If you have 85 players on scholarship you have 
85 players on scholarship.  If NU recruits superbly and gets the gifted 
athlete there should be no need for someone to walk on.  It has nothing 
absolutely nothing to do with population.  Now that wasn't so hard, was it?


Bob Beach