[Husker] So anybody watching the NU/OU game?

[j j]

And as a coach I can bet you that the players are told to keep their mouths shut and play the game. If the refs or a player need yelled at I will be the one to do it. Its not the players job to say anything to the refs that is the coaches job and sometimes you have to push it to the limit to get your point across. Harder yet for me as I am a basketball coach and I guarentee that we dont get away with anything near what a football coach does. 
 
The players need to shut up and play and Bo needs to yell at the refs and players as he sees fit. He knows what the players can take far more then we do, he is around them everyday. 
 
 
 


--- On Sun, 11/2/08, David Strong <gbrlist at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: David Strong <gbrlist at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Husker] So anybody watching the NU/OU game?
To: "'Husker List'" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 12:29 PM


 >Imagine, the coach, who spent much of the game cursing and screaming into
his headset at
>his assistants, telling a player to be more disciplined.  Talk about
>chutzpah.  This guy scares the hell out of me.  Do you all think that a
>"boss" can scream/curse at his "workers" during the
game, apologize after,
>claim "we are a family", and all is forgiven???  Life doesn't
work that way:
>I learned that growing up.  Blo (no typo...think volcano) will have to
>change the way he treats people during his tirades or he'll lose
them(and
>the players).  The Woody Hays ways are over; people won't nor should
they
>have to put up with that BS any more. 
> According to the web piece I read referencing the post game press
> conference, Pelini said when Moore left the field he told him to go sit
down
> and compose himself.  He said he was not aware that he had been rejected.
I
> don't know if the post was accurate or not.  It doesn't really
matter either
> way.  I still believe Bo is behaving like a jerk on occasions.  When I
moved
> here to MI and started watching Big 10 games, I couldn't believe what
total
> jerks Woody Hayes and Bo Schembeckler were.  I hated those guys.  I would
> never let my kids play for them.  You can be passionate and intense w/o
> screaming and cursing at people.  Guess I'm just too sensitive.   
> 

Nope, you're not too sensitive.  Your original post is right on the money. 
Coach is out of line.  A head coach that can't control himself is in a bad
place with his players.  These coaches preach over and over to the players
"Keep your cool", "Don't loose you head",
"Don't do anything to hurt the team", "Late hits,
Unsportsmanlike Conduct, a big sins" "If a guy starts a fight, back
off, let the other team get the flag" "Don't let yourself get
provoked into doing something stupid" "Stay smart all the time"
and on and on and on.  Yet the players see the coach loosing his mind and
getting flagged (the biggest sin of all), how do they take him seriously?  He
throws temper tantrums like a child, or even worse, like a baseball manager.  I
don't want a guy acting like that as head coach at Nebraska.  Don't even
go the "fiery, emotional" route.  Lots of fiery, emotional guys that
act with class and professionalism...Bo isn't one of them.

Let's face it, Bo has a crazy side.  We knew it before he got hired, we
knew it when he got the job.  Bo has got to get the crazy under control. 
He's got a long way to go with the team, and I'm ready to give him the
time he needs in that area.  But he has got to stop acting like an a-hole.

Dave

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