[Husker] Polls

[Gary Doyle]

Hopefully someone on this list can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember another coach talking about T.O. when he was retiring concerning RUTS.  He said that when the game was well in-hand, T.O. sent a ball boy to the opposing sideline to say that they were just going to run between the tackles for the rest of the game...and that they still added a couple of more touchdowns.  The coach didn't blame T.O. for RUTS, saying it was their own fault for not stopping a play they knew was coming.


--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Polls
> To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 12:31 PM
> > jon johnston wrote:
> >   > There is no such thing as RUTS in a bowl game,
> nor in a national 
> > title game.
> 
> There are those who will argue that there is no such thing
> as RUTS, period.
> (I'm not one of them, though.)
> 
> For the most part you don't hear coaches complaining
> about it, just fans.
> (Most coaches will say, at least publicly, that it's
> THEIR job to keep 
> the other team from scoring, not the other team's job.)
>  
> 
> The example Husker fans may remember is the Arizona State
> game from
> 1995.  Late in the game, up very comfortably, the Huskers
> scored a 
> touchdown on a pass play.  The receiver lined up without a
> cover man 
> on him, the play was an automatic between the receiver and
> the QB, and 
> it worked to perfection.  The players did EXACTLY as they
> were coached 
> to do, it's hard to fault them for following their
> training.
> 
> The other team's coach was not amused, but as people
> may recall he got 
> his revenge (of sorts) a year later in the Debacle in the
> Desert.   
> 
> I thought Ohio State scored unnecessarily on Northwestern
> late in
> the game this year, but IMHO Ohio State has a history of
> late meaningless 
> scores in Big 10 games dating back to the 60's when I
> was a student
> there, which is why I have never rooted for them in any
> game, and 
> probably never will.  (If they play USC, I root for an
> earthquake.)
> 
> I also don't care what people say, I think margin of
> victory still 
> affects both the human polls and the computer polls.
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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