[Husker] Not Getting It

[Steve Stone]

One of the nice things about DVR/Tivo is that you can replay specific 
parts of the game ad infinitum, making it easy to pick up on blunders:

Christ Spielman did the color commentary and seemed to have the job 
under control until about 40 seconds from the end of the first 
quarter. During a time-out he said, and I quote, "...Sean, like I 
told you...the walk-ons are nice and they work hard and they earn 
scholarships. They're good college football players, but if you want 
to be a program of prominence, you don't want to be playing with 
walk-ons. Maybe one or two, but when you have five or six or seven on 
your team, then you've got a little bit of a problem."

The 1996 Huskers, probably the best college football team of all 
time, had six walk-ons starting on O and D in the Fiesta Bowl, and 
several of them went on to the NFL.

Both Spielman and Callahan have good football minds, yet neither gets 
it about the walk-on program, which puts them squarely in the 
mainstream of non-Nebraska thinking. Which confirms the adage: the 
conventional wisdom is always wrong.

But Bo does get it.

Steve Stone