[Husker] Ganz on Witt

[jon johnston]

Why? Why should the media steer clear of it? It's a central issue to  
the stuff they cover, and if Joe Ganz wants to talk about it, why the  
hell not? We treat Husker football players like they're minor deities.  
It's damn near blasphemous. They know when they put on the uniform  
they're living in a fish bowl, that process starts now when they  
become a recruit, so it'd be a little naive to say that it's not fair  
to them or their families.

The Witt family could have cleared all of this up by stating that  
Patrick Witt had decided that academics were more important than being  
a starter on the football team or by stating they like puppies more  
than kitties, or anything, but they chose to make "no comment" and  
therefore left themselves open to speculation.

Stories about Solich's firing and Cosgrove's defense are still open  
game, as we all had a bit of fun with Cosgrove after he did an  
interview with a Gopher site recently. There's no problem with those  
stories as long as there is new information. Since some of those guys  
are still seeking NFL jobs, it's too early for them to tell that  
story, but it's still interesting, and it's still news.

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

On Mar 13, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Mark Landin wrote:

> Yeah it would have been good for Joe to just steer clear of the  
> whole issue.
> It would also have been nice for the media not to have even brought  
> it up. I
> guess while they were at it, they could have asked Joe about the  
> Solich
> firing and Kevin Cosgrove's bend-and-keep-bending defense in 07.
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM, David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> After reading both these articles, my take is that both Joe Ganz  
>> and the
>> Corn Nation article are presumptuous to the extreme.  What sounds  
>> the most
>> reliable and accurate is when Patrick Witt says that Joe Ganz has  
>> no idea
>> why he left.  It seems that Patrick and his father has conducted  
>> themselves
>> with class and dignity and, in my opinion only, Joe Ganz, Steve  
>> Sipple (and
>> his "sources"), and anyone else who mouths off about this situation  
>> does so
>> from ignorance.  Patrick made a decision he has every right to  
>> make, hasn't
>> uttered one negative thing about anything or anyone, and is moving  
>> on.  Why
>> tear him down?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> --- On Fri, 3/13/09, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [Husker] Ganz on Witt
>> To: husker at tssi.com
>> Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 1:45 PM
>>
>>
>> Joe Ganz talked a lot yesterday about his future, Zac Lee as a  
>> potential
>> successor, as well as Cody Green.
>>
>> http://www.cornnation.com/2009/3/12/795607/joe-ganz-on-quarterbacks-c
>>
>> But he also had some comments about Patrick Witt's departure:
>>
>> "Stuff is not going to be given to you here.
>>
>> "Things are not going to be handed to people. People are not playing
>> favorites. You have to work for everything you get."
>>
>> Witt today responded in a statement to the World-Herald:
>>
>> "Joe clearly has no idea why I made the decision that I did, and I  
>> don't
>> expect him to. There is more to my life than football, and that  
>> will be
>> evident when I decide upon my next school."
>>
>> http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=3918&u_sid=10585427
>>
>> If that means that academics is the reason why he wants to leave,  
>> more
>> power to him.  If that's the case, he might follow his brother to  
>> an Ivy
>> League school.  (His brother played quarterback for Harvard.)
>>
>> Mike Jaixen
>> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
>> http://www.cornnation.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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