[Husker] Former coach Elmo has nothing but nice things to say ...

Patrick Gaule pgaule at cox.net
Fri Jul 1 13:39:31 CDT 2011


I remember him standing up at a luncheon in 2007 and announcing that 
"sacks are overrated" while the defense was hemorrhaging more yardage 
than the water spilling out of Gavins Point Dam.  I'm glad he's not 
bitter about the experience, but he was a bad coach on a really bad 
defensive staff.

On 7/1/2011 12:26 PM, Mike Nolan wrote:
> What's truly sad about this was that if you had posted a list of
> names and asked which of these had been coaches at Nebraska
> in the past 10 years, I don't think I would have recognized
> the name Phil Elmassian on it.
>
> One of the things that made Tom Osborne such a great coach
> was that he really spread the credit among his assistant
> coaches, most of whom were fairly well known in Lincoln.
>
> As far as I can tell, Bo does that as well.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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