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

[David Strong]

Wasn't there also a quote that year from Coz who said something like "there
is only so much you can do against a spread offense" or something to that
effect.  Sorry for the quotes if that is not it.  It was something that left
the impression that he simply could not come up with a scheme to defend
them.

Dave

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Patrick Gaule <pgaule at cox.net> wrote:

> 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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