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

[Smith, William]

Was it Cosgrove who also said, "Sacks are over-rated."??

This showed my ignorance as a fan, as I had long thought that short of a
turnover, there was no defensive outcome better than loss of yardage/loss
of down.


Bill Smith
Towson, MD



On 7/1/11 4:28 PM, "David Strong" <gobigredlist at gmail.com> wrote:

>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.
>>> --
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