[Husker] will wonders never cease ? A depth chart

[scott71lawson at yahoo.com]

Could not have said this better myself.

Scott in NY

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On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Scott Stewart <fourtwophd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not trying to be oppositional and I agree with the recent opinions. I
> am no football coach. I think it is strange that some individuals believe
> that they can evaluate football potential better than the coaches.
> 
> I tend to think that coaches who watch the players daily have a better
> opinion of their ability than I can assess from a few plays on television,
> or by report (newspapers).
> 
> I may be wrong. I define this statement as:  If players consistently leave
> a program because they cannot get playing time, and then go on to another
> FBS team and perform significantly better [rankings of selected team] then
> a coaching change is in order because the program has problems identifying
> talent.
> 
> I don't think many cases meet this criteria at NU, or at any other
> university. That is why I don't think I should be a coach at a FBS
> University.
> 
> Thus, when a FBS coach makes a decision that one kid is better than
> another, I do not have the ability to critique that decision. I am not
> siding with BP, BC, FS, or TO on this. I just recognize that reading a
> paper, or watching a player on a finite set of plays on television does not
> trump anyone else's opinion.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:58 PM, David Strong <gobigredlist at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I hear ya Nick.  I don't know either, but I speculated that TM's number
>> didn't seem to be called near as much the second half of last year and he
>> wasn't hurt.  Now someone may come up with some stats that shows different,
>> but it just seemed that way to me watching the games.  I wondered if they
>> had some doubts about his backup and were trying to be careful with
>> Taylor.  Could be wrong of course.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Matt <matthew.a.phillips at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ha!  I saw that, too…  When you're looking up Darren Sproles, you're
>>>> probably playing the wrong sport, buddy!
>>>> 
>>>> Any clues on what's up with Brion?  He looked AMAZING on his one option
>>>> pitch last year.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hey, I'm going to throw something really weird and totally out there for
>>> everyone's consideration, but maybe the reason we didn't see Brion run
>> much
>>> offense in games last year is because the coaches had little faith in his
>>> ability to do it.  Now, I know this goes against a lot of Husker fans who
>>> may well know more, and said as much many times, but I guess I see Brion
>> at
>>> #4 as a pretty good indication of where the coaching staff felt he fits.
>>> 
>>> Call me crazy, I know.
>>> 
>>> Nick
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