[Husker] Regular Season

Sun Dec 2 17:33:18 CST 2012

Obviously the coaches' don't know the meaning of what  "complete game" means 
either as they use it every week. So why not ask them that question. And you 
haven't answered which game or games the Huskers played to their potential.
That is all I wish for as a fan is for them to play the best they can. I as 
a fan get tired of them playing like the keystone cops.

Tony Lambert
-----Original Message----- 
From: Don Rietsch
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 5:17 PM
To: 'Borer Steve CAA' ; 'Steve Reichenbach' ; 'List Husker'
Subject: Re: [Husker] Regular Season

Guess I'll throw my two cents in here.  If I were asked to "vote" the
season, I'd have to vote "present".  10-3 is pretty darn good even though
the opposition was not that great and in several of those games the
opposition played us neck and neck and due to miraculous intervention we won
in the end.  If we play Georgia in the bowl, we likely end up 10-4 and
ranked outside the top 25.  That means we graduate in the top 50% of our
division 1 football class (my guess is somewhere in the top 35).  When I
graduated from NU (BSME'70) in the top 50% of my class after my brother had
graduated in the top 4% two years earlier, I considered myself a quasi-loser
and asked my parents to stay home and milk the cows on my graduation.

It all comes down to expectations.  If you are satisfied with a rating in
the top 50, it's a no brainer to continue on the current path.  If you want
top 25 or 10 or 1, things have to change.  My observation from the last 4
years suggests status quo for the future. So my question to you positive
thinkers out there is; if the current level of success continues, how long
do we stay the course?  It will never be easy and w/o risk to make major
changes no matter when it happens.  Having said that, my opinion is stay the
course with some corrections until the end of the current coach's contract.
I think we need to take a hard look at recruiting and why (according to
Husker Illustrated) we bring all those 4 and 5 star recruits to our games
but they almost never commit.  And, I think we need to take a hard look at
our defensive coaches and strategy.  It seems like (not sure it's true) we
have a revolving door in our assistant coach positions.

Don Rietsch

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Borer Steve CAA
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 5:07 PM
To: Steve Reichenbach; List Husker
Subject: Re: [Husker] Regular Season

Well said Steve!  We expect perfection from these kids and coaches and all
too often forget that they are human beings too.  Everybody makes mistakes
-- as seems to be more and more typical in our society, we place these folks
on a pedestal for worship and adulation, but then can't wait to push them
off when they don't meet our expectations.   Obviously, no one is above
constructive criticism, especially the coaches who get paid well to do their
jobs, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.  I don't care
who you beat -- a 10 win season is pretty good!

I am quite certain the players and coaches feel badly about the outcome.
The only thing they can do is work to get better.

GBR -- Let's win the bowl game!
On Dec 2, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:

>> To backup my reply to Steve. In which games can the Huskers say that
>> they actually had played a complete game ? The only ones that come to
>> mind are Arkansas State and Minnesota, Im throwing out the So. Miss
>> and Idaho St. games. Though at the time the So. Miss game was a good
>> win with them going 12-2 the the year before.
>
> I'm not even sure what "complete game" means.  If I were to be
> flippant, which I sometimes am, I'd say they played 60 minutes in every
game.
> I assume you mean some type of perfection throughout the game.  What
> if I asked that about the best golfers in the world?  How many golfers
> have ever played a game such a complete game?  When I watch pro
> football, which I don't often do, I see plenty of missed tackles,
> dropped balls, turnovers, etc.  Even better, more practiced players
> and more accomplished teams don't play complete games without any
shortcomings.
>
> I say Nebraska had a good year.  You say they played like an expletive
> week after week.  How do we measure such things?  Clearly, we have
> different yardsticks, but I question your standards when a 10 win
> regular season, division championship, national ranking, and New
> Year's Day Bowl is so expletive deleted.  And, if we look a little
> deeper, we might see other things like GPAs and graduation, personal
> responsibility, etc.
>
> This quote is attributed to Henri Matisse:  "There are always flowers
> for those who want to see them."  I suppose the same thing is true of
> expletives.
>
>
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