[Husker] Regular Season

[Theodore Heise]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Dick Karre wrote:
> On 12/3/2012 12:39 PM, Glenn Baker wrote:

>>   ...I think it will show how good of a coach Bo is if he can 
>> somehow put this behind and fix it to make the bowl game a 
>> competitive one. The AD gets paid the big bucks to figure out if 
>> Bo is a good enough coach for NU and not me.  I do wish he would 
>> can Cotton and find another o-line coach.  Just my opinion.
>
> I don't know that Cotton should be fired (I don't know that he 
> shouldn't, for that matter), but I don't think we see enough 
> player development on the O-line. It seems as though we get these 
> nice prospects every year and then most of them disappear into the 
> system, and we have four walk-ons in the top seven linemen.

I started to respond that injuries have been an important factor in 
line performance, and this isn't the coach's fault.  Then I recalled 
that my oldest son was a varsity distance runner in the Big Ten, and 
never improved over his high school times as much as we had thought 
he might.  He struggled with injuries throughout his career, and I'm 
convinced that over-training was an important factor.  So maybe 
coaching can have an influence even on injuries.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA