[NU Sports] Defense

[cherron604 at aol.com]

My only question would be - if Jerry Brown or Greg Colby are suddenly good and retained - why did it take Colby almost 5 years (and Brown a heck of a lot longer) to figure out what they were doing ? 
 
Maybe it's a threshold thing with Colby - after 9 or 10 500 yard choke-jobs (and 28-30 400 yard 'performances'), a lightbulb goes on and you say 'Maybe if I stopped the run and pressured the quarterback, they'd score fewer points'.
 
If our students learned that rapidly, many of them would be grasping sentence structure and algebra by about their sixth or seventh year at the University
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
PS - we had better get Colby and Brown locked-up long term before Tressel or somebody tries to 'steal' them away.
 
 
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From: rstetson at capps-assoc.com
To: DPENDERG at aol.com; jonathanwhodges at gmail.com; nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Sent: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Defense


A better answer would be that Fitz used to be one of the guys who signaled the
defenses in when RW was the head coach.

As I recall the talk about how the phones work at NU, the guys upstairs would
call the play, and RW would have the option of overriding the call. With McGee
down talking with Johns up stairs, I'm sure Johns is relating what he sees and
McGee and Fitz are talking back and forth on the field, even though they're in
different parts of the sidelines.

If you noticed the Hawks, with their coordinators both down  on the field, had a
lot of space between Ferentz, the OC and the DC, at least that's how it looked
on TV.

Anyway, I wouldn't put too much stock in one or two shots of Fitz holding up
fingers towards the defense and reading grand changes.

While most of the fans in a few folk's circles hope for coaching changes at the
end of the season, I personally will be surprised at ANY, unless someone is
hired away.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:05 AM
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>  
> I wonder then why the head coach (and not another defensive 
> coach)  would be 
> assigned the sideline duty of simply transmitting the  
> coordinator's calls 
> from the press box. 


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