Casey Martinez decides to open his mouth

I am supposed to go to the USC/Stanford game with my boss this weekend, if so, I will try to find out where things really are. Brooke says the family loves Nebraska. This really came up because of me being a Nebraska fan and my boss a USC fan. He is really impressed with Taylor and all the boys, and has learned a lot about Nebraska from them. His other two kids are at Cornell, but Brooke is considering Stanford and wait for it, Nebraska. That would really be great as dad is a die in the wool SC fan, played Tennis for them. A lot of drivel, but I was surprised to hear the comments from some of the post put on here in the past about Casey.

 
I thought the story was that Casey Martinez was indeed an over-involved but well-intentioned helicopter dad, who did indeed create friction between himself, his son and the coach, which came to a head during the infamous A&M game, after which all parties addressed the issue. Taylor himself told his dad to back off, Casey Martinez did what was best for his son and backed off, and Bo Pelini was appreciative. I don't see how two more Martinez boys come to Nebraska if their were significant lingering tensions.

If being thrown to the lions while injured constitutes being "coddled" then maybe you could call Taylor Martinez coddled. I'm not seeing it myself. He's a shy dude who has had to deal with a lot of hateful sh*t. Thicker skin than most anonymous second-guessers on internet message boards.

But the Damon Benning comments give pause, as there is always a private angle to the public story.

 
NUpolo8 said:
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Now......

Not a screaming amount of new information is abundant in this article. I mean, I guess people can speculate now that the injury to the "ball of his foot" means he's a soccer style kicker when it comes to refrigerators and lockers instead of square-toed (if so, props for getting with the times!). But it bothers me to no end that Casey had to go and fire off an email to the AP after Bo's press conference.

Bo discussed this in his presser. This is Bo's team. Bo has made it extraordinarily obvious how he likes info to flow on his team. Through him, and the filter catches a lot. Whatever. His right. At this point Casey has to know that, and this isn't the first time he's pulled crap like this.

And I know the knee jerk is "mew mew Taylor is his son and he wants to protect hurr durrrr" but this isn't 2010 and Taylor isn't 19 anymore. He's a man, capable of living by himself and making choices with his coach about whether he can play or not. It was a flipping pipe dream that Taylor saw a down in the nfl anyway, and I'm not sure why they had to point out on all the goals missed by Taylor tweaking his foot.

In short, I don't much care for Casey Martinez. And I'm pretty certain 99.99% of people complaints about Taylor's mannerisms and actions are directly tributes to his sh**ty handling by his father.
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Wasn't he just replying to an email he received from AP?

 
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