Hammerhead
All-Conference
Entire editorial is here.I've been asked on multiple occasions how I feel about the new coaching staff at Nebraska. I used to think long and hard about my response in case people were to get offended, but I really don't care anymore. They do not posses qualities that stand for everything Nebraska football is. They don't understand what Husker football is really about nor do they understand the tradition.
This is the story of a Husker football player, many of you won't even recognize his name, but for his position that's a great thing. I will warn you, I am extremely biased due to the fact that my dad is the former punter and kicker and because my boyfriend is the starting long snapper, or was. Nebraska has ALWAYS prided itself on their walk-on program...
...Here is Mike Riley's response to signing a long snapper, “We signed a long snapper. I won't say this is always the case, but we set aside three scholarships for the specialist positions: the kicker, the punter and the long snapper. Have we always done that? No. But we certainly understand the need and the importance of that position. There's a guy here that's been doing it. There's going to be competition, and that's good. Just two years ago we had a walk-on punter beat out our scholarship punter. As soon as we start practicing it's a land of opportunity. You've got to win your job. But I think those positions are so important to you. And I've got the best evaluator of specialists out of anybody. His track record on doing this is outstanding. We just want to make sure we're really good there. That's why we scholarship them. And certainly you've got to be right because you're not going to go find another one next year."
Josh was never given the opportunity to “win his job." Why not put the veteran snapper on that scholarship instead of bringing in somebody new? He's never played in front of 92,000 people before, how do you know he won't completely flail and be a mental head case? The coaching staff got rid of a kid who played thirteen straight games with no errors…somebody please make sense of that.
This is not what Nebraska stands for. This is not Nebraska. I was born and raised a Husker football die-hard fan and now I don't want to even be near Memorial Stadium on game day. Game day used to be better than Christmas to me. The tradition and history of Husker football is what drives the entire program. Actually, it's what drives the entire state. and to be perfectly honest, in my eyes, that tradition has gone down the toilet. Mike Riley and his staff don't know the first thing about Husker football and the season hasn't even started yet. If you haven't noticed, I have zero faith.
I'm not posting this because I necessarily agree with Dani (I'll get to that later), but because I found a link to this in a Facebook Husker group I'm a member of and thought it could make for interesting discussion.