Eric the Red
Team HuskerBoard
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Husker Quarterback Weekly:
August 8, 2006
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Right now, there’s a young man in Florida who is very upset with himself. He’s in his room, on the corner of his bed, bent over and hands cover his face wondering “What the hell just happened?”
Harrison Beck loved football and he loved Coach Callahan and Nebraska. He truly did. I believe that with everything I am.
We’ve been trying to make sense of who’s to blame. Well here’s who not to.
1) Steve Sipple: The information he obtained from Beck’s mother is like a big, fat, juicy raw ribeye dangling inches above a chained up rottweiler. As soon as it’s lowered the dog will pounce. Besides, if Sipple didn’t report it, there were 1,001 others that would have.
2) Coach Callahan: Aaaaaa…last I thought football was about competition. In practice, for every 100 plays, Taylor, or the starter, will get 80 reps, the second and third stringer will get the remaining. That’s’ the way he does it. Harrison was out most of the spring with an injury.
3) Harrison Beck: I can’t place all of it on him or even most. He had a 100 people coming at him at once on the field and off. He was being fed crap from the media, his family, coaches, and players. I’m sure when he jumped in his car and skipped practice it was for only a few hours until his senses returned. He had no idea what was to be and then said.
4) Harrison’s mom: Not really, remember Harrison’s dad, while he was young was killed. I believe from suicide. She did everything possible, most likely too much to aid her son. How many of you watched your Dad die when you were 6? Of all the parents out there, wouldn’t you try to do everything in your power to give anything to your child after that kind of horrific event?
As a public educator I’ve seen it all and so many of the students I had, their problems, their social negative behaviors could always be traced heavily back to the youngest years. What they saw, what they heard and felt. Would Beck’s mom have acted so immaturely if she wasn’t trying to be so overprotective of her son, trying to give him everything after he had lost so much, so quickly, early on in his life? Wouldn’t you, if you were that parent?
) are better than that.
