Tom Shatel on USC game
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BIGREDIOWAN
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There already is a thread over there commenting on some of this stuff???!!! :dunno
huskered17
All-Conference
I was thinking the same thing. Open it up lets see what happens it's only one game. Maybe we hit some passes and the running lanes open up. Maybe it blows up on us and we get blown out, but it's better than sitting there and wondering what could have been. This Husker team can play with anybody if we open up the play book and give the kids a chance to show what they can do. Coach C has the team, hes brought in some good players and he knows how to coach. I think he's learning more about college coaching each week, hes going to be a hell of a head coach.
GBR!!!
huskergriff
Four-Star Recruit
Hey guys,
This is my first chance to weigh in on this game since I recently moved to K.C. and don't have a home computer yet (i'm at the library) but I gotta stick up for the coach on this one. Yes I was frustrated by not throwing one time on 1st down the entire first half. Yes I was frustrated by running pitches to the outside 3 different times on third and short. Yes I was frustrated by playing deep off of SC receivers and letting them dink and dunk screen passes and out patterns all day. However, I think there was a definite method to the madness. Coach C knew that if we were to have a chance ball control was going to be the single biggest issue of the game. He also knew that running the ball, stopping the run, and winning the turnover battle was the quickest, if not most exciting, road to victory. We ran the ball, we stopped the run, we controlled the clock. If there isn't a botched handoff, a number of dropped interceptions, and a few other miscues we are right there in the fourth quarter. So when people say that callahan was playing not to lose rather than to win, I think that in this particular case, that was the best strategy. The best defense possible is to not give the other team the ball. I do think that we played a little to conservative, but if not for the few problems listed above, we may have won and people would be singing praises. Coach callahan realized that USC did have superior size and athleticism on offense and that no matter how good our defence is we didn't match up with them. Example, 3rd and 22. They had that all day, except when we had the ball.
This is my first chance to weigh in on this game since I recently moved to K.C. and don't have a home computer yet (i'm at the library) but I gotta stick up for the coach on this one. Yes I was frustrated by not throwing one time on 1st down the entire first half. Yes I was frustrated by running pitches to the outside 3 different times on third and short. Yes I was frustrated by playing deep off of SC receivers and letting them dink and dunk screen passes and out patterns all day. However, I think there was a definite method to the madness. Coach C knew that if we were to have a chance ball control was going to be the single biggest issue of the game. He also knew that running the ball, stopping the run, and winning the turnover battle was the quickest, if not most exciting, road to victory. We ran the ball, we stopped the run, we controlled the clock. If there isn't a botched handoff, a number of dropped interceptions, and a few other miscues we are right there in the fourth quarter. So when people say that callahan was playing not to lose rather than to win, I think that in this particular case, that was the best strategy. The best defense possible is to not give the other team the ball. I do think that we played a little to conservative, but if not for the few problems listed above, we may have won and people would be singing praises. Coach callahan realized that USC did have superior size and athleticism on offense and that no matter how good our defence is we didn't match up with them. Example, 3rd and 22. They had that all day, except when we had the ball.