If we can't figure out a way to utilize a talent like Omar's we have a coaching problem. Think about this. Even Forrest Gump scored touchdowns for ALABAMA!
Omar Manning
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I hear what you're saying, but none of the other teams had spring practice either, yet I see freshmen WRs playing big roles all across the country--we have 2 redshirt freshmen that can't find their way to the field, yet they've been here a year---why we can't put in a package for our best athletes (even if they don't know the entire playbook) is beyond me--tell me we can't take our fastest WR, split him out wide and tell him to run a fly pattern, just to make the safeties back up, if nothing else
I read on another site we have recruited 17 WRs in the last 3 years, yet we started 2 walk-ons vs OSU
It's on the coaches to find a way to get your best players on the field
GBR
J
Jarhead Husker
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Considering the facts that you stated, the current staff is either not recruiting the right guys at WR, not developing the WRs, or their system is very complex and it takes a buttload of time to get guys on the field.....or a combination of all 3......
J
Jarhead Husker
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C'mon valiant, don't leave me guessing! What is the "one more possibility?"
J
Jarhead Husker
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Ya, that's true. I was lumping involvement under development, but it does differ to some degree. Whatever the impediment is, I hope they get it figured out soon.....
Will Omar play this week?
Inquiring minds want to know
GBR
PS— also wondering about Brown, Betts, Fleming etc
Inquiring minds want to know
GBR
PS— also wondering about Brown, Betts, Fleming etc
I can't remember where I first heard it (I think it was on a Star Trek show some 50 years ago), but great ability leads to great egos. I think a staff, any staff, can be forgiven for having a hard time corralling various athlete's egos into a general team oriented direction. If given enough time most staffs can meet this challenge, but time isn't always on the side of collegiate sports programs...…...especially those who must rely on juco, and transfer, players. Players have been force fed how great they are for years, and it doesn't stop once they go to college. Family, friends, and other programs are still guilty of bolstering egos for various reasons. I don't envy staffs in this day and age having to blend confidence, with a greater good.
I suspect more fantastic talents have fallen through the cracks because they couldn't come to terms with disposing of a "me first" attitude than we would care to admit. I think this is especially true with struggling programs. Programs that give the appearance of "needing" players are often perceived as vulnerable to high grade talents as easy marks to do what they want. Once it starts it is hard to stop. It is best to never let any player dictate their own culture. The value of the many outweighs the value of the one...…….now, that is a Star Trek line.
I suspect more fantastic talents have fallen through the cracks because they couldn't come to terms with disposing of a "me first" attitude than we would care to admit. I think this is especially true with struggling programs. Programs that give the appearance of "needing" players are often perceived as vulnerable to high grade talents as easy marks to do what they want. Once it starts it is hard to stop. It is best to never let any player dictate their own culture. The value of the many outweighs the value of the one...…….now, that is a Star Trek line.
They should just send Omar streaking down the sideline on the first play and have AM2 throw up a Tommy Armstrong style YOLO bomb, if it goes for a TD Husker Nation would go bonkers and he would be a legend even if he never makes another catch.
