Exactly. Look at Adam Carriker. He too gets emotional and speaks passionately about Husker football. But he keeps things civil and respectful. The last thing this program needs right now are more former players coming out hurling personal insults at the current coaches. Totally unacceptable. This is right up there with his absurd claim a few weeks back that California recruits are essentially sissy boys.
But you reinforce my point above that the personal insults divert focus away from the substance of his comments.
Plus JP should have a little more humility. He hurt this program with his steroid use and later tell-all where he discusses it. Taints every other player on that team. Were they on roids too? Is that why we were so physically dominant in those years? And so on. His actions cast a negative shadow.
Good, I know some say heis bad for the program for being so harsh and negative. It some ways he probably does go too far. But The minute fans and ex players stop being vocal, even when it is negative, that is when the program is truely gone. It means people stopped caring. Once people stop caring it is tought to get it back.
Are you still a fan or are you gonna follow through with your cute little ultimatum?
If they are soft (and I agree they are) I would wager that a secondary coach who has been here eight months is not the cause. How about going after Parella, who in two years still has not generated a physically tough line. Zero pass rush. And got rag-dolled by Ohio State and Wisky. But Parella is "one of ours" so he doesn't go after him. JP might be right about some things, but what he is right about is stuff that even my 81 year old momma has pointed out to me.
Not one bit as far as I can tell. He is a better recruiter than Hank Hughes but not much else
"Or someone needs a sound bite"
Anything JP says that is worth listening to is stuff lots of former players have said. You imply that JP has some kind of courage other former players lack. Nonsense. Many others have also spoken out.
Thousands of people and tons of former players are still passionate about Husker football. If JP loses his passion I couldn't care less.
Greatest Huskers of all time? Um. No. He played on one of the greatest teams of all times and he could leave the game and his replacement did just fine. Great player. There are other criteria besides sacks and tackles that go in to that.
He's exactly the kind of whack job you wanted playing DT for you. Balls to the walls with no regard for personal well being. Most of us learn to control our emotions and mouth as we mature. Jason, not so much.
Way too much truth in these posts. None of the critics have any credibility until there is a little consistency in their gripes.
I think Parella is stuck with whatever Diaco wants. I don't think coaching the DL is rocket science and Parella could adjust just fine to whatever a new DC would want. Our D line looked a WHOLE bunch better against Purdue in that 4th qtr when Diaco turned the D loose to get stops. FINALLY we had some 5 man rushes and DBs playing up on their guys.
It was too bad that Hughes decided to retire from the recruiting game and didn't vibe with two guys in VV and Maliek who were on the way out. Cause Hank coached some very good running Ds at UCONN during their time in the Big East. At one time, he could get sub blue chip guys to put in good Dline play.
Yeah. Imagine that. After they had been battling 3 against 5 or 6 the whole game they suddenly got better when at times one or two of them got to a 1 on 1 matchup. Golly who would have thunk it?
Good points. But don't misunderstand my point. I am not saying Parella is a bad coach. I think he is probably a good coach. I was just pointing out JP's hypocrisy in calling out Williams for our poor secondary play, but gives Parella a pass. Because everything you say about Parella doing what Diaco asks could also be said of Williams. Maybe Williams if he had his way would want to coach our db's to be more aggressive and to be in more press coverage. But he can't, given Diaco's scheme.
