Isiah caught 4 balls, Palmer 8, Vokolek 5, Washington 2, Alante 2, Grant 1 and Belt 2.
Several guys on here have asked or wondered why the top guys were not on the field when the game was on the line?
I think that's a good question. Maybe one of the crack reporters will ask Frost, Mickey or Whip that Q.
We know Vokolek turned his ankle. But what about the others? Were they dehydrated, cramping, attitudinal, exactly why (to the extent the coaches can divulge) were the backups in when the game was still undecided?
Is there some type of power play between Frost and Mickey, cause I don't think Mickey is a "take **** kinda guy", and may not have much actual respect for Frost.
If the top kids weren't physically compromised, were these decisions to sit them made by Mickey as the position coach? Typically, it is the position coaches rotation.
Was there a pissing contest between Mickey and a couple WR's which resulted in them being on the bench? Was Mickey trying to prove to those guys that NU can win without them on the field at an important time?
And if that is even remotely true, then what does that say about the way Mickey would do things if he were in fact promoted to the head man? This whole paragraph is total speculation on my part, and may not have any facts to support any of this.
As fans, we don't have the right to know the real reasons things happen why they do. But, other than the onside kick, the failure to run the ball or stop the ball, pressure the QB, it seems to me the lack of the top kids on the field when the game is still in doubt, deserves some sort of reasoning by Frost, Mickey or Whip.
A football team committed to trying to win would have just kept the top kids in there in order to try to win this game, and then addressed the underlying issues during the next week. At least that's what winning teams do.
What do you guys think?