kicking the dirt over you than whining. I guess that’s why I popped off. I know you’ve been a big Mizzou supporter (PS no way we beat OU if I’m being honest with myself). But calling him a whiner implies that he’s soft. He’s not. He comes out and he fights and plays tremendously and if he needs to run, he runs and he takes the hit. But there’s obvious bad blood because of how often Nebraska has dismissed us.

Thing is, I would MUCH rather have him saying this stuff now than before the game. Before the game, it’s pointless trash talk. He hadn’t proved anything yet and he knew it.

That said, I don’t think Suh did it. I think the players got into it a little bit, Chase thought someone spit on hiim, and he popped off about it after he burned the stadium down.

But the fact that I read a ton of posters on the Journal Star saying they should light up Chase Daniel after the snap 15-yarder or no? That’s a little off. Would beating us have been better if you’d knocked Daniel out on a blatantly dirty hit?

I mean, it wouldn’t have happened, because he would have just gotten back up and scored 13 seconds later, but theoretically?

Oh, and please, for the love of God, get your team together and whup Tech this weekend. They are not in our class and I would love for a North team to prove that.

I think it depends on what you are criticizing about a QB when you call him a “system” QB.

If you are saying you can dismiss his stats b/c he plays in a system that garners gaudy numbers for every QB who starts for them, I think that is a valid argument about some systems. I think you can make that argument about the Air Raid offense, b/c when even Sonny Cumbie can put up big numbers, you know the system must be good.

As for Daniel, he is in a good scheme for him, but he is also part of what makes that scheme good. The real test for this offense will be next season, when they have a new QB. I don’t think you can label him merely the product of a system, b/c he MAKES the system in a lot of ways.

People thought when Kliff Kingsbury left Tech, they would experience a let down, but their offense just kept on chugging. The Air Raid under Leach has withstood the test and shown itself a solid system; we have yet to see if the same works with Missouri’s offense. Given the struggles of Brad Smith to run it, I don’t think the results will be as favorable.

Sorry to disagree beergut, but every college team out there runs a system. As such, every quarterback is the product of a system. True, some systems are better than others, and some offensive systems are so good that they will put up really good numbers with just a pretty good quarterback – but in the end, no one throws for over 12,000 yards and breaks virtually every record out there against mostly Big 12 teams (and the awesome defensive players they produce) without being really, really good. The stupidity of the argument comes down to two main errors:

1. That other quarterbacks are better, but they are just in inferior systems. That is wishcasting. Who in the world knows? We judge players on stats – that is the way it goes. To throw out stats just because we want to is just subjective and stupid. I mean seriously, have we ever heard of a “system guard” in basketball? Or a “system pitcher” in baseball? If some basketball player was out there putting up 50 points a game, would anybody be stupid enough to say “Yeah but he is the product of a system”? In the end, the guy has to put the ball through the hoop against the best college players in the world. People who don’t know the physics and science of football make these arguments. to say that you could plug just any old quarterback into the Missouri system and produce a Chase Daniel, or any quarterback into the Tech system and produce a Graham Harrell is just silly. It denies the fact that great quarterbacks migrate to certain programs because they want to play in a system that will give them the ability to perform to their potential. I mean, clearly the best running backs in the country are not going to be picking Tech right now. Can we agree on that? If so, then you have to agree that talent follows the program, the program does not produce talent. End of argument.

2. The idea that there are great quarterbacks out there who don’t use a system, or are not the product of a system. Coach Leach from Tech addressed this this week:

“The product of a system is really stupid. To say somebody is a product of a system is like saying, alright, they don’t need their coaches, cause they can just go out and just run whatever. Who do you think decides for a guy to throw it, or how do they decide who to throw it to, or how do they decide whether or not they’re going to hand it off? I mean the product of a system suggests that you don’t need coaches and just for a job security thing, if nothing else, I think you do need coaches, so I’m going to continue to coach, call plays and run drills. But all of these people that aren’t a products of a system don’t need to practice, they don’t need to worry about that, they don’t need to worry about watching film, and they don’t need to worry about what they’re coaches say, because if there’s no system if they’re not doing things in a specified choreographed way, then why do they need to aggravate themselves with all that, they just need to show up for games and go do it.” —Mike Leach

Leach makes a great point. Listen, if the “system” produces gaudy numbers and lopsided wins and outrageous stats without great players (or just good players who are motivated and have the heart to play greatly) then why isn’t Nebraska and every other mediocre to bad team out there just adopting the system? Why, it can’t be that hard to learn. I see so many teams out there straining for a “W” and crying about their teams bad play and/or bad coaching. Why not just clone Tech’s system and put average players in there and just go about building the longest winning streak in the Big 12 like Tech has? The fact is there are now literally dozens of teams running some version of the Spread offense, and Corn Nation has done a good job documenting this. So why aren’t all these teams producing numbers like Daniel and Harrell if the “system” produces those numbers. The fact is that it doesn’t. Not alone it doesn’t. It produces those numbers with good players and good coaching.

Like I said, I’ve never heard anyone who played beyond Junior High school making the “system” argument.

Peace