Summertime
It's that period of the year where recruiting is all done and wrapped up, but we're still a couple months out from the football season. This is the time of year that seperates the men from the boys in the blog world
I'm afraid to admit, i'm a boy.
Some of the other guys are able to come up with good stuff to post. Their minds spin away and they keep it entertaining.
Me... bleah.
I don't know that I can necessarily blame it all on the time of year. I've managed to do a good job even neglecting the relationships that mean the most to me, so why should this blog be any different? Of course looking at recent statistics, the lesser posts probably have traumatized my readers. Or maybe it's the posts that are traumatizing the four of you. (Maybe four is a bit optimistic).
Okay, so here's a good football related thing to observe. Someone wrote somewhere about why Americans are so easily bored with soccer, now that the world cup is in full swing. He quoted an interesting stat. He took the last span of 5 games before writing, and added up a grand total of 37 shots on goal. I think one game might have had 3. We're used to basketball games where we put a shot clock to make sure they shoot. We love the shootouts in football where the score is 35-31. Shoot, Direct TV even has a Red Zone channel for their Sunday Package that is dedicated to just shows action from games where a team is close to scoring.
So it's easy to understand why we don't get soccer. Maybe the same reason we don't get the fascination with Curling. We want the immediate results rather than the process. The rest of the world loves the action of setting up the shot and all the maneuvering, we'd rather have the end result.
It's too bad. I think a defensive struggle in football can be as exciting as a high scoring shootout. I'm one of those Husker fans who's encouraged by the end of the season last year for Nebraska but who misses the physical way the teams of old would wear down the opponents. I heard someone say that watching Tom Osborne coach a game compared to Frank Solich later, and he said the difference was with Tom, it was like watching someone play chess, with Frank it was like watching someone play checkers. Today, there's a lot of Nebraska fans who think they're watching tiddlywinks.
It takes a lot of work, whether in football, soccer, or life, to get to where you are doing those things that set things up. It's natural for us to want to always want to go for the goal right away. Sometimes it works. In the long run though, the best successes aer teh ones that take time.
I'm afraid to admit, i'm a boy.
Some of the other guys are able to come up with good stuff to post. Their minds spin away and they keep it entertaining.
Me... bleah.
I don't know that I can necessarily blame it all on the time of year. I've managed to do a good job even neglecting the relationships that mean the most to me, so why should this blog be any different? Of course looking at recent statistics, the lesser posts probably have traumatized my readers. Or maybe it's the posts that are traumatizing the four of you. (Maybe four is a bit optimistic).
Okay, so here's a good football related thing to observe. Someone wrote somewhere about why Americans are so easily bored with soccer, now that the world cup is in full swing. He quoted an interesting stat. He took the last span of 5 games before writing, and added up a grand total of 37 shots on goal. I think one game might have had 3. We're used to basketball games where we put a shot clock to make sure they shoot. We love the shootouts in football where the score is 35-31. Shoot, Direct TV even has a Red Zone channel for their Sunday Package that is dedicated to just shows action from games where a team is close to scoring.
So it's easy to understand why we don't get soccer. Maybe the same reason we don't get the fascination with Curling. We want the immediate results rather than the process. The rest of the world loves the action of setting up the shot and all the maneuvering, we'd rather have the end result.
It's too bad. I think a defensive struggle in football can be as exciting as a high scoring shootout. I'm one of those Husker fans who's encouraged by the end of the season last year for Nebraska but who misses the physical way the teams of old would wear down the opponents. I heard someone say that watching Tom Osborne coach a game compared to Frank Solich later, and he said the difference was with Tom, it was like watching someone play chess, with Frank it was like watching someone play checkers. Today, there's a lot of Nebraska fans who think they're watching tiddlywinks.
It takes a lot of work, whether in football, soccer, or life, to get to where you are doing those things that set things up. It's natural for us to want to always want to go for the goal right away. Sometimes it works. In the long run though, the best successes aer teh ones that take time.
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