Alex Lewis social media post

[teachercd]

I will say that I love how we say penalties equate to poor prep by the coaches. No it's not.

We get penalized in high school games for illegal formations, delay of game, false starts, etc...

Do you think that we just don't address it? That's on the players being too lazy in their brains. That's not coaching. Even delay of game, play gets sent in with plenty of time and the QB or WR forgets what it was and stutters and mumbles it to the team and walk up to the line start motions late etc...we address it every week to have a sense of urgency with time.

I highly doubt the coaches don't address it because they should be fired right now. You can preach and preach and preach to not be lazy and to take ownership in what you do, but it's the kids choice to do it or not.

If you have WR's that stutter or forgot the names of the plays, why don't you just have them signaled in or numbered in with a wrist band so that the QB can call it out?
Not trying to be a smartass, just wondering, have you thought about signals or wristbands?

I don't think it has anything to do with how we call plays. Our kids are plenty smart, they just need to pay attention better.
For the record, I'm not the head coach. I've always liked the thought of using wristbands and signals someday when I have my own program.

Yeah, it is easier to do it that way, or so I have found.
Good luck with being a head coach someday!

I used wristbands the last 4 years that I coached. It made things very efficient, generally, but you can't really send in an instruction/reminder with them.

Kinda sucks to holler out "Sell the fake, the right end is crashing hard!"

It loses a little something...

Ha! I know what you mean.

 

[Danny Bateman]

Simply put, sometimes stuff happens. Not every penalty boils down to a head coach's responsibility. Even IF they did, 3 games is a ludicrously tiny sample size to judge how discipline Riley's teams will be, insofar as penalties. You know what's NOT a small sample size? 7 YEARS. That's how long Bo's teams played with consistent penalty problems.

He's already been asked about it two weeks in a row, and said he's going to clean it up. He's aware of the problem and knows it needs fixed.

You know what is an even BIGGER sample size? Riley's coaching career. Information about his penalty issues are in other threads.

Just because something happened in a totally different time with totally different personnel at a different school isn't indicative of the future HERE.

I'm taking a wait and see approach until I see it for myself. For more than 3 games.

 

[GBRedneck]

Simply put, sometimes stuff happens. Not every penalty boils down to a head coach's responsibility. Even IF they did, 3 games is a ludicrously tiny sample size to judge how discipline Riley's teams will be, insofar as penalties. You know what's NOT a small sample size? 7 YEARS. That's how long Bo's teams played with consistent penalty problems.

He's already been asked about it two weeks in a row, and said he's going to clean it up. He's aware of the problem and knows it needs fixed.

You know what is an even BIGGER sample size? Riley's coaching career. Information about his penalty issues are in other threads.

Just because something happened in a totally different time with totally different personnel at a different school isn't indicative of the future HERE.

I'm taking a wait and see approach until I see it for myself. For more than 3 games.

So you're a free thinker! Good to hear. Don't believe all that hooha about leopards not changing their spots and dogs not learning new tricks.

 

[knapplc]

He pulled it down, no harm no foul.

Yep. If the worst thing he does is say something in the heat of the moment, it's cool. Nothing he wrote at that moment was a dealbreaker. And if everything I said as a young man was held against me forever, nobody'd be talking to me today.

Forgive & forget. Grow. Move on.

Once a Husker.

 

[lo country]

He pulled it down, no harm no foul.

Yep. If the worst thing he does is say something in the heat of the moment, it's cool. Nothing he wrote at that moment was a dealbreaker. And if everything I said as a young man was held against me forever, nobody'd be talking to me today.

Forgive & forget. Grow. Move on.

Once a Husker.

Yep. I hope he takes this, lights a fire on the OL (and himself) and we win the next 10....

 

[Red Five]

Four simple rules to follow:

If you are a fan, don't be a tool and tweet at recruits

If you are a player, try to stay off of social media during the season

If you cant do that, try not to look at your mentions during the season

If you cant do that, then before you tweet think "is this something that my mom would think is a good idea"

 

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

He pulled it down, no harm no foul.

Yep. If the worst thing he does is say something in the heat of the moment, it's cool. Nothing he wrote at that moment was a dealbreaker. And if everything I said as a young man was held against me forever, nobody'd be talking to me today.

Forgive & forget. Grow. Move on.

Once a Husker.

Yep. I hope he takes this, lights a fire on the OL (and himself) and we win the next 10....

if we win the next 10 there will be some pissed off posters on here!

 

[Count 'Bility]

He pulled it down, no harm no foul.

Yep. If the worst thing he does is say something in the heat of the moment, it's cool. Nothing he wrote at that moment was a dealbreaker. And if everything I said as a young man was held against me forever, nobody'd be talking to me today.

Forgive & forget. Grow. Move on.

Once a Husker.

Yep. I hope he takes this, lights a fire on the OL (and himself) and we win the next 10....

if we win the next 10 there will be some pissed off posters on here!

last thing we need is more "us against the world mentality"

 

[godd2]

The kid mad a stupid move...i put that on coaching either past or present...doesnt matter...i want to see what riley does now. He has a history of undisciplined teams that have many penalties. He needs to send a message by suspending this kid for a game. Not because he may or may not have cost us the game but because that penalty was inexcusable and is not what true husker fans want to see out of the kids representing our state pride. The kid made a mistake...must now pay for it..learn from it...and we all move on

 

[Redux]

The only way we hold a grudge against Lewis over this is if somebody recorded that as a rant and leaked it to the media.

 

[True2tRA]

Oh Lord help us......

 

[Jim Hammer]

Coaches need to explain to players how social media works.

A couple of idiots berating players are not representative of the entire fan base. And no good can ever come from responding to those idiots.

Also, the internet is written in ink. When you write something in the heat of the moment, someone is going to read it and save it. Being in the public eye, it is probably better to never post anything negative because someone is going to twist it and make it worse than it is.

 

[The Dude]

I've never been impressed with the sympathetic child angle. He's a 23-year-old adult man who is plenty old enough to know better, and plenty old enough for his actions to have consequences.

 

[True2tRA]

I've never been impressed with the sympathetic child angle. He's a 21-year-old adult man who is plenty old enough to know better, and plenty old enough for his actions to have consequences.

What does that say about the 30-40-50 year olds that tweet at college kids?

21 year old "Men" are still prone to mistakes more than those 30-40-50 year old "men" in my opinion. I'm more wiling to excuse a 21 year old than the latter anyways. Especially when these old guys who get winded going to the refrigerator are criticizing a kid who works his tail off for this.

Most people aren't really trying to just excuse what Lewis did on Twitter anyways. It was dumb, he probably knows that as much as anyone, but in my book a grown man tweeting to a college football player about a mistake he made in the game, well that trumps all.

 

[GBRedneck]

I've never been impressed with the sympathetic child angle. He's a 21-year-old adult man who is plenty old enough to know better, and plenty old enough for his actions to have consequences.

What does that say about the 30-40-50 year olds that tweet at college kids?

21 year old "Men" are still prone to mistakes more than those 30-40-50 year old "men" in my opinion. I'm more wiling to excuse a 21 year old than the latter anyways. Especially when these old guys who get winded going to the refrigerator are criticizing a kid who works his tail off for this.

Most people aren't really trying to just excuse what Lewis did on Twitter anyways. It was dumb, he probably knows that as much as anyone, but in my book a grown man tweeting to a college football player about a mistake he made in the game, well that trumps all.

No doubt. And in this case, the guy was a 52 year old mortgage banker for Union Bank who never played a down of football in his life. Unbelieveable. And his twitter account clearly showed his employer's name and his job info. How does any adult think that's OK???