Kenny Bells recent comment about Coach Williams.

[TonyStalloni]

https://hailvarsity.com/news/kenny-bell-on-keith-williams-nebraska/2015/07/

“Within the first 30 minutes of working with him, he identified every single thing I struggled with throughout my entire career,” Bell said. “Thirty minutes after that, we were fixing them.”

“He’s perfect for Nebraska,” Bell said. “The fans absolutely love him and he’s got the personality for the players. He’s got the personality for this city, this state. He’s outgoing, he’s fun to be around, he’s hilarious. On top of that, he’s one of the best wide receivers coaches in the country. You put all those factors into one man and you’re going to have a successful receiving corp.”

KB also stated he had nothing but respect for the former coaching staff and thanked them for getting him to the place he is now.

 

[teachercd]

I am positive that the new wide receivers coach is going to be very good. I think you going to see that from the videos that he puts up. He has that type of personality that I think will pull people in. With that said he is helping Kenny Bell out in a big way here so you would imagine Kenny would be nothing but very very complementary of him.

 

[lo country]

https://hailvarsity.com/news/kenny-bell-on-keith-williams-nebraska/2015/07/

“Within the first 30 minutes of working with him, he identified every single thing I struggled with throughout my entire career,” Bell said. “Thirty minutes after that, we were fixing them.”

“He’s perfect for Nebraska,” Bell said. “The fans absolutely love him and he’s got the personality for the players. He’s got the personality for this city, this state. He’s outgoing, he’s fun to be around, he’s hilarious. On top of that, he’s one of the best wide receivers coaches in the country. You put all those factors into one man and you’re going to have a successful receiving corp.”

KB also stated he had nothing but respect for the former coaching staff and thanked them for getting him to the place he is now.

Very telling comments IMO and not just praise as he is helping KB. Not knocking Fisher as one huge improvement was in the dropped balls area with our receivers. I think this is a statement that again shows how little experience most of the staff had in regards to development, teaching technique and to get sound fundamental execution/

 

[Treand3]

Think you'll see better route running in general as well.

 

[TonyStalloni]

It also says a lot about KB and how he did a 180 and now embraces the new staff. Very positive for all concerned.

 

[huKSer]

"What's the shelf life of Coach Williams?"

 

[Scratchtown]

NU just needs to make sure to pay assistants top dollar if they are that damn good.

 

[mnhusker]

Not only is he going to be good for the players but this press has to help recruiting.

 

[Lyons in the Sea of Red.]

Hope we are ready to open the check books.ill give him a season before he is big time.

 

[TonyStalloni]

Having coaches who are desirable to other programs is a good problem to have but I agree it may be difficult to keep these guys. ADSE will need to open the checkbook. In the meantime I'll watch as our players get coached up. If TA can learn to deliver the ball and the O line can block with some regularity, this may be a special year.

 

[Scratchtown]

Having coaches who are desirable to other programs is a good problem to have but I agree it may be difficult to keep these guys. ADSE will need to open the checkbook. In the meantime I'll watch as our players get coached up. If TA can learn to deliver the ball and the O line can block with some regularity, this may be a special year.

I'd say next year could be special. I don't think there is any chance that this year becomes "special"

 

[Dagerow]

I appreciate that Bell said something that gets lost in a lot of these discussions, something I have thought a lot: you can support NU when Bo was coach and now that Riley is our coach. One doesn't have to be a bad coach for the other to be a good coach. They are not mutually exclusive.

 

[Sargon]

I appreciate that Bell said something that gets lost in a lot of these discussions, something I have thought a lot: you can support NU when Bo was coach and now that Riley is our coach. One doesn't have to be a bad coach for the other to be a good coach. They are not mutually exclusive.

Actually I think Bell is the one wrong here. NU had overwhelming fan support while Bo was here and NU has it now. The sellout streak remains. It is Bo who enjoyed popular support that declined to only minority support in the end.

Maybe Kenny still does not understand that Bo ignorantly played an us against the world game with the team. There never was such a situation from the outside...not from the fans or local media, IMO. But Bo seemed to think so and he clearly acted like it was true. When it was a bit true IMO was in 2007 when some fans including me turned a bit on the team overall when some, I think, perceived some attitude and effort from PLAYERS that was unacceptable (one LB in particular can't recall his name). Actually I guess I didn't really turn on the team but I did turn on a few players plus Cally.

 

[Mavric]

I appreciate that Bell said something that gets lost in a lot of these discussions, something I have thought a lot: you can support NU when Bo was coach and now that Riley is our coach. One doesn't have to be a bad coach for the other to be a good coach. They are not mutually exclusive.

Actually I think Bell is the one wrong here. NU had overwhelming fan support while Bo was here and NU has it now. The sellout streak remains. It is Bo who enjoyed popular support that declined to only minority support in the end.

Maybe Kenny still does not understand that Bo ignorantly played an us against the world game with the team. There never was such a situation from the outside...not from the fans or local media, IMO. But Bo seemed to think so and he clearly acted like it was true. When it was a bit true IMO was in 2007 when some fans including me turned a bit on the team overall when some, I think, perceived some attitude and effort from PLAYERS that was unacceptable (one LB in particular can't recall his name). Actually I guess I didn't really turn on the team but I did turn on a few players plus Cally.

I don't think it's very reasonable to expect the players to completely differentiate between fans still (supposedly) supporting the team while constantly belittling the head coach and coaching staff, complaining that the team can't win any games that matter, mocking them when they lose badly and even taking plenty of shots at the players - particularly Martinez but many others - albeit to a much lesser extent - including Bell.

I'm not saying the vast majority of fans didn't still "support" the team - as in show up, cheer for them, follow them, etc. - but as the complaining gets louder and more frequent, it's pretty easy to think that that's all you're hearing anymore, even if it's still the minority.