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Chip Scoggins - Kill made right call with Nelson
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Good read and accurate. I especially like this part:
Fans tend to become overly annoyed whenever a coach removes a freshman's redshirt during the season. That's understandable, and it's certainly reckless if that happens late in the season with only a few games remaining. But Nelson took over at the season's halfway point. He gets six Big Ten games to gain valuable experience. That shouldn't be discounted or dismissed as a wasted season.
College football is so fluid and unpredictable that it's not always prudent to become consumed by what might happen four years from now. It's not like Kill and his staff aren't going to recruit more quarterbacks behind Nelson. A lot can happen between now and 2016, which is when Nelson would have been a fifth-year senior.
I have felt that way all along about the prospect of Nelson playing this year. Who knows if the kid will pan out but it will give us something to watch as the season plays out because based on what we have seen through 3 BIG games this is going to be a long month and a half.
Fans tend to become overly annoyed whenever a coach removes a freshman's redshirt during the season. That's understandable, and it's certainly reckless if that happens late in the season with only a few games remaining. But Nelson took over at the season's halfway point. He gets six Big Ten games to gain valuable experience. That shouldn't be discounted or dismissed as a wasted season.
College football is so fluid and unpredictable that it's not always prudent to become consumed by what might happen four years from now. It's not like Kill and his staff aren't going to recruit more quarterbacks behind Nelson. A lot can happen between now and 2016, which is when Nelson would have been a fifth-year senior.
I have felt that way all along about the prospect of Nelson playing this year. Who knows if the kid will pan out but it will give us something to watch as the season plays out because based on what we have seen through 3 BIG games this is going to be a long month and a half.