I am just hoping that our record this season will be better than what we experienced in Coach Novak's final season when he had to deal with so many injured players. One thing that I always gave coach Novak credit for for was not taking the red shirt off of multiple players to help cope with those injuries. By giving his true freshman a full year in a college weight training and conditioning program and by not letting them play against a bunch of 22 and 23 year olds he set Jerry Kill up for a successful season the following year and you could argue that his decision paid dividends for more than a single season.

It will be interesting to see how the current staff deals with the growing number of injured players. Perhaps there are fewer injuries than in coach Novak's final season.