I've seen several folks complain about this slogan, and more or less complain that its a bunch of soy boy horse pucky that has no place in the Halls of Huskerdom.
At the same time, many folks on this board have been excited about the type of influence young men like former Navy SEAL Damian Jackson would have on the team, and we've seen things where CFB teams have done little 1 day mini bootcamps with the SEALs and stuff like that.
Folks, if you want the team to absorb a key aspect of special operations culture, the whole "no fear of failure" thing is it. The reality is, the yelling and the challenging a man's pride gets alot of street cred on the TV shows, but its only a portion of the actual building of an individual.
Sure, any current or former veteran will tell you that a central tenet of the military experience is breaking a man down and building him back up, but when I started working with special operators 15 years ago one of the surprising things about the culture in that community is how welcoming it is, and how much of the "building the man back up" process isn't about shaming a man into high performance. In special operations, most men are alpha in some regard, and the main trick is to teach him to overcome his fears and push the boundaries that he never knew existed and reach his full capability.
There'll be a time and a place for folks like Damian to yell at our guys to suck it up and challenge their pride a bit (and we saw alot of comments when he joined the team from this board in that regard), but by and large I was excited by Damian's presence to show these young men how to help each other bring out the best in the team rather than start measuring certain body parts in certain feats of strength.
Scott Frost may or may not succeed as a coach here, that's TBD, but whether he does or not will not be due to the "No Fear of Failure" thing.
Don't take it from me, take it from Delta
At the same time, many folks on this board have been excited about the type of influence young men like former Navy SEAL Damian Jackson would have on the team, and we've seen things where CFB teams have done little 1 day mini bootcamps with the SEALs and stuff like that.
Folks, if you want the team to absorb a key aspect of special operations culture, the whole "no fear of failure" thing is it. The reality is, the yelling and the challenging a man's pride gets alot of street cred on the TV shows, but its only a portion of the actual building of an individual.
Sure, any current or former veteran will tell you that a central tenet of the military experience is breaking a man down and building him back up, but when I started working with special operators 15 years ago one of the surprising things about the culture in that community is how welcoming it is, and how much of the "building the man back up" process isn't about shaming a man into high performance. In special operations, most men are alpha in some regard, and the main trick is to teach him to overcome his fears and push the boundaries that he never knew existed and reach his full capability.
There'll be a time and a place for folks like Damian to yell at our guys to suck it up and challenge their pride a bit (and we saw alot of comments when he joined the team from this board in that regard), but by and large I was excited by Damian's presence to show these young men how to help each other bring out the best in the team rather than start measuring certain body parts in certain feats of strength.
Scott Frost may or may not succeed as a coach here, that's TBD, but whether he does or not will not be due to the "No Fear of Failure" thing.
Don't take it from me, take it from Delta