[Husker] ESPN reports on Pederson's Comments (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1951236
> 
> This spells out a little bit more of Pederson's side of the story.  
> It also explains the Maine/Wake Forest confusion.  

Unless there's more than one story out on ESPN, I don't know that this
clears much up about Maine/Wake Forest, except for SP saying that
it was Wake Forest that was the other game he was negotiating for.
(That makes it a battle of competing 'he saids'.  I don't know who wins
that one, but the media doesn't seem to be buying SP's version yet.)

Maine hasn't released it's full schedule yet, and even once they do 
there's really no way of knowing if they changed the dates of that game 
to accomodate Wake Forest's schedule, which is the only way that SP's 
story makes any sense, since it isn't likely that the Huskers would 
play twice in 48 hours.  

However, in SP's corner, it isn't hard for me to believe that Wake 
Forest already had a game booked the weekend of the 3rd.  They haven't 
released their full schedule yet, though their website says they also 
have non-conference games against Vanderbilt and East Carolina.  
Wake Forest's website also says that Nebraska knocked Elon off of the 
Demon Deacons schedule.  

They're fairly excited about Nebraska's trip to Winston-Salem in 2007.  
Groves Stadium has a permanent seating capacity of 31,500, I can't find 
the average attendance for 2004 on their website, but they had 25,762 
on hand for the Duke game.  I would imagine they'll find a way to squeeze 
in a few more than that for the Huskers game.  

In a normal season this scheduling flap would be a story forgotten 
by lunchtime.  Right now it's the only Husker football story on the 
wires, and sportscasters abhor a vacuum more than nature does.  

The ESPN guys, not surprisingly, took a shot at the Huskers on tonight's 
bowl game, a real cakewalk for Georgia Tech.  
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Mike Nolan