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

[Kenneth McKillip]

In addition to the Game Day boys taking a shot.  It sounds like Jo Pa took 
his own shot in an interview with Beano.

His rough quote (from reading internet postings) was "that Penn St would 
never become another "Nebraska", firing a hard working, high integrity, 
coach with a record like FS."

I doubt if Penn St. would cancel on a Thursday night "kick off the season 
with the Game Day crew" on national television college football season for 
the country opener in Reliant stadium to play the mighty 1-AA Maine Black 
Bears either.  I just can't see Penn St. doing that.  Oh wait, I forgot, 
Steve didn't trust the ESPN thing.  Why didn't he just ask them?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Nolan" <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
To: <husker at romaine.tssi.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:46 AM
Subject: [Husker] ESPN reports on Pederson's Comments (fwd)


>> 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.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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