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

[Steve Reichenbach]

Here is a fuller explanation, made in an "unsolicited phone call"
to the LJS.

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2004/12/22/huskerextra/doc41c90e433b660262756049.txt

This explanation seems more defensible, although I'm not sure about the
schedule inconsistencies with Wake Forest being the game that
"essentially replaced Houston.  Still, it's one more even where SP
looks bad, leaves someone he dealt with a bad opinion, and alienates NU
fans and others.  I've come to think that even if Callahan does the
very difficult job of bettering Solich's record, that won't be enough
to redeem SP as a popular leader of NU athletics.  BTW, I received a
holiday card from the NU Athletic Department. There was a single
signature: "Steve".  I'm thinking that's Steve Pederson, but I wondered
if he's using equipment that Rummy sent to inventory.


> > 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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