Fwd: Re: [Husker] Birkel

[SShubs]

Bob,
	You are right on target.  We seem to take anything in the media as truth.
At best it is one version of one side of the truth.  However we should be
treating their stories as little better than a bad rumor.  The chain of
speculation gets further and further from what is probably the case.

	The constant blaming Callahan or Pederson for everything from some person's
comments without a single response from Pederson or Callahan is ludicrous.
Furthermore, those two aren't going to respond to those articles, because it
ends up taking shots back at the complainer.  There is no virtue in that.
There is no chance that anything they could say would help.  That kind of
stuff shouldn't be played out in the media.  That kind of stuff is cleared
up behind closed doors.  And yet... we act like this is our business and we
are owed an explanation.  We need to lighten up and realize that at best we
are getting one side of the story.  At worst, we are getting the reporters
side of the story.  I have come to take reporters with an enormous grain of
salt.

	Thanks Bob for again pointing our way out of these rumor skirmishes.

Stephen Shubert
Husker in Michigan

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com]On Behalf
Of Bob Beach
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 4:01 PM
To: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re[2]: Fwd: Re: [Husker] Birkel





On 2/19/2005 at 2:37 PM Steve Reichenbach wrote:

>>Seems to me that you didn't mind "speculating" that there was some
>>connection (implying perhaps even justification) between how Callahan
>>treated Birkel and this incident.  When you complain about speculation
>>that counters your speculation it doesn't really make much of an
>>argument.



     You're right.  I am doing that.  But, I am doing it deliberately.
There is a reason.  I am getting weary of every time something seemingly
negative comes out of Husker camp between a coach and a player it is
automatically Callahan's fault or some coaches fault.  It is never the
players fault.  I am also weary of it is always Pederson's fault or it was
Pederson that lied no matter what.  Something else you are right about.  It
is ALL speculation.  Most of us don't know any more than the next person
about what goes on in Husker camp.  We tend to rely on the media for our
information.  So, beings virtually everyone else is speculating against on
the staff I thought I would speculate in favor of the staff for some
balance.  And it is not playing Devil's advocate.  As you said and I agree
nobody knows a hill of beans any more than anyone else.  If you take the
entirety of posts to this list in a years time I would believe the lion's
share of posts fall under the category of!
  speculation or just flat out guessing, mine included.  We could knock that
out but there would be precious little left of this list.


     The bottom line here is no one is sure at all whether Callahan treated
Birkel, or any other player, justly or not.  And, we will never know for
sure until we hear both sides of the story from those involved in person.
The likelihood of that happening is slim and none and Slim just left town on
the last stage.


Bob Beach
The more one knows the more one realizes how much there is one doesn't know.





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