[Husker] Ditka

[Pat]

I think Ditka was saying what people wanted to hear.  Who wants to go to a 
booster banquet and listen to a negative diatribe against Nebraska's 
football coach, especially with how divided the fan base is.  If Solich was 
still the coach, I imagine he'd have positive things to say about him as 
well, at least if he was asked about it.  Ditka was in town visiting 
Boys/Girls town, which is mostly a positive PR/image type thing.  That isn't 
to cast any negative light on Ditka, as it's great that he took time out of 
his presumably busy schedule to chat with Omaha-area youngsters.

However, it's silly to expect Ditka to offer up any overly-critical or 
negative analysis when he's merely visting Omaha to chat with some kids.  I 
imagine controversey is the last thing he'd want to have to deal with on 
such a trip.  To treat these comments as anything more than press-friendly 
quotables to attract interest of the crowd being lectured to is probably a 
tad foolish.  Regardless of your opinion on Callahan/Solich/whatever, I 
wouldn't let Ditka's comments influence you one way or the other.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Beach" <rbeach at neb.rr.com>
To: "Husker List" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:00 AM
Subject: [Husker] Ditka


>    I don't know how many believe Mike Ditka is a credible source but he 
> believes NU is going the right direction with the right coach.  I thought 
> it was interesting what he had to say about the running game.  I think 
> Ditka and Solich would be at a big time disagreement.
>
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> http://65.98.70.3/vbbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24922
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>     The full speech if you are registered with the OWH or care to 
> register.
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> http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38&u_sid=1404423&u_rnd=5268172
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> Bob Beach
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