[Husker] Re: sellout string ending

[sklarbodds at cox.net]

I think you're missing the point of his comment.  The original poster had said more or less that, "Regardless of what the record is, with TO and Bobfater we'd feel good about the direction of the program."

Bill was arguing that statement was false and that regardless of who the coach is, a 10-10 record would not manke any fans feel good about the direction of the program.

Skylar
mailto:sklarbodds at cox.net



> 
> From: Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com>
> Date: 2005/11/09 Wed PM 04:34:03 EST
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: [Husker] Re: sellout string ending
> 
> > Yeah, keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll start believing it.
> > If we were 13-0 last year you'd be first on this list talking about
> > what a genius BC is.  I have two words for you and those like you:
> > "fairweather fan."  I have five friends coming in town this weekend to
> > go to the game--and the worse we do, the more people I'll ask to come
> > to games.  I can almost hear you foaming at the mouth to "stick it to
> > 'em" when I read your post.  These current struggles really show the
> > true colors of some of you--and they're not Red.
> > 
> > Jason
> 
> I'm reminded of the saying: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a
> scoundrel."  [Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson]
> 
>   "If we were 13-0 last year you'd be first on this list talking about
>   what a genius BC is."
> 
> No doubt, but so what?  Instead, NU is 10-10 and we are discussing not
> his genius, but whether he is going to be successful at some point in
> the future.  That isn't being a "fairweather fan", it is dealing with
> the present reality, not what might have been.
> 
> When successful people and aspects of the program valued for more than
> forty years are cast aside, objections to those actions are, in my
> view, proper responses for true fans.  On the other hand, the
> accusation that those who do not offer unquestioning support for the
> casting aside of successful people and the heritage of the program are
> "fairweather fans" is a low and specious ad hominen attack.
> 
> Quoting Johnson again:
> 
> "It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage;
> yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed."
> [Samuel Johnson: Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain]
> 
> Now, I have nothing against Callahan, other than the feeling that he
> hasn't been as successful in his first 20 games as I and most everyone
> hoped he would be.  And, I wish Callahan the greatest of successes as
> the NU coach, because I prefer NU winning its games better than losing
> them (even if that makes me a fairweather fan).  However, I would like
> to see Pederson fired, resign, or otherwise be removed from his
> position, not for anything quite as dreadful as the "evils" in the
> political state of Great Britain in the late 18th century, but for his
> manifest mistakes with the NU football program, to which I objected at
> the time, which have thus far been detrimental, and which I am convinced
> are rooted in his egotistical and arrogant approach to management of
> the athletic department.
>