[Husker] Pederson/Callahan Acceptance

[Mike Nolan]

I think the big problem with Steve Pederson is that he's like the man
that Mom married after Dad died.  

He's here, he mows the grass, he grills a mean steak, he's just not....
family.

He may never be family in the eyes of some of the kids, especially 
because he threw out that old comfortable chair of Dad's and tore down 
the picket fence Dad built by hand.  The house will never look the same.

Callahan suffers from the same problem to a lesser degree, but his sin, 
unpardonable in the eyes of some fans, is not winning a couple more games
in his first year because of what appeared to be a committment to change 
rather than to a winning tradition that's older than most Husker fans.  
Because of that, there are those who will always consider him no more 
than a hired gun, which is what most head coaches are these days.
--
Mike Nolan