[Husker] Why not Turner Gill?

[Theodore Heise]

Gerald, this is exactly what I was trying to say, thanks for 
expressing it so well.

Ted


On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, JEN_SENS wrote:

> I would almost bet anything Turner isn't going anywhere this year. 
> He feels a great deal of loyalty to his players in Buffalo. (What 
> a concept) There is a desire to finish what he started. I believe 
> the Nebraska job would have been a difficult decision for him.
>
> I think somewhere along the way someone with a great deal of 
> influence in his life, taught him that the joy is in the journey, 
> not the destination.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rapp" <george.rapp at gmail.com>
>> On Dec 2, 2007 6:13 PM, Theodore Heise <theo at heise.nu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not displeased with the choice of Bo Pelini, but had truly 
>>> hoped it would be Turner Gill.  Any thoughts on why it wasn't 
>>> Turner?
>>> 
>>> I'm guessing the job may have been Turner's if he wanted it, but 
>>> he turned it down because he didn't believe it would be right to 
>>> leave Buffalo yet.
>> 
>> Stay tuned -- I don't think we're done with press conferences by 
>> the eponymous occupant (one of them, anyway) of the Tom and Nancy 
>> Osborne Center.
>> 
>> I noticed this in the Friday, 30 November email from Mike Osborne 
>> (Best of Big Red/Husker Video):
>> 
>> It appears a position will open up soon on the football side of 
>> athletic administration which may make room for another former 
>> Husker to return to the program in an important leadership 
>> position. More on that in the next few days...
>> 
>> 
>> I've attached the entire email to add context to the discussion. 
>> I'm not an employee or agent of the companies named therein, and 
>> no endorsement is expressed or implied by attaching the file to 
>> this message.  (Can you tell I work with a lot of contracts? 
>> 8^)
>> 
>> This came out after the announcement that Tim Cassidy (Assistant 
>> AD for Football) was leaving for aTm, though I believe it was 
>> written before the announcement.  Although Dave Rimington is 
>> rumored to be the heir apparent who will fill this position, 
>> Gill's name has also emerged as a possibility. (It's admittedly a 
>> stretch -- Turner may not be ready to leave coaching yet for an 
>> administrative position -- but it's one way by which Tom Osborne 
>> can "get" both Pelini and Gill into the program.)