[Husker] Recruiting

[Mark Landin]

On Dec 9, 2007 6:06 PM, Tommy Thompson <huskertt at charter.net> wrote:
> Tommy Thompson wrote:
> >> Hmmm...will he also recruit for the volleyball team, baseball team, etc?
> >> Or, are those programs now being ignored by the athletic department?
>
> Mark Landin wrote:
> > Are those the two choices? If he isn't recruiting for them, he is
> > ignoring them? Would you feel better if he fired a VB assistant so he
> > could name himself into that spot and recruit for that sport to
> > reassure you that he's not ignoring something?
>
> Not that it really matters, but I was trying to emphasize a point I've been
> making all along.  Tom Osborne has not been acting as the Athletic Director
> for the University of Nebraska.  He's been concentrating solely on the
> Football program.

That is all he has been REPORTED as doing. Are you certain that he has
not performed any other duties related to any other sports that may
have gone unreported, or are you certain that he has concentrated
"solely" on football? If you are certain, what is the source of your
certainty? If you are basing your belief on what is reported in the
media, it should come as no surprise that the media is reporting on
football because that is what readers and viewers want to hear about,
and AD activities as they relate to other sports will go unreported.
If you concede that there may be non-football related activities that
were not reported, then your complaint really lies with the media, not
the AD.
-- 
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, you'd think rich people
would have kept it all for themselves" - Lane Kirkland