[Husker] Another One Bites the Dust? Gilmore Gone?

todd strong strongtodd at msn.com
Mon Feb 12 14:08:36 CST 2007


With all due respect Bob. It just didn't have to happen. Certainly not the 
way it did.
"Would the boy I was yesterday, be proud of the man I am today?"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Beach" <baseballguy at neb.rr.com>
To: <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Another One Bites the Dust? Gilmore Gone?


>
>
> Steve Reichenbach wrote:
>> I wonder when that changed at NU.  Perhaps when the AD demonstrated
>> his lack of loyalty to its coaches.  I mean really, why would anyone
>> feel loyalty to an organization led by Steve Pederson?
>>
>>
>     I think that is when it changed but I don't think it has that much to 
> do with loyalty.  NU was living in a vacuum during the Devaney/ Osborne 
> eras.  While, except for a very few instances, the world of college 
> football coaching changes swirled around and NU was safe in its own 
> special nest.   Now that wasn't all bad, if there was any bad at all. 
> However, it didn't reflect the direction college football was going. 
> Pederson forever is going to get the blame because  "he didn't demonstrate 
> any loyalty and he broke up the good old boy pipeline."  All that had to 
> happen is to hire a coach from the outside and that was going to happen. 
> It  was just a matter of time.  Either Pederson would do it or another AD 
> would do it.  You just cannot keep the nest intact forever.  NU was one of 
> the fortunate few that did it as long as they did. That last question you 
> ask could be be asked of the greater share of programs today.  All you 
> would have to do is substitute the appropriate AD's name.
>
>
> Bob Beach
>
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