[Husker] Ostergard

[Bob Beach]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Jaixen" <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
To: <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Ostergard


> It continues to get uglier...
>
> http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-nebraska-trainerdismissed&prov=ap&type=lgns



     Ugly may be one way to put it.  To me the more Ostergard talks the more 
he makes it look like sour grapes on his part.  It is kind of like he wants 
people to feel sorry for him.  I am not going to automatically jump on the 
Ostergard bandwagon nor am I going to say he is embellishing.  I just don't 
know.  But, I don't like the way he is going about it.


     I know Ostergard a little bit.  I coached a AAA Softball team and he 
played on it one summer about 20 years ago.  I only got to know him casually 
because what interaction I had with him was during the game.  Off the field 
I was rarely around him.  I haven't talked to him since.  But, I do find the 
quote in the article where he says "Callahan could be difficult to deal 
with" interesting.  From when I knew him I really didn't find Ostergard all 
that easy to get along with at times either.  I don't want to give the wrong 
impression.  He was all right but he had his moments as well.  And, that was 
a long time ago.  People can change.


     The other thing in this deal is we are only getting one side of the 
story.  We have all known people going through a divorce and are close to 
one party involved in the divorce.  We get one side of the story and the 
person we talk to is usually lily white in the whole thing and the other 
person is the rat.  It's always the other person's fault.  This Ostergard 
situation kind of reminds me of that.  It would be interesting to hear what 
Callahan and Pederson have to say.  That would shed a little more light on 
the situation.  Unless it was disciplinary more than likely it was a 
difference in philosophy.


Bob Beach

The more you know the more you realize how much there is you don't know.