[Husker] Ostergard

[Steve Reichenbach]

You know, Bob, if it were just Doak, it might be more possible to give
your take on this more credence, but look at the list of folks who have
had the same sort of experience with the current administration of the
Athletic Deparment.  The first to come to my mind are Solich (note
slipped under the door), Pellini (the "interview"), and Ostergard (no
reason required despite years of commendable service), but there are
others that I don't know or can't recall all of the details (e.g., a
secretary) and less obvious stories (e.g., the current story about the
cheerleaders).  It's not, as you write, that we're hearing "one side
of the story" --- we're hearing many stories with the same storyline
of bad treatment.  With so much evidence for a conclusion you seem to
not want to make, I can only conclude that you'd rather keep your head
in the sand about the way Pederson works and how he treats people.


> ----- 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. 
> 
> 
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