[Husker] Ostergard

[Theodore Heise]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Mark Landin wrote:

> On 2/26/07, Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu> wrote:
>> Sure the AD and coach Callahan seem to take a very business-like 
>> approach to what they do, but like it or not this is the way 
>> things are done now a days in collegiate athletics. People on 
>> this list need to let go of the past, and that can be very 
>> difficult, especially after folks like Devaney and Osborne set 
>> the bar so high in Lincoln.
>
> Let go of the past? I already have. What I'm having a hard time 
> letting go of is the present: letting go of the ideals that I 
> associated with the program. Nebraska football appeared to be run 
> in the past based on what is right, not what is allowed or the 
> norm. There are many things which are legal, and perhaps 
> commonplace, which are not "right".

> I don't want it to be done like everybody else does it ... I want 
> it to be done better! If not, then what really differentiates NU 
> from anyone else? Team colors? Is it all about budgets and W's, or 
> is there something more?

> Most fans identify with their teams, and the identity I want to 
> associate with NU is a program that does what's right, what's 
> ethical, what's decent, even if it hurts a little bit. (Because, 
> frankly, it's no credit to anyone to do the easy thing!)

> How can we expect our athletes to grow into upstanding men and 
> women if that behavior isn't modelled for them in the athletic 
> program itself?
>
> If asking for the officers of the University to act in a 
> forthright, ethical, and transparent manner is a thing of the 
> past, then the future be damned. It holds no hope of enjoyment for 
> me!

Hear! Hear!

This entire post is outstanding, and snipping it down even this far 
was almost an injustice.

Thanks for stating things so well.  You certainly captured my 
feelings as a Cornhusker fan.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA