[Husker] Ostergard

[Rod Wellman]

I don't post often and I don't think I've ever posted a "me-too"  
post, but
I'm doing so here.

Well said, Mark!

Rod W.
Sioux City, Ia.


On Feb 26, 2007, at 11:22 AM, 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".
>
> One principle of "right" is treating others, especially subordinates
> over whom you have authority, with dignity and respect. Summary
> firings without explanation fail this test. I lament that our program,
> one of which I have been extremely proud, is not continuing this idea
> of doing right, and instead appearing to do instead what is expedient
> or convenient.
>
> 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!)
>
> I've stuck up for BC in the past: I don't think he was slashing his
> throat; his hillbilly comment was directed at a particular few; I also
> think SP was right to change coaches, but executed it about as poorly
> as could be done! (That wasn't done "right" either!)
>
> 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!
>
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Rod Wellman
Sioux City, Ia.