[personal] Re: [Husker] Cut

[Wilson, Rick]

Kim in New York brings back some memories. I too recall Mike typing play
by play of games, though I never had the bandwidth at home (in those
days) to take advantage of that, and I had way too many projects at home
in the early years of my career and family life. 

 

I moved to OK in 1990 with two degrees from NU - one from Steve R's
present department (CS).  My dad would send Sunday World Herald's to me
in vanilla envelopes so I could get my fill of Big Red results (he was
my own personal newspaper package).  

 

I came across the old RSFC 'discussion' list in the early 1990's, and
then surfed around and found the Husker list almost accidentally. I
tried to do the e-mail thing, but at that time (1993 I bet) it
overwhelmed my inbox. I went to web archives and maybe for a while we
did news only.  I still do web archives because I can then control when
I think about Husker stuff (e-mail management strategy). 

 

Age wise, I'm middle of the pack - 46. I graduated the first time the
same year as Steven J (1983) from CS/Engineering . 

 

Even though the list may not be quite the same as it once was, it is
still a very useful source of NU related info for me that I would not
normally find out.  I never made it to one of Mike N's pre Spring Game
get togethers to personally tell Mike how much I appreciate his hard
work. 

 

I have 'met' a lot of interesting people here, and found interesting
commonalities - e.g., Mike and I both taught the same class as graduate
students in the College of Business at Nebraska (MGMT 245 I believe) -
granted a few years apart.  Lynette in California graduated from Benson
High (go Bunnies!!) in 1970 - the same year as my brother.  Skip Burrell
went to high school with me.  I had Roger Beverage's son-in-law in my
most recent MBA class (I don't think he liked me Roger!).  I think Gary
Fead's family used to go to the same church I attended back in the
1960's/1970's.  

 

Basically, thanks to everyone who has the guts to post here and perhaps
face the ire of others. Each day when I surf here, it is normally the
highlight of my day. 

 

And of course, Mike N is the greatest!

 

What's the week in basketball look like? OSU will have a new player on
the bench this weekend - Adarius Bowman, their top WR, has joined the
shorthanded team who are down to 7 or 8 healthy scholarship players. 

 

This was my link to something relevant other than middle aged
meanderings. 

 

Rick L. Wilson, Ph.D.

W. Paul Miller Professor of Business Administration

Professor/Head 

Management Science and Information Systems

William S. Spears School of Business

Oklahoma State University

408 BUS

(405) 744-5084

 

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