[Husker] Let's all send Steve Pederson a thank you note!

[Bob Beach]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <andy at knipp.com>
To: <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Let's all send Steve Pederson a thank you note!


> Why should that matter ? When you are King you do what you wnat.
>
> It is good to be King. :-)




      I don't know what it is like to deal with Pederson.  I have never 
personally met him.  I only hear things.  I know I take everything I 
read/hear in the media, whether it be about Pederson or other people sports 
or otherwise, with a grain of salt.  Tom Shatel, for one, has been with the 
World Herald more years than I can count.  He has a track record of 
embellishment and being opinionated for the most part.


      In life things tend to snowball.  Because of the Solich situation 
Pederson got off on the wrong foot with some people.  Because of that every 
time Pederson does something perceived to be wrong the situation is 
magnified.  It has gotten to the point Pederson could do 100 great things in 
a row and no one would comment.  But, let him do something perceived to be 
wrong or mistreating people and everyone is all over it.  People always talk 
about how the Ostergard and Solich situations were handled badly.  Maybe 
they were, but I still don't know a good way to handle letting someone go. 
Does anyone think Ostergard would be any less upset if Callahan/Pederson had 
called him in and delineated the exact reasons Ostergard was being replaced? 
Let's be honest.  The reason most people were upset with the Ostergard and 
Solich situations wasn't because of the way it was handled.  They were upset 
because those two were fired period.  The "handled poorly" tag is just 
something to latch onto.  We would have had the same outcry even if the 
situations were handle "well" whatever that is.


Bob Beach

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