[Husker] Accountability

[Alan Siporin]

I was out of town for a couple days and I'm catching up. Amazing how much
traffic there is when we aren't discussing actual Husker games. (Pleading
guilty, by the way, to my own charge).

Mostly wanted to say that Kenneth's post was excellent.

To add another vein as opposed to just a me too post, Pedersen set a very
high bar, one that makes even the best coaches think twice.  With Osborne in
as AD, at least two major differences should happen. We will get much
improved judgment (the obvious change), and we'll also get coaches who will
now think twice about Nebraska - in a positive way.

Alan Siporin


On 11/5/07 5:07 PM, "Kenneth McKillip" <kmckillip at houston.rr.com> wrote:

> Notice what has happened at Merryl-Lynch (last week) and Citigroup (today).
> Both CEO's were terminated.  I'm sure they weren't the guys directly running
> the fixed income departments.  But they were the one who should have seen
> the big picture.  Buying a lot of no down payment, teaser rate, sub-prime
> paper was a huge risk.
> 
> 
> 
> Their successors will get the message that they are accountable if anything
> like this happens again.  That is why heads rolled.
> 
> 
> 
> P.S. - To those that think firing Frank was the right thing.  Stoop's got
> "smoked" by K St that year too.  The facts are that Frank was the 5th
> winningest coach in the nation.  Two time BigXII Coach of the year.  Took us
> to the NC game.  Had the best team in the nation in 1999 and won the Big XII
> CG.  Beat OU, Notre Dame, Tennessee, etc.  Had a brilliant new staff.  We
> are looking at two of his assistants as possible Husker head coaches.
> Represented consistency and retention of proven learnings and had basically
> given the best years of his life to NU.  He was in it for the long haul.  At
> 10-3 his new staff deserved more than 9 months on the job.  Detractors seem
> an awful lot like the hyper-impatient internet age fans that destroy
> programs.
> 
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