[Husker] Announcement

[Pat Gaule]

Baseballguy wrote:
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> From: "todd strong" <strongtodd at msn.com>
> Sent: 11/24/2007 14:31:03
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Announcement
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>>>It will be different because of who the A.D. is.
>>>That alone will get even the most astute coaches listening.
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>      TO is not the AD.  He is the INTERIM AD.  There is no gaurantee TO will
>      hold the AD position in another year or two.  TO has also proven he is
>      not afraid to fire someone if they don't meet certain standards.  NU is
>      not the #1 job in the nation and for sure not now.  NU doesn't pay what a
>      lot of the schools do either directly or indirectly.  Whoever the coach
>      is they are in for a pretty large rebuilding job.  Established coaches
>      for the most part are not interested in getting into a rebuilding
>      project.  That coupled with NU is not the easiest place in the world to
>      coach.  The standards and expectations are very high.  

Oh for God's sake Bob, Tom Osborne will be here until he feels the 
football program has been fixed.  In other words, he will be here as 
long as he deems neccessary.  The label is "interim" but what you're 
arguing over is really nothing more than semantics.  Tom Osborne is the 
athletic director right now, and nobody (except for possibly yourself) 
thinks he is going to disappear into the night as quickly as he came. 
He will be here for a while.  Get used to it.

There are plenty of schools who would fire a coach over two losing 
seasons in a 4 year span.  There is nobody in the national media 
questioning whether this was the right move, and there are no coaches 
who are coming to Callahan's defense and screaming that he got a raw 
deal.  The same was not true when Solich was dismissed after a 9-3 
season and a .750+ winning percentage in his entire career.

Whether you would like to admit it or not, Nebraska is still a 
traditional powerhouse (ranked 8th in winning percentage) with success 
that is far from a distant memory (it was only 6 years ago they were 
playing for a national championship in the Rose Bowl).  The facilities 
are top notch, and the fan support is hard to beat.  Even despite all of 
the rumblings, Nebraska still managed to sell out every game of the 
Callahan era.  Oklahoma, Alabama, Notre Dame, and LSU couldn't say the 
same during their down years.  There are certainly a lot of overzealous 
and crazy Husker fans, but I still think it's less of an issue than at 
other schools.