[Husker] Announcement

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From: "Pat Gaule" <pgaule at cox.net>
Sent: 11/24/2007 16:24:05
Subject: Re: [Husker] Announcement
 
 
 
 
>>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.<<
 
 
      All I know is when he came in there were no promises made by Perlman or
      Osborne either one publicly how long he would be the AD.  I don't think
      he is going to leave the office as soon as he hires a football coach. 
      But, I doubt he is here 10 years either.  The response I gave was in
      response to to the statement about a coach coming here specifically
      because TO was the AD.  The other thing is TO is not a young man
      anymore.  He is 70 years old with a history of heart problems.  One
      never knows what the future holds.  I have the utmost respect and
      admiration for the man.  I just don't believe he is perfect.  He can
      make a bad hire as well as anyone.  Just remember he endorsed Steve
      Pederson as AD.
 
 
 
>>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.<<
 
 
     
     I never one time said it was the wrong move.  I just said it demonstrated
     TO is not afraid to fire someone when certain won/loss standards aren't
     met.  I am not sure what other coaches and the media have anything to do
     with anything but ok.  I think everyone saw it coming so what IS there to
     say.  Solich was not dismissed because of his 9-3 season or his won/lost
     percentage but people keep hammering on that.
 
 
 
>>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.<<
 
 
     What you say is true and why I wouldn't admit it I have no idea.  And, it
     was true four years ago and we just about couldn't hire a coach.  I don't
     argue with any of what you say above.  As a matter of fact I never said
     anything to the contrary.  I said to say NU is the most storied football
     team in the history of college football may be over the top but I don't
     deny it is a great program.  There are other great ones out there as
     well.  The great thing is the rise to greatness and the maintaining of
     greatness was all within my lifetime.  I saw Devaney's first year here
     and right up to the current.  Right now I just think there are more
     attractive jobs out there than NU. I don't see any reason NU can't hire a
     quality guy.  I just don't see dozens of coaches in the nation just
     panting and drooling after the NU job.  For the Pellini fans out there if
     Bo's choice comes down to LSU or NU I would think he'll be staying in the
     Bayou assuming NU doesn't make him an offer he can't refuse.
 
 
 
 >>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.<<
 
 
     We'll never know but I wonder if the continue packing of Memeorial
     Stadium was because the greater share of fans believed Callahan would be
     gone at the end of the year.  Again, we'll never know but I seriously
     doubt the sellouts would continue if this would have gone on 2-3 more
     years with no end in sight.  
 
 
Bob Beach