[Husker] Conspiracy?

[Mike Jaixen]

Kevin Kugler on KOZN-1620 AM radio in Omaha has stated
a few times that Harvey conducted a campus-wide survey
last year.  The results were posted on the
Chancellor's web site and showed that the Athletic
Department had the worst morale of any department at
Nebraska-Lincoln.  When Kugler mentioned this earlier
this year, I went looking for it but could not find it
anywhere.

In any respect, if this report is true, it would
confirm the issues that led to Steve Pederson's
dismissal, but also raises the question as to why
Harvey Perlman would extend Pederson's contract with
these issues known, especially in conjunction with
Pederson's issues with the media and former players.



--- Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:

> Why is it so difficult to believe that Perlman
> didn't get much
> criticism about Pederson from within the athletic
> department,
> especially when there has apparently been something
> of a culture
> of fear there?  (I do think Perlman should have been
> aware
> that the culture there was more hostile than it had
> been before
> Pederson came and that there were a number of prior
> indications
> that Pederson's style was problematic.)  It seems
> entirely
> credible to me that, as Perlman says, after
> Pederson's renewal,
> that several key people left and made clear that
> there were
> deeper problems.
> 
> Of course, the problems on the field have changed
> the perspective
> on the football program, which is the backbone of
> the athletic
> department, so it is imperative to have an AD who
> can be trusted
> to lead in the face of the questions about the
> football program.
> It seems to me that Perlman realized that Pederson
> had neither
> public support nor the support within his own
> organization to do
> that.  Moreover, his rosy evaluation of the football
> program
> turned out to be mistaken.  Perhaps being wrong
> about the state
> of the football program could be accepted, but the
> issues with
> Pederson's leadership couldin't.  In that sense, I
> think Perlman's
> statement that Pederson's positioning was really
> more critical
> to the firing than the problems in the football
> program (although
> they certainly contributed to Pederson's lack of
> credibility).


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


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