[Husker] NU article in NY Times

[Steve Stone]

Tommy Thompson wrote:

(snip)

>I'm serious about this next question:  How did an attitude of 
>"Business" and "Money" get instilled into the Husker players (or at 
>least Peterson)?  Who is responsible...Pederson?  Callahan? 
>Perlman? the Fans?  other Students? I don't think I've ever heard 
>those words spoken by a football player at any school...ever.


I'm serious about answering that sober question: "You, me, us fans, 
and most of all the media."

These young men are literate and intelligent students. Many of them 
have family or relatives lurking on this List, and they all read the 
local papers either online or on paper. About half the posts to the 
HuskerList involve monetary and financial discussion concerning the 
university, the athletic department, and the coaching staff.  They 
watch "sports" programs on television and hear "sports" programs on 
the radio, most of which involve speculation about contracts, costs, 
profits, losses, and the like.

These players couldn't possibly avoid becoming money-conscious in the 
current situation because we may well be money-grubbingest society on 
the planet. So we have come to the point where we know the price of 
everything but the value of hardly anything.

As Pogo said, "I have seen the enemy, and they is us."

Steve Stone