[Husker] Sadler gets contract extension

[Bob Beach]

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  From: Duane Feldman 
  Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:39 AM
  Subject: Re: [Husker] Sadler gets contract extension





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  Bob Beach

  >>So to paraphrase your comment:  "He didn't mess up ALL the sports, only the most important one to Husker fans"

       That's right.  I would go beyond that, though.  I would say football is the ONLY sport to the vast majority of the fans.  That doesn't mean other sports aren't followed.  It just means the caring and intensity level isn't there like football.


  >>I do take issue with "maintained things in sports other than football" comment as well.  Our All Sports rankings are way down under SP -- Stanford always wins that and it isn't just about football.  Byrne was criticized for working too hard to win the Director's Cup (All Sports Trophy) and ignoring football.

     
       I don't know about rankings.  Here is what I see.  The Baseball team at this time is doing very well.  The Volleyball team was close to a National Championship and has been right there the last few years.  The men's basketball team is on the rise and the women went a couple of games into the NCAA.  The Wrestling team finished fourth in the NCAA with Mark Manning being Big 12 Coach of the Year.  The Softball team is respectable.  The Men's Track team is projected in the top 25.  I didn't name each and every sport but I think I got most of the major ones.  I don't see a real downturn here.  Now granted SP is not here today but things were in place the way they are today when he was here.  Some were even in place before he got here.      



  >>Had I known you were behind the firing, I guess I wouldn't have gotten so upset.  We fired a 75% winning coach and replaced him with a 50+% winning rate coach.  SP gets points for this?


       Never said he should get points for this.  But, all you can judge any deal on is what did the deal look like at the time of the deal?  People that are baseball fans will remember years ago the Cubs traded an unknown and untested commodity to the Cardinals named Lou Brock for a solid MLB pitcher named Ernie Broglio.  Looking back we know what happened.  Broglio after that wasted away and Brock became a Hall of Famer.  But, at the time it sure appeared the Cubs got much the better end of the deal.  As a matter of fact the Cardinals were highly criticized for making the trade.  Same thing applies here in my opinion.  At the time I believed Pederson did the right thing.  Looking back history tells us something different.


  Bob Beach