[Husker] Sadler gets contract extension

[Skylar Dodds]

I have to say Jon, that's post of the month :)

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Skylar 

-----Original Message-----
From: jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:23 AM
To: Bob Beach <rbeach at neb.rr.com>
Cc: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Sadler gets contract extension

If football had been conference champs.... national championship....  
Steve Pederson and Bill Callahan would be heroes.

If I had invested in AOL, Cisco, Microsoft stocks way back when, and  
then sold them at the perfect time, I'd be sitting in the Bahamas...  
or Haymarket Park for every game.

If I had decided to take that job at IBM, I'd probably have worked my  
way up the ladder and be in middle management by now.

If I knew kids were this much work, I never would have had them (the  
parent's lament during the teen age years).

And last, one of my favorite Midwestern phrases: "If my uncle had  
tits, he'd be my aunt."

All of which make the same amount of sense when applied here.

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

On Apr 3, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Bob Beach wrote:
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Duane Feldman
>  To: Bob Beach ; husker at tssi.com
>  Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:40 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Husker] Sadler gets contract extension
>
>
>>> Bob, after a comment like that, I guess I would need more  
>>> specifics.  Before being hired, NU was in the top ten or top 25  
>>> (depending on year) for the All Sports Trophy.  I don't think we  
>>> have won the conference version even once during SP's tenure.   
>>> We've even fallen out of the top two conference wise.  Byrne won  
>>> the conference title at least half the time if not more often.   
>>> What did we win (any title, any sport) under SP that we didn't win  
>>> under Bill Byrne?
>
>
>       I didn't say Pederson took an Athletic Program that was  
> downtrodden and put it on the map.  I also am not talking about how  
> he got along with co-workers.  I am just saying that when he left  
> most every sport on the field (court, whatever) was performing at a  
> virtual high level with the exception of football.  And, it is for  
> footbal he is disliked at least among the fans.  If football would  
> have been Conference Champs every year he was here with a couple  
> football National Championships thrown in the other sports wouldn't  
> have mattered.  He is perceived to have torn down the football  
> program.  The other sports survived his tenure quite nicely.
>
>
>
>>> I was ecstatic when SP was hired to replace Byrne, but that  
>>> excitement was short lived and ended when he didn't give Solich a  
>>> chance to see if he had "righted the ship."  Frankie may not have  
>>> been the right answer, but only Solich's worst year was worse than  
>>> Callahan's best.  I don't see any of the other sports exceeding  
>>> those of Bill's.  Wrestling, volleyball, gymnastics, rifle,  
>>> basketball, baseball,  soccer,  softball, swimming, track,  
>>> golf,  . . . .OK, bowling but bowling wasn't a sanctioned sport  
>>> until SP took over.  Even Bill's alley squads won an theoretical  
>>> bowling national trophy, but it wasn't sanctioned by the NCAA at  
>>> the time.
>
>>> Past that, I don't see what is better.
>
>
>        I have never made the statement he made things better.  I  
> only stated a lot of things were right with the program when he left  
> and he did some things that were right. ("Steve Pederson did many  
> things right with the athletic program.  He just messed up football  
> and that is the cardinal sin of all time".)
>
>     At the very least he seemed to have maintained things in sports  
> other than football.  At the time of the firing of Solich I was 100%  
> behind it.  I still am.  Where things went South is in the hiring of  
> the next coach.  Pederson's mistake wasn't in firing the existing  
> coach it was in who he hired to replace him in my opinion.
>
>
>  Bob Beach
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