[Husker] My last post on Pederson

[Bob Beach]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net>
To: "'List Husker'" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 11:06 AM
Subject: RE: [Husker] My last post on Pederson


>>> Another way of saying it is his undoing was football pure and simple.
>
> I have very mixed reactions to this statement.  I agree completely with 
> the
> statement, "If football was winning the conference and a few NCs he'd 
> still
> be here".  Regardless of everything else, I believe that's true 110%.
>
> What I don't agree with is the idea that because football went bad he had 
> to
> go.  I think it was the combination of the fact that he was....shall we 
> say,
> divisive AND the fact that football went down the crapper that he was let 
> go
> (changing the way something has been done for 30+ years is ALWAYS going to
> be divisive).   If he had been a publicly heralded guy I think he would 
> have
> been given a chance to replace the coaching staff he had put in place and
> 'try again' so to speak.
>
> I don't think he was good for the University, but if he had been more
> popular and had done more to maintain what we like to call, "The Nebraska
> Way" then I think he would have survived the BC debacle.
>
> Do you agree with that?
>
> --
> Skylar



     Most of it.  I don't think football was necessarily the ONLY thing but 
it certainly was the overwhelming big one.  I agree that if football would 
have been king like it was for 30 years or so the rest of the items would 
have been non-issues.  It is because football wasn't in great shape 
everything else got magnified.  While I agree things were not going the best 
internally I do believe most of the trouble either WAS football or 
originated with football.  I can't find the exact quote but didn't TO say 
when he was coach he never thought he could survive two or three losing 
seasons in a row?  I realize he was the coach and not the AD but the thought 
process is the same.


Bob Beach