[Husker] Clarification

[Bob Beach]

Mark Landin wrote:
> Bob,
>
> I understand your sentiments. Football does get the lion's share of
> attention on this list (and most other Husker sports-related sites and
> lists). For me, though, it has nothing to do with money .. I happen to
> enjoy football as my #1 sport. Of course I like to see Husker
> accomplishments in other sports acknowledged and celebrated as
> appropriate, but I definitely spend more time thinking and opining
> about football more than the others. It's not a slight on the other
> programs and their student-athletes or ardent followers, that's just
> how it falls out for me.
>   


     And, I think you speak for the lion's share of the people when you 
say football is your #1 sport.  There is nothing wrong with that 
either.  Football is a great game.  I enjoy it.  I just wish there was 
as much discussion year round here as there is when something is going 
on in football. 


     I have said this a lot of times before but the reason Steve 
Pederson was vilified was because of football.  He didn't leave the 
entirety of the Athletic Department in bad shape.  But, it goes back to 
football being king.  TO will be judged the same way as AD.  Under Bob 
Devaney's reign as AD the Athletic Department was just the reverse.  
Most all the sports programs were mediocre or not very good.  Baseball 
was in absolute disarray.  But football was big and on the National 
stage so people thought everything was acceptable.  But, I have known 
that for close to 50 years.  


Bob Beach