[Husker] Hurricanes Coming to play in Lincoln

[Patrick Gaule]

Mike Nolan wrote:
>>It's good to have an athletic director that isn't afraid of scheduling 
>>some good OOC opponents.  Like most things he did, the OOC schedules set 
>>up by Pedey were mostly disgraceful.  Check out 2010 - Western Kentucky, 
>>Idaho, @Washington, South Dakota State.  It's obvious that Pedey wanted 
>>to lock in at least 3 "guaranteed wins" each year for Callahan.
> 
> 
> Well, I'm not so sure it was entirely his fault, Bill Byrne used to
> grumble about how he'd call all the teams in 1-A and nobody wanted to
> play Nebraska.  And Bill Byrne was probably better liked and admired
> by his peers than SP was.
> 

I'd be inclined to agree if Pedey didn't have that embarassing PR fiasco 
where he backed out of a nationally televised game with Houston so we 
could play FCS/1-AA Maine - http://www.fanblogs.com/big12/003601.php.

I agree with Bill Byrne's scheduling philosophy.  However, Pederson's 
was dramatically different (and much worse).  His idea of a good 
scheduled was:

1.)  One good BCS school, that may or may not have been on the schedule 
before he took over as AD.
2.)  2-3 bad teams from FCS/1-AA, or the bottom rung of FBS/1-A.