[Husker] Fw: Taylor Martinez back story

[George Rapp]

It was an attempt at a joke from the last two Nebraska coaching searches.

In 2003, after Solich was fired, there was a rumor circulating on the Husker
LIst that a cable installer had been summoned to install service for Bob
Davie, recently fired at Notre Dame, at his new home in Lincoln.

Reference:
http://journalstar.com/sports/football/college/article_44c6d7db-5031-517e-b1c2-bd783c5da5ad.html

In 2007, after Callahan was fired, some hardcore NU fans on
huskerpedia.com(?) noted that the private plane registered to Norfolk
Iron & Metal was
making flights from Lincoln to Baton Rouge, Buffalo, and Atlanta, per the
flightaware.com site (which allows searches by airplanes' tail numbers).
The story as I remember it is that Tom Osborne flew to Baton Rouge to pick
up Bo Pelini, then coaching at LSU, and escorted him to Atlanta, where the
search firm leading NU's coaching search was headquartered.  Likewise, Tom
picked up Turner Gill in Buffalo and flew him to Atlanta to interview.
After this became public knowledge, the Norfolk Iron plane was suddenly
removed from the FlightAware site, which can only be done by the registered
owner, lending credence to the theory that it was being used for the NU
coaching search.  (Dick Robinson, head of Norfolk Iron, is a Husker booster
who presumably lent his plane to the Nebraska athletic department.)

References:
http://journalstar.com/sports/football/college/article_3e2e162f-5561-502a-b498-e76900ccfc2b.html
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N7NE  (the plane is still not trackable)
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=6182459 (scroll down a
bit for the text of the original LJS article)

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:11 PM:

>  Who is this cable guy?  how did you track them?
>
> In a message dated 12/2/2010 2:23:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> george.rapp at gmail.com writes:
>
> This is true.  I tracked Martinez' dad and the cable guy on
> flightaware.com on the return flight from LNK to California.  8^)
>
> George
>
>


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