Plus he worked for Tom Osborne, and Pope Tom endorsed him.What about hiring this guy named Steve Pederson? He is a Nebraska guy, has worked here before with the football team. He knows our traditions and he would be willing to keep all them going here and probably welcome back all former players. I hear hes looking for a job. What does everyone think?
If you were gonna fire Frank you do it after 02.
Yep.
What about hiring this guy named Steve Pederson? He is a Nebraska guy, has worked here before with the football team. He knows our traditions and he would be willing to keep all them going here and probably welcome back all former players. I hear hes looking for a job. What does everyone think?
Here's the problem with SP. Tom Osborne worked with him for multiple years and liked him well enough to endorse his hire. I have a couple of friends who knew him during his time at NU and both thought and still think he's a really good guy. I know, there's somebody on here who had a friend who supposedly worked with him during his very early time at NU and didn't like him. He comes off as a slick schmoozer and frankly I don't think you get to be an AD without being able to be a slick schmoozer. The fact is that the football program fell apart during his tenure and he didn't handle the fall out from canning Frank well at all. From what I've been told, the guy still loves Nebraska and still loves the Huskers. IF Callahan had won a MNC, SP would be a beloved legend despite his public personality. He had some good things rolling at the athletic department until he decided to shake up the football coaching. Frank's next to last season brought lots of heat from boosters to can Frank. (The same clowns that wanted to keep Bo). I don't think SP wanted to do it until he thought he had a slam dunk hire on board so he waited a year and it all blew up.
What about hiring this guy named Steve Pederson? He is a Nebraska guy, has worked here before with the football team. He knows our traditions and he would be willing to keep all them going here and probably welcome back all former players. I hear hes looking for a job. What does everyone think?
I think NU football was headed for major problems with or without Steve Pederson. All you had to do was look at our recruiting and roster to know that. Bo might have stopped the bleeding for one season as a DC against crappy competition, but his unwillingness to recruit was going to doom us there anyway. Tom could have fixed it immediately with a better hire. The talent was there when Bo took over.
This whole lack of recruiting thing for Frank is way overblown. Dude brought in top 10 classes in '00 and '01. He had a horrendous year in 2002. Much of that was because the assistants got old, it was a long season, and the staff didn't get it done. While the '03 class was on Frank to some degree, the Regents and later Pederson bear some responsibility. The reality was that many thought he was a dead man walking. Everyone figured the first order of business for a new AD that was going to come on board in December of '02 was to can Frank. (If we go 6-6 and are getting a new AD this December and no decision has been made on Mike, I'm guessing some of our recruits may be looking.)
Actually 9-3.
WTF? Frank couldn't recruit to save his a((. You thought Pelini was bad? Solich was coming off TO's regime and the talent he was bringing in was pathetic.
Hiring Cally was the problem, and the search process involved. Pederson had his head up his own a**. It's been a series of bad decision making at all levels since then, limping along with 9 win seasons and blow-outs as the norm.
Someone needs a history lesson.WTF? Frank couldn't recruit to save his a((. You thought Pelini was bad? Solich was coming off TO's regime and the talent he was bringing in was pathetic.
Hiring Cally was the problem, and the search process involved. Pederson had his head up his own a**. It's been a series of bad decision making at all levels since then, limping along with 9 win seasons and blow-outs as the norm.
His last 2 classes depending on what service you use were right around 40. We had Joe Dailey and MIke Stuntz for QBs with none in the works in recruiting. We had Corey Ross and nothing else at RB. Our O line severely lacked talent and there was nothing in the wings to help that so don't give me the "system" BS. The only way we got by before that was by riding Eric Crouch. We had a terrible offensive outlook no matter who the coach was and Frank wasn't IMO going to be able to recruit what he needed quickly enough to avoid a string of 6 loss or worse seasons. His next season would have been better than Callahan's first year no doubt but beyond that I doubt he was going to succeed. We'll never know. I wish SP had given him another year. SP is human. He made mistakes. I just don't like people demonizing SP like he was the only thing wrong with our football program because he wasn't. There were internal problems on Frank's staff more so than Frank himself that were going to doom him without major changes.
