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Subject: The Modern Athletic Director
Started by HuskerLocker Feb 4, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Last post by MrGoodLife Feb 9, 2010 at 11:34 am
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#1 Feb 4, 2010 at 3:11 pm

HuskerLocker

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Comes from a board room - not a locker room.
#2 Feb 4, 2010 at 5:35 pm

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“I started looking at it carefully, and I realized what a big business college sports has become,” from his own mouth he explains why Michigan is doomed. Its not just their coach but also their AD. Thank God we ditched Petey and lured Dr. Tom back to NU.

I am not an expert. Everything I say should be taken as my opinion and I love it when people expand on something I say or tell me why my opinion is wrong.
#3 Feb 4, 2010 at 5:44 pm

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Originally posted by NUfan “I started looking at it carefully, and I realized what a big business college sports has become,” from his own mouth he explains why Michigan is doomed. Its not just their coach but also their AD. Thank God we ditched Petey and lured Dr. Tom back to NU.

Peterson was the biggest mistake in the history of NU athletics. Period!

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#4 Feb 4, 2010 at 9:26 pm

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Originally posted by tdbob Peterson was the biggest mistake in the history of NU athletics. Period!

Absolutely agree! Even Callahan would have been a better coach under Osborne as AD. As it was, Peterson's disastrous vision and contempt for Nebraska and its tradition just made Callahan worse.
#5 Feb 9, 2010 at 11:34 am

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There is nothing wrong with an AD having a business background - but they can't have it both ways. You can't on one the hand run up costs like nobody's business in football, then continue to sustain and support these smaller sports that lose millions of dollars for the sake of amatuerism.

Personally, I love a lot of the smaller sports and are saddened they're going away. But the paying public wants what it wants, and the only way to confront that problem realistically - the only way some of these smaller sport athletes realize they have to work harder to get their sport known - is to cut them off at the pass.

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