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Monday, October 15, 2007

In the Aftermath...


...of the Knight Commission, it's business as usual in American university football.

Nebraska, having just renewed its AD's contract a few months ago, now suddenly changes its mind and decides to fire him -- at enormous cost to the university.


'Nebraska athletic director Steve Pederson was fired Monday, two days after the school's once-mighty football team was rocked with its worst home loss in nearly a half-century.

... [It will] cost at least $2.2 million to buy Pederson out of his contract.

At the end of July, Pederson's contract was renewed for five years...'


They're getting all nostalgic at Nebraska about the glory days before Pederson, when the university basked in the coaching work of Frank Solich.

Solich was fired from Nebraska. Ohio University now basks in his drunk driving arrest, and his cultivation of one of the most criminal teams in university sports.