He’s A Snob And A Punk On Top Of Everything Else
I love a good book and from the sound of things, Jonathan Crowl, a senior English major and reporter for the Daily Nebraskan, has written one.
The Nebraska Way, published by the independent publisher iUniverse Inc., will be available next month. It features a foreword by Doak Ostergard, who Crowl relied on heavily as a source.
Ostergard joined the Athletic Department in 1984 and was fired abruptly in February 2007. Ostergard said the main purpose of the book was to educate people on the qualities of the football program and speak on the way “business has been done recently.”
The book includes an account of profane criticism from Callahan toward former football coach Tom Osborne, who was described as “trying to run things from Washington” during his tenure in Congress. After a phone conversation with the former coach, Ostergard said Callahan referred to Osborne as “a crusty old f—.”
Ostergard also recalled a meeting with Callahan where the coach voiced his frustration over an article printed in a local newspaper. “F-ing people need to get a life,” Ostergard quoted Callahan as saying in the book. “Why don’t they go read a book or get lost in the Sandhills? I’m going to get me a real newspaper. I’m going to read The New York Times.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[UPDATE 10/19/07] Omaha World Herald is carrying T.O.’s repsonse to this “brush fire.” It’s typically gentlemanly (he is a former politician). “I understand that head football coaches, like everyone else, have emotions,” Osborne said. “I’m not surprised that my long-term influence on the program could sometimes be felt as a controlling force even while I was away, but that was never the intent.”
I wish we knew what he really thinks.
October 18th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I would gladly donate $1 to this crap-hole of a coach’s retirement fund. I find it hard to believe this guy will coach in college ever again. If anyone is thinking of hiring him, I feel sorry for their program!!
October 19th, 2007 at 8:59 am
I have a feeling that the coaches are on their way out. I ask one thing of my fellow Husker fans for the rest of the season. Wear RED, BE LOUD… Support the players. Don’t BOO the players - they ‘Play for NEBRASKA’… That’s us! That’s ‘Husker Nation’. I get it, you get it, everyone gets it… The coaches aren’t doing their job. Second guessing, and constant criticism, of the coaches will not help the players. How can you play for a coaching staff that the fans are constantly criticizing? Where’s the motivation in that? Where’s the motivation in getting BOO’d? ‘I wear red & cheer loud for Nebraska’!
Go HUSKERS!
October 19th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Second guessing, and constant criticism of the coaches will not help the players.
It’s not meant to help the players. And it won’t cease (here or elsewhere) until the team returns to some sort of respectability.
Honesty is a core value in Nebraska. Fans are being honest in their statements of shock and displeasure and I believe it’s helping to move us all, players included, through this tough time.