From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:
The University of Pittsburgh hired Steve Pederson as athletic director for the second time today, a month-and-a-half after Pederson was fired by his alma mater, Nebraska.
“We are thrilled to be back in Pittsburgh,” Pederson said at a news conference. “Leaving here five years ago was the hardest professional decision we had ever made. Coming back was the easiest decision we had ever made.”
Good luck Steve…
Coming Soon! The Story of Frank the Fish.
Wow he must have burned through that 2.2 million pretty quick during his time off to result to such a low position.
…eh let them have him.
Good riddance!!!!
Probably not the place to put it, but Bo has been signed by NU. He is the head coach!
And where did you hear that??????????
HOW DO YOU KNOW???!!!!
No other news websites are reporting this.
I didn’t know that the AD job at Pittsburgh was open. Who took the job after Pederson left for NU? I doubt that it has been vacant since he left. In any event…let em have him. We are much better off without him (and Callahan for that matter!)
Yeah, It was the easiest decision to go back because your ass was out of a job you loser!!! First to go is Wanstedt, then the B-Ball coach.
Right on Husker Brad. Let Pitt have the f…ing idiot.
Ed, no one cares about Frank the Fish. Trust me.
Frank the Fish aka Frank the GHBer. Seriously, no one slips a roofie to a 60 year old man.
Too bad his contract didn’t say that any future earnings would be off-set against the buyout…wouldn’t mind getting a couple hundred grand a year back and only end up having to pay a mil or so of the buyout.
This is why Perlman needs to be held accountable too.
I give Perlman a pass. He has an entire university to run and he has done some great things. He hires ADs to run the athletic department so he can concentrate on other things. Bad eggs happen, when he figured it out, he corrected it.
@Handyman -
The former Pitt AD, Jeff Long, left in September to become AD at Arkansas.
@Administrator
I was refering to the contracts and the languages in them. Perlman knew long before he approved Pederson’s and Callahan’s contract that there were some troubles in the Department. He had Pederson send out a job evaluation form on himself when he would have had more honest answers if a 3rd party did it. The people knew if they spoke up they would be fired. Perlman has done an excellent job in most areas, but not in the one of buyouts and contract extensions.