Cook not pleased about Pederson's firing

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Nebraska Fires Athletic Director Steve Pederson
Published 10/15/2007 by rcade at SportsFilter
... was the last straw. The AD since 2002, Pederson was fired only three months after the school extended his contract through June 2013. "You make the best decision you can with the information you have," Chancellor Harvey Perlman said. How did Dan Cook, a 72-year-old booster whose name is on the team's practice field, take the news? "The Huskers are off the will," he told Huskerpedia. ...

Steve Pederson Fired - Nebraskans Party in the Streets
Published 10/16/2007 by corn blight <info@cornnation.com> at Corn Nation
... I see at Husker Extra that big-time contributor Dan Cook isn't happy about the firing. He wanted Pederson and Callahan to have one more year to see if they could be successful. ...

Big Red Donor To NU : Fuck Off
Published 10/16/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... next Saturday might be just what the defensive doctor ordered for the Huskers, there’s at least one long time booster throwing a minor shit fit over Pederson’s dismissal, as the Lincoln Journal-Star’s Brian Christopherson explains. ...

Big Red Roundtable - Back to the Future Edition
Published 10/17/2007 by corn blight <info@cornnation.com> at Corn Nation
... Let's use Dan Cook as an example. He's the one big-name guy who was publicly angry about Pederson's firing. The guy's name is on Cook Pavillion, built in 1989, so he's been giving to the University for quite a while. You don't think he'll at least answer the phone if Osborne gives him a call? ...