Lol, I lose alot of respect for you if your believing that crap that pederson is feeding you.
Hey, I could give a **** what you think of me.
It boils down to this, consistently. You believe anything anyone else says as long as it fits your agenda. I look at the ALL the reports, couple it with my own experience and make a decision.
If pederson was wondering what was going on or wanted to move things along, why wouldn't he call the AD and talk about it or Call espn and ask them whats going on?
This is how I look at it.
I heard on the radio that Steve said he DID contact Houston to see if they had a lock with the game for ESPN and had a contract signed with them and Conference USA. Houston said "We are gonna get that done". Well, if it were me, that's not good enough either. The schedule NEEDED to be completed ASAP as Houston had
sat on that contract for more than a month. The Wake Forest deal was done in 24-48 hours.
One strike against Houston.
I also read that Houston had backed out of a
signed contract back in '98. So they have a history of shaky game deals.
Two strikes against Houston.
I heard on the radio that two of the stipulations were a date in Reliant Stadium and a game on ESPN. NU couldn't have one without the other. NU wasn't going go on the road and not have it televised. One or the other or both couldn't be guaranteed after they sat on the deal for a damn month.
Three strikes against Houston.
After all this crap, and the 11th hour fast approaching on closing out the schedule for 2005 NU had to look elsewhere.
I have seen it way to may times. Someone get's caught with their pants down and the FIRST thing they do time and time again is lash out and blame everyone else when they really have no one to blame but themselves for not getting the job done.
As far as ESPN saying they had a deal with Houston. Great. That's fine. However, but that contract didn't involve NU in anyway. That is between Conference USA, ESPN and Houston. If that's indeed true, it doesn't matter IMO because there was no deal for the actual GAME.
Not just say screw it and do it secretively.
The Athletic Department has had a LONG STANDING policy of not making a comment on things like game schedules until the ink is dry on paper. This goes back to the Bill Byrne days easy.
OK. I'm done talking about this. Officially