OWH Barfknecht: Nebraska closing in on naming next athletic director

[The Duke]

He is a Washington State graduate. He was raised on a cattle and wheat ranch in eastern Washington.


 

 

[gorp512]

Welp, he hired Mike Leach, so you know he can make solid football hires. I don't know a great deal about him. Let's be honest though, none of us know much about ADs around the country. 

No, but most here know lots about the athletic departments around the country. Of which Washington State isn't very impressive on any front. 

He's the Mike Riley of AD hires

 

[HuskerNation1]

Shocking move. I dont know much about Moos but the last time we hired a 60--plus year old guy from the west coast that was not on the radar, things did not turn out well. 

 

[Hayseed]

 

Is he Bill Byrne's cousin? They look a lot alike.

 

[Hayseed]

Okay, so all the reports were complete bulls#!t?

 

[MichiganDad3]

Can the Nebraska government pass a law to prevent any athletic hires from the Northwest part of the US?

 

[The Duke]

My initial thoughts on this anncoucement is that it was totally out of left field. Much of the major sports media, both local & national did not have this on their radar.

Let's hope this hire out of the Pac-12 actually works for Nebraska this time around.

 

[jsneb83]

Moos coming to the beef state? It was meant to be

 

[olddominionhusker]

I'm just going to assume from now on that no matter what this University will continue to hire the most underwhelming people imaginable. 

 

[MichiganDad3]

This does not sound good. I thought the AD was supposed to get along with the big money people.

"Moos left Oregon in 2007 after a dispute with Nike founder Phil Knight, who was a big donor to the Oregon Athletics program"

 

[MichiganDad3]

How bad would it stink if we hire Mike Leach!

 

[Waldo]

This does not sound good. I thought the AD was supposed to get along with the big money people.

"Moos left Oregon in 2007 after a dispute with Nike founder Phil Knight, who was a big donor to the Oregon Athletics program"

Probably didn't want to be a puppet 

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

WHO?!?!....................obviously no one seen this on their radar between all of the articles and information that we've read/heard over the past few days. :lol:  

 

[BigRedBuster]

How did I know that whoever was hired, people would b!^@h. 

Even tjough though they know nothing about the guy. 

 

[huskersrule95]

Probably didn't want to be a puppet 

He Wanted to be a real boy