Outgoing Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman sat down with Henry Cordes of the Omaha World-Herald last week and discussed his time in charge of the Lincoln campus, with Monday's story focusing mainly on football. (Please, NO!) Perhaps the most interesting part of the interview concerned Steve Pederson's lengthy and much-maligned coaching search that stretched for over a month that eventually resulted in the hiring of Bill Callahan.
Perlman also revealed that when Pederson made the move, he already had lined up an NFL head coach for the job, one who "led us to believe that he was available and willing to do it.