Many still can't forgive him for firing Solich.

Many still remember how Pederson stumbled through the coaching search.

Many still remember how he insisted that he never offered the job to Houston Nutt.

Others still remember how he bumbled through the scheduling mess with Houston.  (Though this year's game at Wake Forest is turning out to be a better game than hosting Houston would have been this season...)

Others still remember how he yanked Nebraska baseball off of NET and CSTV to protest Kevin Kugler's criticism.

Others note that Steve Pederson has no use for Tom Osborne, other than to use his name and likeness on the outside of the stadium.

Others note that in a recent UNL survey, the athletic department had the lowest morale of any department on campus.

Others note that former players have been hasseled or asked to stay away from the program.

Are these major deals?  Individually, no.  But when you step back and look at everything...

Many still can't forgive him for firing Solich.

-Many must've enjoyed being beaten soundly by 4 TD's on our home field by teams that NU had owned for 50 years.

Many still remember how Pederson stumbled through the coaching search.

-Many must feel pretty bold in criticizing the process that landed a coach who had been in the super bowl less than 365 days prior.

Many still remember how he insisted that he never offered the job to Houston Nutt.

-Anyone who still thinks that Houston Nutt's word is still beyond reproach apparently hasn't read this:
http://www.thevegetable.net/VoxPoppe...

Others still remember how he bumbled through the scheduling mess with Houston.  (Though this year's game at Wake Forest is turning out to be a better game than hosting Houston would have been this season...)

-Oh my...NU had scheduling issues!  That's never happened before...what a scathing indictment.

Others still remember how he yanked Nebraska baseball off of NET and CSTV to protest Kevin Kugler's criticism.

-And yet, a majority of others still couldn't care less about baseball.

Others note that Steve Pederson has no use for Tom Osborne, other than to use his name and likeness on the outside of the stadium.

-I've seen TO at multiple home games in every year of Pederson's tenure as AD.  Pederson worked in the athletic department for a long time while TO was coach, even served as recruiting coordinator for TO.  Is there any evidence that Pederson "has no use for Tom Osborne" other than your own rhetoric?  If so, I've yet to see it from any of his detractors.

Others note that in a recent UNL survey, the athletic department had the lowest morale of any department on campus.

-Uh, OK...I haven't seen it, but was the "survey" that you mentioned connected in any way to the DN?  Because you're referring to the the same department about which the DN claimed: "But compare personnel rosters from 10 years and today, and it is difficult to find many employees who stuck around to see the changes firsthand."
After taking them up on their challenge of doing the research (that they just tossed out there for someone else to do for them) I found that in comparing the media guide from 1996 and 2006, no less than 15 people continued to work for the Athletic Department who had been retained for 10 years prior.  In fact, exactly half (8 of 16) of the Senior Athletic Department Administration positions are currently held by departmental holdovers from 1996.  So therefore, it should've been pretty EASY to find employees to interview who stuck around to see the changes firsthand.  But that doesn't exactly jive with the old chestnut about how they all hate their jobs and are so miserable...so I guess it's just acceptable to lob out some nonsense and hope that no one bothers to check you on your facts...whatever.  
But if what you propose is actually indeed the case, what were Ostergard and all of his sour grapes all about?  I'd think that he should've been elated to have the chance to get out of such a low-morale environment.  So which is it...Doak was a loyal employee who loved his job and got the shaft, or he was lucky to be able to escape the department with the "lowest morale of any department on campus"?  You can't have it both ways.

Others note that former players have been hasseled or asked to stay away from the program.

-Once again, the only public confirmation of this that I've heard was that Broderick Thomas was in some flap over sideline passes and that a bunch of Doak's cronies decided to have a golf outing on the same day as the official letterman club one...effectively forcing the hand of many former players from the old regime who also happen support the efforts of the new one.  
I can personally cite at least two dozen former players that I've seen on the sidelines for NU games since Pederson's been the AD.  Apparantly players like Johnny Rodgers (TO's earliest days) to Mike Rucker (TO's last days) and several others in between aren't on the cryptic list of those "former players who have been hasseled or asked to stay away from the program."  It's difficult to accept your presumption when players of various noteworthiness (Tommie Frazier to Vershawn Jackson) have graced the NU sidelines during Pederson's tenure.

Are these major deals?  Individually, no.  But when you step back and look at everything...

But if you keep making a mountain out of every molehill, you're bound to eventually convince a few gullible people of your version of the "big picture"...

While you disagree with the reasons why folks don't like Steve Pederson, you didn't disagree that people dislike Steve Pederson for these and other reasons.

"That's the beautiful thing about America, all of us have the right to be wrong."
--Stephen Colbert

So what?  The guy is running the athletic dept not a nursery.  Callahan was a huge find and get for the AD.  The naysayers are still irate over the Solich firing which came a year too late.  Watching KSU kick the crap out of the Big Red on our own field was simply too much. Those that don't like SP should remember that thrashing at the hands of our mortal enemy.