The question becomes why did a well liked and respected athletic director announce a sudden and unexpected retirement on such short notice? I don’t have any inside information yet but my reading of the tea leaves in the press leads me to believe that Bill Moos was fired. I will go through the pertinent highlights.
“Bill Moos wouldn’t say if the decision to retire was solely his own.
He says conversations with UNL officials were “adult” but not “contentious.”
Moos said he was informed last week that he’d retire almost immediately.
“Apparently this was the best time,” Moos said. He wouldn’t say who told him he’d be retiring.
“Not going there,” said Moos, who was the highest paid A.D. in Nebraska history with a $1.15 million salary in 2021.
Pressed repeatedly by The World-Herald, Moos — typically forthcoming with the media — still wouldn’t budge.
Neither would (Chancellor Ronnie) Green.”
The next question is why was Bill Moos fired? An excerpt from the Omaha World Herald might lead one to believe that Moos wasn’t doing his job
Omaha World Herald: “Athletic department sources say Moos wasn’t around the office as much as predecessors Eichorst or Tom Osborne. Moos rarely, if ever, went to practices — he said he preferred to stay away — and outside of football, he did not have a reputation for attending many Husker sporting events either. His suite at NU basketball games was not often illuminated. He did not attend the Husker baseball team’s run in Arkansas recently.
But he was not the lead fundraiser on Nebraska’s “Go Big” football facility project, a role that went to Bounds — now a professor at the University of South Alabama with a consultant business — and associate athletic director for football Matt Davison. Moos was not as connected to some boosters as he could have been.”
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