Huskers hire Teddy Owens as Administrative Coordinator

[HuskerBB]

 

When I heard that we hired Teddy Owens the first thing that popped into my mind was that his Dad never won a game in the Devaney Sports Center.  I was pretty sure that was true and I went back and checked and Ted was in fact 0-7 in his trips to Devaney as the head coach at Kansas.  He actually lost the last 8 times played against us in Lincoln and was just 6-19 in Lincoln during his tenure as the head coach at KU.  Of course I am sure he fared much better in the games in Lawrence but I did not add those up.

 

Maybe it is a good thing we are moving out of the BDSC before we have Ted(dy) Owens on our staff

 

Ted did have better luck at BDSC as a recruiter as I also recall him being at the HS state tournament  recruiting Ron Kellogg who signed with him at KU.  Not sure if Kellogg got there to play before Ted got fired - maybe he did for 1 year.

The nostalgic part of me likes this hire.  I'm old enough to have attended some of those 7 games he coached here.  Unfortunately, I missed the half court shot by Bobby Moore to beat KU in '79, 

Pretty sure you are right, HuskerBB, that Kellogg played for Ted Owens as a freshman.

 

 

I was there to see that Bobby Moore shot.  One of my favorite Husker memories.   Don't remember much else about that game but I will never forget that shot.

[HB]

 

I think that Fran is a great friend of this program.

He always seemed to like Doc, and has good things to say about Tim.

He has always said great things about this program when he writes about us or when he did the color for any of our games.

I kind of thought he might be our next coach when Doc was let go.

 

Don't know how many on here will remember this but Frischilla was actually an assistant coach (or almost one anyway) at NU for about 10 days.  He was on Danny Nee's staff at Ohio and was coming with Danny but then got a better offer.  Can't remember for sure whether they gave him the head job at Ohio then or if it was something else.

 

 

It was a huge culture shock for Fran in the great plains, and he bolted after a week or so.  I think he returned to Ohio as an assistant for Billy Hahn, Danny's replacement at Ohio, but I can't recall for sure.  He didn't become a head coach until he got the Manhattan job in the early 90's.  Wish he would have stuck around.  Better yet, I wish Danny had hired Dana Altman from Moberly JC instead of Fraschilla, so we get Mitch Richmond.  Dana goes to K-State that year, and the rest is history.  However, Fraschilla's replacement, Gary Bargen, was a decent assistant for many years. 

[hhcmatt]

I think Owens is running the HuskerHoops twitter account these days.  It has a bit more punch to it.