Bertman not contacted

Skip Bertman was called by a reporter from Nebraska and says he had no idea anyone was coming to interview Pelini because nobody asked permission.

Lincoln Journal Star
Coincidence?

A private plane, a Cessna Citation CJ3 (twin-jet), left Lincoln Municipal Airport at 1:14 Sunday afternoon.

It's supposed to arrive in Baton Rouge at 3:19.

The plane is owned by Norfolk Iron and Metal, a company out of Nebraska.

Dick Robinson, president of Norfolk Iron and Metal, declined comment Sunday as to why the plane was headed to Baton Rouge.

"We have a policy that we don't reveal that type of information," said Robinson, a substantial booster to the athletic program.

In 2006, Robinson was presented with the Clarence Swanson Memorial Award.

The award honors a person "for outstanding contributions to the University of Nebraska and the Husker athletic department."

When told of the flight, LSU athletic director Skip Bertman said: "Are you kidding me?"

Bertman said nobody has contacted him regarding LSU's defensive coordinator Bo Pelini, considered a lead candidate for the Husker head coaching job.

"I don't think Tom Osborne would do it any other way," Bertman said.

However, "It's probably not absolutely, positively mandatory for an assistant. I don't suppose he felt he had to contact me, I guess."

This comes a day after three sources told the Journal Star a private search firm had contacted Pelini about the Husker job.

Saturday, a source close to Pelini said the former Husker assistant was in the process of trying to arrange time for an interview with NU officials.