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08-01-2006, 01:31 PM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/ncaa/08/01/bc.bkc.collier.butler.ap/index.html
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska athletic director Steve Pederson said Tuesday that Husker basketball coach Barry Collier has taken the job as athletic director at Butler University in Indianapolis.
"I just spoke with Barry Collier, and he informed me that he has accepted the athletic director position at Butler University," Peterson said in a news release. "We wish him all the best in his new career path."
Pederson said he and executive associate athletic director Marc Boehm would hold a news conference later Tuesday to discuss the Husker mens basketball program.
FoxSports.com, citing anonymous sources, reported Sunday that Collier had won the job.
Lincoln television station KOLN/KGIN cited its own anonymous sources Monday in reporting that Collier had accepted the Butler job.
Collier, who coached at Butler from 1989-2000, has declined to comment. He was the Bulldogs' winningest coach and was inducted into Butler's Hall of Fame on Saturday.
The 52-year-old Collier has headed the struggling Cornhuskers program for six years, and his job status was the subject of speculation last season before Nebraska Athletic Director Steve Pederson announced after the Big 12 tournament that Collier would be retained.
If he had been fired at the end of the season, it would have cost Nebraska $976,090 to buy out the last two years of Collier's four-year contract.
The Cornhuskers finished 19-13 last season but lost six of their last eight regular-season games to finish in sixth place in the Big 12 at 7-9. They knocked off Missouri and Oklahoma to reach the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament.
The Huskers played in the NIT, losing to Hofstra.
Collier left Butler in 2000, going 196-132 with winning records in all but two of his 11 years. He guided the Bulldogs to the NCAA tournament in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
As a player at Butler, Collier was the team's co-MVP in 1975-76.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska athletic director Steve Pederson said Tuesday that Husker basketball coach Barry Collier has taken the job as athletic director at Butler University in Indianapolis.
"I just spoke with Barry Collier, and he informed me that he has accepted the athletic director position at Butler University," Peterson said in a news release. "We wish him all the best in his new career path."
Pederson said he and executive associate athletic director Marc Boehm would hold a news conference later Tuesday to discuss the Husker mens basketball program.
FoxSports.com, citing anonymous sources, reported Sunday that Collier had won the job.
Lincoln television station KOLN/KGIN cited its own anonymous sources Monday in reporting that Collier had accepted the Butler job.
Collier, who coached at Butler from 1989-2000, has declined to comment. He was the Bulldogs' winningest coach and was inducted into Butler's Hall of Fame on Saturday.
The 52-year-old Collier has headed the struggling Cornhuskers program for six years, and his job status was the subject of speculation last season before Nebraska Athletic Director Steve Pederson announced after the Big 12 tournament that Collier would be retained.
If he had been fired at the end of the season, it would have cost Nebraska $976,090 to buy out the last two years of Collier's four-year contract.
The Cornhuskers finished 19-13 last season but lost six of their last eight regular-season games to finish in sixth place in the Big 12 at 7-9. They knocked off Missouri and Oklahoma to reach the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament.
The Huskers played in the NIT, losing to Hofstra.
Collier left Butler in 2000, going 196-132 with winning records in all but two of his 11 years. He guided the Bulldogs to the NCAA tournament in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
As a player at Butler, Collier was the team's co-MVP in 1975-76.