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Nebraska's Next A.D.: Is Ed Stewart Already In?

Writer Lars Anderson tweets that his 'most trusted' Nebraska source says the former Husker linebacker is the pick for athletic director.
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Journalist Lars Anderson tweeted Friday evening what many Husker followers had been speculating for much of the day -- that former Nebraska linebacker and veteran sports administrator Ed Stewart will be the next athletic director in Lincoln.

"Hearing from my most trusted @HuskerFBNation source, the next Athletic Director at Nebraska will be Ed Stewart," Anderson's tweet states.

The position opened up unexpectedly earlier Friday when Bill Moos announced his retirement, effective June 30.

It was Anderson whose tweets about the impending hires of football coach Scott Frost in 2017 and basketball coach Fred Hoiberg in 2019 proved correct.

Stewart, 49, is the Big 12 Conference's executive associate commissioner for football and has been with the league for 14 years after working at the University of Missouri and Michigan State University. As a senior at Nebraska, he was a captain of the 1994 national championship team and was a Butkus Award finalist and the Big Eight Defensive Player of the Year.

A native of Lincoln, Neb., Anderson wrote for Sports Illustrated for 20 years starting in 1994 following a stint as a reporter at the Lincoln Journal Star. He received a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and a master's from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has written several books and currently teaches journalism at the University of Alabama.

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JOE HUDSON

Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.

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