Bob Devaney Immortalized in East Stadium Statue

[knapplc]

Bob Devaney Immortalized in East Stadium Statue

 

 

Lincoln - Two days before Nebraska hosts Wyoming in the season opener for both football teams, Nebraska Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst announced Thursday that he has commissioned a statue of Hall-of-Fame Football Coach and former Husker Athletic Director Bob Devaney. The statue will be installed in the new East Stadium Plaza which serves as the doorstep to a 52,000 square-foot research facility, 38 new suites, 6,000 new seats and a graphic-rich tribute to Nebraska football tradition inside the historic gate 20 entrance.

 

The life-sized bronze statue of Devaney, sculpted by Omaha artist Joe Putjenter, will be unveiled Friday at 4 p.m. in a brief ceremony open to the public. Mike Devaney and Rob Devaney, Bob’s respective son and grandson, will attend Friday’s dedication and share their thoughts, along with Eichorst, Tom Osborne, Nebraska’s former head coach and athletic director, and UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman.

 

“This is Memorial Stadium’s 90th anniversary season, and we wanted to recognize the man who’s widely considered the one who really built this stadium from the 36,000-seat facility it was when he arrived in Lincoln in 1962,” Eichorst said. “With the stadium’s anniversary, the dedication of the expanded East Stadium and the fact that Wyoming and Nebraska were the only two schools that Bob Devaney ever served as head football coach, we thought this was the perfect time to honor his tremendous legacy.”

 

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[suh_fan93]

Very cool. I am looking forward to seeing that.

[ColoradoHusk]

Very cool, long-time coming. It's appropriate this is done in conjunction with the East Stadium expansion.

[Count 'Bility]

All those reasons for being the perfect timing is correct. Really strange how events in life unfold in certain timetable to allow for such circumstances.

[JJ Husker]

Very nice and well deserved. I guess it really hadn't occurred to me that the Bobfather didn't already have a statue at Memorial stadium. Just seems like an appropriate thing that should have already happened.

[NUance]

I wonder if this has anything to the article Shatel wrote earlier this year calling for some sort of Devaney tribute. Or was this statue already in the works? Either way it's a great idea. The Bobfather is legendary.

[knapplc]

This makes more sense than moving the Husker Legacy statue back over there. I was also wondering how they were going to get that statue back in there since it doesn't look like the entryway would permit it, and the outer facing of the east entrance is fully installed.

 

 

 

So now I wonder if the Husker Legacy statue is just going to stay there, or if they're looking for a different home for it.

[huskeraddict]

@TunnelWalkShame: Instead of making Wyoming a power, Devaney left for Nebraska. The day their lowly ass comes to town, we unveil his statue. #PowerMove

 

EICHORST KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING

[Junior]

This makes more sense than moving the Husker Legacy statue back over there. I was also wondering how they were going to get that statue back in there since it doesn't look like the entryway would permit it, and the outer facing of the east entrance is fully installed.

 

 

 

So now I wonder if the Husker Legacy statue is just going to stay there, or if they're looking for a different home for it.

 

Where is it at now?

[knapplc]

In the grassy space in the NW corner of the stadium, between the truck docks & the Tom / Brooke statue.

[BIGREDIOWAN]

@TunnelWalkShame: Instead of making Wyoming a power, Devaney left for Nebraska. The day their lowly ass comes to town, we unveil his statue. #PowerMove

 

EICHORST KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING

I love it.........and it makes sense to put the statue in there.

[BigRedBuster]

The only thing that would have been better is if it could have been unveiled the Saturday morning of the Nebraska Wyoming game.

[The Duke]

This is an honor long overdue for Bob Devaney. It is also a purely brilliant move by the Athletic Department to be unveiling this statue at this time. The only word to describe all of this is PERFECT!

 

It's true that Tom Osborne was the offensive genius behind our National Championships, but it was Bob Devaney, "The Bobfather" that laid the corner stone to the foundation of what all of modern day Nebraska football traditions stand on. Everything in life needs a beginning, and when Coach Devaney left the front range mountains of Wyoming to come to the heartland of Lincoln, everything for University of Nebraska changed with that one single move, to which the rest of us can only say "Thank you Bob! Job well done."

 

MEMORIAL STADIUM & NEBRASKA FOOTBALL IS: THE HOUSE THAT BOB BUILT.

[ColoradoHusk]

The only thing that would have been better is if it could have been unveiled the Saturday morning of the Nebraska Wyoming game.

Can't you be satisfied with anything?????

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Moiraine]

I'm working at 4 tomorrow