When Nebraska officials in 2007 asked Tom Osborne to rescue the school from Steve Pederson's disastrous reign, Osborne became interim athletic director. He dropped the "interim" tag a few months later and agreed to stay on past the summer of 2010, as initially planned.
Osborne, 74, stepped down as football coach after his team beat Tennessee 42-17 in the 1998 Orange Bowl, allowing him to become the first man in college football history to retire as a reigning national champion.
I talked with Osborne in his office on March 29:
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Q: What's it like to walk into a building past your own statue?
A: I really wish the statue wasn't there. It makes me a little uncomfortable. But it is there and I don't think it'd be a very good idea to just tear it down.
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