Dr. Tom happy for Gill getting the KU job

N

Nexus

All-American
LAWRENCE — It was 2007 when Tom Osborne had to make the tough call. He had to tell Turner Gill, a man he admires, a man who played and coached for him, a man he thought deserved a job, that he was hiring someone else.
"Probably the hardest decision I had to make, the hardest phone call I had to make was to tell Turner we were going to hire Bo Pelini instead of him," Osborne, the former Nebraska coach and current athletic director, said on ESPN's "Outside the Lines."

So when Osborne heard Gill, the fourth-year coach at the University at Buffalo, was a candidate to take over at Kansas, Osborne was rooting for him.

"There's no question that Turner really stood out," Osborne told The Topeka Capital-Journal on Saturday.

KU athletic director Lew Perkins obviously agreed.

Perkins is expected to announce Gill as the Jayhawks' 37th football coach within the next two days. Gill will replace Mark Mangino, who resigned under pressure Dec. 3.

When Gill takes over at KU, he will inherit a program that is bigger, brighter and shinier than the one Mangino took over in 2002. Kansas' facilities now are competitive with the best in the Big 12. The Jayhawks are only a few games removed from their last Top 25 ranking. They sell out more games than not.

Gill, with a 20-30 record and a Mid-America Conference championship to his name, finally will have the chance Osborne couldn't give him.

And Osborne will have reason to smile.

"I think a great deal of him," Osborne said less than an hour before news spread that KU was turning to Gill. "You just want good people to have good opportunities. I think he'd be a good choice and an excellent coach for Kansas."

http://cjonline.com/sports/football/2009-1...ooting_for_gill
Click to expand...
 
I'm happy for Turner too. I hope he goes 11-1 every year with the 1 loss against us. Anything that makes the North stronger is ok in my book.

 
Was hoping we would never have to face one of his teams. Now it will be every year. Congrats to him, he deserves the job. He has been and always will be my favorite Husker.

GBR!!!

 
I hope Kansas fans realized what just happened to them. They are in for some amazing times once Turner gets the thing off the ground. He won a championship at Buffalo with literally nothing to work with. It may take a season or two, but Kansas will aid Nebraska and Missouri in restoring some pride to the North.

 
Happy for Gill but I am really pissed because now I cannot dislike KU as much as I have in recent years. Thanks Turner!! :P

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Its a shame he wasn't offered the Auburn job last year so we could root for him all the time.

But Kansas is better than him being at Colorado or KSU. Go Jayhawks (except when they play us)

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top