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Great article on Osborne!
The last thing Tom Osborne wanted was to be a distraction.
He left Nebraska as a dynasty, with three national titles in his last four years, and a perennial place in the top 10. Nebraska was one of those handful of football programs that everybody envied and everybody wanted to emulate.
But it was his choice to leave in 1997, his choice to turn his beloved Cornhuskers over to somebody else. To linger would cast a suffocating shadow across his successors, and self-aggrandizement is not the Tom Osborne way.
Great article on Osborne!
The last thing Tom Osborne wanted was to be a distraction.
He left Nebraska as a dynasty, with three national titles in his last four years, and a perennial place in the top 10. Nebraska was one of those handful of football programs that everybody envied and everybody wanted to emulate.
But it was his choice to leave in 1997, his choice to turn his beloved Cornhuskers over to somebody else. To linger would cast a suffocating shadow across his successors, and self-aggrandizement is not the Tom Osborne way.
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