AuroranHusker
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TO's trip to Austin
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HuskerTrucker
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I wouldn't read too much into TO staying in Austin for an extra day or so...a lot of reasons he could be doing that.
HuskerPharaoh
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03HuskerAlum
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melscott62
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CornFedHusker55
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I doubt he will be making a visit. He's most likely taking a separate flight because it's difficult to fly when having heart problems and being 70 years old.
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red
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I think he meant he's recruiting rugby players...
A hooker in rugby is a player who hooks the ball in the front line of scrummage.
We definitely need some of those...
HuskerPharaoh
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huskernation20
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Acutally he went home and watched the volleyball game on T.V. And he was going to respond to letters written to him. Sorry, no trip to Austin.
Osborne learning about department
BY STEVEN M. SIPPLE / Lincoln Journal Star (LINK)
Tom Osborne sat and chatted with embattled Nebraska football coach Bill Callahan Wednesday morning.
It was nothing earth-shattering.
“We just talked in general,” Osborne said late Wednesday afternoon. “It’s not appropriate for me to try to intercede in anything.”
Osborne has been Nebraska’s interim athletic director for exactly one week. He’s basically in an orientation period, he said, and trying to do more listening than talking.
This much is certain: He wants to model his management style after that of former Nebraska athletic director Bob Devaney. The late Devaney was a Hall of Fame coach for the Huskers (1962-72) before working full-time as athletic director from 1967-93, serving as Osborne’s boss while Osborne strolled the sideline.
“Bob just hired people and let them do their thing,” Osborne said. “I think it’s really a mistake to try to meddle. Where you see that being done, I don’t think it usually works very well.”
Osborne chose his words carefully. The Nebraska football team (4-4, 1-3 Big 12) has lost three straight games by wide margins, and many fans assume Callahan won’t be back next season. Osborne reiterated that the fourth-year coach and his staff would be evaluated at the end of the season.
“With anything I say, I don’t want to have people assume I’m necessarily out looking for other coaches, because I’m not,” Osborne said. “I just hope we can finish strong these next four games.”
For the most part, Osborne said, he has been trying to respond to correspondence, numbering in the hundreds, if not thousands.
“I’m being inundated with a lot of mail and phone calls,” he said. “They’re mostly well-wishers. Not much negative.”
Osborne received about 50 letters Tuesday, said Randy York, Nebraska associate athletic director for communications. Osborne’s e-mail bin, of course, overflows, as did the briefcase he carried out of the Tom and Nancy Osborne Athletic Complex around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
He was headed home to watch Nebraska play Texas in volleyball on television. He also planned to answer some of those letters.
“You don’t want to have people feel you’re not appreciative and that you don’t care, so I’m trying to answer as many as I can,” Osborne said. “That’s taking a lot of time.”
He had a meeting with the entire athletic department — about 230 people — Tuesday morning.
“My main priority is to get around and see all of the personnel,” Osborne said. “I want to get around and see them all personally. See where they work and talk to them a little bit. I want to find out a little bit more about what they do and what kind of things they think are priorities.”
He has met individually with a few coaches and eventually wants to meet with them all.
“I think the thing I have to do right now more than anything is to listen to all of our coaches — not to tell, but to listen as carefully as I can,” he said.
Osborne was hired as interim athletic director after Steve Pederson’s firing last week. Pederson’s management style was cited as a key reason for his dismissal.
Asked how he would describe morale in the athletic department before his hiring, Osborne said, “I know there were some people struggling. I don’t know that I was around enough previously to have a real good sense of it.
“They tell me it’s better now, that things are going well. It seems like the meeting (Tuesday) generally was well-received. I tried to express an appreciation for what they do and encourage them to express appreciation to other people who work with them.
“Hopefully, we can get that turned around.”
Briefly
Osborne said he has talked to Paul Meyers about possibly returning as Nebraska’s associate athletic director for athletic development. Meyers, regarded as a key cog in NU fundraising, resigned earlier this month.
“I don’t know what his decision is, but I have an interest in Paul coming back,” Osborne said Wednesday evening.
Osborne learning about department
BY STEVEN M. SIPPLE / Lincoln Journal Star (LINK)
Tom Osborne sat and chatted with embattled Nebraska football coach Bill Callahan Wednesday morning.
It was nothing earth-shattering.
“We just talked in general,” Osborne said late Wednesday afternoon. “It’s not appropriate for me to try to intercede in anything.”
Osborne has been Nebraska’s interim athletic director for exactly one week. He’s basically in an orientation period, he said, and trying to do more listening than talking.
This much is certain: He wants to model his management style after that of former Nebraska athletic director Bob Devaney. The late Devaney was a Hall of Fame coach for the Huskers (1962-72) before working full-time as athletic director from 1967-93, serving as Osborne’s boss while Osborne strolled the sideline.
“Bob just hired people and let them do their thing,” Osborne said. “I think it’s really a mistake to try to meddle. Where you see that being done, I don’t think it usually works very well.”
Osborne chose his words carefully. The Nebraska football team (4-4, 1-3 Big 12) has lost three straight games by wide margins, and many fans assume Callahan won’t be back next season. Osborne reiterated that the fourth-year coach and his staff would be evaluated at the end of the season.
“With anything I say, I don’t want to have people assume I’m necessarily out looking for other coaches, because I’m not,” Osborne said. “I just hope we can finish strong these next four games.”
For the most part, Osborne said, he has been trying to respond to correspondence, numbering in the hundreds, if not thousands.
“I’m being inundated with a lot of mail and phone calls,” he said. “They’re mostly well-wishers. Not much negative.”
Osborne received about 50 letters Tuesday, said Randy York, Nebraska associate athletic director for communications. Osborne’s e-mail bin, of course, overflows, as did the briefcase he carried out of the Tom and Nancy Osborne Athletic Complex around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
He was headed home to watch Nebraska play Texas in volleyball on television. He also planned to answer some of those letters.
“You don’t want to have people feel you’re not appreciative and that you don’t care, so I’m trying to answer as many as I can,” Osborne said. “That’s taking a lot of time.”
He had a meeting with the entire athletic department — about 230 people — Tuesday morning.
“My main priority is to get around and see all of the personnel,” Osborne said. “I want to get around and see them all personally. See where they work and talk to them a little bit. I want to find out a little bit more about what they do and what kind of things they think are priorities.”
He has met individually with a few coaches and eventually wants to meet with them all.
“I think the thing I have to do right now more than anything is to listen to all of our coaches — not to tell, but to listen as carefully as I can,” he said.
Osborne was hired as interim athletic director after Steve Pederson’s firing last week. Pederson’s management style was cited as a key reason for his dismissal.
Asked how he would describe morale in the athletic department before his hiring, Osborne said, “I know there were some people struggling. I don’t know that I was around enough previously to have a real good sense of it.
“They tell me it’s better now, that things are going well. It seems like the meeting (Tuesday) generally was well-received. I tried to express an appreciation for what they do and encourage them to express appreciation to other people who work with them.
“Hopefully, we can get that turned around.”
Briefly
Osborne said he has talked to Paul Meyers about possibly returning as Nebraska’s associate athletic director for athletic development. Meyers, regarded as a key cog in NU fundraising, resigned earlier this month.
“I don’t know what his decision is, but I have an interest in Paul coming back,” Osborne said Wednesday evening.
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huskersfan75
Walk-on
Read this: http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2007/1...98431616135.txt
EDIT: opps everyone had been reading the same article I was when I posted this.... :lol:
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HuskerPharaoh
Five-Star Recruit
Read that also...Myth Busted!
So much for that connection to the athletic department... :thumbs
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03HuskerAlum
Four-Star Recruit
I read that this morning as well. Looks like I'll have to stop getting tidbits of info from him. Embarrassing!
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Husker-N-okieland
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Sounds like your friend has a future in Politics, like working in the White House and Leaking info to the press.
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