Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne
Thomas William Osborneis a former American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and politician from Nebraska. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska football team for 25 years, from 1973 to 1997. Osborne was one of the most successful coaches in American college football history, with a career record of 255–49–3, 13 conference championships, and three national championships. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1999. Osborne was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 February 1937
CityHastings, NE
CountryUnited States of America
When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement
I still miss the players and I miss the game and the strategy. The first couple years were really difficult. Now I realize I'll never coach again. It's still hard to go into the stadium on a game day, because it's hard to just be a fan. But it's easier now than it was the first two or three years.
As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.
It will be the first Osborne-on-Osborne battle. And, that is my birthday. So the best gift I could have would be a great night from our players against my dad's team. It should be fun.
I think we have a lot of confidence, and I think we've got a lot of athletic ability. We have put in more offense in a week and a day than we ran all of last season. We had 14 seniors last year, but seven of those were first-year players. So now, most of our kids have been in the system at least a year, with some having two or three years' experience.
Our state's foster-care system has been badly in need of major reform for quite some time.
I think he pretty well had run the string out.
Kate will bring unquestioned integrity, values and work ethic to the lieutenant governor's office, ... She is not afraid to challenge the status quo, and she believes, as I do, that Nebraskans are not satisfied with 'pretty good' or 'good enough.' With Kate on our team, I am convinced more than ever that we can transform Nebraska into a world-class performer on every level.
Michael's condition from a layman's point of view is that he just doesn't perceive and think like most 14- and 15-year-old young men.
When you get your quarterback back, now that's a big deal. USC, because of that factor, if you had to pick a team, they'd be the favorite.
When you get your quarterback back, now that's a big deal, ... USC, because of that factor, if you had to pick a team, they'd be the favorite.
I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.
We didn't do anything fancy, ... we did use some misdirection.... That did help to some degree.
We worked our tails off this week. We were really disappointed in the Gibson Southern finish. So I told them at halftime tonight that we were going to need at least 17 more points to win it, and they believed it.