...if it pans out, this may be just like the 2nd coming of.....well, it ain't the Gipper I can tell ya that..... PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE VATICAN!!! Tuesday | October 16, 2007 BREAKING NEWS: Osborne expected to return to NU athletic department WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE Nebraska has set a press conference for 5:15 p.m. today where it is expected that former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne will be named to a role within the NU athletic department. Osborne met with NU Chancellor Harvey Perlman at 11 a.m. today.
I've read that Osborne will be the Interim AD. I would doubt that he would stay on as the permanent AD, how old is he these days? Would you guys consider hiring Mack Brown as your AD? That appears to be the only way Texas will get out from under OC Greg Davis. Bump Mack upstairs!
WHAT DOES THAT MATTER DOC?!? DR. TOM IS OUR GIPPER!! IF THE GIP WAS RESURRECTED YOU'D TAKE HIM BACK IN A HEART BEAT!!
Huskerman, Osborne certainly has the credentials for the interim job. Who do you fellows see as Callahan's replacement if he is let go at seasons end? Don
Cowher would be quite a plum for the Huskers, he plays that hard nosed tough type of football and he wants to run the football. But I thought you said no more NFL?
AJ doesn't know it, but we are secretly GIVING Dennis Franchione to Nebraska! A&M has agreed to pay his first year's salary, and Dennis has GUARANTEED the new look Huskers will definitely run the ball. 8) 8) 8)
I have it from an excellent source that Phat Phil would wear a tank top in Lincoln outside in the middle of December to have a chance to coach the Huskers! :roll:
I can't think of any college coaches who'd fit the bill. Besides, you already said it, "Hardnosed & don't forget Rockjawed". That team needs discipline in a heartbeat. Besides, i saw him on the NFL pre-game show....he needs to be coaching again...
Husker..... <r>Here you go form N. Texas.........................<br/> <br/> Cornhuskers’ demise could lead to a call to Fort Worth<br/> By GIL LeBRETON<br/> <EMAIL email="glebreton@star-telegram.com">glebreton@star-telegram.com</EMAIL><br/> <br/> It reads like a Shakespearean tragedy.<br/> <br/> <br/> The kingdom in ruins. A prince deposed. The family patriarch himself summoned to the castle to restore what once was.<br/> <br/> <br/> Et tu, Nebraska?<br/> <br/> <br/> There won’t be many sympathy cards going out on this. There’s bitter Big Eight blood still churning in too many veins.<br/> <br/> <br/> In Norman, Okla., last Saturday, news of Nebraska’s latest football misfortune prompted a lengthy round of cheers and smirks.<br/> <br/> <br/> What goes around comes around, of course, and it seems that it has finally gotten around to Lincoln, Neb.<br/> <br/> <br/> TCU football fans need to pay attention to this. <br/> <br/> <br/> A scapegoat had to be found at Nebraska, and athletic director Steve Pederson’s neck was conveniently available. After all, it was Pederson who fired the head coach that everybody complained about, and it was Pederson whose bloody fingerprints were all over the hiring of Frank Solich’s successor, Bill Callahan.<br/> <br/> <br/> The Solich firing in 2003 cost AD Pederson the support of legend-turned-congressman Tom Osborne. In hindsight, Pederson should have called for the Bekins van right there.<br/> <br/> <br/> The announcement Tuesday, therefore, that Osborne was returning to the Cornhuskers family as — trumpets and heralds, please — interim athletic director probably wasn’t a surprise. Lincoln was always an ’80s kind of town. <br/> <br/> <br/> Osborne, if he chooses, could now have the honor of firing and replacing Callahan. Sort of a Malcolm-unseats-Macbeth thing, minus the severed head, but if Callahan falls behind 38-0 at halftime again, all decapitation bets are off. <br/> <br/> <br/> And that’s where TCU’s Gary Patterson comes in. He knows the landscape. He knows defense. He’s probably going to be on Osborne’s short list.<br/> <br/> <br/> What the TCU head coach needs to remember, though, is that it wasn’t only Bill Callahan that sank the Cornhuskers into the middle of the Big 12 North pack. Osborne himself saw it coming nearly 12 years ago, and he picked the most curious time to foretell it.<br/> <br/> <br/> It was the January 1996 Fiesta Bowl, and Osborne’s Cornhuskers had just put on a performance for the ages to whip Florida 62-24 for the national title. But in the postgame interview room, Osborne didn’t seem to want to talk about that. Instead, he decried the impending merger of the Texas schools into the former Big Eight. <br/> <br/> <br/> “We have a pretty good thing going on,” Osborne said that chilly night. “I don’t know why they feel they have to mess with it.”<br/> <br/> <br/> As a condition for joining the new conference, Texas officials successfully campaigned to eliminate grants-in-aid to nonqualifiers and drastically reduce the number of partial qualifiers.<br/> <br/> <br/> Overnight, Nebraska had to play by the same scholarship rules as everyone else. <br/> <br/> <br/> Old news? Twelve years old, to be sure. But these will be the recruiting constraints for Patterson or for whoever becomes the next Cornhuskers coach.<br/> <br/> <br/> In Nebraska this week, newspaper accounts described Pederson’s firing as inevitable. His heavy-handed management style reportedly wore down the athletic department, and he had lost most of his initial support.<br/> <br/> <br/> Cornhuskers fans just want things fixed. They want their Nebraska football back. They want the good old days.<br/> <br/> <br/> Ah, right. Steroids and the Triple Option.<br/> <br/> <br/> Pederson was criticized this week for bringing in a coach with roots in the NFL. Never mind, I guess, that Pete Carroll and Nick Saban have won recent national titles with a pro résumé.<br/> <br/> <br/> Pederson tried to drag Cornhuskers football, kicking and screaming and West Coast offensing, into the new century. But in Nebraska, they’re saying that in replacing Solich with Callahan, he robbed the program — and, hence, the state — of its identity.<br/> <br/> <br/> They have the Good Ol’ Days sickness. Alabama is riddled with it. It’s giving Texas A&M a stomach flu.<br/> <br/> <br/> The tell-tale symptom: Fear of being ordinary, of being viewed as just another college football program.<br/> <br/> <br/> I won’t insult Patterson by chiding him for being interested, should the Cornhuskers call. He fits their job description — a successful track record, a midwestern boy with his roots in teaching Black Shirt-style defense.<br/> <br/> <br/> A 10-2 Nebraska team can get to a BCS bowl. A 10-2 TCU team can end up playing its bowl in Fort Worth.<br/> <br/> <br/> Patterson can stay and probably coach the Frogs as long as he wants.<br/> <br/> <br/> In Lincoln, there’s a sickness going on.</r>
You mean Paul Johnson? Nah. Take a look at what's being ran (Offense) in the Niagara Falls Area and who's running it.
If Cowher coaches again, and not in the NFL, my bet is he's gonna wait for the opening at his alma mater - NC St. He bought a house in Raleigh just prior to his resignation in Pittsburgh, has had a summer home around the corner from me for years. The locals love him and they'll gladly wait for the incumbent to step in it before drafting the local boy to bring them to glory.....book it. He has two teenage girls getting ready to leave for college so he's in no immediate hurry....I don't see him doing anything right away but enjoying the time with his family.