I remember serveral years ago, they interviewed Lance Van Vant, Monte Kiffin and Charlie McBride about Osborne and the interview was very telling as they all said that it would come as a shock to most about how well Osborne knew Defense and Monte stated that Osborne knew Defense so well that he could've been a DC at any big name school out there and had success. Is it any wonder why he was such a sucessful play caller and mastered the art of calling plays from the hip? 95+ % of the time they always worked as he could read a defense.
Not only that, Osborne called the entire 94 OB against FSU from the sideline as the headsets on our side were down the entire game and the only adjustments that were made were at halftime. There was nothing wrong with Bobby B's headset though and he used it. Man that old OB stadium was a real curse to us over the years from locker room issues, practice schedule issues to the issue I just mentioned as well as other things. That stadium was never kind to us.