Having regular lunches with MR. Very supportive. Likes what he's doing and looking for success.
TO halftime interview
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Wait... so it's ok for T.O. to mention visits with Riley, but the other way around is bad. Got it!
I thought Osborne hated him and refused to meet with him, etc
I didn't think the interview was full of praise. It was polite.
We were the best overall team in all of CFB for 30 straight years thanks to that guy. Some of the disrespect that some posters show him on this board is pathetic.
I wouldn't take that stuff at face value though, likely a lot of sarcasm behind it.
Yep, there are those that just can't do nothing but hate on Osborne. Must have hurt them something awful to see him getting interviewed.
Me too. All T.O. really said was that Riley is an experienced coach, a really nice guy, and having better luck this year than last.
Don't get me wrong - I've never been one who cares one way or the other what Osborne thinks of Riley or if he's "over" the Bo firing. But if I was concerned about that, nothing in this interview would have persuaded me that he's on-board.
Tom Osborne was alway pure class and one of the top 3 coaches of all time l.
worst post ever.
I would say Dr.Tom is the greatest football coach of all time.
then aways down would be Devaney.
than aways down from that would be your bear and lombardi types
Don't tell Herstreit that. He will throw a fit like a baby.
It is very simple. Osborne could have made yesterday's interview completly unnecessary at just any time over the last almost 2 years since the transition. Every other coach from the previous regime had been engaged and welcomed with open arms. Osborne choose not to accept the invitation and instead choose to let the "wind" dictate his approach to the current staff. Once it became quite clear that this operation is going to be successful and that they embrace the ever nebulous "Nebraska Way" he arrives at the party acting as if he had been in their corner the whole time.
The man was a great football coach, perhaps one of the greatest of all time. You would certainly never get any argument from me on that front. However, that doesn't mean that he is without fault and shielded from applicable criticism. The man defended the lunatic he hired until well after we canned him for poor performance, he is responsible for that.
Couldn't hear it very well at the get together we were at yesterday. Does anyone have a link to the interview?
I don't think Tom's problem was ever with Riley. His ire was directed at HP and the way that he prevented him from naming his successor for the AD position. It was a power and ego thing. IMO the way Riley and his staff treated Milt went a long way in healing some wounds. Riley and his staff embraced Milt and Charlie in a way that Bo and most of his staff never did.
Have to agree - one of the best coaches and opportunists of all time. As far as an AD and hiring coaches, not so much...
You really can't be serious here ? Really?
TO said, "I have had quite a bit of interaction with him lately." This interview seemed to be much more than the "I wish him the best" type comments TO made about HCMR before. Something has changed with regard to the Osborne/Riley dynamic (for the better), how and why we may never know.
Right, my guess is Riley is the one who really reached out. Very smart on his part.
How could anyone not like Riley? Tom's stubborn and used to getting his way, but he's not a fool. Tom's former players' vocal support of what Riley is doing had to help.
Osborne was one of the greatest coaches of all time. He, along with Devaney, made Husker football what it is.
As an AD he made some good decisions and some bad ones. But overall his tenure as AD was a success in my view.
But he is also human and can, like all of us, have his ego bruised and his feelings hurt.
So what?
As fans we owe that man a lot. I am willing to cut him some slack.
Also remember that he is getting old now. And as anyone can tell you who has had to watch an aging parent "decline", their emotions get less and less filtered as they age.
As an AD he made some good decisions and some bad ones. But overall his tenure as AD was a success in my view.
But he is also human and can, like all of us, have his ego bruised and his feelings hurt.
So what?
As fans we owe that man a lot. I am willing to cut him some slack.
Also remember that he is getting old now. And as anyone can tell you who has had to watch an aging parent "decline", their emotions get less and less filtered as they age.
We're seriously blessed to have TO.
I don't know why this is a big deal.
He is supportive of Riley. Some of you expect him to hand out Riley buttons to fans? Or what?
It seems people want him out of the picture, until he's out of the picture and people get mad about it..... then a random ESPN sideline reporter sees him on the sidelines and decides to interview him. Is he supposed to say no?
And somehow this interview leads to Tom being bashed???
What's really at play here is that people want to diminish Tom to prop other people up. These people are playground children.
He is supportive of Riley. Some of you expect him to hand out Riley buttons to fans? Or what?
It seems people want him out of the picture, until he's out of the picture and people get mad about it..... then a random ESPN sideline reporter sees him on the sidelines and decides to interview him. Is he supposed to say no?
And somehow this interview leads to Tom being bashed???
What's really at play here is that people want to diminish Tom to prop other people up. These people are playground children.
I was worried about backbroken. He was a one-trick pony for years with his over-the-top BO hatred. It must be tough for him now since that well dried up.
What is with the disrespect to young people? We respect Tom and some of us actually caught the tail end of the dominance.
I am on the high side of 50. We have hired many college graduates lately. I can't think of one of them I'm not impressed with. They are math and engineers. Some are smarter than others, some a little more motivated, but they are all eager and polite. Same with the young people in my volunteer groups, same with the guys and gals I chat with at my gym. So - you won't find me disparaging the young folk. I think people are people. That being said my sample size may be flawed. STEM graduates bust butt in school, volunteer people want to help others, and kids at the gym are motivated to exercise. The sample I interact with as noted above could be 10% of 20-30 year olds, and the other 90% are plotting anarchy in their parents' basement when not playing video games and bashing Tom Osborne. I never interact with kids like that.
This x 1000. Glad I am on the tail end of the baby boomer generation, so I'm not labeled as a spoiled brat because I happened to be born in the same 16-year range as 70 million other people. But I guess it's easier to claim that muh-linn-ee-uls are ruining the country if we think of them as one giant monolithic mob.
