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1 1 Parrish draws praise By Mike Kluck Staff Reporter MANHAtTAN, Kan. — Ne braska coach Tom Osborne took time after the Comhuskers’ 48-3 victory against Kansas State Saturday to praise Kansas State coach Stan Par rish. Parrish resigned on Oct. 3, effec tive at the end of this season. Parrish, who’s in his third year at Kansas State, has a 2-26-1 record and is 0-3 against Nebraska. This season, the Wildcats are 0-7 overall and 0-3 in the Big Eight “I want to wish Coach Parrish well,” Osborne said. “I think he has been acredit to the conference. I don’t know what they’re looking for down there. I don’t know if they’ll find a better coach. i m sorry that he didn t have more of whatever he needed to have down there to stay because he would have done a good job. We hate to see him go.” The Huskers’ victory Saturday gave diem a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A record of 27-straight winning sea sons. Osborne has coached the Husk ers for 16 seasons while former coach Bob Devaney, who’s now Nebraska’s athletic director, coached the preced ing 11. In contrast, Parrish will be leaving the losingest college football program in NCAA history. Kansas State has an all-time record of 299 506-40 compared to Nebraska’s rec ord of 629-279-39. Kansas State’s last winning season came in 1982 under former coach Jim Dickey, who led the Wildcats to a 6-5-1 record and an Independence Bowl appearance. Parrish is Kansas State’s fifth < coach since 1962 while Nebraska has had only two coaches during the same period — Osborne and Devaney. Before arriving in Manhattan, Parrish had a 55-11-2 collegiate coaching record. He spent five years at Wabasn (Ind.) College and two years at Marshall University in Hunt ington, West Va. In his first season at Marshall, he compiled a 6-5 record, which was the Thundering Herd’s first winning season in 20 years. Parrish’s game preparation and the Wildcats’ play Saturday drew praise from Husker coaches and players. ■ wc reauy iook up to Kansas aiaie for the way their kids played,” Ne braska defensive coordinator Charlie McBride said. “They knew what they were in for but they never never gave up in the whole game. They could have surrendered but they didn’t “It was good for us that they didn’t because I felt like we got a lot of work out of it and we got to see a lot of different things defensively. It will help to give our kids more confi dence." Parrish said Kansas State has a chance to become a respectable team in the future. He said the Wildcats also have a chance to win some games this season. “We competed hard today and that was what we were really pushing,” Parrish said. “If our kids hang in there, I still think we can win a game or two.’
