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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.’
