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Winningest Active Coaches 1 TOmoSto™, Nebraska 16' "la 3? T .811 2 Joe Patemo, Penn State 23 212 54 2 .795 3 Bo Schembechler, Michigan 26 224 63 8 773 4 Danny Ford, Clemson 11 86 27 4 752 5 Pat Jones, Oklahoma Slate 5 44 15 0 746 6 LaVell Edwards, Brigham Young 17 155 53 1 744 7 Terry Donahue, UCLA 13 108 38 7 729 8 Pat Dye, Auburn 15 125 46 3 727 9 Bobby Bowdan, F/ooda State 23 185 70 3 .723 10 Hert)Deromedi.Centra/Michigan 11 81 34 4 .697 11 OatenHaM, Florida 5 36 1? 1 .676 12 Carte Bruce, Colorado State 17 131 66 1 666 4»i§llw„ 137,Vy69^3^v463® 14 Dick Cr 111 57 4 .657 16 Lou Hoi __. .. 141 75 5 .649 17 Clauds mm Jose State r- 13 93 51 3 .643 18 John Coopor. Ohio State 12 85 4 7 3 641 10 Jim Vouno. Amy 14 108 61 2 .637 20 Fred Akers, Purcue 14 103 5S 3 .637 BOWLS L W L T 8 8 0 12 6 1 5 110 5 2 0 3 1 0 5 8 0 7 2 1 5 2 1 8 3 1 I! 0 0 0 1 1 o m 6 5 0 7 4 0 m 6 2 0 2 1 • o m 6 5 2 * m 1 o m 2 1 0 6 0 0 !: 2 8 0 John Bruco/DaUy N* bracken Osborne edges ahead of competitors By Jeff Apel Senior Editor Troubled times for competitors and a sound program for the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln have propelled Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne to the top of his profession. Osborne became the win ningest active Division I coach this season thanks in part to the hard times that have fallen upon the Oklahoma and Penn State foot ball programs. The Sooners suffered through a series of off-the-field incidents which ultimately played a part in the resignation of Coach Barry Switzer, while Penn State coach Joe Patemo suffered through a 5-6 season last year. Osborne trailed Patemo and Switzer entering last season, but used a solid 11 -2 season to raise his 16-year coaching record at Ne braska to 158-36-2. His .811 win ning percentage edges Patemo and Michigan’s Bo Schembechier, who have compiled .795 and .773 marks. Patemo, who handed Osborne a crushing defeat in 1982, has a 23 year coaching record of 212-55-2, while Schembechler’s 26-year to tal is 225-63-8. Schembechler’s Wolverines handed Nebraska a 27 23 defeat in the 1986 Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Osborne said he credits his suc cess to a strong coaching staff, good players and strong support from the administration. He said success was hard to predict for this year’s team. 4 4 We’re just not as experienced as we’ve been in the past,” Osborne said.4 4 We lost 12 starters, and 11 of those were All-Big Eight players. So we not only have to replace a lot of people, we have to replace a lot of very talented play ers.” Trailing Osborne, Schcmbech Icr and Patemo on the coaching list areClemson’s Danny Ford and Oklahoma State’s Pal Jones. Ford’s 11-year coaching mark is 87-27-4, while Jones’ 5-year total is 44-16. The remainder of the top-10 coaches on the list are Brigham Young’s LaVell Edwards, UCLA’s Terry Donahue, Au burn’s Pat Dye, Florida State’s Bobby Bowden and Central Michigan’s Herb Deromedi. Der omedi also has the prestige of being the only coach among the top 20 who has not participated in a postseason bowl game. Osborne is the only coach on the list who has has taken his team to a bowl game throughout his coaching career. His teams have responded by compiling an 8-8 record, including a 23-3 loss to Miami in the 1989 Orange Bowl. Patemo’s bowl record stands at 12-6-1, while Schembechler’s is 5 11. Ford has compiled a 5-2 mark in postseason competition, while Jones has a 3-1 record. Jones’ Cowboys are prohibited from par ticipating in any postseason com petition this year because of NCAA probation. REVIEW from Page 11 Doug DuBose’s sports car and an Omaha businessman making pay ments for performance. The most interesting pan of the book deals with something less criminal and controversial than the other topics - Tom Osborne’s per sonality and dealings with the press. Keteyian portrays Osborne as a man under pressure to produce a dominating team without violating rules. He seems to suggest that Osborne, while making a sincere ef fort to run a clean program, is equally sincere'about keeping any problems that should crop up out of the press. Whenever reporters or columnists write anything negative about Husker football, the book says, they can expect a personal phone call or letter from Osborne. Assistant Coach John Melton con firms this, saying that Osborne will question the intentions of any re porter writing negatively. But the examination of Osborne remains interesting throughout the book, alternating between his han dling of problems and the personal background that has motivated him to become the winningest coach in Division I college football. Keteyian takes readers back through the 1984 Orange Bowl loss, explaining the moments that led up to Osborne’s decision to try for a two point Conversion. To set a time frame and have the information follow a logical progres sion, Keteyian names each chapter after a day of the week leading up to the “Game of the Century II,” the showdown between No. 1-ranked Nebraska and No. 2 Oklahoma in 1987. This approach is successful in that it demonstrates the significance and stress placed on coach and play ers, and the problems that would seem to follow. But Keteyian goes too far in one instance, suggesting, in so many words and through context, that tight end Brian Hiemer’s 1985 suicide might have been related to the pres sure. That’s a pretty big claim to sug gest without any substantial evi dence, anonymous or otherwise. But, in most cases, Keteyian ef fectively and without assumption shows the pressure behind Nebraska football. “Bis Red Confidential ” is a fasci nating book and, with the exception of several long passages into such irrelevant subjects as pottery-making woodlands people of Nebraska in 100 B.C., is fast-paced reading. So much so that some, undoubt edly, will say it is a novel. Had Keteyian kept everything in the open, he wouldn’t face that prob lem. “My them lab report is due Monday. My English lit. paper is due Tuesday. My economics paper is due on Wednesday. And the big games tomorrow.'' How’re you going to do it? Now, super savings on PS/2’s. Be ready for this semester with the IBM Personal System/2.® Choose from five complete packages of hardware and software— all at special low student prices. 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