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Paula Lavigne
OPINION
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I
Our
VIEW
Respected
coach
Osborne impresses
fans for 25 years
After the fireworks, after the media inter
views, after winning his 250th game, after
etching just another spot in the history of col
lege athletics, where is a man to go?
For Tom Osborne, it’s back to work. Back
to practice Monday. Same as ever.
He’s had the same job for 25 years -
impressive for any job, let alone the top job at a
football powerhouse school in a football
crazed state. Nebraska has student athletes that
last longer than coaches at lesser programs.
And he did what only 10 other football
coaches have ever done. Tom Osborne won 250
games in only 25 years - an unparalleled feat.
Lavished in fireworks, HuskerVision
shows, and cheering fans, Osborne did what
he does best - deferred the glory to others.
“I’ve been a small part of this, and I really
mean that,” Osborne said Saturday.
We could have predicted as much from
him. His mannerisms are as predictable as his
game plans.
But like his football, Osborne is going to
run his modesty right at you - see if you can
stop yourself from respecting him.
Osborne has been described as “Football’s
Father Flanagan” among other such lavish
titles (GQ magazine called him God). And for
all the criticism his program has received the
past few years for harboring less-than-perfect
citizens, it’s a testament to his character that he
should walk away with such a title.
' Osborne has endured much in 25 years,
from criticism to expectations to crime to
tragedy. From the top of the nation two years
in a row to cry-baby fans weeping over a sea
son with two losses.
But year after year, the loyalty of his play
ers is never questioned.
Defensive end Grant Wistrom said winning
Saturday’s game was about no one but Osborne.
“Nobody wanted to be the person to let
Coach Osborne down,” Wistrom said.
But Mr. Wistrom’s words beg a question.
How long can Tom Osborne go?
How many more 10-plus win seasons,
bowl games, spring practices and recruiting
trips does he have in him?
At a time when college basketball is reel
ing from North Carolina legend Dean Smith
hanging up the towel because he lost the
desire, how is Osborne’s desire?
At 60 yeafs old, Osborne would be in the
twilight of his career if he were a banker, a
businessman, a bus driver.
But he’s not that.
He’s Tom Osborne.
Father Flanagan.
God.
Despite our differences in the past with
the coach (l^e did kick us out of practices
because of some editorial cartoons), he has
never lost our respect.
And he has our support for another 25
years as the only title he ever asked for.
Coach.
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Haney’s
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DN
LETTERS
More due credit
Dear Mr. Fredregill,
I would like to thank you and all
of your fraternity brothers for helping
out around campus and around
Lincoln.
In this same light, I would like to
thank: Bob Reynolds, a mechanic, for
picking up a stranded driver outside
Waverly; Alice Schmidt, a housewife,
for shoveling her elderly neighbor’s
driveway in Waterloo; David Abbott,
a physician, for clearing fallen
branches out of a neighbor’s yard in
Omaha; and the entire Army National
Guard.
Can you see where I am going
with this, Jason?
You see, helping others in times
of need, whether you know them or
not, is a big part of being a
Nebraskan. Our service stems from
our proud heritage of bam raising and
harvest times. We help one another
out and expect that they would do the
same for us in return if situations
were reversed. I cannot believe you, a
resident of Nebraska, would stoop to
asking for thanks. Hundreds of thou
sands of people across the state vol
unteered to help those in need only
because they were in n^ed, not
because they wanted “due credit”-*
Should Gov. Nelson thank each
one individually? ' * >„
Hunt this
As a sometime hunter, I was quite
offended by Mr. Haney’s cartoon in
Monday’s DN. While Mr. Haney may
be quite sincere in his belief that
hunters are either stupid or blood
thirsty, he is also quite mistaken.
The vast majority of hunters are
out there to (1) put food on the table
and (2) enjoy being outdoors in
nature.
We are far more aware of how
easy it is to get meat from the store,
but we choose the hard way because it
gets us outdoors and a chance to par
take in the more natural environment
away from cities and towns. Has Mr.
Haney ever experienced just how dif
ficult it can be for us clumsy, noisy,
deaf and sniff-challenged humans to
outwit a whitetail? I’d guess not.
Myself, I haven’t gone hunting
this year, and I’ve killed one deer my
entire life (out of a good number of
years trying). The kill is NOT the
important thing to me - being out
there in the woods is. If I’m success
I ill I llllllll—
ful in killing a deer to take home to
the freezer, great. If not, I still count
every trip a success.
As for “Bambi,” now there is a
wonderfully unbiased example of
ecology and wildlife management.
Humans are the evil slaughterers,
while the cute, little, woodlands crit
ters are the innocents. Yeah, that
makes for a really good scientific
basis of maintaining a healthy, sound,
wildlife population. If Mr. Haney
thinks this is good, he should come to
Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue and see
the effects of a major population
explosion amongst the protected
deer. It’s not pretty.
I know there’s little chance Mr.
Haney will change his mind, but I
firmly believe that the DN should in
fairness print the other side of the
story, just to counter Mr. Haney’s
ability to put his own opinions out
every single day.
James F. Cornwall
graduate student,
Lnk S^ther
sophomore
biological chemistry
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So what is it?
Why is Barb Churchill so mad
about contract marriages? It’s just a
proposed option, not a change in cur
rent marriage laws. She’s mad at Don
Stenberg because he won’t validate
her depression, and now he won’t let
her feel good about her divorce. Ugh.
For what cause is she fighting? I’ve
been reading all semester and I still
can’t figure it out. The biggest prob
lem with her writing is that it’s all
reaction, no facts. All “pity me” and
no self-reflection. I was 100 times
more moved by the Waffle House col
umn.
Victoria Kovar
Lincoln
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