[Husker] Source of Tom Osborne's stature [was: Birkel]

[Theodore Heise]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Bob Beach wrote:
>
>      And you don't think 9 plus wins a year had anything to do
> with it?  I have posted this before but do you believe TO could
> have been the great and glorious upright man that he was while
> coaching NU for 25 years and had a less than .500 record and be
> looked the way he is today.

I don't think the wins had anything to do with TO being viewed as
upright.  Dick Karre was right on target in saying both the wins and
the character of the man contributed to TO's reputation, and I think
both applied to TO being great and glorious.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA