[Husker] Osborne

[Sean McGrath]

I wonder if Osborne meant scholarship players not testing positive
because I know of two guys from South High who walked on in the late
eighties and by ninety or ninety-one were kicked off the team for
testing positive to often for steroids. It was very apparent since one
of them gained about fifty or sixty pounds of muscle from sophomore to
junior year in high school. They both went on to play for smaller
colleges in the area. 

Sean 

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of Bob Beach
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:49 AM
To: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Osborne





On 2/23/2005 at 7:09 PM Mike and Kelly Petersen wrote:

>>Bob,
>>So what is the point of all of this " What did Osborne know and when
did
>>he know it"?


     You will have to tell me.  He says of those tested no one tested
positive.  I'll buy that.  What about those not tested or those tested
after they have quit using the stuff for a while?  Steroids were used
while TO was the coach.  Either he honestly didn't know or he let it go
on.  It has to be one or the other.  





>>I haven't heard anyone call him a saint, but winning games wasn't the
>>only thing that 
>>kept him his job. His character was equally important. 



      I will agree it was wonderful to have a man that could win games
along with being a man of character.  But, you can't seriously make me
believe if TO couldn't have ever finished above .500 his character would
have mattered and kept him Head Coach for 25 years.  It was indeed
winning that kept him Head Coach for 25 years. He could have been a man
of the highest integrity ever but if he couldn't have won a football
game the wolves would have been out.  If his character wouldn't have
been what it was but his record would have been he still could have
coached at NU for 25 years.  If it was vice versa I doubt he would have
lasted that long.  The point is people want wins plain and simple.  NU
fans are no different than anyone else.


Bob Beach
The more one knows the more one realizes how much there is one doesn't
know.




      


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