[Husker] Osborne

[Andy Knipp]

Or he did not want to answer that question.  IIRC FS stated he would not answer
"due to privacy concerns".


> 
> 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
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> >> 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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