Fwd: Re: [Husker] Character

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It would be my guess that most "winning coaches" would
be thought of as men with great character. Coaches
with poor character usually dont last very long. The
University will get tired of them, the fans will get
tired of them and the players will get real tired of
them. They may win for a short period of time but will
not last for 25 years. I would doubt that you could
name a coach with more then 15 years experience, and a
winning percentage of 60% or better who would be
described as a man of poor character. If you look at
the men many think of as great coaches, TO, Bobby
Bowden, Joe Pa, Alonzo Stagg, Eddie Robinson, just to
name a few, they  are more often then not, considered
men of great character just as much as winning
coaches. These men were kept around just as much for
there character as they were for how much they have
won. Winning may have got them the job but their
character helped them keep it.


--- Bob Beach <rbeach at neb.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 2/26/2005 at 4:14 PM Andrew Smith
> <arossman at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >>I would not expect a coach to last 25 years based
> on character alone 
> >>either and I have seen no postings to the list
> claiming so.
> 
> 
> 
>     I never said you said it or anyone else said it
> before.  I said I had asked the question before.
> 
> 
> 
> >>I said it was "quite likely" that TO would have
> been ousted.  I'm not 
> >>certain that it would have occurred, but there
> were periods when a large 
> >>number of people felt that TO did not have the
> ability to win the big 
> >>games and never would.
> 
> 
>      I agree with you here.  This was happening. 
> But, there was never a time where TO was in danger
> of losing his job.  This "large number of people"
> you suggest were fans basically and a few boosters. 
> There was never a time Bob Devaney considered firing
> Osborne and it wasn't character that kept him there.
>  Devaney knew he had a winner.  I for one had always
> made the statement NU will always have a great
> program under TO but will never win the National
> Championship.  I am glad I was wrong.  But even
> though I felt that way I didn't want him fired.
> 
> 
> 
> >>TO clearly felt this dissatisfaction to the 
> >>point that he seriously considered coaching
> elsewhere.  
> 
> 
> 
>      That is true but that was TO fed up with the
> "BS" if you will.  That would have been his choice. 
> He wasn't about to be ousted.
> 
> 
> >>I'm glad you hear you say it.  Some of your
> previous comments such 
> >>"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" seemed to me to 
> >>suggest otherwise.
> 
> 
> 
>      There is a difference between character and
> perfection.  I believe TO was/is a man of character.
>  I don't believe he was/is perfect.  I am not
> suggesting you said he was perfect.  I am just
> saying he is as capable of error as anyone else.  
> Even though a person has character they are still
> capable of mistakes, failures, and errors in
> judgement on occasion.  TO would be no exception. 
> So to suggest maybe something knowingly slipped
> through the cracks doesn't change my respect for
> him.  It is just food for discussion.
> 
> 
> Bob Beach
> The more one knows the more one realizes how much
> there is one doesn't know.
> 
> 
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