[Husker] How about Monte Kiffin?

[Don Rietsch]

You are absolutely right.  I remembered the incident but had the names
wrong.  Sorry about that.  That's the price you pay for senior citizen
status...  Don

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Jerry Budd
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:32 AM
To: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] How about Monte Kiffin?

>  > If my memory serves me right, there was some friction between Kiffin
and
>>  Osborne after Osborne was named head coach.  Didn't Kiffin leave in a
huff
>>  after he was passed over for the job?  It was either Kiffin or Alvarez
that
>>  was unhappy and left NU.  Anyone on this list remember this???
>
>Kiffin was an assistant coach at Nebraska from 1966 through 1976, Osborne
>became head coach in 1973, so Kiffin worked for Osborne for 4 seasons.
>There were some assistants who left when Osborne took over, Monte wasn't
one
>of them.
>
>As far as I can tell, Barry Alvarez was never an assistant coach at
Nebraska,
>though he did play for the Huskers.  He was an assistant coach at Lincoln
>Northeast HS 1971-1973, the head coach at Lexington HS 1974-1975, the
>head coach at Mason City HS 1976-1978, an assistant at Iowa 1979-1986,
>an assistant at Notre Dame 1987-1989 and was the head coach at Wisconsin
>1990-2005.


I think that the assistant coach everyone is thinking of here is 
Warren Powers.  He exacted his payback on NU for not selecting him a 
couple of times, once with Washington St. in 77, and then a year 
later with Mizzou in 78.
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Jerry  Budd
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Native Nebraskan (Wood River, Class of 77) and Rabid Husker Fan since
birth...

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