[Husker] Bo Knows Stubborn

[Steve Reichenbach]

> I clearly remember Osborne making a comment one time about
> running a play until the defense can stop it, sometimes which got him
> accused of running up the score because teams had a hard time even stopping
> the fullback dive play in the fourth quarter of games.  I'd love to be able
> to see that style of play return.

Recollections of the TO era are well colored by the run from 1993-1997,
which was one of the greatest periods for any college football team.
However, it is just as easy for me to remember _heavy_ criticism of
Osborne for continuing to run plays that weren't working.  Many of
today's fans might not remember that heavy criticism of Osborne in
his first four years led him to consider the CU job nor even the heavy
criticism in the late 1980s and early 1990s that included the DN's
call for him to retire and SI running a story about the inexorable
slide of the NU football.  Osborne couldn't win the big game; Osborne
ran an outdated style of football that couldn't score enough to be
competitive with top teams; Osborne's play calling was too predictable;
etc.

We'd all love to see the years of 1993-1997 return, but this year was
really not much different than most of the seasons under TO.  Any fan
who remembers the 1970s and 1980s can affirm that truth.  The DN opined
that fans were sick of 1, 2, and 3 loss seasons and so NU should push
Osborne out and get a coach who could win a championship.  People need
to remember that even the best coaches don't win all their games every
year and I hope that people have learned from Pederson's firing of
Solich and his staff after a 10-3 season that changing everything is
not necessarily an improvement.