Best news for the huskers in 10 years. The Nebraska Cornhuskers are looking into their past to find an answer for their future. The school is expected to announce that Tom Osborne, who coached the Huskers for 26 seasons before serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms, will take over as athletic director at Nebraska, the Lincoln Journal Star reported Tuesday on its Web site. On Monday the school fired Steve Pederson as athletic director, a move that came on the heels of a 31-point home loss to Oklahoma State over the weekend. It was unclear whether Osborne would be named in a permanent or interim role. A press conference has been scheduled for 6:15 ET. "It'll all be laid out then," Osborne told the Journal Star during a telephone interview. Osborne never won fewer than nine games in a season while coaching in Lincoln, and his teams won two undisputed and one shared national championships.
And it can't come soon enough. The worst thing Callahan and Pederson did at Nebraska was stop the walk-on program. Those behemoth farm boys that would walk out of the corn fields and onto the football field is what made Nebraska so dominant for all those years and nobody else but they could get them.
