Tom Osborne
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" Thomas William "Tom" Osborne" is a former American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and politician from Nebraska. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska football team for 25 years, from 1973 to 1997. Osborne was one of the most successful coaches in American college football history, with a career record of 255–49–3, 13 conference championships, and three College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS/national championships. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1999. Osborne was later elected United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district, as a Republican Party (United States)/Republican. He served three terms, from 2001 to 2007. In 2007, he returned to the University of Nebraska as athletic director (AD). He retired as AD in January 2013.

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Some people feel like we didn't do anything to him. But I imagine by suspending him, I took several million dollars away from Lawrence Phillips. He's paid a price.

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It sounded like he was getting things on track. I'm just really embarrassed and sorry for the people that he hurt. I did everything I could to help him, but apparently it wasn't enough.

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

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I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

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I think he pretty well had run the string out.

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Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

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Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

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When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

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You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely.

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