Huskers.com Camera Visits T.O. Radio Show

The Tom Osborne Radio Show, a.k.a. the T.O. Show, got a visitor Monday night ? from video shooter Jake Brokaw, a University of Nebraska journalism student on a new two-year internship with Huskers.com.

It wasn’t exactly Mike and Mike in the Morning, but Tom and Greg in the Evening was entertaining fare as Greg Sharpe pinch hit for an ailing Lane Grindle, giving the Husker Sports Network play-by-play announcer the opportunity to ask Nebraska’s athletic director about a variety of topics.

Osborne made these observations:

?         Ben Gregory, the late former Husker running back who was Nebraska basketball Hall of Famer Stuart Lantz’s closest friend since childhood, could have been Nebraska’s “best football player ever” if injuries had not cut short his career.

?         The 1962 Nebraska team, which will wear throwback uniforms for the Huskers’ 300th consecutive sellout crowd this fall, was loaded with talent. Osborne called Bob Brown “a great college football player and a great pro player who is in both Hall of Fames.” He also mentioned Lloyd Voss, Dennis Claridge, the late Bobby Hohn, Dennis Stuewe and Kent McCloughan.

 

?         Nebraska is playing the hand it’s been dealt in terms of a football schedule, but both Bo Pelini and Jeff Jamrog are trying to upgrade the Huskers’ overall schedule in the future. Osborne said many non-BSC schools are demanding $800,000-$1 million to travel to BSC schools for single games. He added that with Nebraska having one less home game this year, “we’re  already down $3.5 million in terms of revenue.”

?         Osborne joked that in 1962, former Nebraska running back Coach Mike Corgan was in charge of the uniforms that Nebraska will replicate this season for homecoming. “Mike did all of the equipment purchases,” Osborne said. “He was like Penn State. He wanted everything plain vanilla ? pants, helmets and jerseys.”

?         Nebraska’s athletic director said the 1962 season “brings back a lot of memories. It was the first winning season in 16 years. I remember Harry Tolly (1957-58-59 Husker quarterback) was a graduate assistant coach at the same time I was, and he came over to me after the Gotham Bowl and said: ?Can you believe that we won nine games?’ It really was an unbelievable season.”

?         The primary reason the Huskers turned things around so quickly in Bob Devaney’s first season as head coach was the solidarity of Nebraska’s staff. ”When Devaney came from Wyoming, he brought a very good staff that had been together for six or seven years,” Osborne pointed out. “They were good coaches, and they knew how to get everyone together on the same page.”