GatorJ said:
PastyStoole;n3112 said:
The 1995 Cornhuskers set all-time records for the number of rapes, girlfriend beatings, armed assaults, random beatings, and attempted murders. Those records are considered by many CFB historians as "unbreakable." Tom Osborne cemented himself as the scummiest coach of all time that year. Those things alone are quite an accomplishment. Our 2008 team with all their potheads pales in comparison.
A great read if you have the time. I read this again several years back. A must read to really understand the depravity of that organization.
[h=1]Coach And Jury[/h] [h=2]Nebraska players charged with crimes have a steadfast ally in the man who runs the program, Tom Osborne[/h]
On Monday, Osborne said, "It's not as though Lawrence is an angry young man all the time and a threat to society. But there are occasions every four to five months where he becomes a little explosive." Osborne added that Phillips might return in a month—in time for the Oct. 28 game at Colorado, the most daunting on the Husker schedule—if "medical people say some significant changes have taken place."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1007153/index.htm
Thanks J. I've read this article before and I have to say it is one of the most incredible things I've ever heard. It really is unprecedented.
""I don't tell Tom Osborne how to run the football department," Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey says, "and he should stay out of the criminal justice system. He hasn't done that at all." According to Lacey, Osborne has taken it upon himself to interview witnesses in criminal cases, offered very public opinions on the probable innocence of players who have yet to stand trial and attacked the credibility of witnesses testifying against his players. In January 1994 he and an assistant even locked away a gun that had allegedly been used by one of his players in the commission of a felony. "That's Osborne using his influence to disrupt the criminal justice system," Lacey says."
Among many other things on that team, including attempted murders, was Phillips' who dragged his ex girlfriend down several flights of stairs and ran her face across several rows of mailboxes. Osborne tampered with this witness on this case too, and was quoted by the press as saying "I wouldn't call it a beating. But [Phillips] certainly did inflict some damage to a young lady."