From the Coach’s Bookshelf – Tom Osborne’s “Beyond the Final Score”

Very few coaches have epitomized success on and off the field more than Tom Osborne. In his 25 years as Head Coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, his teams compiled a record of 255-49-3 and captured 13 conference championships and three national championships. In an ESPN online poll, he was voted “greatest college football coach of all time”. Since retiring as a coach following the 1997 national championship season, Osborne served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and is currently Nebraska’s Athletic Director. In his latest book, Beyond the Final Score, he talks about what really matters in his legacy as a coach. Let’s face it: In Nebraska we were spoiled. Over a 42-year span, going back to 1962 and ending in 2003, the Cornhuskers had won 82 percent of our games—by far the highest percentage of any program in the country for that same period of time. We had no