Don’t Sell Osborne or Nebraska Short

It sometimes amazes me how short and selective peoples’ sports memory can be. Just two short years ago Nebraska was the annual laughing stock of the NCAA. They would enter the bowl season without a loss with a shot at the national championship only to choke again and again. Now they are viewed by Mr. Murray as some sort of professional college program with an unfair recruiting advantage. Believe it or not, some talented athletes like to play for a program that retains a great coach year after year, wins, produces Heisman and Outland trophy winners, and more Academic All-Americans than any other school.

What Coach Osborne has accomplished has been done with the same limits on scholarships as everyone else. The program is steady and consistent.

Let the courts decide what punishment best suits Lawrence Phillips, then let him get on with the rest of his life.

KENT HARPER

Fullerton