Corn Flakes: Is Tom Osborne Guilty Of Wishful Thinking?

Nice article by Lindsay Schnell at SI.com yesterday, nice because it's SI.com, a high profile national site. It's mostly a rehash of what Husker fans have been reading for a while already, i.e., Mike Riley is the nicest guy on the planet. There are some tidbits here and there, however, but the piece that should catch your eye is this bit:

Osborne doesn’t necessarily agree with the idea that his legend looms large in Lincoln, and hopes no coach feels mounted pressure because of his presence. "I’ve been gone for a quite a long time," says Osborne, 78. "Some people growing up [now] don’t even know when I was there."

My first reaction was that this was a ridiculous comment and I doubted that…