Tom Osborne

TOM OSBORNE was the head coach of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team for 25 years. He was named "coach of the decade" by ESPN in 1999 and in 2007 was voted the "greatest college football coach of all time" in an online EPSN poll. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999 and is the recipient of the Jim Thorpe Lifetime Achievement Award and the Tuss McLaughry Award for distinction in service to others. Tom was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 and served in Congress for 6 years. He is now the Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska.