Omaha World-Herald
Ten years go today, Tom Osborne announced his retirement as athletic director at the University of Nebraska. Osborne, who had returned to the University of Nebraska in 2007 to help mend an athletic department that was hurting, said that his stay would end Jan. 1, 2013.
Osborne told University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman of his intentions in August.
“I was honored that he asked me to do this job five years ago,” Osborne said. “At the time he asked me, I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea or not. But hopefully it’s worked out well.