Former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne sounds off on the current state of the NCAA

A former Nebraska football coach is sounding off on the current state of college football. Tom Osborne sat down for an interview with KETV and talked about the current state of the game, transfer portal, and NIL.

College football has changed dramatically in just the last several years and frustration has grown with those changes due to the NCAA’s inability to provide proper oversight guidelines. Due to the lack of guidelines, some have called for the creation of a commissioner of college football in an effort to provide stable leadership.

The former Husker head coach is taking a different approach and is calling on the Big Ten Conference and the SEC to take a leadership position in establishing new oversight guidelines for the game. Osborne went so far as to say that the NCAA in its current form is ‘somewhat irrelevant’ and without proper leadership, the sport will continue to act without ‘common sense.’

“The Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference have most of the major programs, and I think they want to cooperate. If those two conferences can get together, they may be able to establish some guidelines that make sense. I think the NCAA has become somewhat irrelevant and doesn’t seem to have any clout anymore. But there has to be some managing agency in college athletics that can interject some common sense.”

Osborne is the Hall of Fame coach who led Nebraska from 1972-1997 and ended his coaching career with a 255-49-3 record. He would win 13 conference titles and three national championships during his 25-year tenure.

Our @KETVRob sat down with Tom Osborne for an upcoming Chronicle on @KETV and asked the Husker coaching legend his thoughts of the current state of college football, transfer portal and NIL — here, Osborne says the NCAA is becoming “somewhat irrelevant” – take a listen pic.twitter.com/UddaIbETvr

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Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/former-nebraska-coach-tom-osborne-090546922.html

Author : Cornhuskers Wire

Publish date : 2025-02-07 09:05:00

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