IIRC Tyrone Williams shot at the back of a car it was driving away, and he gave the gun to Osborne to hold onto while he found a lawyer – which Osborne said per NCAA rules he could only help by opening a yellow pages and running through the names with Tyrone. I believe Riley Washington who had sprinter speed Had problems at a convenience store. Abdul Muhammad had a bullet lodged in his butt that he picked up before he became player at Nebraska. He also caught a ball against florida st despite being hit so hard he lacerated a kidney
1. That is the difference between a real fan of the huskers and someone who is posing as a fan just to give us crap.
2. Osborne‘s behavior towards this troubled players was as a father towards a troubled son, accounting for NCAA rules at the time. It is hard to know how much his competitive drive to be the best interfered with his judgment sometimes, but it’s Clear that once he accepted a player into his program he treated them as if he was a member of his own family.
For example he wrote to Lawrence up until the time he died, he went to see Damien Peter’s (Notre Dame recruit, and brother of the notorious peters) in the hospital after he hurt his neck when his own coach (Coach “spittle”) didn’t. When a tight end shot himself in the head on one of the 80s teams, Osborne went to the hospital and was with the family.