That's how the rest of the world works but not in Lincoln.
This is how it works in Lincoln NE.
During Osborne's 23 years in Lincoln his program has escaped the
rampant lawlessness that has at times beset programs at Miami
and at Big Eight rivals Oklahoma and Colorado. But Osborne's
reactions to the Phillips and Benning arrests, and to other
recent criminal cases involving his players, raise the question
of whether he has gone so far in giving his players the benefit
of the doubt--and keeping them available to play--that he has
hampered the work of police and prosecutors.
"I don't tell Tom Osborne how to run the football department,"
Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey says, "and he should stay
out of the criminal justice system. He hasn't done that at all."
According to Lacey, Osborne has taken it upon himself to
interview witnesses in criminal cases, offered very public
opinions on the probable innocence of players who have yet to
stand trial and attacked the credibility of witnesses testifying
against his players. In January 1994 he and an assistant even
locked away a gun that had allegedly been used by one of his
players in the commission of a felony.
"That's Osborne using his influence to disrupt the criminal
justice system," Lacey says. "Osborne talks to witnesses.
Whether he tried to influence them or not ... someone with his
reputation would have an effect."
In four recent cases involving criminal charges against his
players, Osborne has aggressively rushed to their defense:
http://www.si.com/vault/1995/09/25/...y-in-the-man-who-runs-the-program-tom-Osborne
And it continues yet today!!!