Huskers legend Milt Tenopir compares Osborne and Riley

Legendary offensive line coach Milt Tenopir has spent quite a bit of time around the Huskers program since Mike Riley and the new staff have taken over. 

On Tuesday, Corn Nation got Tenopir to sit down for a podcast and one the most interesting notes came from when Milt broke down how Riley and Osborne are similar:

"Went to a lot of their practices, got to see every one of these coaches coach. They're just a whole bunch of good teachers. Everyone worries about their ages, and some of them are older and all that bullcrap. To me that's a bunch of malarkey. Those guys have been around the block. The maturity of their staff really sticks out.

I think at half times you want to see changes made which we didn't see the last several years. We weren't any better the second half than we were the first half and I think a lot of that is because that staff was young and hadn't been through the trenches enough... just like our guys, everybody thought we were getting too old then we came back and won a bunch of games in the 90s.

This staff is impressive. Coach Riley is as much like Coach Osborne as anyone I've ever been around in the way he handles himself, the way he handles his coaches, and the way he practices. He's not a guy that jumps in there and sticks his nose in the coaches business, he observes the whole package and I think coaches appreciate that."

Those are really good nuggets from the man who led some of the greatest offensive lines in college football history, including one that went an entire season without a holding penalty.

(h/t Corn Nation)

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