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Tailback, 300 Football players on scholarship is a stretch, Osborne had just as many scholarship players as any other major football program.
What Osborne had was an overachieving walkon program made up of mostly in-state players, and highlighted with a recruits that rarely if ever was in the top ten of recruiting classes.
What people outside of the state rarely understood was that the walkons pushed the 4 and 5 star recruits to their best capabilities.

As for Eric Crouch, he’s running a business in Omaha. You can’t expect much of an NFL career from an option QB.

[Tailback]

Tailback, 300 Football players on scholarship is a stretch

You're right, that was an exaggeration. Why don't you tell me how many scholarship athletes were on the Nebraska football team in 1987?

Osborne had just as many scholarship players as any other major football program.

Let me guess, like Notre Dame which has stunk since the 85 scholarship limit, Florida State which had been steadily declining since the scholarship limit, or Penn State which has been steadily declining since the limit.

What people outside of the state rarely understood was that the walkons pushed the 4 and 5 star recruits to their best capabilities.

And amazingly, after the 85 scholarship limit, those walk ons were a complete non factor, and Nebraska is now lucky to attend a bottom tier bowl game.