Football season is quickly approaching despite my most recent attraction. I'm trying to get jacked up for the season but its hard to do with a full slate of soccer/volleyball games approaching! Plus some asshole put a note on my car the other day that read, "Nebraska sucks! Won't win 5 games!" I've got to get out of here!
Nebraska is gearing up for a great season but the Huskers just suffered a setback with the loss of star running back Quinten Castille, who went the way of Cheech and Chong. Up in Smoke. It's kind of fitting I'm listening to Scandal's 1982 hit 'Goodbye to You.' Sorry Quentin. I'm sure Thunder Collins has room on his pull-out couch. Anyway here's a good article on Bo Pelini.
Nebraska isn't back just yet, but Pelini has Huskers on right track
George Schroeder/CNNSI.com
It was the morning after, and Nebraska assistant coach Mike Ekeler wanted to gauge the players' mindset. He asked Cody Glenn what the linebacker had been thinking during the previous day's loss to Virginia Tech, how he'd felt when it was over, what lessons he could drawn for the future.
The player told the assistant coach about an epiphany. A year earlier, Glenn said, the Huskers would have known going in they were headed for a thrashing. But this time, he said, "we thought we had a shot." It got better. Sometime in the first quarter, Glenn recognized, "Hey, we can play with these guys." By midway through the second half, he knew: "We can beat these guys."
Ekeler listened to Glenn depict the Huskers evolving like the Little Engine That Could (ultimately, they couldn't; a late rally fell short and the Hokies won 35-30), and had an epiphany of his own. He homed in on Glenn's newly discovered confidence and optimism and realized: "Oh, boy. We've got a lot of work to do."
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