Here’s the current state of football in Nebraska: Head coach Scott Frost, who has been sanctioned and suspended for illegal practices stemming from the COVID season, recently boasted that his players had practiced to the point of vomiting on the kind of manliness of “we are the best adapted football team” before belatedly surrendering to North Western, get trained by Pat Fitzgerald – again.
Frost was entered into a fool of the month slideshow in September before moving to Ireland and being bullied off the field in the second consecutive season opener, but he was lucky not to have been a fool of the month because the embattled coach (embarrassed?) invented another way to lose the game.
Going up 28-17 in the third quarter after playing well for most of the game, Frost tried his best impression on Sean Payton, going for a surprising side kick, and Charlie Browned his pants. The Wildcats recovered, immediately cutting the difference to 28-24 with a quick score, then leading 31-28 as Texas move-up Casey Thompson fired two late interceptions to eliminate any hopes of the mummies coming back while drinking. Bloody Marys before a wedding with a group of college football fans excited for their team’s start of the season.
A year ago, Frost said his offensive men vomit 15-20 per training under new O-line coach Dominic Raiola “not because they’re not in good shape – he’s just working hard”.
“I think they like it,” said Big Red the Clown. “It kind of freed them up to get aggressive, and I like the way they get off the ball.”
However, Northwestern was the more physical team, with backs Evan Hall and Cam Porter rushing for 223 yards together and two to Nebraska’s 128 yards (110 if you take into account Thompson-18) on the ground.
After the match, Northwestern offensive line coach Kurt Anderson took to Twitter, unleashing a stray he was saving for for such an occasion.
The term is “work smarter, not harder”, but for an idiot, it’s just “work hard”.
