Best Nebraska postgame press conference of the decade?
BO KNOWS: about bowling in January
“We’ve come a long way. We’re 8-4 and I wish we were better than that, but we’ve done a lot of good things. I don’t know where we’re going to end up—which bowl game—but I know it will be a good one. We want to finish it out well. Play well in the final game. It’s going to be important for our program because it gives us a number of more practices to work with the young guys and that’s big. We want to do that, but we want to win the game wherever we end up going.”
BO KNOWS: about disastrous botched fake field goal attempts
“I felt like we were in control and then I made the bone-headed call (the field goal fake). I would have been kicking myself for a long time because if we didn’t win the football game, I would have taken responsibility because I felt the game changed when I made that call. I’m a grown man, and I made a mistake. I made a bad call. I got greedy at that point. I wanted to jump on them, and I would have been really upset if we would have lost.
"I felt if we would have lost that football game had we not made that kick, obviously it would have been all on my shoulders. It would have been hard for me to live with that. Especially after all these seniors have done, the character they’ve shown and the things they’ve done. I would have hated for that to happen to them, especially if I’m the centerpiece for screwing it up for them. I tried to, but they bailed me out.”
BO KNOWS: about winning the tough ones
“You take them any way you can get them. I give Colorado a lot of credit. They played hard, they made some plays, and it was a hard-fought football game. It was a wild game. I know one thing, the fans got their money’s worth today. You have to give them credit. It was fun. I’ll take them any way I can get them. I thought there were a couple we left out there early in the year and we could’ve should’ve won the football game and today kind of made up for it.”
“I told the team after the game it was fitting that we won that way. They’ve showed resolve all year. They showed character. They look adversity in the eye and they keep coming back. They did it again today, so it doesn’t surprise me.”
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about 1 month ago
It's hard not to be a fan of Bo Pelini. He gets a little mad here and there, but I don't mind a coach that gets fired up as long as he isn't going Bobby Knight on his players.
I'll be following how he recruits this year and next. If he can do well with luring player back to Nebraska I fully expect them to be a top level program again.
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