Just last spring, Nebraska assistant football coach Jovan Dewitt spent more than 20 days in the hospital. He was losing weight so rapidly, so drastically, that he needed a feeding tube to help supply him necessary nutrition. He endured 38 rounds of radiation and three rounds of chemotherapy – at the same time.
Yet Dewitt, who at one point lost 102 pounds, will tell you the worst part about his aggressive battle with throat cancer was being away from the game that has given him so much.
“It makes me feel normal again,” Dewitt said after Monday morning’s practice, Nebraska’s fourth of fall camp.