I want all the rest of you cowboys in here to know something. There’s a new sheriff in Nebraska Cornhuskers Special Teams Town and his name Mike Ekeler.
Y’all be cool. Right on.
But seriously, I don’t know if a single assistant coach hiring made me happier than this one. Holgo, ok fine, call it a tie. Terry Bradden? Ask me again down the road, but he won the first impression battle.
However, special teams at Nebraska had been so overall awful for so long, I had started to give up on the idea of someone who could turn it around ever darkening Memorial Stadium’s doorstep, let alone that dude being a Nebraska native, a former Huskers coach - and one with credentials of sustained SEC success in that area, at that.