Editor's note: During the past two decades, the Nebraska football team has cycled through dozens of assistant coaches. You tend to lose track of where they've ended up. In coming weeks, the Journal Star will take readers through a "Where are they now" of some former NU assistants. We continue with Mike Ekeler.
Mike Ekeler, an excitable sort, often prefaces his football stories with phrases such as "Think about this" and "This is the greatest story of all time."
In January, the 48-year-old native of David City was named special teams coordinator at North Texas.