If you're a Nebraska assistant coach, particularly one who happens to coach quarterbacks, I'm guessing this season registers on the high end of the stress meter.
It might even make a guy feel like he's stuck spinning in a samsara -- "the whirlpool of life," as Mario Verduzco puts it.
Or, as Merriam-Webster puts it, samsara is "the indefinitely repeated cycles of birth, misery, and death caused by karma."
"It's a matter of being in the middle of the building process and at the same time seeing the future, and knowing it's going to take place -- but at this moment, you're kind of caught behind it," he said.