Belichick to UNC

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05_never_again said:
Maybe this is a hindsight 20/20 thing, but when you go back and look at him postgame after his last game at UCF, that's a guy who didn't really want to leave. Those aren't bittersweet tears...that's telling your 3-year old that he has to leave the playground and he doesn't want to. If you go back and watch the presser where he was introduced, he doesn't exactly look thrilled to be there either. He sits there pretty stoically, doesn't smile much.

I think he was under immense pressure in Lincoln, not just from the admin/boosters/fans but from himself, and took the job purely because he didn't want to jilt his alma mater. I don't think he wanted any part of that job. I've seen some folks on the internet say that he's just bad mouthing Nebraska because it didn't work out there, and I suppose that could be true, but personally I think he's being honest.
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I definitely think there is some of that too. but I think he is lying if he says there was no positive to going to Nebraska beyond the feels. he had to see some benefit, some chance in being there. it kinda comes with the job, every coach thinks they are the best thing to happen to the sport. so I doubt he was walking in there like he was headed to his execution.

I haven't seen enough of him to know how much he emotes. no way for me to say what was real or not with him based on his face. Saban always looked like a pissy angry old man, but apparently had a personality behind closed doors.
 
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LouderVol said:
I definitely think there is some of that too. but I think he is lying if he says there was no positive to going to Nebraska beyond the feels. he had to see some benefit, some chance in being there. it kinda comes with the job, every coach thinks they are the best thing to happen to the sport. so I doubt he was walking in there like he was headed to his execution.

I haven't seen enough of him to know how much he emotes. no way for me to say what was real or not with him based on his face. Saban always looked like a pissy angry old man, but apparently had a personality behind closed doors.
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He had a lot of people in his ear (family, friends, Tom Osborne) who implored him to take the job. They also threw a lot of money at him. He's a grown man and made his own decision obviously, but I actually buy that he went back there because he thought that's what he was "supposed" to do, rather than it was what he wanted to do.

I wonder if that is how he ended up at Nebraska in the first place. He's their native son, but it is interesting that he initially went to Stanford and transferred to Nebraska after Bill Walsh retired.
 
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stolitonic said:
Ever been to Lincoln? My alcohol consumption would skyrocket there also.
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From everything that I remember hearing about his time there, Frost thought he was back in college and was untouchable. Sounded like alcohol had really become a very large part of his life, and that there were rumors similar to what our buddy Urban was doing. Hopefully he’s gotten his situation straight .
 
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YankeeVol said:
I have driven through NEB. There's a reason I didn't stop 🤣
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I had an ex gf who grew up in Lincoln. Met her out West on my first gig after leaving UT. Had to go there a few times for various things with her.

During the summer it was "OK". I seem to remember going to a lake or a body of water of some sort and having a good time. Once the temp dropped, different story entirely. When I went there around the holidays it was just watching them all walk aimlessly around a mall or getting obliterated at a dive bar Depressing (nothing against dive bars either)

Didn't help that I just couldn't get into Nebraska football at all. We are talking 20+ years ago by now so they were at least decent back then. Her family were rabid Nebraska fans and I just couldn't really go full bore. After life in the SEC it was kinda like watching a high school football game. You just hoped both sides had a good time and there were no injuries. If I had ever put on one of those stupid ear of corn Nebraska hats, I'm not so sure I would not have forced myself to commit ritual suicide
 
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stolitonic said:
I had an ex gf who grew up in Lincoln. Met her out West on my first gig after leaving UT. Had to go there a few times for various things with her.

During the summer it was "OK". I seem to remember going to a lake or a body of water of some sort and having a good time. Once the temp dropped, different story entirely. When I went there around the holidays it was just watching them all walk aimlessly around a mall or getting obliterated at a dive bar Depressing (nothing against dive bars either)

Didn't help that I just couldn't get into Nebraska football at all. We are talking 20+ years ago by now so they were at least decent back then. Her family were rabid Nebraska fans and I just couldn't really go full bore. After life in the SEC it was kinda like watching a high school football game. You just hoped both sides had a good time and there were no injuries. If I had ever put on one of those stupid ear of corn Nebraska hats, I'm not so sure I would not have forced myself to commit ritual suicide
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I've never been to Lincoln, but I've been to numerous midwest cities that I'm assuming are kind of like it but larger (Omaha, Des Moines, etc.). They strike me as places that might be good to live, especially if you have a family, but not fun to visit.

They can be fun to visit for a few days if there is some event drawing you there (like the CWS in Omaha). The people are really nice, and the cities are pretty nice and clean as well, but pretty bland and nondescript. There's also a total lack of any kind of scenic geography nearby. They can really get the worst of both worlds weather-wise. It can get brutally cold in the winter, very windy and snowy, and so you want to think that means a temperate summer, but that isn't the case. It maybe it not as consistently hot and humid as the southeast, but there are days where it gets extremely hot. During the CWS in Omaha it seems like it's always around 100 degrees.
 
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