Defensive Indifference

Those pansies lost 76-39 to a fucking basketball school coached by a man somehow more morbidly obese than Ralph Friedgen. But fear not mighty Cornhuskers! Noble backup punter and distant cousin to Lord Scrapford von Gritt, Baron Hustlestein Toughenpunt, could return to his grit-tacular roots as an assistant coach with Nebraska’s football team if he doesn’t find a job that suits him this winter.

If Darin Erstad doesn’t find a job that suits him, there is word that he could return to the University of Nebraska, his alma mater, and be an assistant coach for the football team. A punter in college, Erstad was part of the Cornhuskers’ 1994 national championship squad and remains one of Tom Osborne’s favorite players.

I’ve always thought what Nebraska football needed to return to prominence was someone who could teach them how to be decidedly below average and constantly injured yet somehow be lauded as the heart and soul of a championship team. On the plus side, I don’t care about Nebraska or college football really, so if Erstad becomes a football coach, I won’t have to read about him anymore.*

* The downside being baseball writers will find some other crappy “gritty” player who’s not very good to write about (Jamey Carroll, I’m looking at you) and FJM will be robbed of one of its favorite targets for ridicule.