College football experienced a bloodbath this weekend. Four of the top five ranked teams were upset [hence my need for the pink stuff--Ed.], and even Nebraska managed to lose its first-of-this-season's nationally televised games by losing to Virginia Tech.
Bo (Pelini) may know football, but he needs to learn some anger management. After playing generally poorly, with occasional flashes of both offensive and defensive brilliance, it's a miracle of sorts the Huskers lost by only 5 points. What's worse, they may have won the game except for late and stupid self-inflicted penalties that kept Virginia Tech scoring drives alive. The worst of these was inflicted by head coach Pelini himself. After the officiating crew warned him, he kept arguing and didn't leave the field with enough alacrity--and got the Huskers slapped with a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty . . . which kept alive the Hokies' touchdown drive that ultimately provided them their margin of victory.
There is no joy in Huskerville this morning.
Still, I don't think Pelini is in serious danger of losing the faith of the Husker Nation. Most of the tribe like and admire his passion and his intelligence, and concur with his ideas about "how to play the game." We just wish he'd be a little smarter about his sideline conduct while the game is being played.
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