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Pelini hospitalized

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini left Saturday's game against Arkansas State in an ambulance after becoming ill on the sideline in the first half of the game.

Pelini had his pulse checked by a member of the Nebraska medical staff, but he continued to coach until halftime. When the team returned to the field for the third quarter, Pelini was not with them.

No immediate details were available about Pelini's condition, but defensive coordinator John Papuchis is the acting head coach.

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Huskers' Bo Pelini: 'I'm very healthy'
Updated: September 17, 2012
ESPN.com news service

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska coach Bo Pelini says he has a clean bill of health and that he left a game over the weekend because he and team doctors were concerned a case of heartburn and his sense of feeling disoriented might be signs of a serious medical problem.

Pelini said a series of tests were negative.

"I'm as healthy as can be," he told reporters Monday. "You guys are going to be stuck with me for a while."

The 44-year-old Pelini, wearing khaki cargo shorts and a red polo, was in good spirits and cracked jokes while he addressed reporters for a half-hour. He expressed appreciation for well-wishes he received -- and said he was not ordered to cut back on his workload.

"One thing I don't want is anybody to make this out to be like I'm overstressed," he said. "It was an isolated incident and there were a number of factors that probably contributed to it. I am healthy and there are no issues there whatsoever. Otherwise, to be honest with you, I wouldn't be sitting here today."

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http://espn.go.com/college-football...-cornhuskers-bo-pelini-says-clean-bill-health
 
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Lunch with Bo: Time to get ready for Ohio State
By DARNELL DICKSON / Lincoln Journal Star

Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini wasted no time getting into work mode for the Ohio State game.

At his Monday news conference Pelini said he stopped celebrating the Wisconsin win the moment he stepped out of the locker room Saturday night.

?Time to go back to work,? Pelini said.

The rest of Monday?s news conference? Media attempted to draw Pelini into waxing nostalgic about how he feels going back to Ohio State (where he played college ball) and talking about whether other teams in the Big Ten might show pre-snap motion like Wisconsin did on Saturday.

Pelini refused to go anywhere with those questions, instead focusing only on pragmatic answers about preparing to play football against Ohio State.

?I?m at a different time in my life and in a different place. I have a job to do,? Pelini said about returning to his home state. ?That?s all I?m concerned about. (Ohio Stadium) is a great venue and a great environment. There?s tremendous tradition. It?ll be a good place for our kids to play, a good experience for our players.?

The Huskers have a big challenge ahead in slowing down Heisman Trophy candidate Braxton Miller but Pelini said there are other Buckeyes who can hurt a defense.

?Believe me, He?s going to make his share of plays," Pelini said. "We?re not going to shut down a player like that from the quarterback position. They use him in so many different ways. It all runs through the quarterback but they have some other good players. They have good backs. They?re physical and well-coached up front and they have some wide receivers that can hurt you down the field.?

Urban Meyer had a lot of success at Florida with Tim Tebow at the quarterback spot and Pelini said while the Ohio State?s offense will be similar, there are differences that are worth noting.

?Tebow was a 240-250 pound guy," Pelini said. "Miller is like a tailback back there. Tebow would run over you. Braxton is going to make you miss.?

Fans and media may want to make the game about two former Ohio boys going against each other as coaches, but Pelini doesn?t see it that way.

?He (Meyer) was a grad assistant when I played there. He was an energetic, hard-nosed football coach then and I?m sure that?s carried over to what he is today. He?s a good football coach. But neither one of us is playing, our football teams are going against each other. It will be a great challenge for us.?
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http://journalstar.com/sports/huske...cle_7606e2e1-e091-556f-8de9-cea091741a41.html
 
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Football: Proud of Ohio State past, Pelini has moved on
By Bob Baptist
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday October 2, 2012

If Bo Pelini has a soft spot for his alma mater, he might as well have it encased in the pads his players wear for all the good it does trying to find it.

For the second consecutive year, members of the media covering the Nebraska coach and his program are probing Pelini for his memories of the four years he played at Ohio State more than 20 years ago.

The occasion is the Cornhuskers’ second Big Ten game with the Buckeyes, on Saturday night. This time, the venue is Ohio Stadium, where Pelini once roamed the secondary.

But even a homecoming of sorts makes no discernible difference to Pelini, a Youngstown native, who said during his weekly news conference yesterday that he is not one to reminisce.

“Not anymore,” he said. “I’m at a different time in my life. Different place. I mean, I have a job to do. That’s all I’m concerned with.”

He said he can’t even remember the last time he was at a game in Ohio Stadium. He last played there in 1990 before embarking on a coaching career that spanned the high school, college and professional levels before he landed his first head coaching job at Nebraska, in 2008.

“I do have pride in where I went to school, and my career there,” Pelini said. “But that has nothing to do with Saturday, you know what I’m saying? It doesn’t really make any difference what happened back in ’86 to ’90. It’s a different point in time in my life.”

Pelini was recruited to Ohio State by coach Earle Bruce but played only the 1987 season for him. Bruce was fired and succeeded by John Cooper, for whom Pelini played his last three years. He was the starting free safety as a junior and senior, and a co-captain as a senior.

“When coaches change, sometimes that is a problem for some players,” Bruce said.

If it was for Pelini, Cooper said he was unaware of it.

“When he was here, we didn’t have a great team,” he said. “It took us a couple years to get the program back on solid ground.”

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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...02/proud-of-osu-past-pelini-has-moved-on.html

Posted: Tuesday October 2, 2012
Nebraska's Pelini keeps Buckeye pride under wraps

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - To Bo Pelini, Nebraska's visit to Ohio Stadium this week is strictly business.

There's no time for something as frivolous as admitting to fond memories of his playing days at Ohio State.

That was the Nebraska coach's message Monday when he was asked if taking his No. 21 Huskers (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten) into the "Horseshoe'' to play the 12th-ranked Buckeyes (5-0, 1-0) made him feel nostalgic.

"Why would it?'' he said.

When it was suggested that lots of folks have a soft spot for their alma mater, Pelini said he once did - but not anymore.

"I'm at a different time in my life, a different place,'' he said. "I mean, I have a job to do. That's all I'm concerned with.''

Pelini didn't play on vintage Ohio State teams. The Buckeyes were 25-18-3 over his four years (1986-90), never finished higher than a tie for third in the Big Ten and went to two bowls. Earle Bruce, who recruited Pelini out of Youngstown, Ohio, was fired and replaced by John Cooper after the 1987 season.

Bruce recalled Pelini as having an advanced understanding of the game. Cooper has said he barely remembers Pelini.

Pelini was the starting free safety his last two years and was a team captain as a senior.

First-year Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer was a graduate assistant on the 1986-87 Ohio State teams. Meyer and Pelini also crossed paths in the Southeastern Conference, when Meyer was head coach at Florida and Pelini was LSU's defensive coordinator.

"We're both northeast Ohio guys,'' Meyer said Monday. "Have a really good relationship with Bo. Lot of respect for him as a player. ... He was a really tough guy, just like his personality is now.''

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Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...st.ld.writethru.0743/index.html#ixzz288lzkWLT
 
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Thank goodness for Tressel. He was the antithesis of coop in so many ways, but few impressed me more than his instant recollection of virtually everyone he met. At camps or practices an assistant trainer (from some no name high school ) or d3 recruit's girlfriend's brother would come up to him after meeting him once years ago and he would greet them by name. it was amazing and really showed the value he placed on relationships, most of which provided no significant value to his program.
 
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jwinslow;2225818; said:
Thank goodness for Tressel. He was the antithesis of coop in so many ways, but few impressed me more than his instant recollection of virtually everyone he met. At camps or practices an assistant trainer (from some no name high school ) or d3 recruit's girlfriend's brother would come up to him after meeting him once years ago and he would greet them by name. it was amazing and really showed the value he placed on relationships, most of which provided no significant value to his program.
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Woody was the same way. He never forgot a face and would remember seemingly everything that you ever talked with him about. That's a real gift, for sure.
 
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jwinslow;2225818; said:
Thank goodness for Tressel. He was the antithesis of coop in so many ways, but few impressed me more than his instant recollection of virtually everyone he met. At camps or practices an assistant trainer (from some no name high school ) or d3 recruit's girlfriend's brother would come up to him after meeting him once years ago and he would greet them by name. it was amazing and really showed the value he placed on relationships, most of which provided no significant value to his program.
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You are so right. When Tress's book came out I went to the bookstore in Westlake, OH to get him to sign it. In line ahead of me was a guy who had graduated a few months earlier and had taken the class that Tress taught; the guy was not a student-athlete. When he got to the table, Tress recognized him, stopped signing and chatted with him for a couple minutes...asking how his family had enjoyed commencment, etc.
 
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Arkansas may target Pelini as next coach

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Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini walks the sideline during the first half of the Huskers' Oct. 6 game against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State won 63-38.

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
By Sam McKewon World-Herald News Service | 0 comments

LINCOLN ? A college football coaching website said Tuesday that Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long ? who?s looking for a permanent coach after firing Bobby Petrino last spring ? could target Nebraska coach Bo Pelini.

FootballScoop.com ? which tracks college job changes and trends from Division I down to NAIA ? reported that Long is ?very interested? in speaking with Pelini about a likely vacancy once one-year interim coach John L. Smith is let go.

?I don?t know anything about that,? Pelini told The World-Herald after Tuesday?s practice.

Pelini also mentioned that Arkansas already has a sitting coach in Smith, who took the interim role after Long fired Petrino with cause for hiring his mistress in the football offices and lying about her role in a highly publicized motorcycle accident.

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http://www.theindependent.com/sport...cle_7fd890cc-2e29-11e2-a21a-001a4bcf887a.html
 
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Bo Pelini Job Rumor Mill: Is It Time for Pelini To Look?

On Tuesday, Sports Illustrated's David Miller suggested that if the Auburn Tigers fire head coach Gene Chizik, they should look to Nebraska skipper Bo Pelini to stabilize the Tiger program. Miller suggested that "observers" have said Pelini desires a bigger job and would strongly consider returning to the SEC (Pelini was defensive coordinator for three years at LSU prior to becoming head coach at Nebraska).

Entire article: http://www.cornnation.com/2012/11/13/3642290/bo-pelini-coach-job-rumor-mill-auburn-arkansas-sec

This guy must be smoking corn silk, when did Auburn become a better job than Nebraska?
 
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Spring Q&A: Nebraska's Bo Pelini
March, 5, 2013
By Brian Bennett | ESPN.com

If Bo Pelini is feeling any pressure in Lincoln this spring to deliver a championship, you couldn't tell by the way Nebraska started spring practice. The Huskers coach participated in a Harlem Shake video with the team over the weekend, with Pelini sending up his own fiery image before dancing with his players.

I caught up with Pelini after Nebraska's first spring practice to ask about the spring and how he plans to replace eight starters on defense. Here is that conversation.

How did the "Harlem Shake" video come about?

Bo Pelini: We were just having some fun with it. It was actually my daughter, she just turned 12, she had a sleepover the night before. And her and her friends, they'd been telling me what this "Harlem Shake" thing was and they were showing it to me. And I thought it was a good idea, that our kids would have fun with this. We had fun with it, and it was something different.

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http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/72474/spring-qa-nebraskas-bo-pelini

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cjG9y1gZ-s"]Big Red Report: Nebraska Harlem Shake (Bo Pelini spotlighted) - YouTube[/ame]
 
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