Welcome to the best Monday of the year.
Game week has finally arrived.
Just a couple months ago, it seemed like this day would never get it here. Now, every day is suddenly like Hanukkah except our daily gift is that we’re 24 hours closer kick off.
While this might be a good time to start spinning our Husker dreidel and try to predict what the future may hold for Mike Riley’s first squad, we’re not going to do that.
There’s so much optimism that abounds with first game week of the season that we’re not about to harsh that mellow with any doom, gloom and/or reality.
For college football fans, spring is blooming in the prologue of fall.
Even the World-Herald’s Tom Shatel is riding in business class on the Husker happy train. His Sunday column pitching the concept of positive football was very welcome surprise.
While the previous guy’s favorite go-to line (after “next question,” of course) was “trust the process,” we’d like to go ahead and revise that phrase to fit Mike Riley.
Move over, trust.
It’s time to ENJOY THE PROCESS.
There’s no clearer example of that philosophy than the Huskers team photo for 2015.
Your 2015 Nebraska Cornhuskers, ladies and gentlemen.
Look at Mike Riley (front row, dead center) smiling like a guy who ended up in more unlikely situation than his fellow Alabama alum Forrest Gump. (For the record, Riley would have missed the Gump era by a few years.)
Here’s a closer look at the guy.
Seriously, Nick Saban doesn’t even smile that big when he wins a championship.
There’s no doubt that Riley knows this season is going to be a heck of a ride no matter how it shakes out. We might as well follow his lead and do our best to enjoy every twist and turn and unexpected loop.
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