“When I was in coaching — doing the X’s and O’s and game planning and all those types of things, fellas? I forget about all this stuff.

“But there were times when I wasn’t doing that, when I had to deal with all the other b-------, let me tell you — there were a lot of nights I would go and sit down on the bed, and sit there and think, ‘What the f--- am I doing? Is this worth it?’ Because I felt like it was taking years off my life.”

Tell me if I’m wrong, Pelini told players, but the environment at Nebraska wore on you as the past several seasons progressed. It gets harder and harder and harder.

“It’s a b---- here. It’s hard enough when you have the negativity that comes from the media and the negativity from a lot of former players and this talk show and that talk show. You win and it ain’t good enough. It’s not good enough, how you won. There is a lot of things that go on there, and if you don’t have a grown man standing in front of the thing saying, ‘Hey, I’m behind it,’ getting everybody, rallying them — I can do it all I want, but they’re b------- at me, too. ...