TE Coach Bob Wager resigns
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Remember when booze bottles came with a strip over the top of the cap? I remember (maybe an old wives tale) that if that strip/seal was broken and you were driving, that you could be cited for having an "open container"
1:30am is the most distressing fact to me
Partially blame his wife for enabling this
Everyone knows open container 2x legal limit driving is best done during daylight hours
I can't remember the last time I was out that late.
Years, for sure.
I do remember back in the day where at 1:30am we were finishing off some McDoubles and fries, checking for scores for all the games we bet and saying "Yeah, we can just clean this up in the morning"
An Applebee's waitress or a construction worker isn't the same as the TE coach at Nebraska making $315,000 a year. You can get another waitress or blue-collar job. That might be his only shot at coaching big-time cfb. Terrible decision making.
Does it seem very Rhule like that he has an experienced TE coach in an analyst role who also has ties to Texas?
For sure. Totally agree.
Doesn't change the fact that what I said is pretty accurate.
Ouch .. this wasn’t just one or two many at happy hour. He was wasted
I would assume he’s going to pull a Bobby Huggins a month from now
He is the guy at the party that thinks EVERYTHING is the best idea around 1am.
And tells you that he totally loves you and that you need to hang out more...then you don't see him for another 4 months.
Josh Martin has good experience. We'll be fine.
Yep, VERY few cars on the road that late. He stuck out like a sore thumb with any erratic driving
In Iowa, if the beers are even accessible in the front seat, that is open container.
I feel bad that this went down. Not condemning the guy. In high school and college, I drove several dozen times, completely trashed, as in pull over, I need to heave. Thankfully never got into any accidents, but just an incredibly, incredibly stupid and dangerous thing I did.
Just a guess, but other than the embarrassment, he probably thought this is a good time to head back home.
This is a guy who was used to high school football and that environment, and it's entirely possible that he may not have liked the college environment, so it's not necessarily a reflection on Nebraska or Rhule either.
Anyway, there goes our Texas recruiting connection.
This is a guy who was used to high school football and that environment, and it's entirely possible that he may not have liked the college environment, so it's not necessarily a reflection on Nebraska or Rhule either.
Anyway, there goes our Texas recruiting connection.
If he agrees to it in his contract it should. Which I’m assuming he did. Can’t hold the team accountable if you can’t hold coaches accountable
MLB, IIRC, has a 1-800 number any employee / player can call, anywhere, any time (year round) to be given a ride home at MLB’s expense. This apparently works. I don’t follow MLB, but have they had recent DUIs?
Every salient organization should consider doing the same or similar. …would save a ton of consternation and money.
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Like others have said, we have many who are connected to Texas. Wager was extremely highly respected, and will absolutely be a loss, but Texas recruiting won’t dry up because of this.
Texas recruiting will be just fine. His secret weapon is SJ Hulme. She is deeply connected to HS football in TX.
How old is the guy? 1:30am?
He definitely has a problem. Rhule probably wanted to give him a shot, but there very well may be a good reason he hired a consultant who has 3 years experience as a TE coach.
He definitely has a problem. Rhule probably wanted to give him a shot, but there very well may be a good reason he hired a consultant who has 3 years experience as a TE coach.
not even close, especially at 1:30 am
if it was closer to .25 or over, then I would say he's a club member
agreed
if anything, 1:30am makes me think much less problem than bad luck/bad choice
real boozehounds are 3 sheets at 11:50am and calling it a workday
Not that it matters. But this is not true. .15 or higher can constitute a felony.
Lol if you really think his resignation was not the result of a conversation with Rhule before hand then you’re unbelievably socially inept. Yowsers
It looks that way on paper, it just seems that the hits keep coming, just can’t catch a break
Something else I want to add to this..
Back in the day, we didn't have ride hailing services. A taxi was mega expensive, so as Sam Kinison used to say, there was no other way to get the car home, so you drove, and you pulled it of.
But today with Ubers and Lyft and such, you make those choices before you even go out for the evening.
It seems incredibly dumb to get a DUI these days if you're going to go out celebrating for the night.
Open container and driving drunk at 1:30 am seems a lot out of the norm for a man in his position unless he has an alcohol problem. Isn’t he married?
We’ve ubered to parties in Omaha 10 blocks from our hotel for that reason.
Don't act like this was a one time occurrence. Most times it's just that they finally got caught.
