THE BIG RED KETTLE IS BOILING OVER

OK, I know I said that Bo Pelini had to be the leading candidate for the Nebraska head coaching job. Now, as it turns out, he hasn’t even interviewed and doesn’t know if he ever will. Neither has the only other known candidate, Huskers offensive coordinator Turner Gill.

I’m not yet going to refer to the NU coaching search as an ethnically-stereotyped safety exercise. The only thing I can figure is that Steve Pederson’s ideal candidate is still coaching somewhere else. Be that the NFL or elsewhere in college football, I don’t know. But whomever The Guy turns out to be, for one reason or another, he’s otherwise engaged at the moment.

Meanwhile, I’m calling it right now: Neither Pelini nor Gill will be the next Husker coach. That much seems to be totally flippin’ obvious.