Lingering in shadows isn’t always bad….For a basketball coach, life at a “football school” is all

Lingering in shadows isn’t always bad….For a basketball coach, life at a “football school” is all

Maybe if he’d grown up somewhere else, he’d think differently.
Maybe if his late father, Charles, hadn’t spent his career coaching high school football, he would come at it from a different perspective.
But Doc Sadler’s childhood roots, dug deep in the athletic fields of Arkansas, are the best barometers for realism that the Nebraska basketball coach knows.
And those roots, attached in childhood in what is now SEC country and stretched as a head coach in the heart of the Big 12, know one thing for certain: In those two conferences, football is king.

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9/10/9