Jerry Kill turns on the country charm and his audience can be left with the impression that he sort of stumbled into this job as a head football coach in the Big Ten.
Heck, if he’s pouring it on thick, Jerry might tell you he would be as fired up to still be coaching the Cardinals of Webb City (Mo.) High School. At least then, he would not have had to go through the embarrassment of a university administration forcing him to accept a $900,000 raise, to $2.1 million per annum, as was the case 14 months ago.