Tony Tuioti was spending some post-National Signing Day downtime with his wife, Keala, last month when the phone rang.
The voice on the other end of the line wondered if he might have any interest in coaching the defensive line at Nebraska.
Less than a month later, the 42-year-old is sitting in his new office on a cold Saturday morning, already headlong into getting to know his new players and a similar-but-still-new playbook, preparing for spring ball and about to go out on a house-hunting adventure with his wife, explaining to a reporter how he found himself back in Big Ten country on a coaching staff full of guys he’s never worked with directly before.