There's no need to run over and make that jukebox play "Sweet Home Alabama" or anything. Mike Riley is very much focused on chasing championships in another football-crazed state all these years after he wrote those letters as a kid to The Bear.
There was a time, however, when Nebraska's head football coach prized Alabama football most of all. You likely know by now that Riley spent his college years in Tuscaloosa. It's a line sprinkled into stories here and there. A defensive back for the Crimson Tide from 1971-74. Full head of hair. Wore No. 23 on his helmet.