They started loading up the big truck Wednesday. You never left for a conference game on a Wednesday back when Monte Selden first began driving the big truck that, even in the leanest of times for Husker football, draws triple takes and inquiries from strangers.
Not when you only had to get all that Husker equipment to Lawrence or Manhattan or Ames by 10 a.m. on Friday.
But Thursday morning, when Monte answered his phone, he was on the road and well into the journey with two of his cohorts. He didn’t say whether red pants or white pants were packed behind him, but he did say he was 50 miles west of Youngstown, Ohio.