If you’re ever so fortunate as to end up at a barbecue at the Tuioti residence, a couple of things can be safely assumed.
One, of course, is that there will be plenty of food.
Another is that you’ll eat rice. Always rice.
“The best to me is always chicken and rice. I can do that all day long,” Tony Tuioti, Nebraska’s third-year defensive line coach, said recently.
Tony was born in Samoa and grew up in Southern California; and his wife, Keala, hails from the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, so, naturally, there’s going to be an island flair.
“You’ve got to soak it for a good two days,” Tony says of whatever meat you’re marinating. “Put some ginger in there, brown sugar, white sugar, soy sauce, it’s good. The boys like that.”
The boys might be the Tuiotis’ four sons, might be the 15-odd defensive linemen he coaches at Nebraska and might just be all of them at the same time.
The Tuiotis have been barbecuing — and cooking up perhaps Nebraska football’s best position group — in Lincoln since February 2019 now.
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If you’re an accountant or an engineer, maybe 2½ years in one spot is nothing to write home about. Life as a college football coaching family, though, can be a nomadic one. The Tuiotis are no strangers to that, and when you’ve got seven kids like Tony and Keala do — Teisa, Teivis, Teilor, Teitum, Teimana, Teiyana and Teinia — changing jobs isn’t quite as simple as moving from one condo to the next.
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