Nebraska Defensive Coordinator Bob Diaco Talks After Monday’s Practice

The DC was a little fired up, we think

With all the hullabaloo between Saturday night’s win for Nebraska over Arkansas State and Mike Riley’s press conference today, Nebraska defensive coordinator Bob Diaco has probably seen a lot of response over his non-speaking evening Saturday.

On Monday afternoon, Mike Riley took responsibility of Diaco’s lack of an appearance on Saturday, saying that the two had spoken a couple weeks before and not talked about the situation since then.

“Part of it actually came a couple weeks ago. Bob (Diaco) and I had talked about that specifically, and it really was a talk about his thoughts that it would be great after a ball game for one voice, giving him time to watch the film and review it with you guys as a point of time. Nothing was intentional by him in that regard. It was a discussion we had, and frankly my fault because I never revisited that conversation with him. It was a conversation of his thoughts about that, but I actually didn’t think about it again. By the time I saw him after the game, it was an hour afterwards. He said he had been approached about it, and I said “gosh, I think it’s all done by now, I wouldn’t worry about it.” So, what I think was a pretty innocent thing turned into a bigger thing, but that’s it. He’s been great with the media that I’ve watched and seen, and he’s going to talk to you today. Like I said, it might’ve been from that conversation, my fault if anything happened like that the other night. After that conversation, my bad, I never thought about it again because I kind of got what he was talking about as a possibility. It was totally unintentional.”