Gossip And How Things Change!

 Well that went south fast. Nebraska picked a new head coach, a guy named Matt Rhule who seems like a fine coach, and Mickey Joseph went all abuser on his wife the day before he was too be interviewed by Rhule to stay on or not. The question was out there for days, would Mickey stay as an assistant coach or leave to coach Tulsa or some other team?

Then came yesterday. The buzz was all over. There's a big story coming out of Lincoln. A coach got arrested. Oh boy, this gossipy state was ready to start making shit up again. So fun.

Then the story. Mickey Joseph arrested on domestic violence charges. If you want to read about it thats fine. Go here. Then came the "rumors" and the just plain made up garbage this part of the nation lives on to make themselves feel superior to you east and west coast "elitists". The charges and the event are horrid enough without bring innocents into the "story'. But thats what we do here. We not only trash the perpetrators of misdeeds, we also embellish it and bring other outlandish stories and people who had nothing to do with any of it but we just dont like into because they had the audacity to be friends with an abuser we had no idea was one until 5pm on Wednesday.

Many of us like Mickey Joseph. We wanted him as the permanent coach. He was a no nonsense man who held not only his players but himself accountable for losses. Not to mention that in the year 2022 he was the first black coach of ANY sport EVER at the University of Nebraska. 2022! Most of us wanted him to succeed. But all that went out the window when for whatever reason, none acceptable, that he struck his spouse.

I've seen the story as provided by the Lincoln Police , I've read the rumors most of which is garbage and I've read and heard the ridiculous crap that gossipy men put out there to either defend him or trash him even more than he's already trashed himself. Its just all so Midwest.

Years ago we had a thing called the Franklin Credit Union scandal. Bottom line was a man stole a lot of money from innocent people. But that wasn't a good enough story because around here a cigar is just NEVER just a cigar. There were male prostitutes and female traffickers and prominent men in the area participating in orgies and rape and even the asinine story of a President flying AF One into Blair Nebraska unseen just to have sex with a 16 year old girl. The articles in numerous papers called us a town about to gossip itself to death. If you said ya know thats crap you were accused of covering up for rich guys and politicians. It was nuts.

The point is sometimes I hate it here. The same bad shit that goes on everyplace else happens here in the hard working Midwest. We aren't any different than those in New York or California as much as we pretend. There the gossip is cultural and economic. Here its just plain mean.