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Mark Pelini, nicknamed "Bo" after famous running back Bo Scott, has a career that went very, very well, very, very fast.
Pelini graduated from Cardinal Mooney High School (it has another famous alum - Bob Stoops of the Oklahoma Sooners) and played football at Ohio State University as a free safety where he earned a bachelor's degree in business marketing.
For his graduate degree, he studied sports management at Iowa State University where he was an assistant for Hayden Fry, but stopped after a year. He returned, instead, to coach at his old high school for a year, but was quickly picked up by the San Francisco 49ers, beginning as a scouting assistant but quickly being promoted up into Defensive Back Coach. In eight years he coached three NFL teams - the 49ers, the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers.
His time with the Nebraska Cornhuskers is actually the longest he's been with any one team at only four years. He coached as a Defensive Coach at both Oklahoma and Louisiana State University before becoming head coach at Nebraska. We certainly hope he'll stay with the Cornhuskers for a while yet, even if the Cornhuskers haven't stayed in the Big 12.
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