New evidence has surfaced showing Nebraska defensive coordinator Carl Pelini confronting a credentialed member of the media after the Cornhuskers lost to Texas A&M, 9-6, Saturday night at College Station.
Brandon Jones, the co-owner and president of the independent website TexAgs, said he was on the field to shoot the postgame celebration when he noticed a verbal altercation between Pelini and another man who has not been identified.
"I stopped and turned my camera toward the conversation," Jones writes in a post. "Pelini was angry and cursing at the other man. He initially turned to walk away, then apparently noticed me shooting video of the incident. He was approximately ten feet from me when he turned around and came in my direction.
"Since I had the camera raised over my head, I was in a particularly unfavorable position to deal with someone charging at me. By instinct, I lowered my arms (and the camera). Pelini immediately grabbed my camera, now roughly at waist level in front of me. He tried to wrestle the camera with both hands.
"At some point in the struggle over the camera, we were face to face and I asked him, 'Man, what are you doing?' He didn't answer me, but he paused briefly. He then pulled the camera again, but instead of taking it, he ripped two pieces off of it, both components of the camera's eyepiece. Once he no longer had a grip on the camera itself, he tossed the pieces he pulled off into the crowd and stormed away."
The site posted several images of the incident taken from the stands that back Jones' claim. It also spliced the images into the original video shot by Jones to show a timeline of the skirmish. That video is posted above.
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, the brother of Carl, was asked Monday about the incident. His comments were made before TexAgs published its post.
Pelini said his brother was trying to pull a Cornhusker player out of a group of people who encountered Jones. The player was earlier reported to be Kyler Reed, but as you can see from the image below, neither Reed (No. 25) or any other Nebraska player are close to Pelini or Robinson as the incident unfolds.
These men are menaces and an embarrassment to Nebraska, the Big 12, and college football in general. I am highly interested to see what they do should they blow the Big 12 North against Colorado this weekend ... chances are, it won't be good.
Posted by: David Gladow | November 23, 2010 at 07:42 AM
Anything that Bo Pelini did pales in comparison to what his brother Carl did.
They are not menaces, they just have tempers.
Posted by: yumtoad | November 23, 2010 at 08:15 AM
And Carl should apologize to the camera guy.
Posted by: yumtoad | November 23, 2010 at 08:15 AM
Hmm, seems to me that the Pelini brothers are hot-tempered punks. They obviously can't handle losing a tough game. Carl really does seem to be a jerk, but Bo could be worse. What in the heck was he berating Martinez about...the poor guy was hurt.
Posted by: bob cuomo | November 23, 2010 at 11:35 AM
Woody Hayes was justifiably and correctly fired for hitting a player. Carl Pelini should meet the same fate. The man committed assault. That should be fireable offense.
Bo Pelini should be fired because he is incompetent.
Posted by: bevo | November 23, 2010 at 04:21 PM
The Big 12 officials should be fired for their performance! I'd have been pissed to had I been one of the Pelini brothers!
Posted by: Jack Ball | November 23, 2010 at 09:12 PM
Jack Ball - so you going to fire the officials from every Neb game? You do know Neb is one of the worst offenders for penalties this year, right? 4th in penalty yardage and 10th in number of penalties. Funny how Neb fans immediately point to the refs every time they lose (ahem, last year's Big 12 CCG).
Posted by: AggieDan | November 29, 2010 at 08:27 AM