it all comes back to nebraska.
- monte kiffin plays at nebraska and eventually became an assistant.
- monte leaves nebraska for arkansas, becomes a mentor for a young pete carroll.
- pete carroll goes on to have varying success in the college and professional football, eventually mentoring a young bo pelini who follows carroll from San Fran to New England.
- after craig bohl is dismissed from nebraska, frank solich calls long-time friend monte kiffin for suggestion on who would make a good defensive coordinator.
- kiffin goes to carroll for recommendations; carroll say bo is the man bringing pelini to nebraska.
the rest, as they say, is history.
