NCAA Coach Burglarized, More Than a Dozen Championship Rings Stolen
There is a saying in jurisprudence that a man’s home is his castle.
For Nebraska Cornhuskers coach Scott Frost, it appears that the castle had barbarians at the gates who proceeded to sack it.
According to the Lincoln Police Department, Frost’s home was burglarized over the weekend, with the thieves making off with a rich haul indeed.
A dozen championship rings were among the take, which totaled $165,000 in lost value.
Police could not pin down the exact time of the crime, since the house is undergoing renovations and was therefore unoccupied throughout the weekend — something the thieves seem to have realized in planning their heist.
This also explains why the theft was not discovered until Sunday night.
The haul included five pairs of Oregon Air Jordan shoes, two Nebraska championship rings, 10 Oregon championship rings, two Central Florida championship rings, and an old Nintendo Wii.
Police also claim that entry was gained through an unlocked walk-in door in the garage, which if true is quite a boneheaded security move.
Then again, most people do not expect homes in nice neighborhoods like the one in which Frost lives to be routinely targeted by thieves.
Police do not have any suspects, nor have any arrests been made.
Frost has taken over a Nebraska program in disarray, a school that got a dose of watch-what-you-wish-for after fans, unsatisfied with losing four games a year every year under Bo Pelini between 2008 and 2014, got the coach fired.
Under Mike Riley between 2015 and 2017, the school had seasons of 6-7, 9-4, and finally 4-8, which was bad enough to get Riley fired.
Frost played his college football at Nebraska, and was the starting quarterback on the 1997 squad that won a disputed share of the national championship (Nebraska was No. 1 in the coaches poll while LSU was No. 1 in the newspaper poll).
The Huskers last won a conference title in 1999, when they were still part of the Big XII.
Their last division title, the only one since moving to the Big Ten in 2011, came in 2012 atop a weak “Legends” division now known as the Western division of the conference. They lost the Big Ten championship game that year to Wisconsin, 70-31.
Frost is tasked with turning around the school’s fortunes, but for the moment, he must deal with the shock and loss that comes with having one’s home violated by criminals, who hopefully are dumb enough to try and sell something as easily traced as a championship ring on the open market.
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