Friday Flakes: Would You Dare Impersonate Donovan Raiola? The OL Says “No Way”

Another week another fun video from the Husker Football twitter account. Here they are asking the players to impersonate their position coach. Some of the players definitely took advantage of the opportunity.

Corey Campbell, E.J. Barthel and Garret McGwire took the brunt of it.

My favorite part of the video? Was when the Offensive Linemen walked in and had the opportunity to impersonate Donovan Raiola. Their response?

A big NOPE.

Enjoy.

I will say that there are definitely different ways to coach. You could have a coach that would be great to impersonate. Then there are other coaches, like one I had, that if opportunity arose to get recorded doing an impersonation of him, I would not have touched that with a ten foot pole. He was a great coach but there was no way.

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