Jeff Hanisch USA TODAY Sports
When Bo Pelini was fired by Nebraska few were caught more off guard than the man who anonymously runs the FauxPelini Twitter account a popular parody account.
So as he started to come to grips with the news FauxPelini decided to call it quits from the Nebraska coaching job that his inspiration had just been fired from with an all caps tweet
WAIT WHAT
Fake Bo Pelini ( FauxPelini) November 30 2014
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT YOU ARE PAYING ME NOT TO LIVE IN LINCOLN NEBRASKA AND I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SAD
Fake Bo Pelini ( FauxPelini) November 30 2014
THIS IS VERY CONFUSING I DIDN'T KNOW OUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR WAS A REAL PERSON
Fake Bo Pelini ( FauxPelini) November 30 2014
Probably the first couple of tweets were my reaction before I switched into the character or whatever FauxPelini s founder told For The Win. I didn t see it coming I wasn t even checking the news to see if it was happening
But will it be the end of the Twitter account itself Maybe.
So the what comes next question depends on a couple of variables the account s founder told For The Win. One is whether he gets a job and how quickly and where it is. Another question is who s the next (Nebraska coach) going to be
I haven t figured out what it will be if anything. I do know what it probably won t be which is I m not really up for following him to the next place. I m a Husker fan that s how I got started with this thing.
A few options include being like the fake Dan Beebe account that just generally trolls college football or a ghost of Bo Pelini at Nebraska. Later in an email to For The Win he said that there is potentially one school that he won t reveal that FauxPelini would follow the real Pelini to. And while he said he hasn t quite made up his mind about the option of creating an account for the new coach he said he thinks he d rather let someone else do that.
It probably would just be a different character depending on who it is the account founder said. It might not be a yell y guy it might be a quiet and shy guy and that s what the parody is.
I HEREBY OFFER TO COACH NEBRASKA IN THE BOWL GAME I CAN DO IT VIA TWITTER HOW HARD CAN IT BE
Fake Bo Pelini ( FauxPelini) November 30 2014
The account began in 2010 and quickly took on a life of its own by capturing Pelini in a series of hilarious and perfectly timed tweets. It now has over 161 000 followers and has interacted with the real Bo Pelini Nebraska basketball coach Tim Miles a few NFL players and dozens of fans.
One thing that may come with the end of Pelini s career at Nebraska is the Twitter account s founder may reveal his own identity something he said that Pelini himself despite having communicated with him on Twitter doesn t know.
But with so many things unresolved still he s still not even sure about that.
I think that day will come probably when it s out there for whatever reason fauxpelini s founder said. Right now I m going to stick with the anonymity of it it s just kind of easier to manage it but I also don t know what s going to happen with the account. I really haven t made up my mind on what s going to happen next.
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