The expectations are already sky-high in Lincoln for Scott Frost and the Nebraska Cornhuskers, it seems.
Nebraska's athletic director, Bill Moos, said his new football coach has two big-time Big Ten coaches "running scared" with him back in charge of the team.
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“We’re going to run that up-tempo offense we saw (at the spring game), and we’re going to get the Blackshirts back to being Blackshirts. And that’s extremely important,” Moos said on Tuesday, via the Omaha World-Herald. “You’ve got Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh thinking, ‘We better put a little more into that Nebraska game coming up.’
"And that’s the way we want it. They’re running a little bit scared right now. And they won’t admit it. We’ll leave that at that.”
That's big talk coming from Moos, especially considering Nebraska plays both Michigan and Ohio State — on the road — in 2018. The Cornhuskers are 2-1 against Michigan since joining the Big Ten, winning the last two meetings. They're 1-3 against Ohio State, with the Buckeyes winning by a combined 126 points in the last three meetings.
If anyone can get Nebraska back to playing championship football, it'd be Frost, who quarterbacked the team to its last national championship in 1997. Still, it might be a while — or never, maybe — before he has Meyer and Harbaugh running scared.
