Q: You've spent your entire two-decade career at Nebraska coaching receivers and tight ends. How excited are you to coach running backs?
A: I'm very excited to coach running backs. My time with wide receivers and tight ends has prepared me. The offenses that I've been around at Nebraska have been predominantly very physical offenses - high demand and extra-effort. So that's part of my nature, all of those kinds of things are pertinent to coaching running backs. For 17 years, I had wide receivers and tight ends in a very run-oriented attack. Those guys had to learn how to be selfless guys, and some of those wide receivers were not the biggest guys in the world and had to throw their bodies around to get the most out of their talent. They had to learn how to be blue-collar people. So I'm really excited to take running backs and help them to develop their blue-collar nature and maximize their God-given talent. You can't do that without a mindset for physicality, and I think I'm well prepared to coach that.