When Nebraska launches its football season Saturday night against Akron, the reverberation of Memorial Stadium will be as loud as ever.
Nebraska native Scott Frost, the quarterback who engineered Nebraska’s fifth national championship in 1997, will be welcomed home with a thunderous roar for Frost, who will start his own quest to restore a program that Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne combined to coach five national championships.
One of the ultra-happy 90,000 Husker fans will be Phyllis Winquest Johnson, a cheerful, joyful Nebraska season ticketholder. The 99-year-old diehard Husker fan can hardly wait for Frost to launch a coaching era that parallels Devaney and Osborne.