By Brian Rosenthal / Huskers.com
When Tyronn Lue arrived on campus to embark on his Nebraska basketball career, the Missouri native soon discovered what sport was king in Lincoln.
“That’s all that anyone talked about was it being a football school,” Lue said in a phone interview earlier this week, “and getting a chance to see the Huskers play football.”
The sea of red, the Blackshirts, Tommie Frazier, back-to-back national championships – Lue experienced it all as a student-athlete, watching from the stands of Memorial Stadium.
“It was great to be submerged in that,” he said, “and be a part of that type of environment.