Greg Austin is firmly convinced players on the Nebraska football team are ready for a new beginning.
Austin, a former Husker lineman beginning his first season as offensive line coach, sees student-athletes who are open, eager and ready to dive in head first.
That’s not exactly what Austin and the rest of head coach Scott Frost’s coaching staff encountered two years ago, when they inherited a Central Florida program that had just endured an 0-12 season.
“They were kind of dipping their toes in,” Austin said Wednesday. “ ‘Are these guys really about what they say they’re about?