When Nebraska football coaches recruit players for the 2019 class and beyond, the overarching message is pretty clear.
Even the most promising building projects, though, take time. And while Frost says he’s in it for the long haul — part of the reason he agreed to a seven-year contract — and most Husker fans surely would find a championship payoff worth a reasonable wait, not everybody has much longer in the program.
Frost’s Knights program stunned the college football world by doing it in two seasons, and at the time a 6-7 campaign in 2016 felt like real progress.