Barrett Ruud, like all of the Nebraska football coaches, has been on the road nearly constantly for the past two months.
He has hotel points and frequent flier miles stacked up and he’s put down his fair share of tread on the Interstate 80 concrete between Lincoln and Omaha.
Chatting with reporters Wednesday night at the Rococo Theatre, Ruud was understandably looking forward to spending more time at Memorial Stadium and less in airports, rental cars and Marriotts.
Take Ruud at his word, but don’t think for a second that he’ll forget about recruiting. The Lincoln Southeast graduate and former Husker All-America linebacker is the staff’s in-state recruiting coordinator and, yeah, the ink is barely dry on the 2018 class, but the 2019 crop of Nebraska high school football players is shaping up to be strong and intensely sought-after.