Tom Osborne was an unpaid graduate assistant for Bob Devaney in the mid-1960s when the head coach gave the young guy a recruiting assignment: Go out to Malcolm, watch Larry Frost and report back.
“The next day they asked me how he did and I said, ‘Well, he carried the ball six times and he scored six touchdowns,'” Osborne recalled Friday. “I said, ‘That’s about as good as he could do.'”
Scott Frost told the same story earlier in the week, smiling all the way, except it was seven touchdowns on eight touches. Really, though, who’s counting?