Former Nebraska football head coach Tom Osborne saw his coaching tree get an FBS branch back this weekend. On July 1, the Liberty Flames officially became members of the highest division in college football.
That promotion also means a promotion of sorts for its head coach Turner Gill. Gill played quarterback and then coached under Osborne during the tail end of Osborne’s coaching career.
He also coached under Frank Solich when he took over the reigns. When Solich and the rest of his staff were fired, Gill went his own way and eventually got head coaching gigs at Buffalo and then Kansas.