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Steven M. Sipple: Casting Frost as surefire savior minimizes difficulty of his undertaking

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Nebraska football is serious business. The number of media members who cover it for a living (approximately 17,943) should tell you that.

Which is why I chuckled the other day when a friend, one who’s lived in several area codes, sent the following text:

“People forget Frank averaged almost 10 wins a year and that wasn’t good enough for them,” Frost told SI.com. “Then they tried to go a different way with the West Coast offense and went 5-6 and seven-and-something. Then they go get Bo and he did a lot of things right. There was a seven-year span where only three schools won at least nine for all those years -- Oregon, Alabama and Nebraska.