Black is a bit more in vogue these days in the Nebraska football realm. Frost has turned up the volume on the Blackshirt discussion, and the timing is right.
"I feel like when Mike Riley was there (from 2015-17), it was almost an afterthought," says Wistrom, who won the Lombardi Award in 1997 as a linchpin defender for a ferocious Husker defense. "With Riley, it was all about offense and who they were recruiting. As far as defense and the Blackshirts, it felt like, 'Oh, yeah, we have this tradition here, too, let's not forget it.'
Frost keeps making good moves as the program's leader, and heightened emphasis on the Blackshirt tradition is among his better ones.