When Mick Stoltenberg talks of his interest in coaching, it comes across as much more than a whimsical notion.
He seems like a guy players might listen to -- and not just because he's 6-foot-5 and 310 pounds.
The Nebraska senior nose guard says he didn't necessarily arrive on campus in 2014 with thoughts of perhaps becoming a football coach.
"But once I started developing into an upperclassman, it was just a huge payback for me to see guys get better after something I maybe told them to do or helped them out with," he said earlier this week during Big Ten Media Days in Chicago.