Ever since the week Mickey Joseph took over as interim coach of Nebraska football, one of the underlying root causes of the structural damage to the Scott Frost Era began to get repaired: Alignment and messaging.
That was one of the key talking points we all talked about at the time, right? As soon as Joseph was in charge of the Huskers, we all witnessed a shift in how much more clear and consistent the messaging was from the top-down – from head coach to assistants (the ones not named Mark Whipple) to players – especially in press conference settings. What the coach said from week to week became more consistent, and the players often offered a strong mirror image of what Joseph was relaying to us.
Ever since Matt Rhuletook over, those characteristics of the program became even more vivid and remarkably consistent. I mean, take the hush-hush approach from every single …