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Nebraska AD backtracks after saying Harbaugh, Meyer are running 'scared'

Bill Moos is excited to have Scott Frost in Lincoln, and who could blame him.

But the Nebraska athletic director also got a reminder that sharing some of that enthusiasm so emphatically, and publicly -- even to a throng of Cornhuskers supporters at a luncheon -- can have its public relations backlash.

"We're gonna run that up-tempo offense we saw (at Saturday's spring game), and we're gonna get the Blackshirts (defense) back to being Blackshirts. And that's extremely important," Moos told the Omaha Press Club, according to the Omaha World-Herald. "You've got Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh thinking, 'We better put a little more into that Nebraska game coming up.