When Nebraska football hits a lull like the one it’s in now, maybe we think, ‘Wow, it’s been a long time since those guys — in this case meaning the coaching staff that just wrapped its first full year in Lincoln and signed 24 players for 2019 last week during the early signing period — had anything resembling a break.’
Held, Scott Frost and this coaching staff spent all of December 2017 with two jobs — recruiting for Nebraska and preparing Central Florida for a Peach Bowl appearance.
“I’ll be honest, people don’t realize, but when you leave a job and then take another job over, just the chaos from this time last year until the end of this year, you had little pockets of breaks, you really didn’t because either you were moving or doing this and that,” Held said last week in the NU offices about National Signing Day.