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Steven M. Sipple: Yes, the draw is a bear, but don't count NU out of anything, Childress says

Will Bolt remembers it was a snowy January day in Lincoln.

As he walked through the Nebraska student-athletes' cafeteria in 1997, a kid from Texas on his recruiting visit, he stumbled upon a legend.

Bolt told me that he'll never forget meeting Tom Osborne for the first time.

“I didn’t know anything about the University of Nebraska -- certainly not about the baseball program. But I did know who coach Osborne was," Bolt said of the legendary former Husker football coach. "So when I met him, it was a big moment.”

"That sealed the deal right there," former Nebraska assistant coach Rob Childress said Monday.