Bill Moos’ comments about Nebraska football drawing ire

Bill Moos is really, really happy about the way things are going for the Nebraska football and he’s not afraid to let the rest of the conference know it.

If you’re a Nebraska football fan, you’re likely pretty excited about what the future holds under Scott Frost. You just watched an offense look pretty explosive in the spring game. You’re hearing a lot of buy-in from the players.

It appears the Athletic Director is plenty excited as well. In fact, it turns out Bill Moos is having problems containing his excitement.

Moos was speaking at a luncheon on Tuesday about a variety of topics. First he talked about how baseball head coach Darin Erstad was safe, despite suffering what is likely going to be his worst of seven seasons.

Then his attention turned to Scott Frost and the football program and he really let loose.

"“We’re gonna run that uptempo offense we saw (at the spring game), and we’re gonna get the Blackshirts back to being Blackshirts. And that’s extremely important,” Moos said. “You’ve got Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh thinking, ‘We better put a little more into that Nebraska game coming up.’ And that’s the way we want it. They’re running a little bit scared right now. And they won’t admit it. We’ll leave that at that.”"

No one can fault Moos for being excited. It turns out plenty of people are faulting him today for claiming that the Big Ten, especially Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh are “a bit scared” of the Cornhuskers.

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SBNation called his comments “hubris.” Plenty of fans around the Big Ten seemed rather rankled that the AD for a program that had gone 4-8 last year was talking trash to the class of the conference.

To be clear, it is a little weird to hear someone like Moos making comments about how a coach who routinely competes for the National Title should be scared of a new coach taking over a team Ohio State clubbed into the ground a year ago.

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Those who are getting worked up about those comments would probably be wise to remember that Moos was talking to a group of Nebraska football fans. Why wouldn’t he be fired up and excited?