Nebraska football is officially under new leadership and there seems to be a pretty good possibility that the upheaval for the Huskers isn’t quite over. Interim Nebraska head coach Mickey Joseph will take the podium in front of the media for the first time on Tuesday morning since Scott Frost was fired. That could be when additional hinted at changes are announced.
When Athletic Director Trev Alberts announced that Joseph was going to get the top job for the Nebraska football program on Sunday, the AD also made a comment that raised more than a few eyebrows around the state.
Alberts in fact, made it clear that “structural changes” is not a matter of “if” or “maybe” but that they are going to be happening under Joseph. The interim coach has also apparently been told that he can make whatever changes he sees fit to make.
That brings us back to Tuesday morning at 11:30 AM. This time around, rather than having a caucopony of coaching voices talking about how they feel now that their former boss has been fired, Joseph will be the only one speaking to the media. That goes for the rest of the week as well.
Mickey Joseph will speak to the media at 11:30 am on Tuesday morning. It will only be the #Huskers interim coach this week. No other assistants or players.
— Oliver VanDervoort (@itmeolliev) September 12, 2022
Players will also not be addressing the media this week. That’s obviously already a change from how things have been going this year, but not the big “structural” changes that Alberts was almost certainly talking about.
So just what will they be? There’s been plenty of talk about how bad the Nebraska football team’s defense has been so far this year. That was certainly on display in the Georgia Southern game, the final shovel of dirt on Frost’s grave.
It feels like anyone else losing their job isn’t likely, but one does have to wonder if a demotion might be in the cards? Could Erik Chinander be relieved of his defensive coordinator duties? Could Travis Fischer be promoted?
Common sense tells me a move like that would be a move geared towards pushing Chinander out the door. Of course, that might be perfectly fine with Joseph. It’s not like the two men have a strong working relationship with one another. Perhaps Joseph would rather have fewer “Frost loyalists” on the staff.
What further changes are going to take place for the Nebraska football team are at this point, guesswork. There’s a lot of that going on in Lincoln and the rest of Husker nation these days. At least on Tuesday, it seems likely some answers will start to come.