With the release of former Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos’ new book, “Crab Creek Chronicles: From the Wheat Fields to the Ball Fields and Beyond,” several stories of past Husker failures have popped up again. Those stories, such as what Moos claims went on when he interviewed Scott Frost for the head coach job, have received more illumination.
One big claim Moos made is that Frost was the driving force behind trying to get the 2021 matchup against Oklahoma canceled. While Husker fans know that Frost was one of the people pushing for it, most assumed Moos was in favor as well. However, as the former AD tells it, he was totally against it, and Frost even went around him to his superiors to get the matchup with the Sooners called off.
While quite a few of Moos’ claims in his book come off as extremely self-serving, On3 writer and Nebraska insider Steve Sipple confirmed on Tuesday that Frost worked quite hard to get support for canceling the Oklahoma game because he was afraid they’d lose and it might cost him his job…