I'll take this as good news, any help on defense is appreciated................
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost recently added a pair of defensive analysts to his football staff.
The Cornhuskers have added former NFL assistant Bill McGovern and college assistant Bobby Maffei as analysts. Both are listed on the school website's staff directory, though it was not immediately clear how long either has been on staff.
McGovern spent 2016-19 with the New York Giants, working last year alongside NU outside linebackers coach Mike Dawson. Before that, Dawson and McGovern also spent three seasons together on the Philadelphia Eagles staff and also coached together at Boston College.
Overall, McGovern has spent the past seven seasons as a full-time position coach in the NFL between New York and Philadelphia, but was not retained when Pat Shurmur was fired and Joe Judge hired in New York.
Clearly, though, he and Dawson have several years of history together.
Maffei spent the 2019 season at Richmond, where he was the Spiders' special teams coordinator and a defensive assistant coach.
Maffei is a Tennessee native but a Nebraska graduate and he served as a student assistant at NU before graduating in 2011. Since then, he's spent time at several colleges, including a pair of stops working with now-Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule at both Temple and Baylor.
Maffei was at Baylor for 2017-18 as a special teams and defensive quality control coach.
Maffei has been sharing Husker-related tweets since mid-April.
Analysts, unlike full-time assistant coaches, cannot take part in active instruction during practices. They can, however, be part of staff meetings, watch film, develop plans and generally help provide insight and information for the staff.
Nebraska has three offensive analysts, each of whom as been on staff in some capacity since Frost took over here, in Frank Verducci, Mike Cassano and Dustin Haines. Earlier this offseason, Frost hired Jonathan Rutledge as a senior special teams analyst with the expectation that he'll handle the majority of the Huskers' special teams scheme and game-planning.
Those six make the largest group of analysts Frost has had on his staff so far at NU. Some schools, perhaps most notably Alabama, have made a practice of employing large swaths of analysts. The Huskers aren't on that plan at this point, but the ranks of off-field help has steadily grown over the past three seasons.
