From the eyes of a child, there's something special about cold, hard and unfiltered truths about life.

In this case, life is Nebraska Football for an 8-year-old second grader and avid Huskers fan.

A student at South Elementary in Sydney, Nebraska this week wrote a letter to Huskers coach Scott Frost begging him to schedule Alabama in the near future, among other requests.

Here's the note, in its unedited entirety, from the student's teacher, Kaela Cole:

Dear Scott Frost, Scott we need to add Alabama to are season because we need to test. You and Stanley Morgan Jr. needs to work on his footwork and Ziggy Stardust too. The CU game was good. We tried are hardest but we played Akron. We wouldn’t of lost that football. And if Adrian Martinez was not injured, we might of won. Someday I play for you. It would be an hour to play for you. It will be really cool if you write back.

Bless his heart. This takes the "We want Bama" mantra to another level. The kid's even level-headed after the narrow loss to Colorado in Frost's debut.

And for starters, he think Nebraska star wideout Stanley Morgan Jr. apparently needs some help getting off the line.

The Huskers and Crimson Tide have played five times with Alabama holding a 3-2 edge. The last meeting came in 1978, a 20-3 win for the Crimson Tide in Birmingham.

Nebraska is preparing for Saturday's game with walk-on quarterback Andrew Bunch as the probable starter if Martinez, injured against Colorado, is unavailable. As of Wednesday, Martinez hadn't practiced with a knee injury and all signs seemed pointed toward Bunch.

Martinez, however, expects to play and has told his coaches as much.

"Oh God, he told me that Monday. I talked to him that night after I talked to his father. I called him back. He said, 'Well, I'm playing Saturday,'" Husker QBs coach Mario Verduzco said this week. "I said, 'OK, I don't think you're the one that's going to be making that decision.' But you know, he wants to play. He's a competitor and he wants to be out there for his teammates and all that sort of good stuff, which is really honest with regards to how he is."

Writes Huskers247 analyst Brian Christopherson, "the 6-foot-1, 210-pound Bunch is from Thompson Stations, Tennessee, but Nebraska connections in his family run deep. His father, David Bunch, was an Omaha South guy and walk-on to the Nebraska program, having played with Dave Rimington. He used to bring Bunch to some Husker games in Lincoln growing up. They would walk into the same stadium that his great-grandfather helped build."