Scott Frost talked during his introductory news conference about building Nebraska football’s walk-on program.

Athletic director Bill Moos and others in Husker athletics will be looking into exactly how they can help make that happen and what might be feasible in the very near future.

“We’ll be in the process of doing that in the next three to four weeks,” Moos told the Journal Star on Wednesday.

Football Bowl Subdivision programs can have a maximum of 85 scholarship players, but roster size limits are a different conversation. The exact roster cap at NU was not immediately available, but former head coach Mike Riley mentioned 135 earlier this fall and it has been in the 130s for the past several years.

Here’s what Frost said Dec. 3:

“We had a lot of kids from Gothenburg and Minden and from Scottsbluff and from Wood River and from Columbus. This place needs that. I’m looking forward to trying to grow the walk-on program and try to make it what it was before. There are some sacrifices that have to be made, probably, to get it there, but when you have a bunch of kids from the state of Nebraska that are in this program, those are the kids that would bleed for this place and guys that will work hard to make this work.”

Exactly what those sacrifices are remains to be seen, but there are Title IX implications that could come into play if NU wants to raise the total number of athletes in a male sport like football.

“I've got to get a feel for where we are right now in regards to compliance to the gender equity piece,” Moos said. “I liked the concept of the walk-on piece. How high we can raise that cap, we’re going to have to explore. I have on two occasions spent a good deal of time with Tom Osborne talking about his philosophy on that subject back in the days that he was coaching and it’s very, very interesting. It has, in the past, been very successful.

“It’s something Scott wants to explore, and I do as well.”

Moos said it was too early in the process to know whether there was any wiggle room under the cap currently and also too early to weigh the feasibility of adding athletes or a women’s sport in conjunction with a football cap raise, saying he had not yet looked at the hard numbers.

“I want to get back to providing opportunities for that little boy from Kearney or Hastings or wherever to fulfill his dream and there are so many wonderful success stories through the years,” Moos said. “I think it’s been a big part of Nebraska football.”