But concussion research has left perhaps the biggest impact on the football program under Frost. The MRI scans — which cost $600 per player and are paid by CB3 through its funding from the university — benefit both the athletes and in-progress long-term studies.

The tests are also symbolic of an unprecedented collaboration between the football team and its fellow Memorial Stadium tenant that opened its doors in 2013. Proximity, funding and relationships with coaches combine to create a climate in which everyone benefits.

“It just took us a while to get the program going,” Savage said. “And it took us a while to have a coach who was willing to mandate it in order to protect his players’ health.”

The setup also means that it’s nearly impossible for a player to be dishonest about symptoms. Julie Tuttle is the concussion management athletic trainer — a position unique to Nebraska in the Big Ten when she arrived in 2016 — and recalls her days as an undergrad at NU in the early 2000s when an athlete could immediately return to action as long as he wasn’t knocked unconscious.