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CHICAGO — Scott Frost wants Nebraska’s football program in 2019 to mirror, as much as possible, the way Tom Osborne ran it in his heyday. That means having as big of a roster — around 150 players — as Title IX compliance will allow.

But that roster size doesn’t exactly fit the meeting and locker room spaces in NU’s football administration facility. While the Huskers’ current setup is “perfectly functional,” Frost said Thursday at Big Ten media days, he gets why there are conversations to build a new facility. The current one, Frost said, “was built during the Steve Pederson and Bill Callahan era.”

“They were dealing with a 105-man roster,” Frost said. “We have 150-some on our roster right now. We don’t have that many seats in our team room. Our position rooms are too small. Our training room is way too small. There’s some things about our facilities that don’t fit the mold of what we’re trying to build right now.”

The North Stadium complex named for Tom and Nancy Osborne was the best in the country when it was built in the mid-2000s, Frost said, but 82 schools have either renovated their facilities or built new ones since then.