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Things I know, and things I think I know:

Some folks already are contemplating a Bill Moos statue. Or statues.

But others will continue to peck away at the second-year Nebraska athletic director, pointing out his shortcomings (or making them up), in part because that's what prominent leaders face more often than ever before in this age of anger and burner accounts.

Moos, though, is on a roll. Think about it this way: A major college athletic director's three foremost objectives are to raise money and to hire high-grade football and men’s basketball head coaches, thereby making fundraising easier. So, Moos first lands Scott Frost and now Fred Hoiberg. The hires have energized the state and put Moos in a position of strength. He seemingly has momentum and leverage.

What's next in his bag of tricks? I'm speculating, but it might have to do with comments he made to the Journal Star late last year.

"There are facilities in football that I believe need to be upgraded," he said. "I don't know if it's necessary to do it immediately, but we do need to have a long-range plan to address some of those things and we're in those conversations as we speak."