It has been, and still is, a marathon as Nebraska looks for its next head coach. But we are in crunch time in the national search.

We reported our latest Hot Board last week that features a name of eight key candidates, and we are profiling the cases for and against each candidate over the next two weeks in addition to updates.

First up: Mickey Joseph.

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