Nebraska’s head coaching search continues two weeks after Scott Frost’s firing. The program seems to be honing in on its top candidates for the job, despite how early in the season it is.

The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman joined “McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning” on WJOX to discuss which candidates he sees taking the job. The three candidates he listed were ones that he thinks could be culture changers for a Nebraska.

“Matt Campbell, he’s done a terrific job at Iowa State,” Feldman said. “He has developed a good culture at a place that had any sustained success, and he’s proved that he’s really good at developing talent.”

Nebraska is, however, wanting to go deep into NIL territory, which Feldman believes could hurt Campbell’s candidacy in his own mind and at Nebraska.”

“Then there’s Lance Leipold, who’s a former Nebraska assistant under Frank Solich,” Feldman said. “He won 6 national titles at D-3, and did a really good job at Buffalo in the MAC. Now, he’s kind of working miracles at Kansas, who has been bad for so long.”

Leipold, however, said yesterday that he didn’t move to Kansas just to leave. Despite that, it is unlikely that Nebraska will back down given how good of a fit he could be, so we will see if Nebraska will be able to pull Leipold away.

“The third one is Bill O’Brien,” Feldman said. “He’s at Alabama, obviously, but Trev Alberts has admired him for a long time dating back to when they were both in Atlanta when O’Brien was at Georgia Tech. He has a lot of respect for how O’Brien did taking over a horrific situation at Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.”

O’Brien could be the most appealing given the fact that he turned around a program similar to where Nebraska is at right now. He has experience at both major levels of football, and has found some success at each stop.

Either way, coaches will continue to be thrown into the mix for the job, and only time will tell who will be the next Nebraska football coach.