It looks like Nerbaska has indeed found its new athletic director. According to multiple reports, the Cornhuskers have hired Bill Moos, who is the former Washington State AD.

The hiring of Moos was a swift move that comes less than four weeks after firing Shawn Eichorst from the same position and one day after the Huskers football team was blown out at home by Ohio State.

Moos, 67, leaves Washington State after running its department for more than seven years. He has nearly two decades of experience at the helm of Pac-12 schools. Before Washington State, Moos was Oregon’s athletic director from 1995-2007.

In 2012, Moos hired Mike Leach to run the Cougars’ football program. Leach owns a 35-35 record at Washington State, but turned around a struggling program and led it to nine wins in 2015 and eight wins last fall. The Cougars were ranked No. 8 in the country and off to a 6-0 start this year before getting dominated, 37-3, by unranked California on Saturday.

Moos also hired men’s basketball coach Ernie Kent in 2014. Kent finished 13-18 last season.

Now, Moos takes over a program that is in a rough patch. The Cornhuskers lost to No. 9 Ohio State on Saturday night, 56-14, in the most lopsided home defeat since 1949.

The football team enters its bye week with new leadership in place and looking for an answer to reverse the course of an otherwise frustrating 3-4 start. The loss dropped coach Mike Riley to 18-15 in his tenure here and 11-10 in Big Ten play.

It will certainly be interesting to see how Moos handles the Riley situation.