Yesterday (March 1st) during his normal segment on Severe & Benning, Jay Foreman explained what his role is and why he's doing it. Essentially, he outline your former point as his main purpose. He expressed that he was lucky enough to have some former husker players (from the 80's) give him some life advice while he was playing. He said he wants to give back to the program by offering up his life experiences and make himself available to them as a resource.
Obviously, it's probably easier to just listen to what he said rather than read a brief synopsis from some random board member. He starts talking about it at the 4:20 mark: