Spring Practice

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Rhule the great unifier

The man knows how to do a press conference

 

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Steve Marik • InsideNebraska
Staff Writer
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Saturday was scrimmage day for the Nebraska football program. The team took to Memorial Stadium for a period that lasted from about 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Following the team's seventh practice of the spring, head coach Matt Rhule met with the media to talk about how the practice went. Here are the quick hits:
>> Rhule said the first- and second teams got about 40 plays each during the scrimmage for a total of around 85-90 plays. There were well over 100 high school coaches from all over the country who came and watched after attending clinics featuring the Huskers' coaches.
>> The team practiced for about 45 minutes on the fields at Hawks Championship Center before moving over to the stadium. Inside Hawks is where the team stretched and ran through security circuits, individual drills and special teams.
>> All the quarterbacks were live during the scrimmage and were tackled to the ground, Rhule said. The coach said added he let the defense know the quarterbacks were going to be live at the beginning of the day, and they were surprised by it.
>> Rhule liked what he saw from the offense and how well it moved thanks to the quarterback-run game.
"The offense really moved the ball well today. The offense looked ahead of the defense. I think a lot of it was the quarterbacks running," Rhule said. "You get to practice and the quarterback drops back and they blow it dead. Well, today they had to try to hit Heinrich (Haarberg) and try to hit Jeff (Sims), try to hit Richard (Torres). They (the QBs) bounced off it and ran for big, long plays. That added a dynamic that we hadn't really exposed to the defense."
>> Rhule said the quarterbacks "played really well" and that "they all bring something different to the table."
"I think we probably turned the ball over twice, so there are some things we have to correct," the coach said. "But we got in a lot of good situations. We had third down, we had two-minute, we got red zone, and I thought for the most part they played really well."
>> Rhule confirmed that offensive lineman Ben Scott was injured on Thursday. The transfer from Arizona State who's primed to start at center was rolled up on, but the injury isn't serious.
"He should be out for a week or so, not long-term," Rhule said. "It was a knee at first, so we were kind of concerned that day whether he was going to be OK. But he should be back within a week or so."
>> The injury to Scott led Rhule to mention Justin Evans-Jenkins, a redshirt freshman center from New Jersey.
"I think Justin Evans-Jenkins is really doing a nice job right now," Rhule said. "Obviously I wasn't familiar with him, he's from a place that I've recruited a long time — Irvington, New Jersey. But he's really done a nice job. He went in there and didn't miss a beat."
>> As for the defense, Rhule liked the fact that it attacked and got the ball out.
"We intercepted the ball," the coach said. "I don't think Tony (White) pressured a ton, he wanted to see the guys play, play with their hands and technique. It looked like we were good in pass coverage, we just gave up a lot of big plays to the quarterback running, which, again, I didn't tell them the quarterbacks will be live until this morning, so I don't think they were super prepared for it."
>> There were Big Ten officials brought in for the scrimmage, and Rhule said there weren't many penalties called.
>> The 86-year-old Tom Osborne spoke at the coaches clinic on Friday, and Rhule couldn't have been happier about it.
"Coach Osborne speaking last night was humbling," Rhule said. "... It was gold, absolute gold. I took notes, we wrote it down. It was really a lot of things that challenged me, and I think most of the coaches probably felt that way."
>> Rhule said this weekend was important on several fronts. Not only was there a scrimmage, but Rhule loved seeing a packed house full of high school coaches for the clinic.
"We want to be a place where people come to," he said. "We want to be a destination people come to to come talk about football. So we're 100 percent open. I tell every high school coach, 'You wanna come to practice? You come any time you want.'"
>> Rhule is excited about the return of Frank Solich, who will be honored along with his family at the April 22 Red-White game.
Rhule told a story about when he was the offensive coordinator at Temple from 2008-11, Solich's Ohio Bobcats beat the Owls and did so using the Huskers' offense.
"He's quick to remind me that every time we went out there, he beat us, he beat us every time," Rhule said with a laugh. "Everyone knows him here, but he was running the Nebraska offense at Ohio, and he morphed into like a spread, but it was still the same principles. He wasn't using the fullback anymore, he was still the same series offense and all the great things they did here. I always have a lot of respect for coaches who are able to extend their success by adapting to different times."
>> Rhule said Solich sent him a text during the Michigan-TCU College Football Playoff game after the Wolverines hit a long run using a fullback.
"All the sudden I get a text from coach Solich," Rhule said, "and he's like, 'See? I told you there's still a place for the fullback.'"

 

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Scrimmie footage

 

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Looks like AJ Allen is hurt again. 33 - Javin Wright

Blaise, Henrich, Casey, Logan. Buford

Some of the numbers don't match up to the roster - ?, Barron Miles Jr, Buford, Henrich, Logan, Ty Robinson?, Casey.

Ezra Miller, Snodgrass, Blaise.

Ben Scott

 

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