Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule met with the media on Saturday afternoon following spring practice. The man in charge discussed various subjects with the assembled press.
Rhule talked about improvements to the team this offseason, what he believes makes a great player, and why he is so welcoming of alumni and visitors to spring practices and clinics.
The Huskers will continue with spring practice on Tuesday. The annual Red-White Spring Game will take place on Saturday, April 27, at 11:00 a.m.
Find Matt Rhule’s full comments below.
On teamwork
“We really like what we’ve been doing. We really like the teamwork followed by the spring league and I think it’s really raising the level of a lot of guys’ play so it looked like a really good practice. It’s always hard to tell when you have so many people there. You’re kind of spread out a little bit more but what I saw was a lot of guys making plays on the ball.
On the offense
Marcus (Satterfield) did a good job talking to you guys the other day saying, ‘You look back to last year, we have to throw the ball better. We can’t be minus 17 turnover ratio.’ We ran the ball well, we stopped the run well, we were pretty decent on third down in some areas so really true focus on throwing the football has been important. Everybody talks about the quarterback when that happens but the guys getting open and catching the ball matter. I saw a lot of plays made on the ball today which made me excited so looking forward to watching the tape.”
On great players
“Everyone thinks that great players do extraordinary things. I think the thing that I’ve learned about great players is that great players do the ordinary things unbelievably well. We would run an option route with Christian McCaffrey and it’s not that he would run some route every game that was new. He would run that same option route…
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