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Matt Rhule Previews Saturday’s ‘Red-White Shootout’

Nebraska football spring game will cap Huskers’ 2024 spring drills

Joe Hudson

Nebraska Athletics

Nebraska head football coach Matt Rhule met with the media Thursday for the final time before Saturday's Red-White spring game.

He's calling it "the Red-White Shootout." What he hopes to see beyond the execution of fundamentals is how players react to pressure and adversity in front of a big crowd.

“ Like I’ve said to our team, the Tuesday/Wednesday Huskers were better than the Saturday Huskers. The Saturday Huskers last year – doubt, fear, fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of ‘what are they going to say about me?’ All of that stuff affects performance for young people."

“Tuesday/Wednesday, you get beat, you move onto the next play," he said. "You get beat on Saturdays, how we handled that wasn’t elite." One answer he's looking for Saturday is "are we improving at how we handle stress and how we handle pressure?”

Rhule had plenty more to say after Thursday's practice, the 14th of spring ball. Scroll down for more coverage, and refresh this page to see the latest additions. Asterisk indicates item may require a subscription.

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Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.

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