Inside Nebraska’s offseason math
From the spring game to special teams to roster decisions, Nebraska’s head coach laid out how the program is navigating a changing college football calendar.
College football used to mark time in predictable ways. Winter conditioning. Spring ball. A spring game tucked somewhere in mid-to-late April. Then summer arrived, camps followed and the season slowly came into focus.1
That rhythm isn’t necessarily gone, but it has changed.
Nebraska’s spring game will return this year, which is interesting but it isn’t the only interesting part of the whole thing. The timing has its intrigue too.
And once you pull on that thread, nearly everything Matt Rhule talked about Friday night starts to connect, from roster management to recruiting priorities to how Nebraska is trying to regain control of its own calendar.
In case you missed it, Rhule sat down with Kyle Crooks on Sports Nightly and offered a lot of insight on the state of Nebraska football. There were explanations for decisions already made, signals about what’s next and plenty more to digest.
A lot has already been said and published about that appearance, so let’s try to dive into a little more of the details, shall we?
