Riley Announces Spring Game Format

So if I heard correctly they are dividing 2 teams and basically playing a scrimmage with some different special teams things that won't be live throughout?

 
Dude. Nebraska could blow up this selection process... Facebook live it or something like that like a fantasy draft and folks would eat that sh#t up!

 
Instead of following a traditional offense-vs-defense setup, Nebraska coaches will form two teams that will be finalized by Friday afternoon. First units won’t be entirely together, but rather “it will be kind of a mixture,” offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf said.


Special teams will largely be skeletal, Riley said. Kickoffs will include only kickers and returners, and punter Caleb Lightbourn will get “four or five” chances to kick. Field goals and extra points will still be attempted.

“We’re going to try to give everybody an opportunity to do something that’s their specialty in play," Riley said.

The game will be standard in the first half: 15-minute quarters with regular timing rules, right down to TV timeouts. The second half will feature a running clock across two 15-minute quarters.

Riley said quarterbacks also will not be part of the live action Saturday.

“Officials will make a decision on the sack or not, which is always interesting," Riley said. "Somebody will argue, that’s just a given. But that’s what we’re going to do this year.”
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saunders45 said:
Nebfanatic said:
I like this format more than some stupid scoring format for offense and defense. Just let em play
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Yup, I hated that format.
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I prefer any format where the top units face off against each other. I dislike the mixed/draft format because we don't see the depth chart or the top units against each, so I'd prefer the offense vs defense like last year as compared to this year's format. But my top choice would be the old 1's and 4's vs 2's and 3's where the #1 offense vs #1 defense are opposite each other and face-off against each other.
 
The only thing I would say about that is being that it is spring, some positions the depth chart is very arbitrary at this point

That being said you can still put the 2nd offense with the first defense and vice versa so your 1s are on 1s and 2s are on 2s. Again some positions (WR) you can kinda just mix and match because the depth chart doesn't matter that much

 
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Like offense vs defense better as a way to evaluate the team. Split groups makes it hard to tell how our units look bc of lack of cohesion and mixed talent level.

 
That's true but it will be hard to tell how our defense will look anyway apparently. Diaco giving no early secrets away haha

 
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