84HuskerLaw
All-Conference
Traditionally, as I recall, the game was usually the 1st and 4th strings vs 2nds and 3rds in a mostly regular game type format (through the Devaney/Osborne/Solich years. I only recall seeing half a dozen of the "games" (I didn't feel those practice like things were fairly called a game) of those since the Solich years. Osborne and maybe Frank both sometimes used limited tackling on some plays and put green jerseys on QBs sometimes though I don't recall that was even the case sometimes.
I hope they play something close to a game type situation and let the kids, particularly the backups play some semi real football. You just can't practice 'touch' football and then suddenly become a physical hard nosed and agressive football team in real games. Serious hitting and full blown full speed blocking, tackling, play operating, etc are critical to a team preparing to play at a high level. We can't afford to spend the first several games getting into full blown game ready state. I realize injuries are a true concern but we've seen many go down in non contact drills etc and in practice settings as well. We have 150 players suited up and the reason is we need to play hard to win as our competition will not be playing soft all the time so we can't. Football is a game of rough and tough collisions and not a 'contact' sport such as basketball might be called.
I hope they play something close to a game type situation and let the kids, particularly the backups play some semi real football. You just can't practice 'touch' football and then suddenly become a physical hard nosed and agressive football team in real games. Serious hitting and full blown full speed blocking, tackling, play operating, etc are critical to a team preparing to play at a high level. We can't afford to spend the first several games getting into full blown game ready state. I realize injuries are a true concern but we've seen many go down in non contact drills etc and in practice settings as well. We have 150 players suited up and the reason is we need to play hard to win as our competition will not be playing soft all the time so we can't. Football is a game of rough and tough collisions and not a 'contact' sport such as basketball might be called.
