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No hurry to hand out Blackshirts
Husker head coach Bo Pelini didn't appear to have any plans of handing out the Blackshirts right now.
"Maybe sometime," he said during Monday's Big 12 coaches' teleconference. "We're not sure when. To be honest, that's the furthest thing from my mind right now. Time will tell."
The Huskers will take off today, but Pelini said the team will be practicing Tuesday through Friday. They'll get the day off Saturday then come back Monday with their normal game-week routine.
Pelini talked some about Nebraska's red zone defense, which is tied for 13th in the country in that regard.
So far, teams have had the ball in NU's red zone 14 times, scoring on eight of them (57 percent of the time.) Nebraska has given up five red zone touchdowns (3 by the pass, 2 by the run) and a total of 43 points form inside the 20.
New Mexico State was just one of four in red zone scoring chances on Saturday, and that came after the Aggies started on NU's 3-yard-line.
"We just stuck with our calls," Pelini said. "They gave us some things, especially early in that game, that we haven't seen before. But our kids didn't panic. They were just playing the calls, trying to do their job. Regardless of where it is, in the red zone or up the field, you have to be prepared to make plays and execute the calls. I think we executed well down there and made them earn their points.
"When your back is against the wall, you have to react the right way. And I think our kids are showing the ability to do that and hang together as a team and believe in what's happening."
Pelini was asked if the culture around here makes it important to not just win at Nebraska, but win it with a dominating run game, a trademark of past great Husker teams.
Pelini said he can't let outside influences dictate how Nebraska calls its plays.
"My job is to win football games, but I also have the understanding that to win consistently you have to have a consistent running game," he said. "It's going to make you obviously better on offense, it's going to help you control the clock and it's going to make you better on defense at the same time. But by no means if someone is loading up the line of scrimmage against us am I going to keep pounding my head against the wall just to figure out ways to run it and please the fans. They're going to be pleased at the end of the day if we have more points at the end of the game."
http://journalstar.com/blog/huskers.php?ti...p;tb=1&pb=1
Husker head coach Bo Pelini didn't appear to have any plans of handing out the Blackshirts right now.
"Maybe sometime," he said during Monday's Big 12 coaches' teleconference. "We're not sure when. To be honest, that's the furthest thing from my mind right now. Time will tell."
The Huskers will take off today, but Pelini said the team will be practicing Tuesday through Friday. They'll get the day off Saturday then come back Monday with their normal game-week routine.
Pelini talked some about Nebraska's red zone defense, which is tied for 13th in the country in that regard.
So far, teams have had the ball in NU's red zone 14 times, scoring on eight of them (57 percent of the time.) Nebraska has given up five red zone touchdowns (3 by the pass, 2 by the run) and a total of 43 points form inside the 20.
New Mexico State was just one of four in red zone scoring chances on Saturday, and that came after the Aggies started on NU's 3-yard-line.
"We just stuck with our calls," Pelini said. "They gave us some things, especially early in that game, that we haven't seen before. But our kids didn't panic. They were just playing the calls, trying to do their job. Regardless of where it is, in the red zone or up the field, you have to be prepared to make plays and execute the calls. I think we executed well down there and made them earn their points.
"When your back is against the wall, you have to react the right way. And I think our kids are showing the ability to do that and hang together as a team and believe in what's happening."
Pelini was asked if the culture around here makes it important to not just win at Nebraska, but win it with a dominating run game, a trademark of past great Husker teams.
Pelini said he can't let outside influences dictate how Nebraska calls its plays.
"My job is to win football games, but I also have the understanding that to win consistently you have to have a consistent running game," he said. "It's going to make you obviously better on offense, it's going to help you control the clock and it's going to make you better on defense at the same time. But by no means if someone is loading up the line of scrimmage against us am I going to keep pounding my head against the wall just to figure out ways to run it and please the fans. They're going to be pleased at the end of the day if we have more points at the end of the game."
http://journalstar.com/blog/huskers.php?ti...p;tb=1&pb=1
