NU Football: Husker routine usual

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

OWH

Some tidbits I found interesting:

The World-Herald contacted officials at 13 nationally prominent football programs Wednesday. All 13 said their teams practice in full pads at least one day a week...

"When you put on full pads, you get a little bit more cutting, a little bit more lower body work, but when you're in half pads, you can get just as much done. Every pro team in the NFL practices in half a pack." (that last statement makes me wonder if Callahan isn't still stuck in NFL mode to some degree)

And finally, a coach who is taking some blame for the way his players played (and a little contradictory to Callahan's "NFL" statement.

Defensive line coach Buddy Wyatt, who said his players were "embarrassed" Saturday, was happy with the change to full pads.

 

"I'm a line coach," he said. "I can get a whole lot more done."

 

Wyatt said he thought at the time that Nebraska's pre-USC practices were physical enough, "but in hindsight, I feel I let my guys down because I wasn't as demanding as I needed to be."

 

NFL players, Wyatt said, always practice in half pads.

 

"Obviously," he said, "we're not the NFL."

 

[bethelbacker]

The logic is that by the time they've reached college, they should know how to tackle, so they don't need to wear full pads all the time. After last week, I think that it's fair to say that either 1) our players really didn't know how to tackle when they got here, or 2) our coaches have taught them a far less effective way to do it.

For the record, I think it's option 2.

 

[skersOVRsc]

Hopefully the one day of full pads per week sticks. Not news, but you play like you practice, guess someone should have let SC know we were goin' half rack.