April 12, 2002
Huskers Prepare For Second Major Scrimmage
LINCOLN, Neb. ----- The Nebraska football team worked out for more than two hours in pads Friday at Memorial Stadium, preparing for the second major scrimmage of the spring season. Following Saturday’s closed scrimmage, Nebraska will have just three practices left before the Red-White Spring Game on Saturday, April 20.

Nebraska head coach Frank Solich said the Huskers had a good practice Friday. “Today was a fairly demanding practice for them since we have a scrimmage tomorrow,” Solich said, “but that was our philosophy going in, that we would have hard practices. We were going to make sure they got a number of reps, that they were padded reps so that we could advance our players as much as possible during these 15 days of spring ball.”

Solich noted that in Saturday’s scrimmage he will be looking for more coordination as a unit on both offense and defense.

“We are just looking for coordination for the offense and defense in terms of 11 guys doing the right thing and not having busts. We’ve had a lot of good individual effort on both sides of the ball. We are doing an awful lot, so we’ve had some breakdowns, and we need to eliminate some of those breakdowns. We are looking for a coordinated effort on both sides of the ball.”

Solich noted that the staff is conducting a coaching clinic this weekend, with more than 1,100 coaches in attendance. Monte Kiffin will be the guest speaker at the clinic.