The new guys who are actually kind of old guys will confirm it. The mat drills are legit.
While they are new to being Huskers, the three Nebraska seniors speaking to the media on Tuesday are all college football veterans.
Dane Key came up in the SEC at Kentucky. Rocco Spindler had the Notre Dame experience. Dasan McCullough has been at Indiana and Oklahoma.
All can attest after their arrivals to Lincoln that Nebraska’s offseason mat drills are, as Spindler said, legit.
Everyone everywhere has its challenging offseason work. So what makes these drills at Nebraska stand out to even players have had a lot of sweat drip off their brows?
“It makes you focus on the little things while you’re tired,” Key said. “When you’re tired you tend to not think about the right things, as simple as hitting your chest on the ground. The mat drills could be 10 minutes max but when we start doing the little things wrong, then that tends to lead into being a 30-minute mat drill.”
Matt Rhule pointed out on Urban Meyer’s podcast that he runs the mat.
“For us a true mat drill is we’re going to line up eight lines deep across a mat and we’re going to do agility drills and movements off of command,” said the Husker head coach. “And if one guy messes up, we all go back. You learn the power of accountability. I’m going to go hard but if the guy next to me doesn’t go hard, if the guy behind me is just a little bit off, then we have to do it again.”
It definitely got the attention of the new guys who are also the old guys.
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