Nebraska head football coach Matt Rhule met with the press following the Cornhuskers 13-10 loss to Iowa. The Husker head coach told the media that he believes that all the mistakes and errors on Friday can be corrected moving forward.
“Oh it’ll all be fixed. It’ll all be improved. Maybe this is about where we are right now. Sometimes people see it from the outside and they think, ‘wow they really messed that up’ or ‘another short loss.’ I see it as, ‘Man these guys, how many guys go down and continue to put guys in, and we just battle right?’”
The head coach made a point of telling the press how proud he was of his team.
“There will be a day where we have seven wide receivers traveling with us and active. Those things will happen. We’re just not quite there yet and that’s why I’m so proud of these guys. They battle, they fight and we don’t make excuses. We just come back. I think that’s the key. Moving forward I think they ran the ball on us a couple times. I think we had to continue to develop our run defense and our ability to run the football. We couldn’t run the ball in the game to the level that we wanted and that’s what they did really well. He (Coach Ferentz) has been there a long time. They have a formula, we came down there, we battled and we couldn’t quite get it done.”
With the loss, Nebraska ended the 2023 season with a record of 5-7. The Cornhuskers will open the 2024 campaign on August 31st against UTEP. Find a photo gallery of Nebraska’s loss to Iowa below.