On Wednesday, several new members of the Nebraska football coaching staff met with the media and discussed their philosophies heading into the 2025 season. Among those new staffers was veteran analyst and coaching overseer, Phil Snow.
Snow joined the defensive staff this offseason on a full time basis, after spending most of the 2024 campaign as a kind of analyst watching game tape and offering advice. When speaking to the media he made it clear that this season he will have a “multifaceted” role. Chief among the duties he’ll take on is helping the Huskers' new defensive coordinator, John Butler.
"Coach Butler will call the defense but I will be involved in the game plan,” the new Nebraska football coach said. “It's a collaborative thing, right? We all work together. But it will be Coach Butler's defense and we're all working for him in that room.
Veteran Nebraska football staffer sheds light on 2025 plans and role
Snow added that he’s going to be staying plenty busy helping with multiple position groups, but will likely focus on linebackers.
“Even right now, I need to stay busy on the field. I'm a football coach. That's the best thing I do is coach on the field," Snow said. "So I will be with a position in practice, helping somebody."
Snow is someone that Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule has leaned on for quite a while. There’s a reason he was one of the first people that was called when the Huskers defense struggled a bit in the middlde of the season. And there’s a reason he’s now got a kind of dean of assistant coaches on the staff heading into the next season.