Ed Foley thinks expanded Nebraska football staff will help special teams

The Nebraska football team is taking advantage of a new rule in the NCAA that allows a school to have as many on-field coaches as it wants. While the Huskers were originally rolling out the announcements of these new coaches rather slowly, things sped up when NU kicked off fall camp.

It likely didn’t slip most Husker fans notice that there were a few new hires who will be working with special teams. While Special Teams Coordinator Ed Foley is known as an expert in the field, the assignments demonstrate that Husker head coach Matt Rhule understands how important it is to nail down that aspect of the team.

Not for nothing, but anyone who thought Foley might have a problem with all the assistants spending time on special team, they’d be wrong. The man tasked with turning around an aspect of the Nebraska football team that has been a thorn in many coaches’ side understands that its’ “the more the merrier” here.

Nebraska football has all kinds of help on special teams these days

“It’s a big help for me especially,” Foley told the assembled media. “I like to segment what we are doing. It really helps a lot in meetings as much as it does on the field. I was segmenting that anyway but you can imagine in this day and age with the attention that these kids have I’m trying to coach all 11 in a meeting or on the field and it just doesn’t work. 

So to be able to separate those guys and have guys that can coach. Garret (McGuire) for example, was taking the gunners over to another field and he was working specifically with the gunners, the wide guys on the punt team while I was working with the interior part of the unit. Now he can get help over there so we can get some young coaches over there.”