Newest Nebraska football assistant is bringing good vibes to practice
The Nebraska football team has had a ton of good vibes all fall camp. Most of those vibes have stemmed from guys like Dylan Raiola, Isaiah Neyor, and others showing up and showing out. However, there are also some very good vibes coming from one of the newest assistant coaches.
John Butler has only been with the team for a few weeks, thanks to Evan Cooper's abrupt departure. However, the new defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator has meshed quickly. He's also meshed happily with a staff that doesn't know him all that well.
Nebraska football defensive coordinator Tony White talked about how well the staff is absorbing Butler during a press conference earlier this week. In that press conference, he talked repeatedly about the good vibes circulating the Cornhuskers' camp.
Nebraska football's newest assistant has all the good vibes
"The one thing that’s really cool with JB (John Butler) is that he’s humble to the point of ‘this is how we do it’,” White said. “He may have done it differently at other places, but this is our way, and he’s constantly changing terminology, constantly absorbing all of that stuff and fitting it in, as well as being able to say ‘I like these things in coverage’, ‘I like to do this’, ‘let’s see if we can do this’. I think, in terms of the guys, they know football. They know who can really help them in football.”
White has also seen an assistant who knows what to do, how to do it and how to adjust it to what the Huskers want to do. He's impressed the staff quite a bit.
"If you’re around him, he’s good at what he does. He’s good around the guys and he knows football. Those guys have taken to him. They’re starting to joke around with him and all that, so it’s fun to see out there. At the end of the day, he coaches them hard. He coaches them hard, which with this defense and the DBs, having five DBs out there, you have to be coached hard. Great players want to be coached hard. It’s really refreshing to have him in the room."
We'll hear more about John Butler and how he's meshing with the Nebraska football staff on Friday after practice.