It wasn’t pressure, exactly, that Nebraska’s defense felt heading into Saturday’s Red-White Spring Game at Memorial Stadium. Pressure is for October and November. For real fourth quarters and one-possession games and make-or-break third downs.
Certainly, though, guys like Mohamed Barry and Khalil Davis felt, well, something, when they took the field in front of 85,000-plus.
Their group’s been maligned for two years and plenty of reason for skepticism remains. It’s just a spring game, but after weeks of talk about how the Blackshirts have made real strides and considering the confidence which seems to be budding with the current group, laying an egg on the last day of spring ball would have at least been a little disheartening.