Matt Rhule ‘Doubts’ Nebraska Football Will Play a Traditional Spring Game; Still Sear [Video]

After Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen said he wasn’t going to call it a spring game earlier this week, coach Matt Rhule went a step further.

“I highly doubt (there will be a spring game),” Rhule said at his mid-winter press conference Saturday. “I hate to say it like this, it’s really because last year we were one of the more televised spring games and I dealt with a lot of people offering our players a lot of opportunities after that.”

Rhule, like many coaches in this new age of college football, is apprehension about showcasing his returning and new players to other programs with another transfer portal window after the spring.

“That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,” Rhule said. “The word ‘tampering’ doesn’t exist anymore. It’s just absolute free, open market and so I don’t necessarily want to open up to the outside world.”

Rhule added that nothing has been decided yet …