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Corn Nation has produced a couple articles that I'd like to take the time to review: Midway Through Spring Practice, Husker Football Looks Unsettled and Plumbing the Creek: Nebraska, CFB, and Uniforms (I don't think I'll touch on the uniforms). Both are interesting looks at what is going on in Lincoln at the moment. Both point to the uncertain nature that such a transition brings. Both certainly are some cause for concern, but they are not necessarily foreboding doom. I'd like to throw my hat into the ring and give my perspective of what I'm reading from Corn Nation. REBECCA S. GRATZ/THE WORLD-HERALD

Introduction Over the past few years, Nebraska has done some creative things with the spread option run game. The veer play, once a staple of many triple option offenses as Nebraska fans know, has made its way into spread football via the "inverted veer". Once teams started figuring out the straight veer play, teams started incorporating a veer triple option, which one of the ways Cornhusker teams of the ‘90s moved the ball at will on over-matched opponents. It is no different in the spread system. In the past few years, I've seen Nebraska do two different things to counter the inverted veer version of the scrape exchange defense. In this article, I will highlight those two plays. Veer First, let's start with the basics of the veer read. I'm assuming I don't need to spend a large amount of time explaining the system to this fan base, so I'll only touch on the basics. From under center, the QB will step laterally at a 4 O'clock position. His eyes...