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Handling success did not go well for the Huskers earlier this fall; now it’s a focal point this week | Football



“Guys are going to be locked in this week. Guys are going to be ready to fly around.”

The parallels between the two weeks are clear. Nebraska opened as a two-score favorite against Minnesota, just like it did against Illinois. The Gophers are going to be shorthanded — head coach P.J. Fleck said by perhaps more than 20 players — due to the outbreak they’ve gone through. Illinois had been through the same, though more of its players had returned by the time the team traveled to Lincoln.

Senior Husker running back Dedrick Mills, though, thinks the response from his team will be different this time around.

“It’s just all about mental preparedness, that awareness that we just won, but we still have more games left,” Mills said. “We can’t get the hot head off this one game and then think the rest of the season is over, because it’s not. We’ve got more games ahead. It’s like (senior offensive lineman Matt Farniok) said, we’ve got to always look at, ‘Yeah, have fun, but it’s just this one day.’ We got the win, and Saturday everybody had fun, but everybody was back serious (on Sunday) morning.

“By the time we woke back up, everybody was ready. There was more people here in the training room and getting more treatment, people getting lifts in and stuff like that, which you don’t really see too much because people are sore the next day (after a game). But it’s just all about that preparation and how bad do you want it? How bad do you want your team to be successful?”



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