Riley changing his marathon practice schedule

Published May. 14, 2015 11:23 a.m. ET

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Mike Riley has been coaching for a long time. With all that experience you get set in certain habits and get comfortable with things. One thing was three hour long practices during his time at Oregon State.

Those practices will be significantly shorter at Nebraska this season. Thanks to some new technology first used by Bo Pelini last season, Riley will stay close to the 60 minute practices on Monday, 90 minutes on Tuesday and Wednesday, a 50 minute Thursday walk-through followed by a Friday practice at a higher tempo.

Some of Riley's staff has been surprised he is making the move:

"We have a lot of NCAA rules and if it says you could practice for three hours, then I was going to practice for three hours," Riley said to laughs in audio recorded by KLIN. So it's like 'How am I going to stuff those three hours of practice into 90 minutes?' It's going to be interesting. Some of the guys who are with us now who played for me at Oregon State or are coaching with us as graduate assistants, they just kind of shake their head, because they went through those three-hour practices back in the day."

It will certainly be interesting to see how Riley structures his practices from three hours to 90 minutes maximum.

(h/t KLIN)

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