Nebraska Offensive Coordinator Dana Holgorsen Pre-Iowa Press Conference

On the progress from USC to Wisconsin
“We won. At the end of the day, that’s what matters. I give all the credit in the world, starting at the top with Coach Rhule. I thought he did a great job of motivating the guys all week and getting them ready to go. I look at it a little differently, obviously, because I just got here. It’s been a long season for these guys. A couple losses here and there start stacking up. We’ve all been through it. I saw a very motivated team that practiced well and was very energized as the week went on. Gameday was pretty special, pretty spectacular. It’s the first time I’ve experienced it on the home sideline. They were ready to play and got the win. I know everybody is excited about that, and hopefully it motivates everybody to want to do it again here this week.”

On Emmett Johnson
“I think everything starts up front. The o-line is doing a good job, the tight ends are doing a good job. I think we’re doing a good job as a staff of scheming things. Give him as much credit as the rest of them, he’s gaining confidence. He’s been put in that role and he’s taken advantage of the opportunity. I don’t know what the touches were before I was here, I didn’t go back and look at that. I watched all the video, but I didn’t study touches or anything. He’s certainly taken advantage of this opportunity. He’s a difference maker, offensive player of the week last week. He played well. I give him credit for the amount of work that he’s putting in and the attitude that he has. He’s a great, great young man. The culture that Coach Rhule has here and the players, I call it the ‘give a crap’ level. How much they care and how much they want to play, enjoy playing, enjoy practicing, enjoy the process, allows me to coach the way I want to coach. I’m proud of him for how he’s been playing. He’s been a huge spark here for us the last two weeks.”

On if he’s added concepts to the offense
“A little bit here and a little bit there. They have everything in the playbook. It’s a very large playbook. I think it just goes back to Coach Rhule having been an NFL guy, and the offense has kind of stayed the same for him. He’s added to it and added to it. Satt (Marcus Satterfield) has added to it. You’ve got Coach (Donovan) Raiola, who’s an NFL guy, adding to it. Glenn (Thomas), who’s an NFL guy, that’s adding to it. There’s just all kinds of ideas, so that playbook got pretty big. I was just like ‘there’s only one sheet, and whatever is on the sheet is going to get called.’ That’s my job. They all give me ideas. They ask me if this is too much to let them know. I said ‘I promise you, I’ll let you know. Give me all of your ideas and I’m going to organize it to where I know where things are and I know we’ve repped them and I know we’re good at it.’ If that’s not the case, I take them off the sheet and they’re not going to get called. We probably shouldn’t focus on those calls in practice. We’ve done a good job of coming together and coming up with the plan of what makes sense for our players. If it doesn’t make sense to me, it’s not going to make sense to them. I think that part has been good.”