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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: MarqHusker on December 31, 2023, 12:06:37 PM
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Well, might as well talk about something, ain't got no cable in this place.
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How's the recruiting class looking? Anyone to be excited about, absent the QB?
OL gonna improve?
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I'll defer to others. I spend about zero % of my time thinking about or paying attention to recruiting anymore.
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Recruiting only matters if they can play right away... so many kids leave instead of waiting on development. The sport isn't the same...
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A new name is on Nebraska’s radar in its quest to add an experienced receiver from the transfer portal. Former Texas wideout Isaiah Neyor will officially visit the Huskers this weekend.
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I'll defer to others. I spend about zero % of my time thinking about or paying attention to recruiting anymore.
I agree entirely perhaps excepting a freshman who appears ready to start or play significant downs, and that of course is a guess.
Riola might be a real addition.
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Signed another top O-line recruit outta Iowa
Won't be playing right away, but keep putting talent in that room.
I have my doubts about the O-line coach
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Dana Holgorsen, an offensive coordinator for Mike Leach who later became head coach at West Virginia and Houston, reportedly is in talks to join the Nebraska staff.
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Dana Holgorsen, an offensive coordinator for Mike Leach who later became head coach at West Virginia and Houston, reportedly is in talks to join the Nebraska staff.
Dana is best suited as an OC or offensive analyst or something like that. He likes to call plays. I don’t think he really enjoys anything about being a coach outside of that (well, he does like the lifestyle it affords him).
He doesn’t like recruiting or the glad handing you sometimes have to do as a coach. With that being said, I really didn’t think he did all that bad a job at WVU. I tend to defend him when people start in in him.
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the folks I know in/around UH say its a matter of scruples, or lack thereof when speaking of the man.
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the folks I know in/around UH say its a matter of scruples, or lack thereof when speaking of the man.
There were always those whispers in Morgantown, too. That’s why I don’t think her needs to be the face of another program. Let him run your offense or be your passing game coordinator or something.
He doesn’t need to be the guy leading them out of the tunnel or closing the mom on why Nebraska is the best choice for her son.
He can dial up plays and exploit mismatches on defense. Let him do that. That’s the role he is best suited for.
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QB coach / passing game coach
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BREAKING: Former Oregon running back Dante Dowdell has committed to Nebraska.
The former 4⭐️ was ranked as the No. 8 RB in the 2023 class.
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Former Nebraska Football Head Coach Frank Solich is one of 22 individuals who will make up the 2024 College Football Hall of Fame Class. The 19 players and three coaches were announced on Monday afternoon by the National Football Foundation and the College Hall of Fame.
The electees were selected from the 2024 national ballot of 78 players and nine coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision and 101 players and 32 coaches from the divisional ranks.
Solich becomes the seventh Husker coach in the Hall of Fame, joining Tom Osborne, Bob Devaney, Biff Jones, Dana X. Bible, Fielding Yost and Eddie N. Robinson. Overall, Nebraska has 27 members in the Hall, including 20 players. Solich is the first Nebraska inductee since offensive tackle Zach Wiegert in 2022 and gives Nebraska nine inductees in the past 18 classes. Other recent Nebraska inductees include Eric Crouch (2020), Aaron Taylor (2018), Trev Alberts (2015), Tommie Frazier (2013) and Will Shields (2011).
During his 22 seasons as a head coach, Solich compiled a record of 173-101, including a 58-19 record in six seasons as Nebraska's head coach from 1998 to 2003, followed by 115 wins as the head coach at Ohio University. Solich led the Huskers to the 1999 Big 12 Conference championship. The Huskers finished No. 3 in the AP Poll in 1999 after beating Tennessee in the Fiesta Bowl and rolling to a 22-6 win over Texas in the Big 12 Championship Game. NU added a co-Big 12 North Division title in 2001, when the Huskers met Miami in the Rose Bowl for the national championship.
Nebraska added a final No. 8 national ranking by the Associated Press in both 2000 and 2001. The 2001 Huskers featured the nation's top college player - Heisman Trophy winner and 2020 Hall of Fame inductee Eric Crouch. A four-year starter, Crouch added Walter Camp National Player-of-the-Year and Davey O'Brien awards while becoming Nebraska's career leader in total offense.
A product of the Nebraska football program first as a player, then as an assistant coach, Solich's career at Nebraska spanned four decades since first arriving in Lincoln in 1962 to play fullback in Coach Bob Devaney's first season.
Although Solich was not with Nebraska during all 42 of those seasons, as he spent more than a decade as a high school head coach in Nebraska before joining the Husker coaching staff as an assistant in 1979. During his playing and coaching tenure as a Husker, all 29 Nebraska teams he was associated with played in a bowl game.
In his final game as NU's assistant head coach and running backs coach, Solich helped the Huskers to a third national championship in a four-year span with a resounding 42-17 win over Tennessee in the Orange Bowl, helping Osborne go out as a reigning national champion.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Jan. 12-18, looking back in five-year intervals
1954: After refusing to resign amid a player revolt, Bill Glassford keeps his job.
1959: Head coach Bill Jennings gets a $1,000 raise in a new contract that runs through the 1961 season.
1969: The standard kickoff time for Nebraska's home football games is moved up from 2 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
1979: Tom Osborne receives a pay raise from $36,040 to $44,000, elevating him (temporarily) from lowest-paid Big Eight coach to the highest.
1994: Tony Veland's move to safety leaves the Huskers with just two scholarship quarterbacks.
2004: After new head coach Bill Callahan dismisses most of Frank Solich's assistants, Bo Pelini joins Bob Stoops' staff at Oklahoma and says he had no shot at Nebraska's top job.
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Pelini and Stoops - Youngstown Guys,unbroken chain between Cleveland and Pittsburgh except rooting interests
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talk about inflation...........only 45 years ago
$44,000 in 1979 to $8,800,000 in 2024
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Pelini and Stoops - Youngstown Guys,unbroken chain between Cleveland and Pittsburgh except rooting interests
with Boom Boom Mancini
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Getting old - I remember that Doo Duk Kim fight - terrible
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Nebraska football, incoming five-star Dylan Raiola and the rest of Matt Rhule's signal callers will soon have a new voice leading the room: Inside Nebraska sources have confirmed that the Huskers are hiring Glenn Thomas to be their new quarterbacks coach.
Nebraska offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield, who also served as the Huskers' QBs coach over the past year, will remain at OC but shift over to be the team's tight ends coach. The news was first reported by ESPN's Pete Thamel.
Thomas will be departing the NFL to take on his new role at Nebraska, leaving his role as a Pittsburgh Steelers offensive assistant as he helped the Steelers make a push into the playoffs that ended in a 31-17 loss to the Buffalo Bills in Monday's wild card round.
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apparently, Dana Holgorsen is not the guy
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Why would anybody hire someone associated with the Steelers offense?
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almost as bad as the Hawkeye's offense
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we hired someone associated with NC State's offense... so....
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Howdy Ent, how's it going?
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It's going. Life gets busy as kids get older. But overall, not bad. How about you?
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Jan. 19-25, looking back in five-year intervals
1949: Nebraska coach George “Potsy” Clark’s allegation that a West Coast school “paid $7,000 for a quarterback” ruffles some feathers at Washington.
1954: Even after coach Bill Glassford staves off attempts to oust him from his job, allegations arise that injured players were routinely administered novocaine to keep them on the field.
1984: Mike Rozier denies reports that he signed a pro contract before his final college game. Tom Osborne, meanwhile, is third in balloting for the FWAA coach of the year award, which goes to Miami's Howard Schnellenberger.
1989: Tom Rathman's play at fullback is credited with giving the Super Bowl-bound San Francisco 49ers a new dimension on offense. He and Roger Craig combine for more than 200 yards rushing and receiving in the 20-16 win over Cincinnati.
2004: New coach Bill Callahan says he intends to reduce the number of walk-ons: "We have 170 players on the roster, I believe, and I want to get down to a functional number, where I can manage the team on a basis where each player can maximize their repetitions."
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Nebraska is reportedly expected to hire TCU general manager Anthony Crespino, according to Matt Zenitz.
It’s the latest addition to Matt Rhule’s Husker staff for the 2024 season. Prior to TCU, Crespino served as the Chief of Staff at SMU under Sonny Dykes.
He then followed him to TCU but will head to Lincoln for the 2024 season.
“Crespino spent two years (2016-17) as assistant director of football operations at Northwestern and two seasons (2014-15) at Texas State as the director of football operations and director of player personnel,” his TCU bio read. “It was his second stint with the Bobcats, having also served in San Marcos in 2012 as an assistant director of football operations and recruiting coordinator under former TCU Head Coach Dennis Franchione.
“Prior to his return to Texas State, Crespino was the director of player development at Penn State in Spring 2014 and the director of operations at Western Michigan in 2013.”
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Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts announced details for the football team's 2024 spring game.
Alberts revealed on Huskers Radio Network that Nebraska will host the annual scrimmage on Saturday, April 27 at 11 a.m. local time (CT). He explained that they're starting earlier so fans can attend softball and baseball games later that day.
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For the first time in its history, the Nebraska athletic department generated more than $200 million in revenue during a fiscal year, according to NU’s annual report to the NCAA.
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Jacob Hohl, a punter for Nebraska, has decided to pull his name out of the transfer portal.
Hohl joined the Cornhuskers where he has spent the last two seasons. However, he has yet to appear for the program to this point.
With Hohl’s return, Nebraska has now only lost nine players in the portal this offseason. Six of those were on the offense, including QBs Chubba Purdy and Jeff Sims, with three others coming from their defense.
On the flip side, the Cornhuskers have added six players to make up the No. 21 class per On3’s 2024 Team Transfer Portal Rankings. Matt Rhule and his staff added four offensive players in WRs Isaiah Neyor (Texas) and Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest), RB Dante Dowdell (Oregon), IOL Micah Mazzccua (Florida). Then, on defense, they earned commitments from LB Stefon Thompson (Syracuse) and CB Blye Hill (Saint Francis (PA)).
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https://www.unl.edu/no-place-like/warren-buffett/ (https://www.unl.edu/no-place-like/warren-buffett/)
At Nebraska, he studied economics and enrolled in a course taught by Ray Dein, a professor of accounting who, according to Buffett, “was the best you’ll ever see.” “Accounting,” he explained, “is the language of business … it made me proficient at something that was absolutely vital to the rest of my life.”
In another interview, Buffett recalled “The teachers at the University [of Nebraska] turned me on. There wasn't a class that disappointed me. I was close to my professors, who actually taught the classes; at my previous undergraduate college, graduate students taught the classes.”
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1, looking back in five-year intervals
1904: Nebraska schedules a game with Minnesota, the fourth between the schools. The move is seen as a plus for the Cornhuskers in terms of both prestige and finances.
1914: Coach Jumbo Stiehm receives a three-year contract and a pay raise to $3,500 after the Cornhuskers’ 8-0 season of 1913.
1949: Bill Glassford, the coach at New Hampshire for the past three seasons, accepts the Nebraska job at a salary of $10,000 a year.
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Thomas D'Onofrio gave the Huskers a walk-on commitment heading to the weekend.
The defensive back out of Middleton, Wisconsin, announced his pledge to the Big Red on Friday evening. He's a 2024 recruit with an offer from Toledo and also other preferred walk-on opportunities that included Penn State. He's the son of former Nittany Lions linebacker Mark D'Onofrio, who was a second-round pick of the Green Bay Packers in the 1992 NFL Draft and a current college football asisstant.
The Huskers first offered Thomas D'Onofrio the opportunity as a preferred walk-on back on Dec. 1.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Feb. 2-8, looking back in five-year intervals:
1909: With Nebraska coach William “King” Cole believed to be set to leave his post, Utah’s Joe Maddock — a former teammate of Cole’s at Michigan — is mentioned as a possible successor, but Maddock shoots down the speculation. (It would be seven weeks before Cole ended the suspense and agreed to return for a third season.)
1914: Prospects appear bright as coach Jumbo Stiehm begins laying plans for spring football practice.
1954: E.E. Mockett, captain of the University of Nebraska's first football team, dies in Lincoln at age 86.
1984: Mike Rozier’s comments on financial help he received at Nebraska cause a stir.
1994: Former Husker fullback George Sauer, Nebraska’s second inductee in the College Football Hall of Fame, dies at age 83.
2004: Tom Osborne expresses his displeasure with the recent changes in the football program but says the Osborne name can stay on the north stadium athletic complex. Also, Bill Callahan announces his first recruiting class at Nebraska.
2019: Former Husker quarterback Zac Taylor is named head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. Also, Stanley Morgan Jr. is the only Husker invited to the NFL Scouting Combine.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of March 9-15, looking back in five-year intervals:
1904: The Colorado game, originally scheduled to be played in Denver, is moved to Boulder at CU’s request.
1909: Uncertainty about the future of head coach W.C. “King” Cole continues. Also, arrangements are made for the Minnesota game to be played in Omaha.
1914: Electing a captain is on the agenda as Jumbo Stiehm’s squad prepares for spring practice. Also, Russian-born former Husker John Koehler, a three-year letterman at center, becomes the head coach at Marquette.
1934: Seventy-six players report as spring practice begins for coach Dana X. Bible's Huskers.
1939: "Yale" beats "Harvard" 6-0 in the Huskers' first scrimmage of the spring.
1994: Nebraska and West Virginia agree to play in the Kickoff Classic on Aug. 28 at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
2004: With spring practices approaching, offensive coordinator Jay Norvell discusses his plans for implementing the West Coast offense and schooling the quarterbacks.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Feb. 16-22, looking back in five-year intervals:
1914: Nebraska loses its most attractive rivalry because of Minnesota's refusal to play in Lincoln. After playing 13 times since the turn of the century, the two teams would meet just once in the next 18 seasons.
1949: Nebraska lays the groundwork for the program's first athletic scholarships. By late 1951, the scholarships would number more than 100, including 61 in football.
1969: Beano Cook of ABC-TV ranks the Huskers' 12-0 home loss to Kansas State as college football's biggest upset of 1968.
1994: There's a shift looming in the college football landscape with the announcement that four Southwest Conference schools – Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor – have been invited to join the Big Eight.
2004: Offensive lineman Richie Incognito and fullback Grant Miller are charged with assault after an altercation at an off-campus party.
2014: Ndamukong Suh joins Vince Young, Adrian Peterson and Robert Griffin III on ESPN's Big 12 Mount Rushmore.
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers announced on social media Tuesday morning that former New England Patriots head coach and eight-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick will headline as a guest speaker at the Nebraska Football X&O’s Clinic.
The clinic takes play April 5-6 at the Hawks Championship Center in Lincoln.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Feb. 23-March 1, looking back in five-year intervals:
1914: Quarterback Max Towle, elected captain for the upcoming season, is declared ineligible by the Missouri Valley Conference. He would be admitted to the Nebraska bar in the spring and would ultimately serve for two decades as the colorful and controversial county attorney for Lancaster County.
1954: After weathering a player rebellion, coach Bill Glassford opens spring drills.
1994: There are questions to ponder as the Big Eight gets set to expand.
2004: Walk-ons are shown the door as new coach Bill Callahan begins whittling the roster.
2014: Bo Pelini gets a scheduled $100,000 pay raise to bring his total to $3.075 million, but there's no word on whether the coach's contract will be extended.
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The week of March 2-8, looking back in five-year intervals:
1914: Michigan State replaces Minnesota on Nebraska's schedule for 1914.
1934: Former Husker Francis A. Schmidt is named head coach at Ohio State. | "Close the Gates of Mercy"
«1989: Tom Osborne hires Kevin Steele as linebackers coach. Steele replaced John Melton, who resigned after undergoing heart surgery in February.
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Nebraska vs Alabama 1966 Orange Bowl
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of March 9-15, looking back in five-year intervals:
1914: Electing a captain is on the agenda as Jumbo Stiehm’s squad prepares for spring practice. Also, Russian-born former Husker John Koehler, a three-year letterman at center, becomes the head coach at Marquette.
1934: Seventy-six players report as spring practice begins for coach Dana X. Bible's Huskers.
1949: Improving the Huskers' pass defense is on the front burner for new head coach Bill Glassford in the early stages of spring drills.
1994: Nebraska and West Virginia agree to play in the Kickoff Classic on Aug. 28 at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
2004: With spring practices approaching, offensive coordinator Jay Norvell discusses his plans for implementing the West Coast offense and schooling the quarterbacks.
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Wow.
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This has legs.
Texas A&M expected to hire Nebraska's Trev Alberts as new AD (houstonchronicle.com) (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/trev-alberts-texas-aggies-athletic-director-18965754.php)
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trev has done a good job so far across all sports
I'm sure A&M can throw serious $$$ at Trev
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Dang. You would figure he was big red through and through. It seems like he was kinda big in CNNSI 20 years ago.
The last AD we snatched from NU was not a fan favorite.
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but, Dollar Bill was good for $$$
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University of Nebraska Interim President Chris Kabourek announced today that he has appointed Dennis Leblanc, Executive Associate AD for Academics, to serve as Interim Athletic Director.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of March 16-22, looking back in five-year intervals:
1909: The issue of training tables for college athletes causes a rift in the Missouri Valley Conference.
1924: As spring drills draw nearer, arrangements are made for the installation of a practice field at the south end of Memorial Stadium.
1929: Spring practices begin even though new coach Dana X. Bible has not yet arrived on campus.
1999: Nebraska wins by 50-3 – and it's baseball, not football.
2004: Bernie Scherer, who in 1936 became the first Husker to be selected in the NFL draft, dies at age 91 in Arizona. Also, the university negotiates with a different contractor for the North Stadium expansion project because of budget concerns.
2009: Former Husker quarterback Harrison Beck transfers for a second time, from North Carolina State to North Alabama.
2014: Former Nebraska defensive back Kenny Wilhite joins the staff as a regional recruiting assistant.
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Washington received stunning news this morning as Pete Thamel of ESPN has reported that UW Athletic Director Troy Dannen is leaving Washington after less than 6 months to take the open position at Nebraska on a 6-year deal. This is the second time in the past year that Washington has had an AD leave for another job after Jen Cohen took a position at USC.
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Jeez.
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So he fired the basketball coach, then jumped? They can't even hire a new one til they get an AD in place
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sometimes a guy is brought in because of his hatchet
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Nebraska is one of only three universities with average home game attendance in the top 15 nationally for both men’s and women’s basketball.
Nebraska, Tennessee and Indiana are the three with average home game attendance in the top 15 nationally for both of their basketball teams per the NCAA's stats.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of March 23-29, looking back in five-year intervals
1909: After keeping the university waiting for two months, coach William “King” Cole agrees to return for a third season, at a salary of $1,800.
1914: Future Hall-of-Famer Guy Chamberlin is among the bright new prospects as spring practice gets into full swing for Jumbo Stiehm's Cornhuskers.
1919: Nebraska and Minnesota schedule what would turn out to be the only game between the schools in an 18-season span.
1929: The Cornhuskers open their second week of spring practice as they await the arrival of new coach Dana X. Bible.
1949: Bill Glassford's Huskers toil in the wind, rain and mud for two hours in a Saturday scrimmage.
1964: The Nebraska-Minnesota game is selected for an NBC national broadcast. It is one of only four games involving Big Eight schools to be chosen for regional or national telecasts.
2004: The first practices under new coach Bill Callahan take place at Memorial Stadium.
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The first of 15 practices is on Monday. Spring practice culminates on April 27 with the Red-White game at Memorial Stadium. Rest assured, there will be plenty of competition over the next 33 days.
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Not that I care too much about basketball, but with A&M and Nebraska playing in the NCAA tournament they said that NU has never won a tourney game in it's history. Is that really true? If so I find that hard to believe.
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unfortunately, it's true
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Happy 62nd birthday to former University of Nebraska running back Jeff Smith. Most younger fans probably never heard of Smith. Some older fans may only remember him as the intended receiver of Nebraska's failed 2-point conversion attempt at the end of the 1984 Orange Bowl game against Miami. But there is much more to Jeff Smith than most fans know.
Entering the 1984 Orange Bowl, Nebraska was hyped as the greatest team of all time. Week after week, the Huskers destroyed their opposition while averaging 52 points per game. Nebraska's high-powered offense featured Heisman Trophy running back Mike Rozier, All American wingback Irving Fryar and the wizardry of option quarterback Turner Gill. But they also had a secret weapon, most fans had never heard of--Jeff Smith.
Coming out of Wichita, Kansas, Smith was one of the most heavily recruited high school running backs in the country. He chose Nebraska because he wanted to play in a offense that featured the running game and play for national championships. Smith was a big-time talent. But he found himself stuck in a deep pool of running backs at Nebraska. For 4 long years, he waited patiently on the sidelines watching backs like Jarvis Redwine, Roger Craig and Mike Rozier carry the football.
Late in the 3rd quarter of the 1984 Orange Bowl, Mike Rozier was forced to leave the game with a severe ankle injury. Nebraska was trailing underdog Miami 31-17 and it appeared the Huskers chances were slipping away. Smith came off the bench and almost single-handedly brought Nebraska back. He carried the ball 9 times for 99 yards and scored 2 touchdowns. Smith's explosive running style surprised the Canes. He was far more effective than Rozier. Smith's second touchdown came on a brilliant 24 yard run while facing a 4th and 8 situation. With only 48 seconds left, Nebraska coach Tom Osborne elected to go for 2 points rather than kick for a tie and a likely national championship. Just about everyone in the stadium thought Nebraska would call a pass to Irving Fryar. But Osborne went with his secret weapon Jeff Smith. Nebraska ran a pick play, which used Fryar as a decoy. Fryar tried to set a pick on Miami safety Kenny Calhoun. However, Calhoun was able to fight off the pick and just barely got his fingertips on the ball to deflect it away from Smith. Miami hung on to win 31-30.
Jeff Smith never became a star. He began the following season as Nebraska's starting I-back in 1984. But an early season injury sidelined him for the remainder of his college career. He went on to play 4 seasons in the NFL as a backup running back and kick returner with the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But for nearly 2 quarters of the second half, he was the best player on the field at the 1984 Orange Bowl--only to be remembered for a play he was unable to make.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of March 30-April 5, looking back in five-year intervals
«1929: New coach Dana X. Bible arrives on campus to join his team, which is already in the thick of spring drills. A practice game is set for the end of the week.
1944: The difficulties of wartime football at Nebraska are evident as just 18 players report for the first session of spring practice. To keep the ranks from thinning, Coach A.J. Lewandowksi decides there will be no scrimmages.
1979: Spring practice begins for Tom Osborne's Huskers, and running back Jarvis Redwine is late in arriving because of bad weather.
1984: The Huskers hold their first scrimmage of spring, and the offense's lack of errors pleases coach Tom Osborne,
2004: Ticket prices go up 7.1% for 2004 to an average of $45.
2009: Bo Pelini's new contract elevates the second-year coach to the middle of the Big 12 pack in pay.
2019: Fred Hoiberg is hired as Nebraska's men's basketball coach
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of April 6-12, looking back in five-year intervals
Getting the job at Arkansas capped a meteoric rise for Thomsen, who just two years earlier was a high school coach in Gothenburg, Neb.
1929: Former Nebraska end Fred Thomsen succeeds another former Husker, Francis Schmidt, as head coach at Arkansas. Thomsen would stay for 13 seasons, a tenure that’s second only to Frank Broyles’ 19. Meanwhile, in Lincoln, new coach Dana X. Bible tries to settle on a quarterback as the team holds its first practice games . “It looks as though Nebraska is breaking away from the old ‘powerhouse’ idea and developing a more versatile offense,” the Daily Nebraskan observes.
1934: Two pass plays covering 77 yards in the final half-minute of the second quarter give the Blues a 6-0 win over the Reds in the Huskers' final spring scrimmage. The touchdown for the Blue team, consisting largely of freshmen, came on a pass of about 40 yards from Henry Bauer to Lloyd Cardwell.
1944: Five more players join spring drills, boosting the total to a still-meager 25.
1964: Bob Devaney puts the emphasis on passing in the first scrimmage of spring.
1984: Newly retired play-by-play man Lyell Bremser is honored.
2004: Fundraising for the stadium expansion reaches more than a third of the $50 million goal.
2014: The Reds win the spring game, 55-46, in a special offense-vs.-defense scoring setup. Bo Pelini carried a cat as he led the players onto the field.
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The NCAA definitely was interested in storylines/drama by putting the Huskers and the Aggies against each other in the first round for both men and women. They were done on purpose, hence making it about the AD and fans and not about the student-athletes. No one should be surprised...
Regarding Trev... everyone makes decisions for themselves. Trev was not popular with Nebraska Omaha fans for shutting down their football and very successful wrestling programs. I know there have been a lot of articles about Nebraska's leadership void and how politics is playing into things, but Trev did sign an extension just months ago... and he did talk about Nebraska in glowing terms. Regardless of what did or did not happen, I think it will be years before Trev is viewed neutrally. Many many fans feel like he's pouting about not getting approval for a stadium update. Right or wrong, and despite the articles, that's how a lot of fans feel.
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I don't get worked up over
ADs or University presidents
UNLESS, they fire or hire the wrong football coach
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Before Bobby Reynolds arrived in 1950, the Huskers had not had a winning season since 1940. At just under six feet tall, Reynolds led the Huskers to a 6-2-1 season. During the 1950 season the Cornhuskers put up a lot of points: in wins 49-21, 40-34, 33-26, and 32-26, in losses 49-35.
For his efforts Reynolds was named a First-Team All-American and earned it as he set a new school rushing record (1,342 yards), a school touchdown record (22), and set an NCAA record for most points scored per game by one player (17.4)
Reynolds career was tragically cut short by various injuries. Reynolds would separate his shoulder, break his leg and have a lime-in-the-eye infection. These ailments would drasticly slow down Reynolds over the next two years.
However, Reynolds still set career records for scoring (211 points which lasted 22 years) and rushing (2,196 yards which lasted 21 years). Reynolds single season rushing record would hold up for 32 years and his touchdown mark of 22 in a season would hold up for 33 years.
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Northwestern will play home football games the next two seasons on the university’s lacrosse/soccer field, but Nebraska is unaffected because its next trip to Evanston isn’t until 2027.
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In 1891, George Flippin attended Nebraska and became the first African-American athlete in Nebraska history. He was also the fifth black athlete nationally to compete at a university predominantly populated by whites. Throughout his time at Nebraska, Flippin competed in football, wrestling, track and field and baseball.
Because of Flippin's presence on the team, Missouri refused to play Nebraska in 1892, losing the game 1–0 on a forfeit. When asked later if he was good at football, the then-doctor gave a witty response. "Was I any good?" Flippin said. "Why, yes. In fact, one time, I was so good I beat the University of Missouri all by myself."
He went on to become a well-known doctor and practiced in Stromsburg, where he died in 1929.
Nebraska eventually honored him by inducting him into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1974. Flippin's name and silhouette is one of six on the Tunnel Walk path onto Memorial Stadium's Tom Osborne Field.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of April 13-19, looking back in five-year intervals
1929: Practices resume for Dana X. Bible's team after spring break.
1939: It's “Harvard” vs. “Yale” in three scrimmages (1, 2, 3), with the final one of spring still to come. Herm Rohrig is out for the rest of spring with a chipped bone in his ankle.
1949: In the final scrimmage of spring, the Whites score during extra time in the fourth quarter and defeat the Reds, 13-6, in front of a crowd of about 1,500.
1969: Assistant coach Jim Ross runs the first few spring practices as head coach Bob Devaney attends his father's funeral in Michigan.
1974: Dave Humm solidifies his hold on the starting quarterback job during spring drills.
1989: Senior Gerry Gdowski leads the race to succeed Steve Taylor as the Huskers' starter at quarterback.
1994: Steve Pederson leaves his job at Tennessee to become associate athletic director for football operations at Nebraska.
1999: Frank Solich finds consistent offense to be lacking in the spring game. Meanwhile, the NCAA grants receiver Shevin Wiggins an extra year of eligibility.
2004: Fans get their first look at the new West Coast offense as the Reds bury the Whites in the spring game.
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https://youtu.be/FFL5vCbXaxA
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of April 20-26, looking back in five-year intervals
1914: Vic Halligan is elected captain of the 1914 Cornhusker football team. The senior tackle from North Platte would become Nebraska's first football All-American.
1939: “Harvard” nips “Yale,” 10-7, as the Huskers’ spring practices end. Vike Francis’ 26-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter was the difference, and more than 2,000 fans attended.
Knight and Seeman
1944: A pair of former Husker teammates, end George Seeman (1936, ’38, ’39) and quarterback George “Bus” Knight (1938, ’39, ’40), describe their roles in low-altitude World War II bombing raids in the Pacific Theater.
1954: Husker football halfback Dirkes Rolston becomes a footnote in NU baseball history by walking with the bases loaded to give the Nebraska its only run in a no-hitter pitched by Nebraska's Richard Geier against Kansas. It remains the only nine-inning no-hit, no-walk game by a Husker pitcher.
1964: In a Saturday scrimmage, the lower units humble a complacent Red squad. The Daily Nebraskan speculates that linemen Dick Czap, Mike Grace and Dennis Carlson and backs Ron Kirkland, Harry Wilson and Pete Tatman could be moving up the depth chart.
1984: Greg McQuitter, a Husker defensive back in 1977, marries boxer Muhammad Ali's ex-wife, Khalilah Ali, in Las Vegas. The marriage would last just a few months.
1994: I-back Lawrence Phillips sets the stage for his sophomore season by rushing for 156 yards in the Red-White game.
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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of May 4-10, looking back in five-year intervals:
1909: A loophole appears to allow Husker tackle William Chaloupka, team captain in 1908, an extra season of eligibility, but it wasn't to be. Also, the Athletic Board elections are spiced up by opposition to athletic director Raymond G. Clapp’s purported de-emphasis of football and baseball.
1929: In coach Dana X. Bible;s first season, the Reds defeat the Orange, 7-6, in the spring game. At least that's the score given by the Omaha World-Herald, the Lincoln Star and the State Journal. The Daily Nebraskan said the Reds won 13-12, and its game story provides second-half scoring details that the other reports lack.
1959: After a scoreless first half, the Varsity scores three touchdowns in the final 30 minutes for a 22-0 win over the Alumni in the spring game.
«1964: Sophomore-to-be quarterback Bob Churchich leads the Whites to a 24-15 win in the spring game, a night contest at Seacrest Field.
1979: Transfer I-back Jarvis Redwine rushes for 94 yards as the Reds register a 27-13 win in the spring game.
2009: Sam Keller sues EA Sports and the NCAA over the use of players' likenesses in electronic games.
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This Spring, Rhule shared his thoughts on adapting to helmet communications, even noting that they’ve been able to use some helmet communication in practice last season.
“For the two freshmen, it’s all they know,” Matt Rhule said. “So, it’s like they’re kind of like, ‘Okay, this is what it is.’ We’ve been doing it non-stop all training camp and interestingly enough we did it some last year in the Spring. It’s a Lincoln-based company that does the NFL and so we have it. So, we used it last Spring with the hopes that this was gonna pass and it’s really, really powerful.”
Matt Rhule came to Nebraska from the NFL, where these types of helmet communications have been used since 1994. So, he has a familiarity with it that many other college coaches aren’t going to have.
“What I really like about it [that] people wouldn’t think about is all the quarterbacks are hearing what’s being said to the starting quarterback the entire practice. Does that make sense? So, if I get 20 reps, I don’t just take my helmet off now and sit there for 20 reps and kind of watch. I have the helmet on. I hear the coach say we’re running dada dada. Hey, if you get man here, don’t be afraid to go to this. So, they’re getting all these mental reps and I’m hearing it now. So, I can hear what’s being said.”
Prior to being allowed to communicate with one player on the field, coaches needed to use signals from the sideline to give the play to their team or have a player run to the sideline and be given the play verbally from a coach. Now, the coach can communicate with that one player, the quarterback on offense, and they communicate the play with everyone else on the field.
“I think they’re adjusting really well,” Rhule said. “I think it’s going to be a tool for a lot of people, but I think it’ll be a tool for us — I think it’s pretty useless on defense. It was misapplied on defense.”
Heinrich Haarberg shared his thoughts on helmet communication
Nebraska quarterback Heinrich Haarberg recently shared that he doesn’t feel helmet communication helps him as much as it does others.
“So for us, we had it last spring and then for me, at least, last year with the signals, you almost become fluent in signals. So the helmets help a little bit, for me, but not a ton just because of how — it gets to a point where Coach [Satterfield] or someone may just say the first word of the play and you just automatically know what the play is. And that’s experience,” Haarberg said.
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Monte Harrison, who signed with Nebraska football in 2014 but then pursued a pro baseball career, has committed to Arkansas as a 28-year-old walk-on wide receiver.
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Nebraska Football has unveiled "The Walk Through Room."
• 20 yd turf floor
• 99.6 ft long screen
• Over 11.5 million pixels
• Same projectors used by NASA
• 26.5 ft tall windows overlooking outdoor practice fields
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