The Lincoln Journal Star is running an article, published today, on recruiting. Bo Pelini has been Nebraska’s coach for just 22 days now, but he’s already found his first challenge. Last week, over a two-day period, the Huskers were hit with five decommitments. By week’s end, NU was down to 15 oral commitments. Seeing that…
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Records Are Broken! ( And this time, It’s a good thing)
Box Score via huskers.com Nebraska continued it’s dominating way on defense Saturday, pummeling North Carolina Central University 71-28, before 7100 fans at the Devaney Center. Records that were broken or tied include: 8 points by NCCU in the first half is a Devaney Center record and a Big 12 record. NCCU had only 2 field goals in…
Mooney’s The Money
Mitch Sherman of the Omaha World Herald went to Youngstown, Ohio to learn more about Bo Pelini. His story starts off with the expected steel town history, but centers on Pelini’s high school, Cardinal Mooney. Mooney–also the alma mater of the Stoops brothers–helped shape the character of these big time coaches, and is therefore a…
Makin’ Bank
Assistant coaches do real well for themselves. Real well… Think about how many people you know who make this kind of loot. You know what they say, with extraordinary privilege comes heightened responsibility. [via Omaha World Herald]
“Interim” Was Just For The Interim
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman removed the word “interim” from Tom Osborne’s title. TO has agreed to serve as Nebraska’s Director of Intercollegiate Athletics until June 30, 2010. “I appreciated Tom’s willingness to step in as interim athletic director during a very difficult time for the athletic department,” Perlman said. “It is now beneficial…
Report Card
This our report card according to espn.com: The process: The Cornhuskers won’t be rebuilt overnight, after they suffered through one of the worst seasons in school history under former coach Bill Callahan. The Cornhuskers went 27-22 in Callahan’s four seasons, two of which ended in losing records, which previously hadn’t occurred at Nebraska since 1962….
Recruits Dropping Like Nebraska Records! UPDATED
According to rivals.com, two more commits from Nebraska’s 2008 recruiting class have fallen off the Husker Radar. One of those is three star weakside defensive end Josh Williams from Denton, TX and he has narrowed his teams to three- Colorado , Kansas, and Missouri. We already have 2 ends committed in Cameron Meredith and Eric Harper so I…
It’s DUCK Season…..And We BAGGED One!!!
NEBRASKA WINS 88-79!!!!! On Saturday, Nebraska did what many thought was unthinkable. Play defense and Run and Gun. I never thought this game would be won by Nebraska the way Oregon kept hitting 3′s at will, but with Tenacious D (My Pick was Destiny!) and an all out effort from the entire squad, they…
McKeon Has Spoketh and Y’ALL Must Listen!
First and foremost, I must give all praise and thanks to Forever rED. Without him, this wouldn’t be possible. According to chicagosports.com, Corey McKeon is going to miss us here in Nebraska. Well, all I can say is, I will miss Freshman and Sophomore Corey too! and maybe half… ok 2/3′s of Junior Corey. “It’s…
Husker QB Recruit
Just for Forever Red. This from rivals.com “Yes sir, Nebraska contacted me Sunday,” Renfree confirmed to HuskersIllustrated.com. “Coach (Shawn) Watson called me and was just talking about their offense, and about how my year went and stuff like that. He also (verbally) offered me, that was about it.” Renfree, is Rivals 3 star QB recruit…