Ohio State band gives a tribute to Nebraska junior and band member Tyler Butterfield, who was killed in a car crash last week. Nice guesture by the Buckeye band.
It's February 2019: The last month that Nebraska cuts a check to former coach Bo Pelini. Given the lump sum paid to Mike Riley, the only football coaches the school has to pay after this month are its current ones.
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Adrian Martinez:
*Leads Big Ten in yards per game (321.5)
*Leads the Big Ten in passing yards (1,052)
*Is fifth in yards per play (7.56)
*Is No. 15 in rushing yards per game (58.5)
*Personal-best 445 total yards last night, his fourth career 400-plus outing, a
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record
Decoldest Crawford, speaking with reporters at his signing ceremony, says he's built a relationship with Mickey Joseph over three years and knew, as soon as he decommitted from LSU, that he was going to go to Nebraska.
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Frost says the team has averaged a 100-pound gain on squat and 13-pound increase in lean muscle mass per player in the past year. Zach Duval texted him this morning and said, 'Old Nebraska is just about back.'
Today a Nebraska quarterback and offensive lineman ran a pick-and-roll in a Big Ten Conference tournament game while the head basketball coach was being transported to a hospital amid concerns over a growing global pandemic.
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Jovan Dewitt says his last CAT scan this weekend showed no cancer remaining in his body and long-term he should be able to make a full recovery. Awesome news.
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Scott Frost says he hopes Adrian Martinez eventually leaves Nebraska as the greatest quarterback to ever play at the school. "From the moment I met him, I knew he was special."
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Ben Stille: "I think a lot of the fans, their mentality is, 'Oh, you guys played a top-10 team close.' None of the guys on this team came here to do that. ... Nobody is OK with that result."
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QB Adrian Martinez currently leading the Big Ten and No. 8 nationally at 10.3 yards per passing attempt. His career-best for a season is 7.8 (2019).
Martinez is also second in the Big Ten and No. 11 nationally at 326.8 in total offense per game.
UCF has played 11 straight weeks. Scott Frost said today, "I give a lot of credit to Zach Duval, our strength coach." Called it one of the healthiest seasons he can remember. Duval is a Lincoln native and
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grad.
Mick Stoltenberg said he had tears in his eyes when Matt Jarzynka recorded that TFL in the fourth quarter. Here's what Stoltenberg said when he came to the podium in the postgame:
NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah says Cam Jurgens brought his hommade beef jerkey with him to the Combine and left samples with teams after interviews.
Frost tonight called Devine Ozigbo, "A Sunday guy." Ozigbo: "I love playing the game and I definitely want to get as many opportunities to play as possible. ... God willing, I’ll get a chance next year, but this is it. If this is all I’ve got, I want to make the most of it.”
Jurgens: “I’m not holding off. I’m going to be the same guy every time I’m blocking someone. If I’m blocking a guy 30 yards downfield and his hand gets in my face, I can’t hear the whistle. I’m going to finish this guy. It is what it is.”
Mickey Joseph's 2022 WR room:
Omar Manning
Zavier Betts
Oliver Martin
Trey Palmer
Isaiah Garcia-Castaneda
Plus Alante Brown, Will Nixon, Wyatt Liewer, three 2021 freshmen, incoming freshmen Victor Jones and DeColdest Crawford.
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DC Erik Chinander plans to coach this weekend at Minnesota after his father, Gene, died in a car accident yesterday afternoon in Iowa.
Thoughts, of course, are with Chins and his family and friends.
Freshman Wan'Dale Robinson: 27 touches (19 carries, 8 catches) 168 total yards and three TDs, including the game-winner. Said Scott Frost: "He wanted the ball. He wanted to take over that game and in a lot of ways he did. I'm glad he's wearing scarlet and cream."
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Hey everybody, it’s one of those tweets: Thursday is my last day at the Journal Star. I’ve had a blast covering the
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here the past four-plus years and it’s bittersweet to be leaving the beat.
It'll be a Nebraska-heavy Super Bowl with Tampa GM and Fremont native Jason Licht plus former
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Ndamukong Suh, Lavonte David and Khalil Davis on the Bucs defense. Pretty cool.
Adrian Martinez showed more emotion than I’ve ever seen after this one. Of a low snap in OT, “I don’t care if it’s 5,000 yards over my head. Who gives a shit? I have to make something happen.”
We don't really get to know players on a personal level, but from the first time I talked to Adrian Martinez in Dec. 2017, he's done nothing but impress with how he handles the spotlight, the pressure, etc. All the time.
Wherever he goes next will be better for having him.
Wan'Dale Robinson two years at Nebraska:
91 catches, 914 yards, 3 TDs; 134 carries, 580, 4 TDs.
Total of 1,494 yards and 7 TDs.
One year at Kentucky:
104 catches, 1,334 yards, 7 TDs; 7 carries, 111.
Total of 1,445 yards and 7 TDs. Think the move worked for him.
In the last three months, Scott Frost has turned over half of his coaching staff and the
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have added 22 new scholarship players (12 HS + juco, 10 transfers).
New OC, new ST coach, 3 new QBs. Revamped specialists group, WR, RB and DB, too.
A major, on-the-fly overhaul.
Frost said Wan’Dale Robinson a couple of times on the sideline looked at him and said, “I got you.” The young guy was ready for the heavy workload and he got it.
Eric Lee had a long way to go to stop this from being a kick return for a TD that would have made it 39-29 w/7:30 to go, but he made the play at the 13. Two plays later, Dedrick Young INT in the end zone. Three plays after that, it's 46-22. Big play.
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Devine Ozigbo after meeting Scott Frost this morning: “I think this is exactly what we need and exactly what this state needs. It’s going to be fun.”
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Nebraska announces its sellout streak will continue after having "two generous donors" come through and buy the remaining tickets. They will be be the basis for a "Red Carpet Experience" for underserved young kids from around the state.
Luke Gifford's got a free agent deal with the Dallas Cowboys. He said he had a good amount of interest as the day went on. Thought maybe he was going to get drafted but likes his landing spot. "It's all good," he said.
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No matter what happens the rest of the way today, or this season or whatever, you just hope that Collin Miller is OK. Hard to really consider much beyond that.
Frost says of
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WR signees Omar Manning and Zavier Betts: "To be honest with you, in my coaching career I've never really had guys that look like those two."
Austin Rose got his first career carry on the
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' last play from scrimmage against Illinois. Redshirt senior from Lincoln had a kick return to his name, but never a carry until Saturday.
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freshman RB Rahmir Johnson on Luke McCaffrey: "I feed off of him. I like watching him play. ... He's a great player and he's going to be a great player in the future."
Freshman TE Chris Hickman summed up McCaffrey's game simply: "Freak athlete."
Confirmed with a source that Dedrick Mills' admission to UNL is imminent and that he will indeed be on campus this week.
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have his official transcript and he got done what he needed to.
Adrian Martinez: "When Luke (McCaffrey) got in there and I heard the 'Luuuuke' chants, that was so cool. I was so pumped for him. I was really proud of him for stepping up and playing hard. He’s a tough kid."
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Scott Frost: "What disturbs me is, right now, Iowa is a bigger, stronger football team. That's right now. I never thought I'd see or hear that or say that about a Nebraska football team. That we can fix. We can get bigger, we can get stronger."
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Jovan Dewitt said his daughter made cupcakes for the punt return unit because it got a TD. She wanted to make sure Marquel Dismuke got two because of the successful block he made, avoiding a blindside block penalty.
Frost joked that he was disappointed with Luke McCaffrey because the
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had one penalty and it was on McCaffrey blocking on the perimeter. "We've got a lot of work to do with him." Heck of a game from the freshman QB who also showed he can play WR.
Halfway through the season, Nebraska is allowing 15.5 points per game. That's the No. 5 mark in the defense-heavy Big Ten, but good for No. 13 nationally.
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JoJo Domann is playing great, he's giving away $1,000 in NIL money to charity every week and he's figured out, more and more, who he is as a person.
“For me, it’s all about living in my heart,” he said.
On a senior making the most of his sixth year:
Frost: "I don't know if you guys have the best head coach or the best coaching staff in the country but you certainly have the coach that knows the most about Nebraska."
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have six freshman OLs from the 2019 class, Turner Corcoran and Alex Conn for 2020 and already Teddy Prochazka and Henry Lutovsky for 2021. Significant work in laying the foundation for the future up front.
Scott Frost: If everyone in the world was as passionate about what they do as (Garrett Nelson) is about football, everyone would be really successful.
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Erik Chinander statement on Peyton Newell, Matt Jarzynka and potentially others getting a Blackshirt this week: “Anyone who puts in their blood, sweat, and tears for five years deserves to leave as a Blackshirt.”
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It doesn’t make a difference in the game, but it’s a shame that Will Nixon doesn’t get his first career TD because of a terrible call that didn’t get overturned on review for no apparent reason.
Frost on playing in an empty Memorial Stadium: "We've got some cardboard cutouts, but I've been in there a few times for practice and they haven't said anything yet."
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vs. Iowa on Black Friday had 1.94 million viewers on Big Ten Network, most ever for a football game on BTN, the network announced this morning.
Nebraska VB against Wisconsin also a record that night with 375,000.
College football players and student-athletes in general deserve a lot of credit for how they've handled the past few months. Far down the list, but true nonetheless: They seem to be far better at not acting like petulant, bitching children on social media.
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seniors Ben Stille, Jack Stoll, Matt Farniok, Boe Wilson and Ty Chaffin were all named Academic All-Big Ten for the fourth time in their careers. Impressive.
Overall, 62 football players and 114 athletes at Nebraska made Academic All-Big Ten (cumulative 3.0 or better).
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TE Austin Allen the past three years:
2019: 7 rec. (11 targets), 83 yards, 7.5 ypt.
2020: 18 rec. (28 targets), 236 yards, 8.4 ypt.
2021: 36 rec. (50 targets), 547 yards, 10.9 ypt.
Allen has 10 catches of 20-plus this year. Special season for the Aurora native.