Just got a note from Isaiah McMorris that he will take his official visit to Nebraska on June 24th weekend.

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McMorris is in daily contact with Garret McGuire and Nebraska's staff. He doesn't have any other visits set just yet but Oklahoma, Penn State and Missouri have been fixtures in his recruitment so far. We probably haven't talked enough about McMorris who I believe is the best WR in the state this cycle. He had 90 catches for 1297 yards and 15 TDs as a Junior.

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On Monday, 2025 forward A'mare Bynum was offered by the Nebrasketball staff. Bynum is a 6-foot-8, 210-pounder who attends Omaha Bryan and is currently playing his AAU ball for MOKAN Elite out of Kansas City.

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Then today, the Huskers offered another in-state product, 2025 6-6 wing Braden Frager out of Lincoln Southwest.

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Was just told by a source that Lincoln native Josiah Allick is close to committing to Nebraska out of the transfer portal. The source didn't want to guarantee it's happening tonight, but it sounds like Allick is N regardless of the timeline.

Here's the thread from when it was confirmed Allick visited Nebraska. He was in town for the spring game:

Just kind of a random conversation with a Troy football player because he saw my husker lanyard (Currently attending Troy) and told me he is friends with Javier-Morton. We talked a bit about Lincoln and the Midwest.
He said that Memorial Stadium is a special place and Javier is enjoying Lincoln. He didn't play much last year and is working hard. He is also getting a look at other positions.

Happy off-season.

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Old news, but I've been able to confirm Lincoln North Star product Josiah Allick will visit Lincoln this weekend, Friday through Sunday. He has one more year left of eligibility.

Allick, a 6-foot-8, 235-pound forward and the brother of Nebraska volleyball player Bekka Allick, spent last season at New Mexico, where he started all 34 games for the Lobos and averaged 8.4 points and 7.3 rebounds, which ranked second in the Mountain West Conference. He shot 55.7 percent from the field and 66.7 percent from the free-throw line. He's not an outside threat, as he shot 15.8 percent from 3 (6-of-38).

Allick has already visited San Diego State, and according to a San Diego Union-Tribune article, Allick also plans to visit Southern Illinois.

Prior to New Mexico, Allick spent his first three years of college ball with the Kansas City Roos, where he played in 69 games with 50 starts.

We all know it's Rooster, but what does everyone else think?

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Minnesota 7, Ohio State 0
Iowa 9, Rutgers 6
Northwestern 10, Nebraska 9
Indiana 6, Michigan 5

Canceled
Illinois at Penn State
Wisconsin at Maryland

Standings
1. Northwestern (33-10, 18-2)
2. Indiana (37-15, 15-5)
3. Minnesota (33-16, 14-6)
4. Nebraska (32-17, 12-8)
5. Iowa (30-22, 10-10)
5. Michigan (24-21, 10-10)
5. Ohio State (30-18, 10-10)
8. Penn State (28-14, 9-10)
8. Wisconsin (24-19, 9-10)
10. Maryland (32-16, 8-11)
11. Rutgers (31-22, 8-12)
12. Illinois (28-23, 6-13)
13. Purdue (21-28, 5-15)
14. Michigan State (14-29, 4-16)

Next Nebraska Game - Friday, May 5
Ohio State at Nebraska (5:30 PM - BTN+)

May 2
1863 - During the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Virginia; he died eight days later.

1885 - "Good Housekeeping" magazine went on sale for the first time.

1890 - The Oklahoma Territory was organized.

1927 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Buck v. Bell, upheld 8-1 a Virginia law allowing the forced sterilization of people to promote the "health of the patient and the welfare of society."

1941 - General Mills began shipping its new cereal, “Cheerioats,” to six test markets. (The cereal was later renamed “Cheerios.”)

1945 - The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin during World War II.

1969- The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.

1972 - A fire at the Sunshine silver mine in Kellogg, Idaho, claimed the lives of 91 workers who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.

1972 - Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington, D.C. at age 77.

1994 - Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa's first multi-racial election.

1997 - The Labour Party's Tony Blair became prime minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At age 444, he was the youngest British prime minister in 185 years.

2005 - Pfc. Lynndie England, the young woman pictured in some of the most notorious Abu Ghraib photos, pleaded guilty at Fort Hood, Texas, to mistreating prisoners. (A judge later threw out the plea agreement; England was then convicted in a court-martial and received a three-year sentence, of which she served half.)

2010 - Record rains and flash floods in Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee caused more than 30 deaths and submerged the Grand Ole Opry House stage.

2011 - Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who’d been killed hours earlier in a raid by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, was buried at sea.

2012 - A pastel version of "The Scream" by painter Edvard Munch sold for $120 million in a New York City auction, establishing a world record price for an auctioned piece of art.

2018 - The Boy Scouts of America announced that the group’s flagship program would undergo a name change; after being known simply as the Boy Scouts for 108 years, the program would now be called Scouts BSA. (The change came as girls were about to enter the ranks.)

2022 - A draft was leaked of a Supreme Court ruling throwing out the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling that had stood for half a century. The Court cautioned that the draft was not final.

Birthdays
32 - Olivia Attwood (reality star)
33 - Paul George (basketball player)
33 - Kay Panabaker (actress)
37 - Thomas McDonell (actor)
38 - Sarah Hughes (figure skater)
38 - Lily Allen (singer)
38 - Lily Rose Cooper (singer)
40 - Gaius Charles (actor)
42 - Robert Buckley (actor)
43 - Ellie Kemper (actress)
46 - Jenna Von Oy (actress)
48 - David Beckham (soccer player)
51 - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (actor/professional wrestler)
56 - Mika Brzezinski (TV host)
61 - Ty Herndon (singer)
61 - Elizabeth Berridge (actress)
64 - Brian Tochi (actor)
68 - Donatella Versace (fashion designer)
71 - Christine Baranski (actress)
75 - Larry Gatlin (singer)
87 - Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

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Today in Sports History - May 2

1909 - Honus T. Wagner steals his way around the bases in the first inning of a game against the Chicago Cubs.

1920 - In Indianapolis, the first game of the National Negro Baseball League was played.

1939 - Lou Gehrig established a new MLB record when he played in his 2,130th consecutive game. (It would stand for 57 years until broken by Cal Ripken Jr.)

1954 - Stan Musial (St. Louis Cardinals) set a new major league record when he hit 5 home runs against the New York Giants.

1967 - The Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.

1968 - The Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in six games to win the NBA championship.

1970 - Jockey Diane Crump became the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; she finished in 15th place aboard Fathom. (The winning horse was Dust Commander.)

1978 - The Houston Oilers select Texas running back Earl Campbell with the first pick in the NFL Draft.

1988 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) was suspended for 30 games for pushing an umpire.

1999 - Quarterback John Elway announces his retirement from football.

2009 - The Dallas Cowboys practice bubble collapsed during a storm during a practice. At the time, 27 players were working out. Almost all were drafted last weekend or signed as undrafted rookies. Twelve people were injured.

2015 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Manny Pacquiao by decision in 12 rounds in a world welterweight unification title fight that shatters all financial records for a boxing match.

2016 - Leicester City wins the English Premier League title after starting the season at 5,000:1 odds.

So I just got one, so far, the basics. What do you guys like to make on your griddle?

The Go Big Project will provide Nebraska with a state-of-the-art $165 million facility that’s going to be a game changer for the Husker football team, as well as other programs.

The facility is scheduled to be completed this summer, but its construction will mean one of the football team’s game-day traditions will be slightly tweaked.

During his monthly appearance on Huskers Radio Network Thursday night, Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts said Saturday’s Red-White spring game will likely be the final time the football team walks through the gates at the northwest corner of Memorial Stadium for the Tunnel Walk. Once the season comes around, the northeast corner will be where the Tunnel Walk is held going forward.

“In essence, that’ll likely be the last time we come out of that northwest side," Alberts said. "And when the Go Big Project comes online, the new Tunnel Walk will actually come through the northeast side. So, if you’re really nostalgic and you want to be at a game where it’s the last time that the Huskers came out of the northwest corner, that’ll be the spring game likely for our team.”

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That makes three additions from the transfer portal for the Huskers:
Rienk Mast (Bradley)
Brice Williams (Charlotte)
Ahron Ulis (Iowa)

Ulis gives NU a ball handler, facilitator and maybe most important, a solid perimeter defender.

Just read that this kid originally committed to Baylor and then transferred to Stephen F Austin.

5.4 2* that Rhule would have identified. Just another positive sign that Rhule can identify talent.

GBR

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Didn't want to say anything during camp but I noticed we didn't get any big injuries this spring like we have the last few years. We should be full strength come fall camp it appears.

Vote with your hearts, not with your minds

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Becker, the former Omaha Skutt and Wyoming Cowboy, has committed to Nebraska from the transfer portal.

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We're working to confirm if this is a scholarship or walk-on commitment, obviously, it would appear he's walking on.

Becker was a two-star recruit in the 2022 class who spent last fall and this spring in Laramie. The 6-foot-4, 230-pounder began his career as a quarterback and redshirted his first year at Wyoming. This spring, he practiced as a defensive end. He wrote in his decommitment message that he's looking to be a TE/ATH at his next stop.

As a senior at Skutt, Becker completed 66 of 156 pass attempts for 1,238 yards, seven touchdowns and only two interceptions. He added 118 rushing attempts for 544 yards and eight rushing touchdowns as a senior, too.

I've tried to keep a full list of portal entries since the spring game. I think I got them all. I haven't tried to track walk-ons. They just sort of seem to disappear.
Braxton Clark
Casey Thompson
Richard Torres
Jalil Martin
Logan Smothers
Noa Pola-Gates
Ajay Allen
Shawn Hardy
Stephon Wynn.
I think that's everyone. Best of luck to them all.

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Alabama QB Kamari McClellan has confirmed to me that he will be visiting Nebraska the first weekend of June. He doesn't have an offer from Nebraska yet but does have a relationship with offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield. The plan is for McClellan to throw at the camp that weekend and check out what Nebraska has to offer. He's a new QB to watch though because he does hold several Power Five offers including South Carolina, Auburn, West Virginia and others.

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Trash.

Rivals, please find someone else to partner with.

Tired of outdated rosters.

Thank you.

2023 Nebraska Offense - Spring Game Edition

Alright, the public finally got a chance to see Nebraska in play some actual football in the spring game for the first time in a long time, at least in terms of a live, actual game type environment. I got bored and found a condensed version of the 1st half of the spring game and tried my best to figure out what the offense was actually doing.

I’d venture to say the offenses are incredibly similar, which I think is a good thing. You’ve got Satterfield and McGuire who were all under Rhule at Baylor, so it shouldn’t be shocking. But I’m glad that is the direction they I feel they are going.

As always, a disclaimer, I may be wrong on some of this, and likely am on several aspects, especially the passing game, but it’s hard as hell to try and figure out what they’re doing without an All-22. So take that with a grade of slaw. Also, I use terminology that is familiar to me. In no way shape or form is it what they call it, or probably anywhere close. But overall, I’m pretty confident in identifying core concepts of what they did in the first half.

General Thoughts

Before I get into this, I’m just talking about schematics, and very little on execution, which if you’ve got questions, certainly ask. Overall thoughts…they ran a lot of schemes from a run game aspect.

Also, forgive my crappy spelling and grammar...and smart assery.

From a gap aspect, Duo, Power, Counter, Draw, Belly G, Wedge.

From a zone aspect - Inside Zone and Outside Zone.

Plus you have your pass protections and 2 screens. All in the first half. A total of 63 plays between the 1s & 2s.

They also utilized a wide variety of formations, unbalanced sets, and motion. If they were looking to give the fighting Pee Pantsers a lot to scout. They accomplished that IMO.

Run Game and Option
Belly G - 2 times
Duo - 4 times
IZ - 8 times
OZ - 4 times
Counter - 5 times
Power - 2 times
Wedge -3 times
RPO
Counter - 4 times
IZ - 1
OZ - 2 times
Draw - 1
Belly G - 1

Total Run Scheme
Belly G - 3 times
Duo - 4 times
IZ - 9 times
OZ - 6 times
Counter - 9 times
Power - 2 times
Wedge - 3 times
Draw - 1

Pass Game
Drop Back
4 Verts - 6 times
Hi/Lo - 10 times
Quick Game - 1
2 Man Game - 1
#'s - 2 times
Rubs - 1
PAP
Levels - 2 times
Spear - 1
Screen
TB Slow - 1
Tunnel - 1

Starting it off - OMG A FULLBACK (Fat Running Back)

To fully ignite good feelings in the pants of Husker Nation. Rhule & Co. opened it up with a fullback run and employed what I will call a fullback from hence forward (a fat running back) in several runs.

The opening play is your traditional belly g scheme. Where the frontside of the OL blocks down, frontside guard pulls and kicks, backside scoops their gap. Here’s what it looked like

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You also saw some short yardage runs employing some fat running back dives/wedges.

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You also have some very traditional weakside iso or what I call zone insert. OL blocks inside zone, FB inserts on the playside LB. The I back has a lot of options where to cut, and we scored early with this play.

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But where I really like their use of the fat running back and felt like the OL gets a nice push on is from their power play. Power is often referred to in the coaching community as God’s Play. Double teams, create extra gaps, displace people, and run the damn ball. And it’s a real ball buster if run with a QB and get a +1 in the run game…which Rhule did at Baylor, and I hope they pull it out here in the future.

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Continuing On…Non Option Run Plays

Counter is basically the same thing as the power play, just the kicker and wrapper do different jobs. I thought they ran their counter plays fairly well. You’ll also see some Duo, OZ,

Starting it off with counter, again, same concept as power, block down, pull people and create extra gaps.

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Now onto Duo. Duo is essentially power without a puller. It may look very similar to a tight zone to some. Typically, you’re going to run it to some type of heavy trips surface to wall everyone down. The I back then reads the playside LB for his cut. Here’s what it looks like.

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Finally, you have some outside zone, try to horizontally displace defenders to open up vertical seams to cut up and crease the defense. Nebraska did this a few different ways, one being paired with jet action.

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This one is the hardest to really tell, but by the back path and the frontside, I feel like it's OZ, paired with an unbalanced 4 strong formation.

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So that wraps up the run game with no read elements.

May 1
1707 - The Act of Union joined England and Scotland to form Great Britain.

1866 - Three days of race-related rioting erupted in Memphis, Tennessee as white mobs targeted Blacks, 46 of whom were killed, along with two whites. (The violence spurred passage of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution defining American citizenship and equal protection under the law.)

1931 - The Empire State Building opened in New York City; at 102 stories, it was the world's tallest building for the next 41 years.

1941 - Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane", considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.

1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.

1960 - The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

1963 - James W. Whittaker became the first American to conquer Mount Everest as he and Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu reached the summit.

1964 - The computer programming language BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was created by Dartmouth College professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

1967 - Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)

1971 - The intercity passenger rail service Amtrak went into operation.

1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots, a visibly shaken Rodney King appeared in public to appeal for calm, pleading, “Can we all get along?”

2003 - President George W. Bush, in a speech aboard an aircraft carrier, proclaimed "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

2009 - Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced his retirement effective at the end of the court's term in late June. (President Barack Obama chose federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to succeed him.)

2011 - Pope Benedict XVI beatified Pope John Paul II, moving his predecessor a step closer to sainthood in a Vatican mass attended by some 1.5 million pilgrims.

2011 - President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. commando operation. (Because of time differences, it was early May 2 in Pakistan, where the al-Qaeda leader met his end.)

2015 - Baltimore’s top prosecutor charged six police officers with felonies ranging from assault to murder in the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man who’d suffered a spinal injury while riding in a police van. (None of the officers would be convicted.)

2020 - U.S. regulators allowed emergency use of remdesivir, the first drug that appeared to help some COVID-19 patients recover faster.

2022 - A top-level U.S. congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a surprise visit to Ukraine undertaken in extraordinary secrecy, holding a three-hour meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at which Pelosi vowed the U.S. would stand with him “until the fight is done.”

Birthdays
20 - Lizzy Greene (actress)
31 - Jessica Andrea (singer)
35 - Anushka Sharma (actress)
37 - Abby Huntsman (actress)
39 - Kerry Bishe (actress)
41 - Jamie Dornan (actor)
47 - Darius McCrary (actor)
47 - James Murray (comedian)
49 - Tina Campbell (singer)
51 - Cory Morrow (singer)
51 - Bailey Chase (actress)
51 - Julie Benz (actress)
54 - Wes Anderson (director)
56 - Tim McGraw (singer)
57 - Charlie Schlatter (actor)
58 - Wayne Hancock (singer)
59 - Scott Coffey (actor)
61 - Maia Morgenstern (actress)
67 - Byron Stewart (actor)
69 - Ray Parker Jr. (singer)
74 - Douglas Barr (actor)
77 - Nick Fortuna (singer)
78 - Rita Coolidge (singer)
81 - Stephen Macht (actor)
84 - Judy Collins (singer)

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Today in Sports History - May 1

1920 - The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves tied after a 26-inning game.

1922 - Charlie Robertson (Chicago White Sox) pitched a perfect no-hit, no-run game against the Detroit Tigers. The Sox won 3-0. Another perfect game did not come along until 46 years later.

1926 - Satchel Page made his pitching debut in the Negro Southern League.

1955 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians pitches a record 12th career one-hitter.

1965 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Chicago Blackhawks to win the Stanley Cup.

1981 - Tennis star Billie Jean King acknowledges a lesbian relationship with Marilyn Barnett -- becoming the first prominent sportswoman to come out as homosexual.

1984 - The Philadelphia Eagles select Nebraska wide receiver Irving Fryar with the first pick in the NFL Draft.

1988 - After scoring 50 points in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference playoffs, Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scores 55 in Game 2 to become the first player in NBA history to score 50 or more points in consecutive playoff games.

1991 - Pitcher Nolan Ryan, at age 44, threw the seventh and final no-hitter of his career, leading the Texas Rangers to a 3-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

1991 - Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics stole his 939th career base, breaking Lou Brock's MLB record.

1992 - Rickey Henderson stole his 1,000th career base.

1995 - The Montreal Canadiens miss the NHL playoffs for the first time in 25 years.

2022 - Jacky Hunt-Broersma, A South African amputee athlete, set a new world record for the number of daily consecutive marathons by running her 104th in a row.

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I guess Alante thinks DS can develop him better than Rhule. Good luck...

OL out of Io_a with some D1 offers.

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