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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Nebraska gets a BIG recruit!

Jason Ankrah, from the state of Maryland, has announced he wants to be a Cornhusker!! He is a four-star defensive end. He weighs 248 and is 6'4". Looks like a good one! Here is an update on recruiting!

Nebraska so far has ten offensive and thirteen defensive recruits that have committed so far.

Let's take a closer look.......

Quarterback
IN Cody Green
OUT Joe Ganz

The loss of Ganz will be pretty major but there some good QB's on the roster with Lee, Witt, and Spano. Green could compete next fall but usually it takes a year or two to learn the system. The QB race in 2009 will be the story of the 2009 team. Witt, Lee, Spano, or Green could all be in the running for starting QB next year.

Running Back
IN Dontrayevous Robinson, Rex Burkhead
OUT Marlon Lucky

With Castille and Helu back, our concern will be depth and who will be that third and fourth back. Mendoza will be in the hunt. But now we have "Superman", Rex Burkhead from Texas. It will be interesting to see if he can play up to his expectations. If so, he will get playing time next year.

Fullback
IN
C.T. Zimmerer
OUT Thomas Lawson & Hunter Teafatiller

So far, sadly, not a key position other than blocking

Offensive Line
IN Nick Ash, Jesse Coffey, Brent Ovale, Jeremiah Sirles
OUT Lydon Murtha, Mike Huff, Matt Slauson

We lose some key players but the depth is there to possibly improve before next year.

Wide receivers
IN Brandon Kinnie
OUT Nate Swift, Todd Peterson

Key losses for the offense. We have some younger guys coming up along with M. Holt. Gilleylen, Paul, and Cooper. We need to recruit at least one more receiver in this class.

Tight End
IN J.T. Kerr
OUT None

NU should be stronger at this position a year ago after much improvement this year.


DEFENSE

Defensive End

IN Kevin Young, Jason Ankrah
OUT Zach Potter, Clayton Sievers

The loss of Potter is especially big. Sievers has played well also. We need may need one more recruits at this position as the depth isn't there. Barry Turner and Pierre Allen should be starters next year. Cameron Meredith has played some but is injured and looking for a medical redshirt.

Defensive Tackle
IN Cole Pensick, Thaddeus Randle
OUT Shakuree Barfield, Ty Steinkuhler

We need one or two more commits at this position too. Suh is back but again depth is not there at the present time. Jared Crick had some quality time this year.

Linebackers
IN Shawn Bodtmann, Chris Williams, Earnest Norman
OUT Tyler Wortman, Cody Glenn

Chris Williams is the real deal. He has the best chance on this year's commits to play right away if he can overcome his injury this fall in high school. We lose Wortman and Glenn so we need possibly one more recruit at linebacker. Depth is an issue but with Mike Hays, Sean Fisher, Lawrence, and Williams, we may better next year.

Defensive Backs
In LeAndre Byrd, Taylor Martinez, Dejon Gomes, Andrew Green, Lazzari Middleton, Dijon Washingon
OUT Armando Murillo

With the nickel and dime packages, NU has six defensive backs. The coaches obviously see these positions to the success of the defensive schemes and they also see we need improvement by evidence of the numbers. All but Murillo is back and we will also have Anthony Blue back.

The coaches went after needs. We may need to get a recruit or a quality walkon for punting.

It seems the longer we go into the recruiting season, the better the quality we are getting!! We now have five four-star recruits! All of them look like they can play next year!

We have nine recruits out of Texas. I wonder if THE TODDLER has a comments on any of them!! What comments do you have?

I wonder if Nebraska's intern, Chris Kiffin, will join brother and dad at Tennessee?

Robert Sallie was the leading score for 23rd ranked Memphis yesterday against power Syracuse with 12 points! Oh if only it would have worked out.

NU's Cookie Miller (4) and Brandon Richardson (3) had seven steals yesterday against IPVW. Steve Harley had 21 points and Ade Dagunduro had seven rebounds.

Matt Hill hasn't seen much playing time this season at Texas as he is still in the process of gaining back his strength from being injured this past year.

Hastings College student Drew Billeter is the basketball coach for Lawrence-Nelson this season. Lawrence-Nelson has not had a winning season in five years but have started this season 5-0. They beat Shelton last night 58-55 in OT at Shelton. Shelton is coached by former Loomis assistant Dan Brown. Drew is a former all-state player from Loomis.

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