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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Lance Thorell receives the Brooke Berringer Citizen Award!

Lance Thorell was one of twelve members of the NU football team that received the this reward. The reward goes to those that exhibit great community service.
2009 Brook Berringer Citizenship Team (years on team)

* Anthony Blue, CB, Cedar Hill, Texas, 2009
* Dan Glassman, DE, Omaha, Neb., 2009
* Alex Henery, PK, Omaha, Neb., 2009
* Marcel Jones, OT, Phoenix, Ariz., 2009
* Adi Kunalic, PK, Fort Worth, Texas, 2009
* Blake Lawrence, LB, Shawnee Mission, Kan., 2008, 2009
* Marcus Mendoza, WR, Houston, Texas, 2009
* Todd Peterson, WR, Grand Island, Neb., 2007, 2008, 2009
* Lance Thorell, DB, Loomis, Neb., 2009
* Dan Titchener, P, Cheyenne, Wyo., 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
* Jake Wesch, PK/H, North Bend, Neb., 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
* Tyler Wortman, LB, Grand Island, Neb., 2008, 2009

The Red White game was fun to watch. Ndammukong Suh showed he may be the most dominant player in the country. The Red offense looked very potent on paper. With Suh on the White defense, they couldn't get untracked. Play after play he dismantled the offensive linemen and disrupted the offense. He had a sack and seemed to be involved in some way with every play he was in. When Suh was in the game, the Red offense had around eight yards total offense. After his day was pretty much done in the mid-second quarter the Red offense went on and had 380 total yards. Without Suh, the NU defense is good. With Suh, well, it may be.........

Zac Lee has a very accurate arm and he is fast. Now he will need to take over the offense and become a leader, if he isn't already. Latravis Washington is pretty good also but not in the league of Lee at this time.

NU has a whole herd of really good tigh ends. They can block and catch the ball. I wonder how we can play all them. We might see Ben Cotton or Mike McNiel spread out some this fall.

It is hard to judge or single out players on the offensive line. The defensive line is better overall. No running backs showed anything amazing. Collins Okafor's 33 touchdown was nice.

Two receivers that stuck out were Chris Brooks and Antonio Bell. They made some really nice catches. Both could be starters. Wes Cammack beat the secondary for a nice touchdown also. He beat a couple of veteran defensive backs, Asante and West.

Defensively, the tight ends dominated the linebackers in the passing game. Will Compton looked real good on run defense. The first and second team defensive line players are superb. Barry Turner had a quiet day and is not quite back yet.

P.J. Smith seemed to look really good for a freshman. Will Compton had some nice tackles. Anthony Blue looks like he may be close to 100%. Baker Steinkuhler seems to be improving.

Joe Ganz poked some fun at Coach Pelini during the luncheon on Saturday. He joked that in 2003 when Pelini was part of the coaching staff that they did not try to recruit him. Ganz introduced Pelini at the luncheon. (Ganz was recruited and signed by Bill Callahan).

There were almost 100 recruits at the game on Saturday. One recruit was bigger than all the rest. His name is Mike Moudy of Castle Rock, Colorado. He is an offensive lineman who is 6'7" and 315 lbs. He committed to Nebraska this weekend. He is BIG!

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