Rustin Dring

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In 2006, Kearney was the Class A champs. In 2007, they were ranked #1 a lot of the season, but they were beaten by Omaha Central in the semi-finals. Omaha Central ended up winning it all in Class A this year. A big part of Kearney's success is due to Rustin Dring.

Rustin plays running back and linebacker. In 2007, Dring ran for 1221 yards and 23 touchdowns. In 2006, he had 1184 yards rushing. On defense Dring had two interceptions.

Dring is 6' and 190 lbs. He benches 285 lbs and squats 440 lbs. He has run a 4.52 40 and has a vertical jump of 34.5 inches. He is very athletic, has speed, and quickness. He will have a great career in college for any college who signs him.

We asked Rustin some questions:

Favorite Game Memory:
Scoring in overtime against Millard South my junior year to propel my team into the state championship.

Best Athlete You have Played Against:
Ty Kildow, Millard South

Favorite Team (Pro and College):
Dallas Cowboys, USC

Favorite Player in High School or College
Noah Keller of Ohio University because he was a good teammate of mine last year.

College That Are Interested In You:
UNK, UNO, South Dakota State University, University of South Dakota

What college(s) Are Your Favorite:
South Dakota State, UNO, Colorado State, Ohio, Iowa, Iowa State

PERSONAL

Who Is Your Favorite Movie Actor:
Adam Sandler

What Is Your Favorite Movie:
Friday Night Lights

What Is Your Favorite TV Show:
Two and 1/2 Men

Which Person Do You Admire The Most:
Adrian Peterson

What Are Your Hobbies:
Football, Track, Working Out, Hunting, Fishing, and Spending Time with Friends and Family

What is Important For You To Be Successful:
I think a lot of my success to this point has come from hard work and dedication. I always try to be a leader on and off the field. But I think most of my success has come from heart and passion.

Rustin Dring will be an asset for any college both as a leader and a teammate. He has shown this through his efforts and success with Kearney High School. It will be interesting to see where Rustin ends up to play college football.

Thanks Rustin for completing our questionnaire.

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST!

This writer thinks the next coach will be a motivator with a keen sense of football. Our choice is a motivator with success on both sides of the ball. He is not all X's and O's but a man that the fans will love. He is from the Doc Sadler mold where hard work is the most important thing.

Leave your comments after you read the link! There will not be a lot of ink spent on this blog as to all the rumors in the next few weeks as who the next coach will be.

HERE IS OUR CHOICE!!

Next New Coach

Callahan didn't get the send off he deserved. READ!!!

Daily Nebraskan

Press Conference

Tom Osborne has scheduled a press conference for 8:30 this morning. He wll be meeting with the NU football coaches prior to that.

Nebraska will win today!

Nebraska will win today by a score of 34-24. The weather will be a factor. Four of the six losses for NU have been against teams rated in the Top 12. Look for the defense to have two-three turnovers. Should be a good finish to the year!

Sean Fisher

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Sean Fisher, a 6'5" 215 lb free safety and running back, plays for Millard North. They play against Omaha Central this Friday night for the Class A Championship at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Last week Millard North beat Millard West 31-28 victory in overtime. Millard North, coached by Fred Petito, always seems to have great players that finish their season strong.

Sean Fisher is committed to Nebraska to play football next year. His size should be a tremendous asset in developing into an outside linebacker. Sean benches 275 lbs, squats 495 lbs. and has a 33 inch vertical jump. He runs the 40 in 4.6. Sean has 150 career tackles and four interceptions for Millard North.

We asked Sean some questions:

Favorite Game Memory:
Five over-time victory over Lincoln Southwest

Best Athlete You have Played Against:
Tyler Vandament

Favorite Team (Pro and College):
Nebraska

College That Are Interested In You:
Committed To Nebraska

Are You a Solid Commit To Nebraska:
Yes

PERSONAL

Who Is Your Favorite Movie Actor:
Denzel Washington

What Is Your Favorite Movie:
Man of Fire

What Is Your Favorite TV Show:
Prison Break

Which Person Do You Admire The Most:
Coach

What Are Your Hobbies:
Football, Working On Cars

What is Important For You To Be Successful:
Determination

We wish Sean good luck in the title game vs. Omaha Central. It will be a great game to watch. Sean has a tremendous future for Nebraska and we are excited to watch his progress in the coming years.

Lance Thorell

Nebraska walk-on Lance Thorell was named Scout team player of the week last week. Thorell is a 2007 graduate from Loomis, Ne. He is a freshman and has redshirted this year.

Sport Shorts

Nebraska'a football season is quickly coming to an end even if we do go to a bowl. This is another year NU football will be talked about until the opening game of 2008 no matter what happens in the coaching arena.

As far as recruits go they should hang tight because no matter what happens with the coaching situation Nebraska will have excellent coaches and excellent facilities with an emphasis on academics. The only position that might be effected by a new coaching staff would be QB.

The NU receivers and Joe Ganz looked superior against KSU on Saturday. The receivers had their best game of the year Saturday and would get an A+. Their performance was as good as NU has ever seen. Joe Ganz wasn't too bad either. The team seems to have a lot of spirit when Ganz enters the game.

Marlon Lucky is developing into an excellent back. He is starting to break tackles and with his speed and quickness, he could become one of the best ever. He needs to be more aggressive getting to the hole like Helu but he continues to improve.

On the defensive side of the ball, Zach Bowman must be hurt or he just has never fully recovered. Anthony Blue played well. Prince A. has unbelievable speed. Did you see him run down Murphy of KSU to save a TD. Murphy has tremendous speed.

We may want to keep Callahan as coach and give him the opportunity to straighten out the weaknesses of the coaching staff. Turnover of the coaching staff doesn't always change the performance of the team. It is extremely hard on the players. New Systems, new plays, new schemes, player transfers, recruits decommitting, and a letdown mentally will occur with a huge shakeup. However if the decision is made to make a big change, the new coaches will be excellent. Either way Coach Osborne will be criticized wrongfully. Those that complain the most have never contributed to the program and better yet never played football or at the very least weren't very good.

Ronnel Grixby looks like a player who could play in the Big 12. Better make an offer and get him quickly.

NU basketball will be great this year whether they win or not. You just have to love Doc Sadler.

The state finals are set.

Maxpreps

Sport Shorts

Jason Whitlock talks about why it doesn't pay to give veteran running backs the big bucks.

Jason Whitlock

Husker Extra has a short take on Nebraska basketball.

Husker Extra

116 dogs taken from elderly woman. In addition to the dogs she had many other animals including a donkey.

Houston Chronicle

Joseph Duarte rates the BCS conferences. Who is #1?

Houston Chronicle

This writer is confident the Cornhuskers will be back on the winning track this. In fact, it should be a big victory. Nebraska is due in the turnover department. Nebraska is due in getting some breaks in the game. It is Senior Day and the last time 28 players will play in Lincoln except for Kenny Wilson who has a year of eligibility left. Look for NU to run more option. Look at NU to get to Josh Freeman and put pressure on him. Why, this week? Because we are DUE! NU 41 KSU 24.

Why would an elderly lady have 116 dogs?

Do you suppose AD Coach Osborne and Larry The Cable Guy have met?

Coach Osborne: Larry, can I call you Dan?
Larry The Cable Guy: Sure Coach, you can call me that. You know my grandma calls me Danny. You know my grandma has been having a lot of gas lately and..........
Coach Osborne: That's ok Don, you don't have to get into to that. I just wanted to tell you that I am here to bring unity back to the state and get UNL's athletics, especially football back on track. We very much appreciate your donation for the player's lounge and we hope you continue to support the program.
Larry The Cable Guy: Sure coach, did I tell that my sister has moles all over her face. She has so many moles that..........
Coach Osborne: DON!! Uh, I need to get to my next meeting but I just wanted to..
Larry The Cable Guy: Holy Frankenberries! Git-R-Done!!!!

Sport Shorts

College football right now isn't as much fun this year due to the Huskers season so far. Let's hope we end the season on a high note. The story for this week should have been how fired up the Huskers would be playing against Josh Freeman and the Wildcats. Freeman was a Nebraska verbal commit who in the 12th hour switched to Kansas State. Now it has become a season of survival.

Jason Whitlock talks about Brett Favre and his mood wings. Favre directed the Green Bay Packers to a 7-1 record today. He is playing as well as he ever has.

Jason Whitlock

Josh Freeman has passed for over 4300 yards this year. Jordy Nelson had a 14 catch 214 yard day against Iowa State. Read about the game.

Kstatesports.com

Nebraska beat their first exhibition opponent Friday night. See the details.

huskers.com

HuskerlandPrep looks at the C-2 and D-1 high school football playoffs. See their predictions.

huskerlandpreps

Craziest college football season ever!

It is possible that Kansas or Missouri will be playing for the national championship in January. This whole year is just crazy! How about Kansas and Arizona St. playing for the national championship? It could happen this year.

How would you even rate the teams from 5 to 25? One week a team looks dominate and then they get beaten by a mediocre team. Look at the Top 25. The #2 Team is Boston College, #4 Oregon, #6 Arizona St., #8 Kansas, #9 Missouri, #12 Hawaii, #16 Connecticut, #20 South Florida, and #21 Wake Forest (remember we beat them at Wake Forest). Troy received some votes.

Notre Dame (1-7), Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn St., UCLA, and Rutgers are not rated! Four of the Top 14 teams are from the Big 12. Seven SEC teams are in the top 25. The Big East conference has three teams in the elite 25 bu the Big 10 only has two. The Pac 10 only has three teams in the polls.

The #1 team, Ohio State, will not win out! Michigan will knock them off in the last game of the season if Illinois or Wisconsin don't beat them at home before that. Not a big prediction. It just isn't going to happen. Arizona St. may lose three or four games before the bowls although they are unbeaten today.

The national champions could easily have two losses.

This writer was proud and heartbroken of the kids and coaches in our loss to Texas. It appears that Sam Keller could be out for a while after having a great game against Texas. Joe Ganz is ready to take over. He is very good and he will play very well also. What happens if Joe Ganz goes down? Bad for me to say but does Patrick Witt burn his redshirt? Marlon Lucky had his best game ever as a Cornhusker.

Did you know there is a World Series going on. Boston will sweep tonight. Colorado's streak was absolutely unbelievable but it has ended.

The NASCAR race is between Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. It is a toss-up as to who will win but Jimmie Johnson will win in a close one.

The smaller class Nebraska high school football playoffs continue Thursday. Here is the preview by Maxpreps.

Maxpreps

Sports Shorts

Jason Whitlock says the Chiefs are still a mystery.

Jason Whitlock

Ryan Bailey's first kick for a FG was good. It was the winning kick against Nebraska last year. Mack Brown gave him a scholarship for the "kick" because it was so big for their season. See Joseph Duarte's column in the Houston Chronicle here.

Houston Chronicle

The Nebraska high school playoffs are ready to begin. Maxpreps breaks down the games in each class.

Class A Playoffs

Small Class Playoffs

This week's Big 12 Roundtable. Worth reading.........

Big Red Network

Husker Mike explains what is wrong with the NU football team.

Husker Mike

The following is a letter that is making the rounds on the internet. This is fake. One, the guy doesn't work for Husker Vision. Two, his address is not the address of the Athletic Department, and the e-mail address does not end in huskers.com which means he does not work in the athletic department. It is a guy having fun and except for one or two paragraphs, he might have started it when Solich was fired. Here is this week's FICTION novel.

"There are several people still close to Steve Pederson in his
administrative staff and provided the following information yesterday
from TO's office coming and goings.

Bo will be named head coach within days of the Colorado game if LSU is
not in the SEC championship game. If they are they will string it out
for a week talking about reviewing options, etc. Then once Bo is named
he can move quickly on getting with some of the recruits and keeping
them in place. Bill Busch will be retained in some position to assist
with this turnover.

Although rough around the edges, Tom thinks Bo reminds him of a Bob
Devaney type and does not feel the new coach has to be just like he was.

Tom Rathman who is now the RB coach for Lane Kiffen has been contacted
by Bo Pellini and asked about taking the offensive coordinator job at
Nebraska next year. The connections with Pellini and the Kiffens has
facilitated this possibly happening. TO however is possibly interested
in keeping Watson but of course is open to letting Bo select some of the
staff and as Rathman is a Nebraska guy he may get the nod.

Bo is holding the D-coordinator job open at this point in hopes of
getting Mike Stoops if he does not go back to Oklahoma. If not he is
hoping that Marvin Sanders can find a way out of the contract to take
the position.
(His current contract allows him to vest in the State of NC Pension plan
and that is why he has not started working anywhere else yet.).

Scott Frost will be brought back from Northern Iowa to coach defense in
some way and to spearhead Nebraska in state recruiting primarily for the
walk-on program. The new Tight ends coach will be retained possibly, he
is a little familiar with Bo through some Ohio State connection.

Most of the current staff will be relieved at the end of the season if
not before, it could be as early as Sunday depending on the drive and
motivation. Most of the team expressed willingness to help out with
coaching through the end of the year.

Strength and conditioning coach will leave as well and Bailey will come
back from USC, he loved Lincoln and is not as happy with living in LA.
although is being well paid by USC. Doak Ostergard, Paul Miles and Paul
Meyers have all been asked to return at the end of the year as well.

Look for many ex-huskers to be on hand on the sideline trying very hard
over the next several weeks to get these old players talking with the
current players and getting the husker pride back.

We were looking to include something about TO into the tunnel walk
although Tom has asked us not to do it and to keep the focus on the
team.

I will let you know if I hear anything else.

Mick L. Richards
Senior Producer Husker Vision
One HuskerPlaza
North Stadium Drive
Lincoln, NE68510
Email: Mickr@huskermarketing.com"

Kansas Jayhawks are #9 in the BCS poll

Rock Chalk Talk is excited about the Jayhawks year! Will they continue to excel?
Read the story..........

rockchalktalk.com

Sport Shorts

The Class A Playoff picture is discussed in detail in Maxpreps.

Maxpreps

Maxpreps has new ratings out for Class B through C-2. Also the playoff picture is laid out.

Maxpreps

Jason Whitlocks writes about the Missouri Tigers. He says they are Top 10 BCS material. You have to think he may be right after they thump Texas Tech.

Jason Whitlock

The Houston Chronicle's story on the NU-Texas A & M game is next.

Houston Chronicle

The Texas A & M post game reaction by Corn Nation.

Corn Nstion

21 ways to motivate yourself to exercise!

zenhabits.com

Sport Shorts

Nebraska is 10-2 against Texas A & M. The Big Red Report discusses how Nebraska has come back and beat Texas A & M after they have lost a game.

Big Red Report

Corn Nation discusses his feelings about Notre Dame, the coaches that should be fired, and more about college football.

Corn Nation

MaxPreps reports on this week's Nebraska high school football games and also a detailed look at the playoffs.

Maxpreps

Sport Shorts

Mendoza may play some at running back this week. Read the letter Tom Osborne wrote to former players.

Lincoln Journal

Aggies

Texas A & M has a poor pass defense and a season ending injury doesn't help the situation. See what the Houston Chronicle has to say.

Houston Chronicle

Who are the Fantasy Football picks for this week? Why are my players listed as Duds again?

USA TODAY

Jason Whitlock is critical of Larry Johnson. See what he has to say.

Jason Whitlock

The Colorado are unbelievable. They have won 22 out of 23 games. They were nine games back at one time. They were seven games back in September. They were two games back with two games to play. Just remarkable. They won't win the World-Series however. The American League will win it all. It will probably be Cleveland.

Maxpreps has their new ratings for all classes.

Maxpreps

Who are the MVPs in Nebraska High School football? See who Huskerland Prep picks by class.

Huskerlandprep

Remember when some Nebraska fans said Barrett Ruud was not that good and was too slow? He now leads the NFL in tackles. Some fans know so little.

Huskers will win this week!

There were no blackshirts at practice today. The players voted unanimously to give up their blackshirts because of the way they have been playing. This is a positive move and a show of uniformity.

Football Pre-game Prayer
Dear Lord,
In the battles we go through life
We ask for a chance that's fair
A chance to equal all our strife
A chance to do or dare
And if we win,
Let it be by the code
With faith and honor held high
And if we lose,
Let us stand by the road
And cheer as the winners go by.
Day by day
We get better and better
A team that can't be beat
Won't be beat,

The Huskers say this before every game. This week, the team we will take a stance that they can't be beat. Cheer them on, be positive, and have fun. We will be back to the win column this week! A team that can't be beat won't be beat!!

For those that have to be critical, remember the players are still kids. The coaches have family and many of them have kids. What if these kids were yours? How would you feel?

Nebraska vs. Oklahoma St.

Joseph Duarte from the Houston Chronicle predicts the Big 12 games.

Houston Chronicle

This writer picks NU to defeat Okie St. this week. This is a very pivotal game for the Huskers. We need to win the next two home games to make a bowl and have any chance to win the North division. We'll see what this week brings. Go Huskers!

Wake Forest beats No. 21 Florida St.

USA TODAY

Sport Shorts

Jason Whitlock talks about the Oklahoma-Missouri game.

Jason Whitlock

Suh may be suspended for the Oklahoma State game. The reason. He got in a fight at practice with Victory Haines. The report is that he suffered a broken nose. I think it is great that we have some fire going and I hope he doesn't get suspended. Please note however that this writer doesn't know the details. It is just good to see some spunk.

Husker Extra

The Big Red Report Interviews Johnny Rodgers

Johnny Rodgers is interviewed. He discusses the current status of the Huskers and recruiting. Did you know he was drafted out of high school to play baseball for the LA Dodgers.

Big Red Report

What's the latest news from Corn Nation. Interesting reading!

Corn Nation

Joe Paterno is being investigated for ROAD RAGE!!

Fanblogs

Read what Husker Mike says about the rest of the season!

Husker Mike

This is the BEST video of the week. Thank you Kim!

You Tube