Husker Update!

Nebraska plays Creighton tonight at TDAmeritrade stadium in Omaha. Should be fun. Creighton may be headed to their first losing season in years and Nebraska's RPI is similar to last year's. Nebraska ended up 65th last year and is presently 63rd.  But whenever Creighton and Nebraska play, it is fun! I hope they can play three times a swason in the future. Why not?

Nebraska baseball is now 26-15, overall, and 8-7 in the Big Ten. They are in 4th in the Big Ten with Purdue solidly in first followed by Michigan St. and Minnesota.  Nebraska's pitching has been a problem. They have a combined ERA of 6.13. Brandon Pierce has done well with an ERA of 3.85. Nebraska has the game with Creighton tonight followed by three games with California State University-Bakersfield this weekend.

Nebraska continues to recruit basketball players and the number four player in next year's class said that he has been to Duke and North Carolina and Nebraska's facilities is better than both. That's a start.

Just don't expect NU Basketball to all of the sudden this winter to be a NCAA contender. It won't happen. We don't have the numbers and maybe in three or four years...........................

Sport Shorts

Nebraska baseball ran into its best team of the season with Purdue. Purdue took two out of three from NU in Lincoln this weekend. Purdue should have a pretty good chance of doing well in the regionals and if they stay hot go to Omaha in June.

NU football got a nice recruit from Ohio. Courtney Love has commited to NU. He plays outside linebacker and is rated a four star. Love comes from Youngstown Cardinal Mooney where Pelini went to school. Nebraska is developing a pipeline to this school with Braylon Heard, Tim Marlowe, and Mark Pelini already on the team. What a great name.....Courtney Love.

Denny Hamlin won the Kansas City Nascar race today with Mark Truex Jr coming in a close second. The race was somewhat boring. Nascar's trend is headed to more and more boring races and they are losing fans. The car of tomorrow hasn't worked.

Pat Summit is no longer head basketball coach at Tennessee. WOW! She will be known as the one that put excellent women's basketball on the map.

Nathan Bazata from Howells commited to Iowa. He is the second 8-man player to go there. Drew Ott from Giltner is headed there this fall.

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Matt Hill to Hong Kong!

Just received news that Matt Hill is headed to Hong Kong to play basketball. The former Lincoln Southeast star and Texas Longhorn is getting his first stint with pro basketball. Hopefully we will have more details soon.

Ricky Thenarse is going back to his high school at L.A. Jordon High School to coach his former team. Thenarse was a star running back for L.A. Jordon High School. We wish him well.

Chicago Whitney Young forward Jermaine Morgan may be headed to Nebraska. He had agreed to play at Colorado St. Rules say if a coach transfers they can switch schools also with no penalty.

Dick Clark died today. He was an icon quite a few years ago and I always tried to watch "American Bandstand" when I was a kid. I wished they showed reruns of that show. I am sure I would laugh a lot watching it today but I would like the chance to do so. I wished they hadn't have had Dick Clark on the New Year's show after he had his stroke. He was too good for that.

What to watch for in the Red-White game!

Some things I am anxious to watch in the Red-White game today.

1. Look to see how much different Taylor Martinez throws the ball.
2. Watch how Brion Carnes, Ron Kellogg, and Brandon Marsh performs.
3. I would like to see how Taariq Allen plays at wide receiver. There will be a lot of competition at wide receiver.
4. Ameer Abdullah and Aaron Green. Will Green look better than Abdullah today. Both are young quality running backs.
5. Mohammed Seisay. Will he excel in the spring game at cornerback? Juco transfer like David and Asante. Will he be as good?
6. David Santos. Can he surprise at linebacker and move to No. 1 this fall?
7. Anxious to see how Braylon Heard, Baptiste, and Antonio Bell do at corner?
8. How will the fullbacks play? Mike Morrow, C.J. Zimmerer, Graham Stoddard??
9. Cole Pensick at center.
10. That we have an exciting enough game and a lot of fans attending to excite the recruits in to watch.

BASKETBALL NEW!!
Jahill Okafor, five star Chicago center, will be in Lincoln THIS weekend along with four other Chicago propects. Okafor is the No. 4 overall player in the 2014 class by Rivals. He's 6' 10". Pretty much everybody in the country is after him. Hope that goes really well. I bet Chin Coleman, one of our new assistant coaches, had something to do with all this!

Paul White is a four star 6'8" SF who is visiting this week also.

Deveral Biggs may make a decision real soon also.

Nebraska Coach Tim Miles has parted ways with Fahro Alihodiz, a 6' 10" center, who was recruited to Nebraska by the previous staff. Assuming Nebraska gets a medical scholarship for Christopher Niemann, they will be down to eight players on scholarship. The limit is 13.

Other news--Lee Summit Missouri power forward Tory Miller has received a scholarship offer from Nebraska to play basketball. He is 6'8" and 247 lbs. Nice size and we need players like that.

Cody Green stars in Tulsa Spring ggame!

Cody Green was the star of the Tulsa Hurricane Spring Game on Saturday. He was 8-9 in passing for 189 yards and three touchdowns. A starter at quarterback is to be named today for the upcoming season.

Khiry Cooper is transferring to Tulsa. Beings he graduates in May at NU he will be eligible to play this fall. It will be interesting to see how these two perform this fall.

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Gretna golf team wins meet!

Scott Boehler, Gretna Golf Coach, reports results of their meet today!

DC West Invite
ResultsApril 4, 2012
Individual Medalist1.
Rob Minert –David City (73)
2. Harrison Agena – Syracuse (75)
3. Drew DeBolt –Gretna (76)
4. Zach Davis – Wahoo Neumann (77)
5. Clayton Wacker – Logan View (78)
6. Pat Carney – Gretna (78)
7. Graff Suhr – Arlington (81)
8. Mitch Swanson – Wahoo Neumann (82)
9. Kelton Terry – Gretna (82)
10. Matt Nelson – Wahoo Neumann (83)
11. Trevor Enstrom –Oakland-Craig (84)
12. Jason Wendelin – Gretna (85)
13. Jeffrey Hofer –Fort Calhoun (85)
14. Conner Dethlefs – Fort Calhoun (86)
15. Dyland Dravland – DC West (88)
Team Standings
1. Gretna – 321
2. Wahoo Neumann – 335
3. David City – 350
4. Logan View – 354
5. Syracuse – 357
6. DC West – 362
7. Fort Calhoun – 370
8. Oakland-Craig – 370
9. Fremont Bergan – 384
10. Arlington – 3980
11. Bennington – 393

VARSITY
DREW DEBOLT 37 – 39 = 76 (3rd Place)
PATRICK CARNEY 39 – 39 = 78 (6th Place)
KELTON TERRY 41 – 41 = 82 (9th Place)
JASON WENDELIN 42 – 43 = 85 (12th Place)
NOLAN KESSLER 45 –46 = 91

More changes with Nebraska basketball!

Brian Diaz has quit the team. He has been a valuable member of the NU team but foot problems has plagued him the past two years.

Ben Johnson is a new assistant coach for NU. He comes with some Big 1o background. He comes from Northern Iowa where he was an assistant. He played for Northwestern and Minnesota and has connections for recruiting in Minnesota and Iowa.

Beatrice walk-on Mike Fox is quitting basketball so that he can student teach next year. Fox played in 23 games this past season and averaged 10 minutes.

Finally, Christopher Nieman is probably not going to play due to his knee problems the past several years. They are trying to get him a medical scholarship so he can finish his studies.

Nebraska baseball gets back on the winning track with a 6-0 win over Kansas State. Yeah!

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Biggs to Nebraska?

Deverall Biggs has an offer from Tim Miles to play basketball at the University of Nebraska. Biggs was a standout for Omaha Central. This year he had a great year for Seard County Kansas C.C. He led the team to third place in the Division I Juco tournment. He was named Jayhawk Conference Player of the Year.

Biggs averaged 16.4 points per game and 3.9 steals this year. He has offers from Oklahoma St., Southern Mississippi, and Utah State.

Biggs may put Nebraska first because he says he misses home.

Miles says he doesn't like JUCO players or foreign players but with this former Omaha Central star, he is willing to make an exception.

Biggs may also help with the recruiting of Akoy Agau, who is a present Omaha Central standout.

The Husker football team is always changing. Andrew Rodriquez has moved to tackle and backs up Jeremiah Sirles. Brent Qvale is backing up Tyler Moore. Mo Seisay may find a way to start at cornerback. Braylon Heard continues to impress at cornerback.

Ryne Reeves has moved from center to guard and is being praised by Pelini.

Overall Pelini seems to be in good spirits which may show is confidence in his present team.

Nebraska has offered Josh Banderas from Lincoln Southwest a football scholarship. In track this last week he placed first in the 110 highs, second in the shot put, and second in the 100 meter sprint race. Quite a combination and the results reflects his athletic ability.

The Nebraska baseball tream lost two of three to Northwestern this weekend. Not very impressive against a pretty bad team but Northwestern's pitching was excellent the last two days.

The basketball team is changing!

Tim Miles is allowing incoming recruits Keith Coleman and Jerran Young out of their letters of intent and he is granting freshman Josiah Moore his request for a scholarship release.

Freshman Corey Hilliardwill likely have surgery in May for a sports hernia.

Miles will attend the Final Four and interview up to ten people to fill the other two assistant coaches' position.

Danny Manning is the new coach at Tulsa. He is a great developer of big men and should be a great coach. This will hurt the Kansas team.

Doc Sadler was at the Nebraska football practice today.

Tim Miles

I received an e-mail this morning from Tom Gdowski of Grand Island. Tom was a defensive tackle for the Huskers in the late 70's, early 80's. Tom's son Jake Gdowski graduated from Grand Island High School and started at Colorado St. He had a very good career as an offensive lineman. He may get a chance to play in the pros. He is 6' 3" and 303 lbs.

Tom made a lot of trips to the Colorado St. campus and met Tim Miles. Here's what Tom had to say about the new NU basketball coach.

" Met the guy several times. He is ALWAYS upbeat and enthusiastic. Doesn’t take
himself too seriously but commands respect from players and peers. Should do
well!"

The positive comments continue to come in and it will be exciting to see how he puts his staff together and who he will put on the floor next year as NU lost a lot of seniors this year. Miles is bringing in"Chin" Coleman who has AAU ties and knows the Chicago area as one of his assistants. He is known as an ace recruiter. Coleman has been on Miles' CSU staff and was a very successful high school coach in the Chicago area. Coleman is presently traveling to talk to the present recruits for Nebraska.

Jayden Olson has also been added to the staff. Olson spent two seasons at CSU as the basketball operations director and video coordinator. Miles plans to add three more to his basketball staff.

John Groce, who led Ohio to the final eight in the NCAA basketball tournament, is headed to Illinois.

Baseball attendance in the Big 10 was led by Nebraska with over 5000 average attendance this weekend. It was by far the leader in attendance. In contrast, Minnesota averaged 242 fans per game, Iowa 676 per game, and Michigan only 706 per game. It will be culture shock when we go to play some of these teams.

Andrew Rodriquez is getting noticed this spring on the NU football team due to his work ethic. Rodriquez is working some at tackle this spring but is presently working with the second unit.

On defense, Daimond Stafford is light years ahead of last year according to Pelini. Pelini says that cornerback Mohammed Seisay continues to impress this spring. Seisay is a juco transfer.

Ryne Reeves has moved to guard. That leaves Cole Pensick, Justin Jackson, and Mark Pelini at center. Pensick seems to be the leader right now.

Sport Shorts!

Butler Coach Brad Stevens turned down the Illinois basketball job. He was reportedly offered an annual salary of $2.6 million.

Malik Zaire, a quarterback that Nebraska was after, has commited to Notre Dame.

Tim Miles, the new NU basketball coach, pleads for patience from the fans.

The Atlanta Hawks beat the Jazz tonight 139-133 in the first quadruple overtime game in the NBA since 1997. This was the first for the Jazz ever.

Nebraska baseball beat Illinois 13-3 today to win two of three from Illinois. Illinois was expected to finish fourth in the Big 10 while Nebraska was predicted to finish third. Nebraska blew out Illinois on Saturday and Sunday but was beaten 11-3 on Friday night.

Nebraska played 16 games in March at home and not one was altered by weather.

Today Zach Hirsch helped hold Illinois to a season low in hits and pitched real well over seven innings.

Royals' closer Joakim Soria will miss the season due to reconstructive elbow surgery.

Alex Gordon is hitting .422 this spring.

Next weekend's matchups of Ohio State/Kansas and Kentucky/Louisville look very attractive to watch.

Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III look to be the first two picks of the draft for Indianapolis and Washington. Texas A & M's QB Ryan Tannehill could go third or fourth in the draft. Minnesota picks third and Cleveland goes fourth.

The odds are pretty good that Nebraska won't have anybody taken in the first round.

NU will announce Tim Miles as NU's new coach!

Tim Miles will be named Nebraska's new head basketball coach on Saturday!!

The full contract, according to ESPN, would be an estimated $8.7 million over
six years.

Miles, 45, replaces former head coach Doc Sadler, who was fired after
six seasons in Lincoln earlier this month. Miles had just received a three-year
contract extension in May to stay at CSU, which would have increased his salary
to $750,000 annually through 2016.

Tim Miles is 45 years old and took Colorado State to the NCAA tournament this year. Tim Miles is from Doland, South Dakota.

Before taking over at CSU, Miles coached at North Dakota State (2001-07),
Southwest Minnesota State (1997-2001) and Mayville State (1995-97). His career
record as a head coach is 285-227, and he was 71-88 in five seasons at Colorado
State.

One factor that obviously made Miles attractive is that he built his team around Nebraska players this year. Four of his players wer Jesse Carr of Ainsworth, Wes Eikmeier of Fremont, and Dwight Smith and Greg Smith of Ralston.

He also had a couple of regional players such as Colton Iverson of Yankton and Dorian Green of Lawrence, Kansas.

Eikmeier (15.5 points per game), Green (13.1 ppg) and Greg Smith (9.4 ppg)
were Colorado State's top three leading scorers this past season.

Miles' Colorado St. roster this year consisted of four players from Colorado and Nebraska and one each from Arizona, Minnesota, Kansas, South Dakota and Florida.

He definitely likes Midwest kids. Will there be enough local kids to take Nebraska to the next level. One plus for Nebraska is that he obviously knows a lot about our State. The Nebraska high school coaches seem to like him.

His assistant coaches are Niko Medved, who also serves a key role in recruiting, Craig Smith, who was named NAIA Coach of the Year in 2007, and Ron Coleman, who was a star basketball player for Lamar and played some NBA ball and served as CSU's recruiting coordinator this past year. Coleman has experience in the AAU ranks also. It is unknown how many of these coaches will come with him to Nebraska but they all look like great assets to the new coach.

Colorado State's top recruit coming in this fall is Jermaine Morgan, who was recruited by Coleman due to his ties to Chicago. He is a 6'7" power forward.

It will be interesting to see what Nebraska ends up with this fall. Don't expect too much from Miles and the Huskers the first year.

Florida and Kansas, who were both in Omaha last weekend look like they BOTH will make it to the Elite Eight. Pretty cool.

Sutton interviews with Nebraska

Oral Roberts coach Scott Sutton has interviewed for the Nebraska vacancy for basketball. Scott Sutton is 250-181 in 13 years at Oral Roberts. Scott Sutton is the son of Eddie Sutton who coached at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma St.

Eddie said" He brings a lot to the table. He's a good speaker, a good recruiter, and he always runs a clean program. He's everything a university would look for in a coach. And he has a desire to get to that next level."

Other coaches connected to the Nebraska job are Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Rob Jeter and Colorado St.'s Tim Miles.

Alex Gordon is hitting .378 this spring.

Last weekend, at the NCAA tournament in Omaha, I really enjoyed watching and being a part of the NCAA tournament. The Florida-Virginia game never turned out to be a good game. Florida looked real good and Virginia was very cold. Florida won easily.

The upcoming game of Missouri-Norfolk St. That looked to be a pretty boring game and more on that later.

The evening games started with Purdue and St. Mary's. St. Mary's had beaten Gonzaga in the conference standings and conference tournament this year. Purdue had finished in the mid-pack of the Big 10. But the Big 10 has shown they are really good in this tournament. The Big 10 is tough. St. Mary's had a chance to win the game but traveled late in the game and Purdue got the win by three points.

Now back to the Norfolk St/Missouri game. Missouri was a #2 seat and Norfolk State was a #15 seat. The game started close and was close the whole game. I am not sure anybody got ahead more than four points the whole game. Missouri had a lot of trouble containing Kevin Durant or I mean Kyle O 'Quinn. O'Quinn looked ready for the NBA.

When the game started there were about 80 Norfolk St fans and about 3500 Missouri fans. The rest of the 16,000 were just watching. Then the Norfolk St pep band started to heat up, the cheerleaders put on a show I can't even explain, and the rest of the 16,000 became instant Norfolk St. Spartan fans. Spartan, their mascot, was one of the funniest and best mascots I have ever seen in college sports. The crowd was shouting NSU, NSU!!!! The fans for Norfolk St now counted to around 12,500 fans. Even Missouri fans gave the NSU pep band and cheerleaders standing ovations. What a game. Norfolk St. wins 86-84. For a while it seemed neither team could miss. Missouri didn't play bad but my did Norfolk St play well. A memory I will never forget.

On Sunday the anticipated game between Florida and Norfolk St never materialized. At one point the Florida gators outscored the Spartans 25-0. Florida went on to win by about 35 points but I still enjoyed the NSU pep band and cheerleaders.

The second best game of the tournament was Purdue and Kansas with Kansas winning at the end in a hard fought battle.

Omaha put on a good show. I would love to go again. It was fun and relaxing.

nsu cheerleaders 2011