A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - Munford
SLUGGO Marc Munford arrived in Lincoln with sunburn. "I looked more like Herbie Husker than a backer-to-be, " the Colorado native remembered about his trip from the Denver area. "My Mom and Dad drove Rod Smith and me out here. Rod and I sat in the back of the pickup on bean bags for the entire trip." That would be the last time Munford would get to lounge around. "Early on we all learned that it would be a little different playing for Nebraska, " he said. "On one spring ball practice during my freshman year, the guard blocked down. We were taught to step up and meet the fullback when that happened. I waited for Rathman to come through the hole and I hit him.
A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - Smith
THE GO-TO GUY The new coach at Colorado told the talented blue-chipper from Thornton not to leave his native state and play for Nebraska. "You won't get to play, Bill McCartney told me, " said Rod Smith, "but I was going to Nebraska because they kept their word to me." The talented all-around player who returned twelve punts for touchdowns in high school, packed his stuff into a pickup and a trailer and he and his buddy Marc Munford headed for Lincoln. "The Colorado papers called us turncoats." This wasn't Smith's first trip to Lincoln. "I attended a football camp at Nebraska when I was a high school junior, " he explained. One of his buddies was Doug Fiala, a nephew of Husker linebacker Adrian Fiala.
A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - Taylor
THE ALL-AMERICAN LIFE Let's say you decided to trade sunny California for the plains of Nebraska and have big plans to play for the Huskers. On the first night game ever in Memorial Stadium, against one of the top foes in the country, Florida State, the coach calls your number and in you go. You have already set a record. You're the first true sophomore to start at quarterback for Nebraska. That would be a pretty tall order for most players. But not for Steve Taylor. "There was a lot of media pressure on us, " Taylor recalled. "Dion Sanders was part of that Florida State team. "Taylor did pretty well himself, running for two touchdowns and passing for two.
A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - McGinn
MAKING THE MOST OF A CHANCE Nebraska wasn't the first choice for this Chicago Mt. Caramel High School star. "I was recruited by George Kelly who was a coach at Marquette University, " Judge McGinn said. McGinn didn't stay very long at Marquette and followed a call to the seminary but soon found the priesthood wasn't for him. "I sent out some letters to different universities, " McGinn explained. His direct mail approach got a response from an old friend. George Kelly was now one of Devaney's coaches at Nebraska. "Kelly told me they had a scholarship for me and to come on out." McGinn packed his bags and headed for Lincoln. It was 1962 and the excitement was high in Lincoln.
A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - Pillen
A GREAT RUN FROM A WALK-ON Clete Pillen always wanted to play football for Nebraska. "I knew it from the age of nine and that didn"t change, " he said. "I always wanted to play for Nebraska." It was Coach Cletus Fischer who went to visit the Columbus star. "I was anxious to hear what he had to say and wanted to know if they thought I was any good, " Clete recalled. "He told me I had a great football name, " Clete said as he laughed. "That was it. That was his opening line to me." Nebraska didn"t have a scholarship for Clete but Coach Fisher invited Clete to walk-on if he wanted. That was good enough. "I remember walking into the locker room on the first day, " Pillen said.
How to Make Winning Football Picks The Right Way
The 2007 NFL and college football seasons are quickly bearing down on us and thus the handicapping season as well. Our professional handicappers have already been hard at work breaking down game trends and scenarios that will ensure another winning season, just like the 9 that came before it. It is a banner year for us due to the fact we are now in our tenth year of providing winning football, baseball, and college picks to our loyal subscribers. What makes us unique is the depth of analysis you receive week in and week out as we explain how we came up with the choices we made. Many websites out there are "claiming" that they are picking at a 75 percent clip and other absurd figures.
College Football Picks Week 1 - Part 1
Without further delay, here are free College Football Week 1 handicapped selections: Click on the link under our Bio to access our Week 1 BEST BETS along with the rest of our strong Week 1 plays and angles. Here is a small sampling of our work which is now in our tenth year of professional handicapping. WEST VIRGINIA(-23) VS. Western Michigan: On the small list of championship contenders, the West Virginia Mountaineers open the season at home in front of their raucous fans to face the Western Michigan Broncos. With two potential Heisman trophy contenders in QB Patrick White and RB Steve Slaton, the high powered offense of coach Rich Rodriguez should put up plenty of points to begin what could be a special 2007 season.
How To Improve Your Forty Yard Dash!
Is it really possible to improve your time enough to make a difference? Speed can"t be taught it"s just natural, well we disagree. So be honest with yourself when we ask you this question. What does your posterior chain look like? What? What's that? Well, imagine your lower back your glutes, your hamstrings. Does your's look like an Olympic sprinter or more like an offensive lineman. Find a picture of a sprinter and look at home explosive there lower rear chain looks. Now, we're not saying that you'll be a track star but let's be realistic with what we are starting with. So evaluate yourself or have someone evaluate you and start from there. While the forty yard dash is an incredibly dynamic test of an athlete"s capability it has become extremely overrated and misunderstood by the athletes performing it.
Our Third Youth Football Practice of the Season
Third Practice Again for those of you following along with my season, I am coaching two teams. One is basically an all rookie team of 3rd-4th graders, the other is a veteran team of 5th-6th graders. We are practicing together during some drills and not with others. Here is how our third practice of the year went, it was our first practice with full pads: Since we have such a disparity in ability and experience with these two teams, we had to come off the usual practice plan a bit. We had very high humidity and 95 degree temps again, so as usual we had our helmets off when it made sense and got plenty of short water breaks. We were able to get our dynamic warm ups and angle form tackling down to 10 minutes.
A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - Frosty
GREAT PLAY FROM A GREAT NAME You can be sure plenty of folks will remember "the play." It came in the second quarter of the 1973 Orange Bowl game against Notre Dame when Johnny Rodgers threw a touchdown pass to Frosty Anderson. "I wasn't supposed to be in for that play, " Frosty Anderson said. "We knew the play would be there and it would be an easy six." It was and the rest of the night was a disaster for the Fighting Irish. But, that's not the game that Frosty thinks of as his best game. "The Wisconsin game was my best game, " he said. "We kept getting behind and then I finally scored and put Nebraska ahead. I thought that would do it but Wisconsin came back and scored.