NUance Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 (edited) I thought I'd create an all-time Husker Walk-On team. Some positions are real deep in quality walk-ons (FB, DE, K/P). Others are a bit sparse (QB, TE). I used the old-timey offensive positions (SE, FB, & WB). Feel free to use current positions (X, Y & Z WRs). Here's mine: OFFENSE QB — Monte Christo IB — I.M. Hipp FB — Andy Janovich WB — Anthony Steels C — Adam Treu OG — Spencer Long OG — Joel Wilks OT — Cody Volk OT — Jason Schwab TE — Tyler Hoppes SE — Brandon Reilly DEFENSE DE — Jared Tomich DE — Jimmy Williams DT — John Parrella DT — Toby Williams LB — Clete Pillen LB — Scott Shanle ILB — Stewart Bradley CB — Barron Miles CB — Rodney Lewis S — Matt O’Hanlon S — Mike McCashland SPECIAL TEAMS K — Alex Henery P — Sam Koch I think all these guys are walk-ons. I looked most of them up. Who you got? Edited June 8, 2018 by NUance Replaced Shane Swanson with Anthony Steels. Swanson was a scholarship recruit. 2 Quote Link to comment
TGHusker Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 11 minutes ago, NUance said: I thought I'd create an all-time Husker Walk-On team. Some positions are real deep in quality walk-ons (FB, DE, K/P). Others are a bit sparse (QB, TE). I used the old-timey offensive positions (SE, FB, & WB). Feel free to use current positions (X, Y & Z WRs). Here's mine: OFFENSE QB — Monte Christo IB — I.M. Hipp FB — Andy Janovich WB — Shane Swanson C — Adam Treu OG — Spencer Long OG — Joel Wilks OT — Cody Volk OT — Jason Schwab TE — Tyler Hoppes SE — Brandon Reilly DEFENSE DE — Jared Tomich DE — Jimmy Williams DT — John Parrella DT — Toby Williams LB — Clete Pillen LB — Scott Shanle ILB — Stewart Bradley CB — Barron Miles CB — Rodney Lewis S — Matt O’Hanlon S — Mike McCashland SPECIAL TEAMS K — Alex Henery P — Sam Koch I think all these guys are walk-ons. I looked most of them up. Who you got? I can't add to that list. The ones I marked in bold were 'real bargains'. These had outstanding careers at NU. I'm not familiar wt all of those names but those were the ones that stuck to me. And to add to this: I. M. Hipp has the all time best football name - and fitting for a 'confident walk-on" Quote Link to comment
ColoradoHusk Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Technically, Jared Tomich wasn't a real walk-on. He was a Prop 48 guy who would have been given a scholarship out of high school if he had qualified. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said: Technically, Jared Tomich wasn't a real walk-on. He was a Prop 48 guy who would have been given a scholarship out of high school if he had qualified. Yeah, I think there are a couple on there in that same situation. But I figure if they paid their own way, they're walk-ons. (That, and Jared Tomich is one of my all time favorite players.) 1 Quote Link to comment
skers83 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I could be wrong but I think Shane Swanson was on scholarship his entire career. Can't disagree with the list though. Some of those names I had forgotten. If Swanson wasn't a walk on how about Clester Johnson. 2 Quote Link to comment
ColoradoHusk Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 38 minutes ago, skers83 said: I could be wrong but I think Shane Swanson was on scholarship his entire career. Can't disagree with the list though. Some of those names I had forgotten. If Swanson wasn't a walk on how about Clester Johnson. Clester Johnson was a scholarship recruit, even though he was a QB in high school. He was in the '91 class after being the OWH Prep Athlete of the Year. He was teammates of Erick Strickland at Bellevue West. 1 Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 1 hour ago, skers83 said: I could be wrong but I think Shane Swanson was on scholarship his entire career. Can't disagree with the list though. Some of those names I had forgotten. If Swanson wasn't a walk on how about Clester Johnson. You're right! I scanned this article LINK and got the impression Swanson was a walk-on. But it actually says he turned down their offer to walk-on, so they gave him a scholie. Good catch! Edit: I looked up Clester Johnson and he was a scholie player. So I went with Anthony Steels. 1 Quote Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Janovich over either of the Makovickas? Bold choice. 1 Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 If you could find a quarterback who played meaningful minutes, that would be a damn good football team. Quote Link to comment
skers83 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I always thought Johnson was a walk on. Should have looked it up. Anthony Steels-another one I had forgot about. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 13 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: If you could find a quarterback who played meaningful minutes, that would be a damn good football team. If I recall, Monte Christo actually played a fair amount of minutes. Not sure how meaningful they were though. The Turmanator didn’t play a lot of minutes but I think you could make the argument that they were meaningful. I assume he was a walk on... Not sure if it would translate into a damn good team but would beat the pants off our last few teams. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 22 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: If you could find a quarterback who played meaningful minutes, that would be a damn good football team. I'm open to suggestions! I almost went with Joe Ganz. Andrew Bunch and Ryker Fyfe are pretty close too. Quote Link to comment
Scarlet Overkill Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I didn't know some of these guys were walk ons! Learns something new every day. Quote Link to comment
ColoradoHusk Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 3 hours ago, Comfortably Numb said: If I recall, Monte Christo actually played a fair amount of minutes. Not sure how meaningful they were though. The Turmanator didn’t play a lot of minutes but I think you could make the argument that they were meaningful. I assume he was a walk on... Not sure if it would translate into a damn good team but would beat the pants off our last few teams. Monte Christo played quite a bit in 1998 and started a number of games after Newcombe was lost for the season and Crouch was battling various injuries. Nothing against Christo, but I was pissed when he started the ‘98 home game against Texas which snapped NU’s 47 game home winning streak. Solich made a bad decision and Christo played poorly in the first half, which allowed Texas to stay in the game. Crouch played the 2nd half and did well, but NU couldn’t pull away and Texas made plays at the end to win. Quote Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Monte Christo threw 28 passes in his entire college career,. Is Joe Ganz an eligible choice? I'd go with Joe Ganz. Quote Link to comment
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