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Janovich stealing the show

Ask anyone in Crete who has been the most impressive player so far in south practices and you are sure to get the same answer from everyone – Andy Janovich. Fellow teammates, spectators, and coaches all ranted and raved about the Gretna athlete on Tuesday afternoon.

  • “I wouldn’t want to face him in an alley.” – Shrine South teammate
  • ”If Janovich is on on-side kickoff and I’m one of the returners, I’m not going to catch it. I’m going to lay down.” – Shrine South teammate

Janovich is expected to play fullback at Nebraska, but will be playing linebacker this week after the coaching staff decided he was one of the best 11 guys on defense. He is also working with the two-minute offense as a pass catching threat out of the backfield.

It’s easy to see why every one of his teammates mentions him first when asked if anyone is sticking out.

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The article mentions a bunch of guys--Trey Foster, Derek McGinnis, Brandon Reilly, Drew Ott. The youtube video shows even more guys doing a drill. Some of these guys are (or will be) invited walk-ons. Watching the way Drew Ott (Iowa commit) moves for his size makes me wonder if we missed an opportunity with that guy.



/edit: The youtube video won't embed for some reason. Pretty fun to watch these guys playing around in drills.

 
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Walk-ons glad to get a jump on NU careers in Shrine BowlBy Sam McKewon, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER, Published Thursday May 31, 2012

CRETE, Neb. — All-Nebraska football player Trey Foster just graduated from Lincoln Southeast. He'll celebrate his last months of freedom before college by skipping them entirely. Foster prepped for Saturday's Shrine Bowl with a week's worth of practice at Doane College. On Sunday, he'll move into a dorm. On Monday, he'll report as a Nebraska walk-on and attend his first college class. Anthropology. Nervous. Calm. Anxious. Foster feels all of it. “I can't really ignore it,” he said Thursday at the South team's on-field press conference.

Neither can several of the Shrine Bowl players who join NU's program Monday as part of a strong walk-on class. The one in-state Husker scholarship signee from the 2012 class — tight end Sam Cotton — isn't playing Saturday because of an injury. But 13 members of that walk-on class are. “I wanted to get that head start, to where my body needs to be, in that Husker program,” Elkhorn running back Graham Nabity said.

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Another article about the Shrine Bowl and our walk-ons. By McKewon, this article is.

 
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Shrine Bowl pics LINK

LJS article LINK

The North used a bouncerooski in the fourth quarter. Fyfe bounced the ball to Grand Island teammate Sam Foltz, who found Cole Chvatal of Bishop Neumann for a 36-yard gain. All three players will be Husker walk-ons. That led to a 17-yard Fyfe-to-Foltz score.
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Boystown Fernando Hilgreth - where's he going? I was impressed with his quicks. I think he would be another good walkon candidate. Janovich is a train wreck. He about killed his own guy and then about killed a would be tackler. He's going to be a really good fullback. I was impressed with this walkon group. Some really nice players. Can't wait to see King Frazier behind Janovich. That's a good 1-2 punch.

 
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Unlike 6-footers Broekemeier and former Millard South star Bronson Marsh — a scholarship guy now listed as a quarterback on NU's roster — Fyfe has those extra inches to look over a defense. It didn't do him much good on the low pass Foster tipped, of course. But his 34-yard dart to Foltz is a play that shorter quarterbacks struggle to make without floating the ball.
I watched former Husker Zac Lee — who had a great arm — still balloon that pass at NU. And, of course, Taylor Martinez is reworking his mechanics on that kind of throw.

Fyfe can put that pass on a lower, more consistent trajectory. Whether he can run the option — and absorb the punishment — depends on how much weight he can gain. He wants to add 30 pounds in a redshirt year.
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From Shrine bowl article about Ryker Fyfe, 2013 walk-on. LINK

 
NUance said:
Unlike 6-footers Broekemeier and former Millard South star Bronson Marsh — a scholarship guy now listed as a quarterback on NU's roster — Fyfe has those extra inches to look over a defense. It didn't do him much good on the low pass Foster tipped, of course. But his 34-yard dart to Foltz is a play that shorter quarterbacks struggle to make without floating the ball.
I watched former Husker Zac Lee — who had a great arm — still balloon that pass at NU. And, of course, Taylor Martinez is reworking his mechanics on that kind of throw.

Fyfe can put that pass on a lower, more consistent trajectory. Whether he can run the option — and absorb the punishment — depends on how much weight he can gain. He wants to add 30 pounds in a redshirt year.
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From Shrine bowl article about Ryker Fyfe, 2013 walk-on. LINK
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Really hope Ryker makes some noise this fall. Kid has a cannon.

 
Lyons in the Sea of Red. said:
NUance said:
Unlike 6-footers Broekemeier and former Millard South star Bronson Marsh — a scholarship guy now listed as a quarterback on NU's roster — Fyfe has those extra inches to look over a defense. It didn't do him much good on the low pass Foster tipped, of course. But his 34-yard dart to Foltz is a play that shorter quarterbacks struggle to make without floating the ball.
I watched former Husker Zac Lee — who had a great arm — still balloon that pass at NU. And, of course, Taylor Martinez is reworking his mechanics on that kind of throw.

Fyfe can put that pass on a lower, more consistent trajectory. Whether he can run the option — and absorb the punishment — depends on how much weight he can gain. He wants to add 30 pounds in a redshirt year.
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From Shrine bowl article about Ryker Fyfe, 2013 walk-on. LINK
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Really hope Ryker makes some noise this fall. Kid has a cannon.
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I'm hoping he'll be another Nathan Enderle--except we keep him in Nebraska. :thumbs :

 
Fyfe wasn't that impressive in the first half of the Shrine Bowl. Looked like a fish out of water running the Zone Read, and his passes were a bit more erratic than I was led to believe.

Still, he's a young guy, with lots of room to grow. Nothing I saw said Red Flag to me. It'll be interesting to see how he develops, and how much muscle he can put on in the next 15 months.

 
knapplc said:
Fyfe wasn't that impressive in the first half of the Shrine Bowl. Looked like a fish out of water running the Zone Read, and his passes were a bit more erratic than I was led to believe.

Still, he's a young guy, with lots of room to grow. Nothing I saw said Red Flag to me. It'll be interesting to see how he develops, and how much muscle he can put on in the next 15 months.
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I'll admit he wasnt all that impressive in the first half as well. But he is a lot more elusive than many defenders believe and I think with time in a system and familiarity with plays he will develop pretty quickly. His release is unbelievably fast. But only time will tell.

 
knapplc said:
Fyfe wasn't that impressive in the first half of the Shrine Bowl. Looked like a fish out of water running the Zone Read, and his passes were a bit more erratic than I was led to believe.

Still, he's a young guy, with lots of room to grow. Nothing I saw said Red Flag to me. It'll be interesting to see how he develops, and how much muscle he can put on in the next 15 months.
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With a mishmash OLine that had a week to try to jell, I wouldn't put a ton into Ryker's struggles running the zone. Especially when you consider that the DLine he was working against arguably the strongest the game has seen in quite sometime.

 
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