Mavric

I could really use UNC to win by 23....

Ouch....

Couldn’t do it, could you, Harvey?

 

Harvey Perlman couldn’t leave it alone. He couldn’t take the high road when it came to his nemesis — and former football coach — Bo Pelini. He had to get the last word.

 

When the outgoing UNL chancellor gave his final address on Friday, he said, “I’m not going to do a Bo Pelini.”

 

The audience laughed.

 

“Do you know what a Bo Pelini is?” Perlman continued. “It is defined in the urban dictionary as an expletive-laced rant expressing outrage on leaving a position you didn’t want anyway.

 

“Not going to do it.”

 

My first reaction is, Pelini didn’t want the Nebraska job? That’s a bit of a revelation. But do we really need to go there now?

 

No, we don’t.

 

Exactly.

 

And though Perlman said he wasn’t going to do a Pelini, he actually did, minus the bar-room vernacular. He got down to Pelini’s level and heaved a final shot at a man who apparently got under the chancellor’s skin and lived there.

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Link to article on Perlman's address

Over the past three years the number of assaults on State Department of Correctional Services personnel has nearly tripled, according to state statistics obtained by The World-Herald, from 32 attacks with serious or nonserious injuries in 2013 to 94 last year.

In March, five attacks were reported by the department, including a melee on March 9 in which three corrections officers were injured in an altercation that involved four inmates.

Last week a special legislative committee probing the troubled Correctional Services asked for a briefing on the rising assaults. State Sen. Colby Coash of Lincoln, who made the request, said lawmakers need to know “not just the ‘what’ but the ‘why’ ” of the attacks.

“What is the source of this uptick in staff assaults? Once we know that, we can start to address it,” said Coash, a key member of the Department of Correctional Services Special Investigative Committee.

“I hope that the department will ask for the resources they need, if they need them, to address this issue,” the senator added.

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Ten years ago, Nebraska football coach Mike Riley conducted an entirely different kind of spring practice at Oregon State.

“I think we probably would have tried to install every part of the game, and we probably would have practiced for three and a half hours,” Riley said Saturday after a two-hour workout that finished inside Memorial Stadium.

A Riley spring camp was perhaps once more like a fall camp, with only a spring game as a reward at the end of all the hard work. But Riley has changed his philosophy on spring practice, and it can be seen in the way Nebraska — two-thirds of the way through 2016 camp — approached Saturday.

While NU was in full pads and had several “live” team periods where the hitting was plentiful, there was no purposeful tackling or dogpiles. A couple linemen — one offense and one defense — got into a brief skirmish, but, otherwise, players refrained from after-the-whistle moments.

It’s how Riley wants it. He’s tailored camp to focus more on individual techniques — the smaller picture within the larger structure of a play — and a fast pace.

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With 1,360 career rushing yards, Newby will enter the 2016 season in position to join 28 Huskers in the 2,000-yard club. He's averaged 5.1 yards on 268 career attempts. He catches the ball well (35 receptions for 205 yards) and is Nebraska's most-reliable back in blitz pickup.

He played through injury last season and still rushed for 765 yards (5.2 per attempt). Few folks seem to remember that he rolled his ankle in the third game, at Miami, and never fully recovered.

"Once he rolled that ankle, I don't think he ever got above 85 percent," said Nebraska running backs coach Reggie Davis. "In my eyes, you could see he was a little different player after that."

So, the 5-10, 200-pound Newby quietly goes about his business this spring, and looks sharp in doing so. He's going to get his share of touches this coming season (along with Wilbon and Devine Ozigbo). Bank on that.

LJS

I think we averaged around 8 called rushes for Tommy and a half dozen improvised scrambles per game last year.

 

That's not a bad use of Tommy's legs. I'd like to see a couple more called rushes a game.

 

I think the missed opportunity was for Tommy not to take off running EVERY TIME the defense gave him so much green on those pass plays. Not only would those have been good rushing yards, it would eventually loosen up the defensive secondary so he's not forcing throws into good coverage.

Well, TA had 98 attempts in 12 games which is 8.2 per game so those numbers are a bit high. And that includes sacks which were 14 on the season so probably just over 7 attempts per game.

Agree with you that he should pull it down and take off more but I'm not sure that's in the cards.

Considering he averaged 33.5 passing attempts per game, if we could take 8-10 of those attempts and turn them into running plays of which TA would get 3-5, that would be about right imo.

https://twitter.com/jacobystevens7/status/716799970091859968

Visiting for the Spring Game.

Sounds like he's interested in UCLA but they haven't offered because they're only taking one WR in this class. They may offer down the road.

Set to visit Maryland and California in addition to Nebraska.

TCU, Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Oregon are also on his list.

Visited Stanford this weekend. They're talking about using him like McCaffrey - offense, defense and special teams. He's liking that.

UCLA working on him hard. He has a good relationship with their DB coach.

Visiting Tennessee for their spring game. Also looking to visit Michigan, Auburn and Notre Dame.

I think we go 2-1. We will have a dumb loss no doubt.

 

No winners here either. Though this is definitely a different choice.

 

BTW, the I had originally posted in Post #3 has been deleted so I just replaced it with his commitment tweet from today, in case anyone was curious.

Probably because somebody didn't list them as an option...

 

Technicalities....

Must have been our Adidas contract that sold him....

Who voted for: California

Back at it....

https://twitter.com/Husker_Baseball/status/716719733874143232

No winners here either. Though this is definitely a different choice.

BTW, the I had originally posted in Post #3 has been deleted so I just replaced it with his commitment tweet from today, in case anyone was curious.

No winners on this one - well, except for Northwestern, I guess.