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No Not Andre. Although Andre is a guy that i would like to get. Elio, i wouldn't put to much stock in him right now. He doesn't seem to be looking at us at the moment. Eloi has to pass a bunch of classes in the summer and fall before he thinks of going anywhere... I read not too long ago, that Keith said it was basically him and Nebraska and how he would love to play on the team with his uncle. If he does what it takes to pass and Nebraska is interested in him, I believe we'll land him.. If he doesn't get the grades then he'll more than likely go to a lesser school... It is still a long way off before Keith makes the grades anyway... Oh well..

Andre Jones??.. there some info on him on the front page of HI.. Not much info but it does mention him and Zack Bowman in the same breath. There is a two time Juco All-American WR who could be coming to Nebraska around Dec-Jan.. His name is Keith Eloi, ( Naples, FL) he's Steve Octavian's nephew. Last year Keith was rated alongside Larry Brackins as the only two WR's on the first team 2004 NJCAA Football All-Americans. Frantz Hardy was second team WR..

40 times are way overrated... If you really want to put things in perspective all of these fast 40 times that are reported year in and year out are bogus.. Ben Johnson happens to have the fastest 40 yard dash ever recorded and his time was 4.38... How many do you believe that any of the fastest guys in the NFL or college who have been clocked at 4.1-4.3 could even come close to a anabolic Ben Johnson in the 20 yard dash, 40 yard dash or 100m dash? Not me... lol I saw this in a story a while back and it is pretty interesting.. The link is down but here is a portion of it. The shortest distance that the IAAF, track and field's international governing body, recognizes for world-record purposes is an indoor 50 meters, or about 54 yards. It is 5.56 seconds and it was set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. There is also a world record for 60 meters -- 6.39 seconds by American Maurice Greene in 1998. But it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test. Timing officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 -- both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds. He was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul's Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake. And, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol. Four-point-three-eight seconds. Then again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world. Maybe half the NFL players and college players are faster than anabolic Ben. It can be the most important few hours of a football player's career. It is the day NFL scouts come to campus to determine whether prospects have what it takes to play at the next level. Players are measured to the quarter-inch. They're weighed to the half-pound. They do a vertical jump and a standing broad jump. They see how many times they can bench-press 225 pounds. They do a 20-yard shuttle drill and something called a three-cone drill. They are put through a short workout specific to their position. But it is something else that commands everyone's attention, something else that interrupts the businesslike atmosphere of players shuffling from one station to the next. Something else that causes scouts and spectators to snap to attention. The 40-yard dash. It is the day's shortest event, and the most critical. No other statistic carries more influence for an NFL prospect, no single number has more impact on his draft fortunes. It's not called Pro Scouting Day or Pro Prospect Day or Pro Workout Day. The sign taped to the weight-room door at San Diego State on March 19 says: "Pro Timing Day." Or as local football agent David Caravantes puts it: "There's football speed and there's 40 speed, and the scouts will all tell you they understand that and game film is the most important thing. But how many defensive backs who ran a 4.6 are left on the draft board ahead of guys who ran 4.3? "I'll give you another example. There's this DB who was originally projected as a first-rounder. But he didn't run the 40 that fast -- something like 4.6 instead of in the 4.4s -- and now they're talking about him slipping to the second round. Well, he's looking at a minimum $4 million signing bonus if he goes in the first round and only about $1.6 million if he goes in the middle of the second round. "You do the math." The players are inside the SDSU weight room being measured and weighed. In the hallway outside are their agents, pacing. Nervously. Occasionally they'll walk outside, look up at the sky and stick out an upturned hand to feel the raindrops. This is not good. The plan, according to the schedule on the weight-room door, has the players lifting and jumping inside and running the 40 outside on SDSU's synthetic-turf practice field. The course marked with cones has them running on a spongy, soggy, uneven turf into a chilly wind with a dark sky spitting rain. That's not good for 40 times, and that's not good for business. The players leave the weight room and begin to warm up in the wind and rain. The agents squirm even more. They huddle with players, and soon the players are marching back into the weight room, demanding that they run inside on a strip of rubberized track laid between the various lifting machines The fastest of the players at SDSU's Pro Timing Day, which also includes a half-dozen prospects from small West Coast schools, is Aztecs safety Marviel Underwood. Players each run the 40 twice, and Underwood is clocked in a hand-timed 4.38 both times. Other prospects run their 40s at the annual NFL Scouting Combine in February inside Indianapolis' RCA Dome, where this year Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones went 4.37. Jones is 6 feet 6, 242 pounds. It's also where Jerome Mathis, a wide receiver from tiny Hampton College in Virginia, sent his stock soaring with a reported 4.32. Some scouts apparently caught him sub-4.30. Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcels told people his stopwatch showed 4.25. Never mind that Mathis was running on the RCA Dome's notoriously slow artificial turf, or that he was running alone without the aid of fellow competitors pushing him. Or that his left hamstring was wrapped because of a slight muscle strain. Ben who? There are the legends about the 4.17 Deion Sanders ran in high tops when he was at Florida State, or the 4.15 by a cornerback from West Virginia, or the 4.0-something a high school kid ran down in Texas. Hogwash, all of it. Track coaches go to Pro Timing Days, and they see scouts starting their stopwatches with their thumb, which has a slower reaction time than the index finger. They see them crowding the finish line and anticipating -- guessing, basically -- when someone will cross it. They see running surfaces that weren't professionally measured or leveled. They see no starter's gun, no automatic timing device, no wind gauge. Grizzled track coaches love to say that the "clock doesn't lie." Well, it does in football. Say someone clocks a hand-timed 4.35 in an NFL workout. The accepted standard to convert a hand-timed event to its automatically timed equivalent is to round up to the nearest tenth of a second -- in this case 4.4 -- and add .24 seconds. Now you're at 4.64. Most football 40s don't go on a starter's pistol but on an athlete's motion. The average reaction time among elite sprinters (from the gun to the moment they exert pressure on the starting block's electronic pads) is about .15 seconds; for a football player with little track experience it probably would be closer to .2. Add that in, and you have 4.84. Now say it's a breezy day and you're running with a tailwind. Say it's 10 mph. Accepted track tables say that would provide a .07-second advantage over 40 yards. Add it in, and your 4.35 is suddenly a 4.91. There's no shame in running a 4.9-second 40, of course. World-class sprinters get a bad start or get a cold day, and they go through 40 yards in the high 4s, too.

Farley struck fear into the other defenses like I haven't seen in a long long time... If you look back at the 95 and even the 96 season the guy was a monster.. In 1996 the games that Farley didn't play in Nebraska lost... Charlie McBride once said that Terrell had the fastest first steps he had even seen... When you go back and look at Terrell coming off of the corner, for a sack or punt block you understand what he's talking about...

This is just my thoughts, but at least now whenever I hear the words ( Zac Taylor back to pass) I won't cringe and expect the worse all the time... I'll admit during the spring game, I gringed a few times when I heard over the radio that Zac was dropping back to pass.. I just knew that he was going to throw some picks.. Maybe I was having flashbacks to last year with Joe... But after a few series, I warmed up to the fact, that this kid could look off more than one or two WR's, and could pinpoint his passes... even if it was against the second and third teamers. Sure I'll reserve judgement until after Nebraska plays someone decent ( like Wake Forest or Pitt) but like I said at the top, for now I won't cringe or think the worse every time Zac drops back to pass the ball.

Based on the 2004 Defensive performance, is that really all that special? Just kidding. I think Taylor will be much improved over Dailey, but I don't think Taylor is the second coming that some make him out to be. No I guess it isn't all that special. However it's a good start. I'm not trying to make Zac out as the second coming either, however looking at what Nebraska has had to work with over the last few years, we better hope either he or Beck is the real deal... One of the reasons, I like Zac is, he is 22 or 23, he should be more seasoned and experienced than Beck at 17. Also since Zac's dad is a former OU player/captain and football coach, there won't be anything that should catch Zac off guard.. Zac's been around it all his life... We'll see how it plays out in the next two years...

Many forget that while Zac Taylor was still the # 2 QB, he lit up the Blackshirts, in a scrimmage game back in April. During the two-hour scrimmage, Taylor had a two-possession stretch where he was 6 for 6 for 114 yards, including touchdown passes of 1 yard to fullback Dane Todd and 35 yards to receiver Isaiah Fluellen. Taylor later added a 27-yard screen pass to I-back Cory Ross for a score. Zac completed 17 of 30 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns, with one interception, while playing almost exclusively with the first-string offense. Starter Joe Dailey, went 7-for-19 passing for 80 yards, with an interception. And before some say that the Blackshirt defense held back, you sure couldn't tell it, with Adam Carriker, Le Kevin Smith, Titus Adams and Jay Moore all laying the smack down on Zac time and time again.. Jay even busted Zac's lip and then leveled Taylor on three consecutive plays.. On the day. Jay Moore had three sacks, Adam Carriker, Adam Ickes, Barry Cryer, Le Kevin Smith and Bo Ruud also recorded sacks. This was pretty funny.. Zac Taylor's mother, Julie, winced in the stands at one point as the 6-2, 305-pound LeKevin Smith stormed into the backfield virtually untouched and flattened Zac. lol Who knows how many yards Zac would have thrown had he had better protection. This is what Bill Callahan said after the scrimmage. "A few of the quarterbacks' heads bounced off the turf," Callahan said. "We have a lot of work to do in our offensive line. Nonetheless, it was good to see the quarterbacks get in the fray and get a feel for where they're at in the pocket.

Bill Callahan said today that Murtha will be in training camp but that he doesn't know how much contact he will get.. Coach Cal also said that they will be very patient with him.. Same goes for Brandon Jackson, he will also be in training camp, ( his shoulder is repaired) but they will limit his contact as well. And for those wanting to know about Matt Herian, Coach Cal said he's starting to run on his leg and he is progressing, but how fast and how fast that rate of rehabilitation goes, we are going to have to go day-by-day and week-by-week.

FSU in Lincoln in November....

I wonder if the Maine game will be a 29.99 PPV game????????

Red November and DaveH. Here ya go.. Hope this helps... About Frantz Hardy, Brooks and Spain. http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38&u_sid=1456134 Story on Zac Taylor and the raves he's getting. http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38&u_sid=1456154 The other stories about Bowman and others are again hearsay but they are coming from those who I trust...FWIW.

I forgot about Mark LeFlore.. lol. Your right Thanks..... According to rivals both were rated 15th in the nation and according to scout Brooks was a four star and rated 22nd and LeFlore was rated a three star and 36th. I think Brooks had alot more offers than what Leflore had.. I tried to go back and read stuff on Leflore at Rivals and there was only like three or four stories on him compared to the 20 plus on Brooks.. But then again it has been 2-3 years.. LeFlore came in the class of 2002.. I guess I forgot because ( it was a long time ago) lol and he really hasn't been much of a factor... In three years he has around 430 yards of receiving and three TD's .. I guess that's not really his fault considering he played two years under FS.. If Brooks is here for three years and only has 430 yards of receiving I'll be highly pissed... Red November and DaveH, one of the stories on Zac Taylor, Hardy, Brooks and Spain was in the Omaha World Herald and the rest of the stuff is from people who have either talked with Zac's dad on HI, or have talked with someone who is in the know... I know it is all hearsay, but usually these guys are pretty accurate...

tflynn, Chris Brooks should see alot of action this year. I haven't heard about him being raw.. I do know that he is the highest rated WR Nebraska has landed in (what)? 15 or more years.. I look at it this way, If Terrence Nunn could come in last year and make a impact as a freshman, then Chris Brooks who is taller and bigger than Nunn ( and one of the top rated WR's in the nation # 15) should be able to come in and make an impact as well. IMO. Nunn was rated # 67 according to rivals. As I said in a previous post Chris Brooks is one of the WR's who have been impressive. Here's what Zac Taylor said about Hardy, Brooks and Spain.. Frantz Hardy's speed has been compared to that of Husker receiver Isaiah Fluellen. Hardy, Chris Brooks and Tyrell Spain are newcomers working out with NU receivers in seven-on-seven passing drills. "The new guys have been impressive," Taylor said. "It's hard to say how well they'll pick it up in August, but I think they've done all they can at this point." We'll see how they do come August ,but I doubt Brooks will redshirt.. The guy is too good, big and too talented.. IMO

From what I have seen from another board and the in Omaha world herald. Zac Taylor has taken command of the offense in the 7 on 7 workouts. He's refered to as the field general. Frantz Hardy has put on a show at the WR spot and Chris Brooks and Spain have also shown their skills.. IMO All should play this year... Zack Bowman is living up to his hype, (so far) showing his 6'2-6'3 height and his 4.2 speed by making plays on balls thrown his way that DB's shouldn't be able to make... (This according to Zac Taylor) This is what I have heard, maybe others have heard different...

Anthony said he ran the 4.56 with a bad hamstring. He says he was timed at 4.38 last year.

Here ya go Nameless.. Part 1 http://vmedia.rivals.com/uploads/1061/165009.mp3 Part 2 http://vmedia.rivals.com/uploads/1061/165010.mp3

Tom did basically the same thing with FSU's Lorenzo Booker... Booker slamed Tom on Rivals radio to his face.. I can post the links to the audio if anyone is interested... Pretty funny stuff, Tom being attacked by both Booker and a guest host on Rivals.