missouri_husker24 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Wil Richards, a saftey prospect from Lee's Summit just commited as a preferred walk on after a visit last weekend. http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewp...sp?pr_key=66279 Quote Link to comment
BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Wil Richards, a saftey prospect from Lee's Summit just commited as a preferred walk on after a visit last weekend. http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewp...sp?pr_key=66279 Same school as Matt Holt who stepped up big time this year as a walkon true freshman. Quote Link to comment
CENTEXHUSKER Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Still refreshing to see guys passing up free school for the chance to wear scarlet and cream on Saturdays. Quote Link to comment
BigWillie Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Still refreshing to see guys passing up free school for the chance to wear scarlet and cream on Saturdays. I think it's just refreshing that we are actually taking walk-ons who actually have some ability this year instead of taking everyone and their brother like we did last year. If we are going to keep the walk-on program around, the type of guys we are targeting this year are the type of kids who should be apart of the walk-on program. Kildow, Richards and Mangieri especially all will likely contribute soon or down the road. Quote Link to comment
Ohio Pete Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 From Rivals teaser: Going into his weekend visit to Nebraska, Lincoln Christian prospect Devin Paulsen already knew what he wanted to do. Namely, walk on for the Huskers. He made it official on Sunday. He led his team the last two years in tackles from his linebacker spot. Quote Link to comment
Danimal Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 We have made some nice additions that could make an impact. Kildow is explosive as hell, I'm excited about him. Richards was all-state twice and had an offer from Air Force. Fialla from Millard North is good athlete that should segue to wr well. Nickens is a big kid that could provide good line-depth. Kellogg will be hard-pressed to see the field as a walk-on qb but could give us a good scout-teamer. Looks like we'll get Mangieri, you ALWAYS need a good long-snapper. Quote Link to comment
Ohio Pete Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Nice note about P.J. Mangieri from Peoria Journal: P.J. Mangieri, a Journal Star all-area lineman from Dunlap, likes that tradition and has decided Nebraska is the right place for him to further his playing career. After an official visit to the Lincoln, Neb., campus last weekend, Mangieri has given the Huskers an oral commitment, choosing them over Purdue and Wisconsin of the Big Ten. ...The nephew of former NFL linebacker Ed Sutter, Mangieri is a long-snap specialist. I wrote about him and Dunlap punter Joe Cloud last season, after they had attended the prestigious Kohl’s National Invitational Scholarship Camp. Kohl rated Mangieri the No. 1 long-snapper and Cloud the No. 1 punter. Cloud has not publicly announced his choice yet but is believed to be leaning toward the Ivy League. ... Mangieri said Nebraska coaches told him he’d be given a chance to win the first-string long-snapping duties as a freshman. But when we talked Thursday, he seemed most impressed with the one-on-one attention he received there. He and his family were treated to individual sessions with head coach Bo Pelini and former coach Tom Osborne, who is now the athletics director. ... “That’s a living legend right there,” Mangieri said of Osborne, who won 255 games and three national titles during his career on the sidelines. “The other places, there was no real one-on-one with the coaches. (All the recruits) all kind of met with them in one big room.” Quote Link to comment
huskers1 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Who were the three that said they were going to walk on today? Quote Link to comment
Husker_Power Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Who were the three that said they were going to walk on today? I know two are twins Spencer and Jake Long...i do not know the other one yet. But, here is the rest of the list of prospects accepting to walk on. Quote Link to comment
zoogs Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Jake Long? Heh. Nice. Quote Link to comment
NoLongerN Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 If "walk on" programs were to be ranked I'm wondering how well we do? I wonder how the group that walks on in 2009 ranks and also, if you added those walking on to the signed class, how much of a bump an expert would give it. Love to here the thoughts of those with insight on the board. Obviously, there is some "forcasting" to this question ... but just wondered. SheepdogMark Quote Link to comment
austintxhusker Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 From OWH: Football: NU adds Kellogg, NickensBY NICK RUBEK WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER As signing day gets closer, some Nebraska seniors are filling in the recruiting cracks. A pair of 2009 prospects accepted walk-on opportunities from Nebraska this week, while a third accepted a South Dakota State scholarship. National signing day is Feb. 4. Quarterback Ron Kellogg Jr. of Omaha Westside and Alliance's Brodrick Nickens, an offensive lineman, selected Nebraska. Pierce safety Eric Koehlmoos is the South Dakota State commitment. Kellogg, the son of former Kansas basketball star Ron Kellogg, picked the Huskers over scholarship offers from North Dakota and Northwest Missouri State. The 6-foot-2, 215-pound Kellogg won MVP honors at the Nebraska quarterback camp last summer. He joins a Husker team that returns five players at the position and adds four-star recruit Cody Green. Californian Taylor Martinez, recruited as an athlete, also has been quoted as saying NU coaches would give him a look at the position. Westside coach Marty Kauffman said Kellogg is "very coachable." "He's a very accurate passer and seems to be able to do the different reads," Kauffman said. "(The Nebraska coaches) liked what they saw from him." Nickens, a 6-foot-6, 285-pound tackle prospect, had offers from Wayne State and the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Divison I schools Colorado, Colorado State and Wyoming also pursued him as a walk-on. The 6-foot-1, 175-pound Koehlmoos, who was offered by a Wyoming staff that was replaced in Laramie, also received walk-on interest from Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. "He was injured five games this season and even when he came he was only around 80 percent," Pierce coach Mark Brahmer said. "They wanted to see more of him as a walk-on. Eric really liked South Dakota State. The staff there was on him from the very beginning. I know they were extremely surprised and happy to get him." I've seen Nickens play, and wasn't that impressed for his size. Quote Link to comment
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