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SIGNED - DT Khalil Davis

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By Ed Helms,
in 2015 Profiles

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Good article in the OWH:

 

Of course Carlos and Khalil played football — starting in grade school with kids one year older. Even in middle school, they dabbled as skill players: Carlos at fullback, Khalil at running back. By eighth grade, Carl found himself looking up at Carlos. By their sophomore year in high school, Blue Springs coach Kelly Donohoe pulled Carl aside and told him: Your sons are good enough to play Division I college football.

Like Northern Illinois or Northern Iowa? Carl asked. He would have been happy with Northwest Missouri State.
No, Donohoe told him. Think Big Ten, Big 12, SEC.
Nebraska was the second team to offer Carlos and Khalil. Missouri was the first.
But the Huskers had three advantages. First, Carl’s brother was Lorenzo Hicks, former Nebraska defensive back, and Hicks had taken Carlos and Khalil to Nebraska several times as kids, even meeting current running backs coach Ron Brown. Second, NU offensive line coach John Garrison is a Blue Springs graduate.
Third, and perhaps most important, was Nebraska defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski. “Coach Kaz,” as the Davis family calls him, has a direct, high-octane style that appealed to them.
“Very interesting man,” Carlos said.
On one unofficial trip last winter — the first time Carl met the coach — Kaczenski got off the elevator and started drilling the twins on football fundamentals.
“He started coaching, right there off the elevator, and he’s got on snow boots,” Carl said. “Carlos and Khalil are still in high school, and he doesn’t even know if they’re going to commit, and he’s teaching them something they can use against him if they go to Iowa or something. I thought that was pretty cool.”
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